NCAA College Football Scores

NCAA College Football Scores

#1 LSU and #2 Alabama each had the week off, giving them plenty of time to rest up for their 1-2 match-up next Saturday. #4 Boise State also had the week off, and #3 Oklahoma State crushed Baylor, so there will be no changes until we get to #5 Clemson, which lost to an unranked team.

#7 Oregon will ascend to 6th, possibly as high as fifth, depending on how the voters feel about #6 Stanford's 3OT win over UCLA. It doesn't really matter in which order Stanford and Oregon are ranked because they will play one another November 12th to determine which one gets the higher spot. Come Monday they will be 5-6 or 6-5.

Formerly undefeated #8 Kansas State was clobbered by #9 Oklahoma, 58-17. That will push Oklahoma back up to #7, passing Clemson and KSU.

Arkansas will be #8, but they already lost to Bama, so they have no chance for the big show unless they can beat LSU in the last game of the year after LSU beats Bama. All of that is possible, but not especially likely, and would still require some help elsewhere to get Arkansas into the title game. Not gonna happen.

After that it doesn't matter much unless Houston keeps putting up 73 on their half of the scoreboard. Houston leads the nation in points scored and rushing offense, but their only real claim to a top rank is the fact that they handled UCLA better than Stanford did. Apart from that, they play a schedule that makes Boise State's opponents seem like NFL teams. I suppose they will score 60 again the next two weeks against UAB (1-7) and Tulane (2-7), two of the weakest defensive teams in the nation. Even if Houston wins both of those games 60-0, they will have difficulty cracking the top ten.

The computer nerds are undecided about Houston because the lack of meaningful match-ups and connections makes it difficult to assess them. Two of the computer systems rank them in the top ten (!!), while two others rank them completely out of the top 25. Sagarin's "predictor" score, the most accurate of his three systems, ranks Houston 31st, just below that mighty powerhouse Toledo.