Week 8 - Top 25 - Tigers Rising

LSU is back on top of the My Numbers Top 25 after their 7-point home win over Florida on Saturday.  If the 4-team playoff were next weekend, I would make the Bayou Tigers the #1 seed and match them up against #4 Clemson, who similarly continues to do all the right things.  Alabama looks more impressive by the week to me and to My Numbers; the Tide clock in as a solid #2 this week. And just like the AP poll suggests, I would put one Big Ten team in the playoff right now, but that one team wouldn't be Ohio State or Michigan State.  Sorry Brutus & Sparty, but Iowa has played just as well or better against a tougher schedule and I don't care what anybody did last season.

I think the game of the week coming up just might be Utah at USC.  The Utes are the only undefeated FBS team that has played a Top 20 schedule to date and they are #6 in the My Numbers ratings right now.  I suspect, though, that if USC can catch their breath after the Sarkisian Circus and trip to South Bend, they might have enough talent to slow down the UUs.

I'll run the numbers and let you know!

	team	W	L	sos rnk	oeff rnk	deff rnk	rank score
1	LSU	6	0	28	10	28	13.9
2	Alabama	6	1	7	60	6	17.9
3	Iowa	7	0	36	46	10	18.7
4	Clemson	6	0	40	41	13	19.6
5	Oklahoma	5	1	31	26	9	20.3
6	Utah	6	0	6	75	54	20.6
7	Stanford	5	1	21	17	41	20.7
8	TCU	7	0	52	2	49	22.6
9	Ohio State	7	0	68	20	8	23.9
10	Notre Dame	6	1	23	8	69	24.0
11	Florida	6	1	12	76	29	24.9
12	Florida State	6	0	66	16	30	25.9
13	Oklahoma State	6	0	62	39	21	26.7
14	California	5	1	29	19	66	26.9
15	Texas A&M	5	1	26	35	57	27.0
16	Georgia	5	2	46	18	23	31.9
17	Michigan State	7	0	57	50	58	32.1
18	UCLA	4	2	17	33	38	33.0
19	Pittsburgh	5	1	37	78	37	33.4
20	Michigan	5	2	30	93	2	35.0
21	Baylor	6	0	103	1	34	35.4
	Mississippi	5	2	67	7	17	35.4
23	BYU	5	2	13	68	72	36.6
24	Mississippi State	5	2	56	22	33	36.7
25	Boise State	5	2	59	52	4	37.7