Who's in your top 5?

Submitted by amir_6 on

1. Alabama

2. OSU

3. Louisville

4. Michigan

5. Clemson

 

 

What say you?

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Heptarch

September 18th, 2016 at 11:07 AM ^

Other than having some weird axe to grind against "homers", what is your justification for having either of those teams ahead of Michigan?

Houston beat an Oklahoma team that is clearly not as good as originally advertised.

Stanford has won two pedestrian games against pedestrian teams.

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ak47

September 18th, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^

Oklahoma is clearly better than any team we have played and losing to two teams that combined for two losses last year doesn't change that. Houston already beat cincinnati on the road, a team that is probably on the same level as colorado talent wise.  Stanford has beaten two p5 teams, nobody cares we beat ucf and hawaii, we've played one that might have some talent and were down 21-7 and 28-24 before their qb got hurt and went out.  That game isn't as comfortable as it was at the end if there isn't a backup qb missing open wr's most of the second half.

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jmblue

September 18th, 2016 at 2:05 PM ^

The thing is, OU wasn't very competitive against Houston or OSU.  Throw in Clemson at the end of last year and that's three times in four games they've been embarrassed.  Sure, all three have come against top 10 teams, but that also means we've had three chances to see how they stack up against the big boys and all three times they've looked like they didn't belong.

 

 

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corundum

September 18th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^

Oklahoma is not good. I doubt you watched either of their games. Mayfield is an interception machine behind a turnstile offensive line. Cincinnati looked better against Houston than Oklahoma.

 

Also, would you rank CMU higher than Michigan at this point? Because they have a better resume than us to date. Certainly doesn't make them a better team. Houston is really good and deserving of top 5 cosideration right now, but they are highly reliant on Ward Jr. They were wrecking teams last year until he went down, then they lost to Uconn.

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Heptarch

September 18th, 2016 at 1:03 PM ^

I don't know where you're getting the notion that Oklahoma is better than Colorado at this point.  They've looked like a shit sandwich so far.

Stanford hasn't done anything to show that they're a top 5 team.  Beating K-State and USC in what appears to be a down year by a couple touchdowns doesn't exactly jump off the page.

Michigan came out flat against a better-than-expected Colorado team.  They had evened up the game (and I would argue based on the defense stepping up that they had taken control of it) BEFORE Liufau went out.  They beat a good team while playing the worst game they've played so far.  

At the very least, you keep Michigan where they are in the rankings until someone else has proven that they're better.  Neither of the two teams you'd have ranked ahead of them have done that yet.

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corundum

September 18th, 2016 at 11:55 AM ^

You have to understand that most people on this board are casual CFB fans and watch the Michigan game, then either the boxscore or highlights from other action. If someone has MSU above Michigan or Michigan outside the top 7, then they are not watching the other games and are eating straight off of the ESPN hype spoon.

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A2 Born n Raised

September 18th, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^

Even if they weren't trying to show anything that was an absolutely awful game. It was a one score game halfway through the 4th quarter. O'Connor is not good at all I saw him miss wide open receivers and the last throw of the game he almost missed a wide receiver with no one with in 20 yards. Speight had a lot of pressure most of the game with their defensive backs playing really well. He also played through what looked to be a shoulder injury on the fumble. Our coverage will only get better through the year when we get JL back.

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lhglrkwg

September 18th, 2016 at 12:00 PM ^

I also don't recall seeing Jehu or Amara getting separation downfield at any point yesterday. Butt was the only one who was open downfield and Grant Perry got open on a Wilton scramble.

I don't care if you're Tom Brady, if the receivers aren't getting any separation there's nothing you can do. Wilton was a bit off target yesterday but the receivers weren't helping him

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