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2007 NCAA Top 25 rankings - Week 15
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NCAA Top 25 (through games of 12/1/07)
Week 15 - Through games of 12/1/07
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BC-Mess
The 2007 college football season has been one like no other.
Not a single week has gone by that wasn't witness to any number of top 10 upsets. The national polls and rankings looked more like a game of Scrabble than an organized understanding of the NCAA elite.
Over the past two weeks, the #1 and #2 teams - as designated by the BCS - each lost. That's a total of four different teams, each with the opportunity to play for the national championship, going down in flames.
The debacle began back in August, when USC and LSU were installed as preseason favorites by coaches and sports writers, but really heated up when conference play began. Over the next three months, as many as ten different teams would be ranked either #1 or #2. LSU, USC, Florida, Ohio State, West Virginia, South Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon and Boston College all had their days in the sun. All failed at some point or another.
With the passing last week of the conference championships, only one team - Hawaii - remained undefeated, but worse, only two teams - Ohio State and Kansas - finished the regular season with just one loss. The college football landscape is littered with two-loss teams, making bowl choices questionable at best, and forcing the fatally-flawed BCS into a determination of the two national championship participants that will prove nothing.
11-1 Ohio State, which captured the undeniably weak Big 10 title without having to play in a conference title game, will play 11-2 LSU, a team which over the past two weeks lost in overtime at home, and won the SEC championship game over Tennessee, 21-14 on a late interception return for a touchdown.
In the last two weeks of the season, LSU, West Virginia, Kansas and Missouri were each ranked either 1 or 2 and each lost critical games. Obviously, the level of competitive play in college football is such that choosing just two teams from a pool of 10-12 quality contenders is not a solution, but a sham.
While the Downtown Magazine rankings are one man's opinion, the feeling is that Oklahoma and Virginia Tech, each of which won their conference championship games in solid fashion, are the two best teams in the nation right now. That estimation is likely incorrect, however, we'll never have the chance to find out.
A playoff system which keeps most of the bowl games intact could easily be devised, but the university presidents, the NCAA and the BCS have continually failed to even consider such an option. In the end, the games go on and the quest for the real national champion, in the hearts and minds of college football fans far and wide, will be more a fiction than a fact.
Copyright 2007, 2008, Rick Gagliano, Downtown Magazine. All rights reserved. Downtown Magazine is located in the Uinted States of America and is not affiliated with the National Football League or the NCAA. For more information, contact us here. Use of this site is for entertainment purposes only.  |
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