Sarges Top 25 - Week of 11/15/2010

Sgt John

Sith Lord of T&A
1. Auburn Tigers
2. Oregon Ducks
3. TCU Horned Frogs
4. Louisiana State Tigers
5. Wisconsin Badgers
6. Stanford Cardinal
7. Ohio State Buckeyes
8. Boise State Broncos
9. Alabama Crimson Tide
10. Nebraska Cornhuskers
11. Michigan State Spartans
12. Oklahoma State Cowboys
13. Arkansas Razorbacks
14. Virginia Tech Hokies
15. Nevada Wolfpack
16. Oklahoma Sooners
17. Missouri Tigers
18. Texas A&M Aggies
19. South Carolina Gamecocks
20. Miami Hurricanes
21. Mississippi State Bulldogs
22. Florida State Seminoles
23. Northwestern Wildcats
24. Iowa Hawkeyes
25. Utah Utes

This was definately a "Survival Saturday" for many of the top teams in the country, and of the top 10, I was only impressed with Alabama taking care of business against a ranked opponent.

Auburn and Oregon remain in the top spots. After getting to finally see Auburn, I can tell you thats a 6 win team without Cam Newton.

TCU got behind early and took their foot off late. I dont discredit them for the win over San Diego State considering the Aztecs 3 losses this season are by 3, 3, and 5 points to the #3 and #17 teams in the country and BYU. They are building one hell of a team down there.

Wisconsin does not get style points for running it up on Indiana. Ive seen Boise 3 times now, and I agree they are a fine football team, but they do not impress me that much.

Nebraska and Michigan State stay around the same area. Oklahoma State does not get a big bump for being held to a season low point total by a marginal Texas Defense.

13-17 are about as they should be. #18 Texas A&M is a team that will probably not lose again this season. Tannehill has made them 10 times better than they are.

Congrats to #19 South Carolina for finally winning a championship of some sort. I still need to see them win out before they face Auburn again, but theyve got the tools and the talent to beat anyone.

20-22 are around the area I feel they should be. Though I think it will be a one and done, Northwestern makes an appearance at #23. For those who didnt follow their star QB tore his Achillies trying to celebrate his game winning TD, and now the Wildcats will turn to an unproven freshman the rest of the way.

I took a HARD look at 24 and 25. The Utes are still a hell of a football team at 8-2, but you could tell they came out like a football team feeling it had nothing to play for after TCU crushed their dreams.

Iowa still has a good football team, but they are barely hanging in the rankings. I will be very interested to see how this team responds facing Ohio State.
 

Cerberus

In Dog We Trust
Really suprised to see Utah and Iowa still in the top 25. Do you think the way Utah lost again this past weekend to ND discredits TCUs win over them at all?
 

catman

Baseball "Expert"
Moderator
The only thing that Iowa has going this week is that Ohio State is coming to Kinnick next week.
 

Sgt John

Sith Lord of T&A
Really suprised to see Utah and Iowa still in the top 25. Do you think the way Utah lost again this past weekend to ND discredits TCUs win over them at all?

Two things about the Notre Dame/Utah game jumped out at me. 1 - Not taking anything away from the Irish, but Utah really looked like a team who was just going through the motions. TCU destroyed their dreams in one game. No conference title, No BCS bowl, and in their minds nothing more to play for. 8-4 or 11-1 they would get the same bowl. 2 - Notre Dame found the right QB. They played to their strengths and are a better team without Crist (Sorry Chris).

Had TCU won a 21-17, 28-24 type game against Utah yeah, Id wonder. TCU was all over Utah faster than a sailor on a hooker on Navy payday. Couple that with San Diego State being a really good team, and the overall struggles of the majority of top teams this weekend, and I find no flaw in TCU. At the end of the day, they are 11-0.

With Iowa, they demolished Michigan State. They lost by one point to Wisconsin, 7 to an Arizona thats been ranked most of the year, and by 4 to a then 6-3 team with only one "bad" loss, a 20-17 defeat to Purdue. Utah and Iowa are hanging on by a thread, but are still better options to me than the others out there.
 
I'm all for Brian Kelly getting his guys playing time in his system. Glad he didn't fold to the alumni and start playing Nate Montana b/c their season is shot.
 
Ive heard Nate isnt that good. Can you shed some light on that?

Weak arm, poor decisions and slightly more mobile then a statue in the pocket

If he'd been able to show anything at all in the Michigan game he'd be starting right now, but there was nothing to build off of........absolutely nothing
 
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