TOPIC OF THE WEEK - WEEK 5
This weeks topic is a three parter. The last two weeks have seen pretty much all the top 5 teams falter and almost get eliminated by nobodies. Between Auburn @ South Carolina, USC @ Washington State, Ohio State @ Penn State, West Virginia @ East Carolina, and Florida's battles with both Kentucky and Alabama in the swamp, which team looks like it least deserves to be in the top 5, which team will be eliminated first from the top 5, and which team deserves most to be in the top 5 that's still on the outside looking in? GET TO IT!
posted by Football Jesus at 10:33 AM
5 Comments:
Forgive the last deleted comment but this thing cut off and generally fucked up my last post so bad that I decided to just re-do it.
So I guess I'll just jump into it. At first I really wanted to go with the Gators for the most overrated team in the top 5 mainly because I hate Florida and Urban Meyer seems unwilling to let go of this odd gimmick offense that's going to end up ruining and/or killing Chris Leak's senior season, a point which Gator fans are too busy booing on command to realize, but I don't think I'm going to go with them. As far as I can tell the two teams who haven't paid their dues in the top 5 have to be West Virginia and USC, both of which have had, up to this point, cupcake schedules, with the hardest challenge for either being the USC/Nebraska game. Out of the choice of the two of these teams I have to pick USC and here's the difference. Both have big BCS games under their belt from last season, USC's being a heartbreaking championship run, and West Virginia's being the sugar bowl which is coincidentally the reason I can't have children. The difference? The team USC brought into the big game has all left. Bush to a prosperous career of cheesy commercials and Leinart...well he got a commercial. I think. Anyway. West Virginia's suprising team from last year is pretty much the exact same roster of speed, and...well speed as this year. USC has had the only challenge between the two but I mean that was Nebraska. Nebraska. Couple that with a rookie quarterback and the usual lackluster Pac-10 schedule and I still don't think it equals a #3 spot in the polls. #8? #9? Maybe. But not #3. They'll stick around for a while because they don't play anyone worth a shit until week 10 when they get Oregon, Cal, and Notre Dame in a row at which point they'll be waving goodbye to the top 10.
The first team to fall out of the top 5 should be a no-brainer. Florida will not only fall out of the top 5 in the next 3 weeks, there's a really good chance that they'll create the world's largest grease spot. Keep those ambulances revved Meyer cause LSU looks hungry for some SEC payback and Miss. State was just an appetizer.
Which brings me to Michigan, the team still stuck on the outside that's most deserving to be in the elite. Michigan looked real convincing against the Irish and if they can survive the last couple of bumps on their schedule they might just end up, as Virus asked for in his christmas letters, playing Ohio State at the end of the season for what, if it should come to that, should decide who gets the championship bid. It probably will regardless because I don't think West Virginia can take down Louisville, I don't think there's a team in the history of time that can handle Florida's schedule, and I don't have the faith in USC to handle it's last 4 games which will put Ohio State against Michigan to decide who faces Auburn. I think I'm getting misty.
2:25 PM
I think it's obvious that for West Virginia to justify their inclusion they have to beat the tar out of Louisville. WVU looked bad against Eastern Carolina, and are going to catch Louisville on the road, so that's put up or shut up for them. I'm backpedalling from WVU as fast as I can lately, and I think Louisville takes the game easily.
Florida will fall out first, though, because they get LSU and Auburn the next two weeks and will lose both games.
USC falls out eventually too, because I don't have a lot of faith in first year quarterbacks, especially ones in the Booty lineage. The only way I'd feel more confident is if his last name was Claussen (good luck with that one Weis). USC ends their season with Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame, and at UCLA. No way they make it through that gauntlet in one piece.
Auburn stays as they beat Florida, and if UGA keeps up this level of play, they decimate Georgia, probably getting Florida in the SEC champ game, which they win. Ohio State only has Michigan left (I've decided Michigan State isn't really a team, but a trick being played on me) and I see them winning that pretty easily. Those two teams will have most of their tests done by mid-season, and can coast into a championship game.
2:25 PM
dammit EVERY time i make a change you sweep in before I can get it done. I figured the put up or shut up game question was way too easy since it was basically picking whatever ranked team each team played first, so I switched it. WHOOOOOPS.
2:27 PM
So apparently I decided I can't read right, or Football Jesus is making changes faster than I can see them. Whatever, I'm big on Michigan this year, but don't think they should be in the top 5 for the simple reason that I can think of 5 other teams that would beat them: Ohio State, Auburn, LSU, Texas, and ok I can only think of 4. My team that's outside looking in is LSU because they're going to end up with only the one loss and a defense that's just sickening to watch your team play. LSU is gunning for an at-large bid to a BCS game, and I don't see any reason they won't get it after they wax the Gators in the swamp and then face the rest of the sub-par SEC West. Michigan will probably also end up with an at large bid if both Michigan and Ohio State end up undefeated. Who is Texas going to lose to now? The Pac-10 champ may be decided this weekend in the Cal vs Ore game, because I think both teams can take down USC and give them multiple conference losses.
So I cheated. There's about 8 teams that should be in the top 5. And I Think I answered your other questions in my first post.
2:35 PM
So does John or any of the 4 people who might read this just not have any thoughts about this or what? It's an open forum people, TALK OR I'LL KILL YOU ALL. With kisses.
12:07 PM
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