| Rank | +/- | Team | WinPct | SoS | Off Pts | Def Pts | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | -- | TCU | 0.9483 | 0.4409 | 28.1 | 8.2 | 80.9 |
| 002 | -- | Boise St. | 0.9289 | 0.3820 | 29.5 | 9.9 | 82.6 |
| 003 | -- | Ohio St. | 0.9232 | 0.4888 | 27.3 | 9.5 | 79.9 |
| 004 | -- | Alabama | 0.9189 | 0.6335 | 27.1 | 9.6 | 78.3 |
| 005 | +4 | LSU | 0.8734 | 0.6287 | 24.4 | 10.7 | 78.4 |
| 006 | -- | Oregon | 0.8684 | 0.5574 | 25.0 | 11.3 | 92.9 |
| 007 | -- | Virginia Tech | 0.8679 | 0.5556 | 27.3 | 12.3 | 79.5 |
| 008 | +2 | Oklahoma | 0.8476 | 0.5869 | 21.8 | 10.6 | 91.1 |
| 009 | -4 | Iowa | 0.8462 | 0.5497 | 21.6 | 10.4 | 81.2 |
| 010 | -2 | Florida | 0.8337 | 0.6442 | 25.2 | 12.9 | 81.2 |
| 011 | +1 | Nebraska | 0.8101 | 0.4836 | 24.1 | 13.1 | 79.9 |
| 012 | +1 | Auburn | 0.8004 | 0.6225 | 27.6 | 15.5 | 83.8 |
| 013 | +1 | Stanford | 0.7940 | 0.5632 | 27.4 | 15.5 | 81.4 |
| 014 | +1 | Arkansas | 0.7829 | 0.6009 | 27.7 | 16.1 | 81.9 |
| 015 | NA | South Carolina | 0.7682 | 0.6774 | 22.9 | 13.8 | 80.0 |
| 016 | +1 | Miami-FL | 0.7668 | 0.6134 | 20.8 | 12.5 | 85.0 |
| 017 | -6 | Utah | 0.7662 | 0.4143 | 23.5 | 14.4 | 80.6 |
| 018 | +6 | Wisconsin | 0.7594 | 0.5252 | 27.1 | 16.7 | 80.0 |
| 019 | -- | USC | 0.7467 | 0.5865 | 23.5 | 14.9 | 85.0 |
| 020 | -- | Missouri | 0.7379 | 0.5694 | 21.0 | 13.4 | 85.8 |
| 021 | +2 | Oklahoma St. | 0.7355 | 0.5241 | 23.8 | 15.6 | 89.1 |
| 022 | NA | Florida St. | 0.7310 | 0.6111 | 23.8 | 15.7 | 82.5 |
| 023 | -7 | Arizona | 0.7282 | 0.5896 | 19.0 | 12.6 | 85.2 |
| 024 | NA | West Virginia | 0.7266 | 0.5202 | 18.8 | 12.4 | 82.8 |
| 025 | -7 | Georgia | 0.7225 | 0.6237 | 26.1 | 17.5 | 76.8 |
New entries: South Carolina, Florida State, West Virginia.
Dropped out: Clemson, Pittsburgh, Penn State.
Another week, another Clemson Top 25 flip-flop. Penn State found some offense -- and some hope -- against Ohio State for a half, but forgot that the game is a full 60 minutes. Pittsburgh lost a close one to UConn because the Panthers forgot that turning over the ball is a bad idea.
At the top we continue to have four teams that are clearly head-and-shoulders above everyone else. TCU falls a bit closer to the rest, but the Horned Frogs and Boise State continue to be the class of Division I-A football. Ohio State thumped a good Penn State team, and really has a chance to prove that they belong when they visit Iowa on Saturday. A good showing could catapult the Buckeyes into the second-place spot. Alabama is still a solid team, and TFG is seeing their loss at (5) LSU in a much more positive light. The gap between the Crimson Tide and the Tigers is still massive in the eyes of TFG, though; the gap between (4) Alabama and (5) LSU is larger than the gap from (5) LSU to (10) Florida. (6) Oregon didn't do themselves any favors by eeking out a 2-point win over not-top-25 Cal, and got lucky with a 64-yard punt return for a TD.
(7) Virginia Tech inches closer to the Ducks, as TFG's love affair with (8) Oklahoma continues for another year. We round out the top 10 with a pair of teams on the way down: (9) Iowa -- suffering from an embarrassing loss to Northwestern -- and (10) Florida -- still off the mark, offense-wise.
In another interesting development, (15) South Carolina vaulted into the top 25 by improving about 1.0 PPH on both sides of the ball in a single game. Right now we're on track for an Auburn/South Carolina SEC title game, and unlike last year's showdown between then-(1) Florida and then-(3) Alabama, neither team will be in the TFG top 25. It's not entirely unrealistic for Auburn to drop their last two games of the year, leaving us without a representative from the SEC in the National Title game. Stay tuned.
