How Does 1/5 of the Top 25 College Football Teams Get Beat in November?

Why was there so many teams that were ranked in the top 25 and got beat by non ranked opponents? You can see this happen early in the college football season; when we are still trying to see how the teams stack up against each other. You know something must be wrong when so many teams get beat from the top 25 BCS Rankings. We are already in November and we have had time to see how these teams play. Most of us know which teams are for real and which ones are not. It’s late in the year in terms of the college football season and these BCS Rankings. There is no way we should see upset after upset, if we were doing these rankings right. So what’s the problem in college football?

I know the answer and I can tell you why so many ranked teams got beat this past weekend. This is an easy one and I have been trying to tell this to everybody over the last few years. These rankings are messed up due to the bias ranking system and the money that one school has. The richest football program in America is the one out in Southern California. The USC Trojans are the ones with all the money, bias voters, and a direct blame to what’s wrong in college football this year and since the BCS rankings started. You may find it hard to believe that one college football team could be the root or cause for so many ranked teams losing this past weekend, but it’s true.

Just look at the top 25 teams that got beat this past weekend and they have ties to the USC football program. These schools get higher rankings than they deserve, so they can make USC’s football schedule look better than it really is. The Pac 10 is just a weak football conference and it’s impossible for USC to have a tough schedule playing in that conference. They should be the team that rises to the top in that conference each year, but they can’t even beat the Pac 10 teams that are on their schedule. No way should Notre Dame have been ranked 25th in the country when they played USC this year. The Fighting Irish was not a top 25 school that Saturday when these two matched up. The voters knew they had to keep Notre Dame in the top 25, so USC could get a top 25 win on their resume for the bowl games this year.

You think I’m wrong? You think I’m just a crazy blogger and upset because my college football team isn’t where they’re suppose to be? I’m a Georgia Bulldog and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets fan. I will leave these two schools out of my reasoning to prove just how bias these voters are. Have you seen the latest poll from USA Today? The USA Today college football poll has the USC Trojans at number 10. The same USA Today Poll has the LSU Tigers ranked at number 11! Are you kidding me? Who in the world would rank USC above LSU at this point in the college football season? The BCS Rankings use these polls and justice isn’t being served here for the players, coaches, and fans living in Louisiana that root on their Tigers each Saturday. Yes, both USC and LSU have two loses on the season. Have you actually seen who they lost to? USC lost to Oregon (who has 2 losses) and lost to Washington (who has 6 losses), so USC lost to two teams that have 8 combines losses their self. The LSU Tigers lost to the best two teams in the country and they haven’t lost to anyone. The Florida Gators and Alabama Crimson Tide have 0 combined losses on the year and both beat the LSU Tigers. It’s understandable how LSU lost their games; why did USC get beat by a team that didn’t even win a football game last year (Washington Huskies) and the Oregon Ducks? Why in the world would anyone rank the USC Trojans over the LSU Tigers? This makes no sense and if you’re upset in Louisiana; then you should be!

The Direct Links to USC and Upset Saturday on November 7th

Oregon should have never been ranked in the top 10. They couldn’t even beat Boise State first game of the year and I know Boise State has a nice record, but they haven’t played anyone in college football either. Voters pushed them up to the top 10, so USC could have a victory over a top 10 school. The plan didn’t work too well; since the Trojans lost to the Ducks two weeks ago. Oregon moves up a couple of spots and was even ranked above the LSU Tigers; who had only lost to the number 1 Florida Gators at this point last week. Now bring in the mighty Stanford Cardinal and all they did was score 51 points on the number 8 team in the land. If you go by the AP Top 25 college football poll they had Oregon ranked 7th in the country last week! Unranked teams that are not in the top 25 in college football, don’t go around beating and scoring 51 points on top 10 teams in the country. It just doesn’t happen; unless you have voters trying to help the USC Trojans resume.

I already mentioned how Notre Dame should not have been a top 25 team; when they played USC. They were ranked 22nd in the BCS rankings, 21st in the USA Today Poll, and 19th in the AP Top 25 poll before their game on Saturday against the Midshipmen from Navy. I realize the Navy Midshipmen is a descent college football team, but they’re not ranked in the top 25 in any poll or BCS ranking. Navy has lost 3 games this year and one was to Temple. Any team that the Temple Owls can beat in college football, should not be able to beat any top 25 team. Well the Navy Midshipmen proved that theory wrong, because they lose to Temple, but beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish this past Saturday. The reason this happen is because USC needed a top 25 defeat on their resume for the bowl games this year. No one seriously thought Notre Dame would be in a BCS Bowl Game this year. It was just a fabrication of hype and led by former coach Lou Holtz and his cast of bias voters from ESPN. They had to start Notre Dame so high in the rankings, because they knew they would lose their way out of it. It took until November for this to happen, but the USC Trojans got credit for a top 25 victory over a team that will never see the top 25 again this year.

