Week 7’s college football rankings see three teams leaving the AP Top 25, replaced by South Carolina, Florida and West Virginia. The complete Top 25 will be right here shortly.
College football rankings, Week 7: South Carolina, Florida, West Virginia fill out top five
BlogPoll: Bama slipping; ‘Cocks, Gators surging
Kevin C. Cox - Getty ImagesAlabama is still the nation’s top team in the Week 7 BlogPoll, but two other SEC teams are slicing into the Crimson Tide’s share of first-place votes after big Week 6 wins. And Florida State and Georgia fell, fell, fell after suffering their first losses of the season.
Alabama stays No. 1 comfortably, receiving 64 of 87 first-place votes and outpacing No. 2 Oregon (four first-place votes) by more than a point per ballot, 24.37 to 23.20. And Oregon looks like the consensus No. 2 team in the country, with South Carolina sitting at No. 3 and more than half a point (22.60) behind the Ducks despite earning seven first-place votes.
Read Article >The teams that control their BCS destinies
Sam Greenwood - Getty ImagesAfter all the complaining about a September schedule that made the NFL preseason seem more meaningful, it took but one blood-letting judgment day to separate college football’s wheat from the chaff.
Into the unquenchable fire went LSU, Georgia and Florida State, teams ranked 3-5 in last week’s simulated BCS standings. But their losses are the gains of others, as we now have a clear pecking order of teams poised to contend for this year’s BCS championship. And not surprisingly, they’re all clustered at the top of the final simulated BCS standings.
Read Article >AP Top 25 shaken up after big weekend of football
Kevin C. Cox - Getty ImagesNos. 3, 4 and 5 all went down on Saturday. Florida State was upset on the road against NC State, and the Seminoles fall to No. 12 in the poll. LSU lost a defensive battle to Florida in the Swamp, dropping the Tigers to No. 9. Florida jumps up to No. 4 after the win. Georgia got blown out by South Carolina. The Bulldogs now sit at No. 14, while the Gamecocks have moved up to the No. 3 spot.
West Virginia fills out the top five after taking down Texas. The Longhorns drop four spots to No. 15.
Read Article >The Top 25 reviewed after catastrophic Saturday
Streeter Lecka - Getty Images1. Alabama. Bye week. Nick Saban probably spent time with Urban Meyer’s family. This is a joke; he watched film 16 hours a day like he always does.
2. Oregon. Put up 35 in the first half on a hapless Washington team, and then let Puddles hold up the play cards for the second half.
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