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College Football Week Wrap-up from 4 to 7 Top 25 Poll annoying Turn A few survivors Scramble

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley

(Editor's Note: The rankings in this article are from 25 to AP survey of journalists and sports commentators, and the Jeff Sagarin rankings are.)

No win in Week 4 College Football action was bigger than the 21-10 upset victory unclassified Iowa on the road-over 5th ranked Penn State in Happy Valley. Iowa is now undefeated at 4-0.

The Hawkeye Nittany Lions ruined a perfect 9-0 season last year with a 24-23 victory at home, and demonstrated that was no accident this year in Penn State lawn. If there are any doubters left at Happy Valley this year have to be home runs in blinkers. The Penn State Nittany Lions are always overrated in the polls, since only play a couple of good teams a year, Iowa became one of them.

Not far from upset-game -week honors were the Bulls unranked South Florida, which fell from 18th ranked Florida State on the road, 17-7, to push the Bulls' record to 4-0. Discomfort third best of the week was the 11th in the ranking of Virginia Tech's home win over 9th ranked Miami Hurricanes (FL), 31-7.

Two does not alter unexpected others came at the expense of the 4th ranking Mississippi Rebels, who were beaten 16-10 at unranked South Carolina, and the 6th ranked California Bears, they were beaten 42-3 at unranked Oregon. Please stop all the preseason hype about Mississippi and California, to east Mississippi is not that good at the moment, provided California and folds, the Bears may be just starting to fold earlier this year due to 42-3, including a game away, is a smoothie.

On 2 7 disorders AP Top 25 teams this week came with Georgia Tech classif 24-7 home victory over 22nd ranked North Carolina, and unclassified 34-14 Stanford victory Ranking 24th house on Washington. The Huskies fell to the right of the 25 rating and Stanford (3-1) never came in.

So who else not classified among the teams is acting as if they belonged in the Top 25? How about these three teams of 4-0: Missouri beat Nevada 31-21 on the road, beat Auburn Ball State 54-30 at home, and Wisconsin beat Michigan State 38-30 at home. Or maybe the 3-0 Texas A & M Aggies, who beat UAB 56-19 at home.

Eight qualifying teams kept moving right on, pushing their record to 4-0. Among them 1 ranking in Florida on the road in Kentucky, 41-7, ranked 2nd in Texas home through UTEP 64-7, ranked 3rd in his home in Alabama over Arkansas 35-7, ranking 7th in the road, LSU over Mississippi State 30-26, Boise State ranked 8th in the way-over Bowling Green 49-14; 14th ranked Cincinnati at home 28-20 over Fresno State, Kansas ranked 20th in the home over southern Mississippi 35-28, and 23 ranking of Michigan at home to Indiana 36-33.

Two other ranked teams pushed their record to 3-0 as TCU ranking 15th in Clemson won 14-10, and 17 ranking Houston won at home over Texas Tech, 29-28.

Among the 10 qualified teams still undefeated records, notched 5 wins by a touchdown or less on a 7-Kansas, LSU and TCU by 4, Houston 3 Michigan 1. Compare this with the other 5 to win by 8 or more, of Texas for 57 years, Boise State 35, Florida 34 Alabama 28, Cincinnati 8. Now you know which is more concrete and is less focused in terms of implementation.

Five other teams have already qualified been defeated once went to stay aware to win again. Ranking Among them 13 Ohio State at home in Illinois to give a lesson in how to make a shutout of 30-0, 19-ranked BYU at home over Colorado State, 42-23; 21st ranked Georgia at home over Arizona State 20-17, 16th in the ranking of the State of Oklahoma at home during 1-AA Grambling State 56-6, and 12 of the ranking of Southern California at home over Washington State 27-6.

There were 5 significant victories that have nothing to do with teams ranked or disorders. Including Boston University at home over Wake Forest 27-24 in overtime; Tulsa on the road-over 1-AA Houston State 56-3, a result of Hurricane Gold was after 3 quarters, Idaho on the road in Northern Illinois, 34-31, despite beat Idaho 15-6 in the fourth quarter, Central Michigan at home over Akron 48-21 and the Chippewas scored at least one touchdown in each quarter, Utah at home over Louisville 30-14, and Notre Dame on the road-over Purdue 24-21.

There was also a notable loss had nothing to do with classified equipment or disturbance in Pittsburgh, lost on the way to North Carolina, 38-31, and NC State Pitt outscored 14-0 in the fourth quarter. In other words, the Pitt defense collapsed and the Panthers their first defeat this year.

That is, that's all Johnny, place the container on it, go for a cold Brewski.

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