Now let’s look at the California Golden Bears that share the same state as the USC Trojans. California was ranked 20th in the BCS rankings before their game on Saturday. This is a little hard to figure; since the AP Poll and USA Today Poll both had California ranked at 23rd in the country. That right there is a little fishy and probably more proof on how USC has corrupted the landscape of college football. An unranked team from Oregon called the Oregon State Beavers got to play the 20th ranked Golden Bears. It wasn’t even a contest and the Beavers owned the Golden Bears for much of the game. Another unranked team beating up on a rank team in college football and this is November! The Beavers won by 17 points and had a 24 to 7 lead for a big portion of the game. How did this happen so late in the college football season? Well the USC Trojans have a victory over the California Golden Bears and need them in the top 25 in college football. The week before the USC/California game; the Golden Bears only scored a field goal against Oregon as the Ducks beat them 42 to 3. After this terrible loss, California should have moved out of the top 25. They got kept there, so the USC Trojans could have another victory over a top 25 team. Now we see California lose to a non ranked college football team in November and the Golden Bears have fallen off the charts. This USC football team is causing all these problems and upsets.

Did USC have anything to do with Iowa getting upset? Sure they did. Iowa has a win over a Pac 10 team (Arizona). USC gets to play this same Arizona team. Iowa beat them by 10 points in week 3. If USC can win by a wider margin, they can say they beat Arizona by more points than a top 10 ranked Iowa team. Iowa doesn’t play any teams from the SEC or ACC, so they can pile up the wins; while staying away from the better schools in college football.

Let’s face it, the only reason we have so many small schools in the top 10 is to deflect the attention off the USC football program and the way they’re are corrupting the college football system. In years past we had small schools ranked high. They deserved it in years past, because they were blowing teams out by huge margins of victory. Come on people, let’s get the college football rankings fixed and stop this USC program from destroying the game we love so much. We adjust the college football rankings each week, so we can have the best 25 teams in the country ranked at the end of the year. We should have a pretty clear picture on things in November and this is not happening; due to one team that has a weak schedule every year and has to over rank their opponents, to make their resume acceptable for big college bowl games. We are not adjusting these rankings properly week to week and it’s causing problems. Good football teams are not where they’re suppose to be; due to the fact USC and their voters refuse to adjust the rankings.

Our current college football system is responsible for their actions on November 8th; when they did the following:

*Ranked the Cincinnati Bearcats 5th in the Nation with a 2 point victory over the Connecticut Huskies who have a 4-5 record

*Ranked the Boise State Broncos 6th in the Nation with a 10 point victory over the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs who have a 3-6 record

*Ranked the USC Trojans 9th in the Nation with a 5 point victory over the Arizona State Sun Devils who have a 4-5 record

*Ranked the Iowa Hawkeyes 10th in the Nation with a 7 point loss to the Northwestern Wildcats who have a 6-4 record

*Ranked the Oregon Ducks 13th in the Nation with a 9 point loss to the Stanford Cardinal who have a 6-3 record

Can you see how bad this looks? This is all USC’s mess and what they have done to college football. Kirk Herbstreet and Brent Musberger are telling the voters how to vote on their National Game of the Week on ABC each Saturday Night. It’s right there for everyone to see and they’re telling the voters where to place these teams in the rankings. Kirk Herbstreet is a well-known USC Trojan fan and his ESPN commercials with Pete Carol, who is the head coach for USC, is just too much for this college football fan. The bias votes for USC and the teams associated with them is why we have so many unranked teams getting beat in the first week of November by non ranked teams.

You can just look at this past weekend’s action in college football and see how 5 teams in the top 13 got special treatment for dismal performances. Who is ranked 14th in the BCS Rankings right now? That would be the Miami Hurricanes who played another ACC team in Virginia and beat them 52 to 17. Yes, Virginia is 3 and 6 on the year and they do have a losing record. However, you see what a true top 14 team in the nation can do to a 3 and 6 college football team. The Hurricanes beat the Virginia Cavaliers by 35 points! Boise State who is 6th in the nation beat a 3 and 6 team by only 10 points? At least they got a double digit victory, because the 5th and 9th ranked teams in the country won by single digits! It gets even worse for the Miami Hurricane players, coaches, and fans when they see the 10th and 13th ranked teams not even win on Saturday and they get beat by Northwestern and Standford! Are you kidding me?

If you adjusted these rankings properly week to week, you would award a team a 35 point victory ahead of teams that get beat by Stanford and Northwestern; not to mention the teams that are winning by single digits. The only reason why we see ridiculous stats like these is to make the world a better place for the USC football team. Give us a true ranking system and it will be rare to see a non-ranked college football team beat a ranked college football team in November!