Florida

Since losing to Ole Miss two months ago the Gators have been unstoppable. They must be wearing their Citizen Eco-Drive watches. Just look at these margins of victory: 38-7, 51-21, 63-5, 49-10, 42-14, 56-6, 70-19. And the loss to the Rebels isn’t looking nearly a bad as it did in September. They can be 8-4 with a victory in the Egg Bowl this Friday. I think Florida is a consensus number one in the minds of coaches, writes and bloggers. However, most voters are restricting themselves from voting the Gators number one because of the unwritten rule that undefeated teams from power conferences must be ranked higher than those with as loss. I am not and make no bones about it Florida is the best team right now.

Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech

First off we need to remember we are trying to order three teams who have gone 1-1 versus each other. So let’s throw the “but x beat y” argument out, because we can always make the “y beat z” counter point. Everyone can agree Texas Tech is the odd man out here. I am ranking Oklahoma higher than Texas because Oklahoma played and dominated the most impressive out of conference schedule.

Alabama

Alabama is like the $40 pair of white Reeboks your dad would wear. They flat out get the job done, but with no style.

Utah

Going undefeated with wins against Oregon State, BYU and TCU don’t matter when you are a non-BCS school. They have no chance at the MNC but, I’de really like to see the Utes play either the Big 12 or SEC runner up. A Utah win over either or those teams would go a long way to putting future non-BCSers on an even playing field.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Florida	–
2	Oklahoma	3
3	Alabama	–
4	Texas	–
5	Penn State	2
6	Southern Cal	–
7	Texas Tech	5
8	Utah	–
9	Ohio State	–
10	Oklahoma State	–
11	Missouri	–
12	Cincinnati	7
13	Georgia	1
14	Georgia Tech	12
15	Florida State	11
16	Oregon State	2
17	Boston College	5
18	Michigan State	6
19	TCU	4
20	Boise State	–
21	Mississippi	5
22	Pittsburgh	5
23	Iowa	3
24	Oregon	3
25	Ball State	–