College Football Top 25

By Matt Smith

A load of crap.

1. Georgia (10-2): I think they are playing as well as anybody down the stretch. Maybe good enough for top billing in this poll, but playing for a national title is a different story.

2. Ohio State (11-1): By default this middle of the road team is going to be playing in the BCS title game.

3. Oklahoma (11-2): The Sooners were the most impressive team of any on championship game Saturday.

4. USC (10-2): Playing extremely well right now. Six straight Pac-10 titles is nothing to sneeze at.

5. Missouri (11-2): The Tigers two losses are to a team ranked in the top three. Their BCS snub is the biggest of all.

6. Kansas (11-1): Everyone wants to give them a crack at the Sooners, but they will fare worse than Mizzou, that I will tell you.

7. LSU (11-2): A bunch of glorified escape artists, that’s all the Paper Tigers are.

8. West Virginia (10-2): The Mouintaneers ripped my heart out. I know that going by the point spread, the Stanford upset of USC was bigger, but the title game was at stake. This was the year’s biggest shocker.

9. Florida (9-3): Tim Tebow is probably going to be the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy.

10. Hawaii (12-0): Now, we get to see exactly how legit they are. Showed a lot of heart in coming back against Washington.

11. Virginia Tech (11-2): I thought they were overrated heading into this past weekend, but they have a legitimate gripe based on where they were ranked.

12. Illinois (9-3): The Illini in the Rose Bowl is a pile of vomit. They are going to get destroyed.

13. Arizona State (10-2): They got screwed badly. It was a terrific season that deserved to end in a BCS game.

14. Clemson (9-3): Tommy Bowden isn’t going to Arkansas. Does anyone care what Tommy Bowden does or doesn’t do?

15. Cincinnati (9-3): The Bearcats in the Papjohns bowl is maybe the biggest farce of the bowl season.

16. Boston College (10-3): Boston College had VT dead to rights, and Matty Ice wasn’t exactly cool under pressure this time around.

17. Tennessee (9-4): Erik Ainge’s fourth quarter implosion keeps them from a BCS game and being ranked in the top ten.

18. Texas (9-3): The Horns are the most irrelevant ranked, big time program this season.

19. Virginia (9-3): I can’t wait for their bowl game to see how many times we will be reminded who Chris Long’s dad is.

20. Wisconsin (9-3): I hate how the Big Ten season ends so early. It seems like these teams are off for three months before bowl season.

21. South Florida (9-3): The Big East was a very good conference this season.

22. Arkansas (8-4): Another year, another Heisman runner up for Darren McFadden. The only problem for Hogs fans is that he won’t be coming back this time.

23. Auburn (8-4): The more I thought about it and the more time off Texas Tech had, the more I liked the Tigers.

24. Boise State (10-2): The annual Boise State coach leaving for a bigger program rumors are alive and well.

25. BYU (10-2): Looking for some revenge in a rematch with UCLA this bowl season.