The Joe Rankings: Week 7

Yet another wild weekend in college football, with The Joe Ranking's #1 team losing at Kentucky in triple-overtime. Also, the Cougars and Utes both played in a couple of semi-lackluster games, but they got their respective jobs done.

Both BYU and Utah were clearly the better teams, but they made boneheaded plays deep in opponents’ territories. For Utah, the fumble by Mack that went out of bounds in the end zone was stupid, and then it seemed like in the first half Brian Johnson bogged down inside the 35. For BYU, Max Hall threw 3 interceptions inside the 35 yard line.

For both teams, the second-half adjustments were huge. Utah decided to give the ball more to Mack, who dominated the game. BYU gave the ball to Harvey Unga, who was unstoppable. And then both teams’ defenses dominated the games throughout. UNLV’s offense wasn’t able to make a significant drive until there were fewer than two minutes left to go, while the Aztecs (which no longer exist as an organized nation) featured their quarterback as their second-leading receiver.

Anyways, BYU is clearly in the driver's seat for the MWC championship. The next three weeks should add to the Cougars' win column, and then they have that brutal stretch of TCU, at Wyoming, and Utah. The Utah game probably concerns me the most as a Cougar fan, because Utah is finally seeing some consistency. But there is a lot of football yet to be played, and as we've seend the past three weeks, anything can happen in college football.

Anyways, on to the Rankings. Remember, the numbers simply don't lie very much.

1. LSU (6-1)
2. Oklahoma (6-1)
3. South Florida (6-0)
4. Arizona State (7-0)
5. South Carolina (6-1)
6. Auburn (5-2)
7. Ohio State (7-0)
8. Florida (4-2)
9. Kentucky (6-1)
10. Boston College (7-0)

11. Georgia (5-2)
12. Missouri (5-1)
13. Virginia (6-1)
14. Illinois (5-2)
15. Oregon (5-1)
16. Virginia Tech (6-1)
17. West Virginia (5-1)
18. Texas Tech (6-1)
19. Tennessee (4-2)
20. California (5-1)
21. Penn State (5-2)
22. Kansas (6-0)
23. Kansas State (4-2)
24. Texas (5-2)
25. Oklahoma State (4-3)
26. Alabama (5-2)
27. BYU (4-2)
28. Cincinnati (6-1)
29. Wisconsin (5-2)
30. Michigan State (5-2)

31. Colorado
32. Hawaii
33. Mississippi State
34. Texas A&M
35. Georgia Tech
36. Oregon State
37. USC
38. Wake Forest
39. Florida State
40. Boise State
41. Connecticut
42. Air Force
43. Indiana
44. Nebraska
45. Troy
46. Maryland
47. Wyoming
48. UCLA
49. Tulsa
50. Fresno State

51. Purdue
52. East Carolina
53. Miami (OH)
54. Miami
55. Florida Atlantic
56. Rutgers
57. Arkansas
58. New Mexico
59. Michigan
60. Clemson
61. TCU
62. Washington
63. Navy
64. Bowling Green
65. Utah
66. North Carolina
67. Vanderbilt
68. UTEP
69. Ball State
70. Northwestern
71. Western Kentucky
72. Stanford
73. Baylor
74. Iowa
75. Central Florida

76. Houston
77. Washington State
78. Mississippi
79. Louisville
80. New Mexico State
81. Kent State
82. Arizona
83. Arkansas State
84. Louisiana Tech
85. San Jose State
86. San Diego State
87. Alabama-Birmingham
88. Army
89. Notre Dame
90. Southern Miss
91. Nevada
92. Pittsburgh
93. UNLV
94. Middle Tennessee State
95. Buffalo
96. Akron
97. Western Michigan
98. Central Michigan
99. Duke
100. Minnesota

101. Louisiana-Monroe
102. Temple
103. Ohio
104. Tulane
105. SMU
106. Syracuse
107. Eastern Michigan
108. Florida International
109. Memphis
110. Rice
111. Colorado State
112. North Carolina State
113. North Texas
114. Utah State
115. Toledo
116. Iowa State
117. Marshall
118. Idaho
119. Louisiana-Lafayette
120. Northern Illinois