College Football Top 25 11/28

Boise State lost their first game of the season, throwing the rankings for a loop (we're not gonna talk about Iowa). On the other end though, Stanford dominated a good Oregon State team. What's the payoff? Take a look.

Rank	Team	W	L	Rating	SOS
1	Stanford	11	1	661.75	80.31
2	Oregon	11	0	568.29	57.06
3	Boise St	10	1	549.55	36.42
4	TCU	12	0	481.89	26.21
5	Ohio State	11	1	418.07	39.43
6	Alabama	9	3	344.51	55.54
7	Oklahoma	10	2	281.27	74.29
8	Missouri	10	2	245.19	53.65
9	Auburn	12	0	221.93	61.89
10	Nebraska	10	2	221.1	46.44
11	South Carolina	9	3	213.89	63.61
12	Arkansas	10	2	213.52	55.75
13	Oklahoma St	10	2	210.48	50.59
14	Virginia Tech	10	2	210.14	42.9
15	Texas A&M	9	3	199.78	72.04
16	Florida St	9	3	199.09	53.78
17	Wisconsin	11	1	181.14	34.47
18	Arizona	7	4	174.44	72.56
19	LSU	10	2	163.74	59.33
20	Iowa	7	5	157.77	44.34
21	Arizona St	5	6	154.18	77.87
22	Nevada	11	1	150.54	26.7
23	Southern Cal	7	5	139.44	104.72
24	West Virginia	8	3	137.5	35.3
25	Florida	7	5	135.75	67.95

That's right, Stanford is now the best team in the nation. After a couple of dominating wins against pretty good teams the Cardinal have established themselves at the top of the rankings. There's a lot of excitement about being #4 in the BCS, but Stanford may be sold short by that. Should a team ranked that high, well higher than Auburn, get a shot at the championship game? To look at that we have to take a look at the no MoV rankings, which aren't for predicting, but instead evaluate what a team has accomplished.

Rank	Team	W	L	Rating	SOS
1	Auburn	12	0	27.65	6.91
2	Oregon	11	0	25.63	6.4
3	Oklahoma	10	2	25.24	10.01
4	Stanford	11	1	23.96	7.54
5	Missouri	10	2	23.37	9.27
6	TCU	12	0	22.46	5.61
7	Texas A&M	9	3	21.03	10.51
8	Oklahoma St	10	2	20.05	7.95
9	LSU	10	2	19.49	7.73
10	Arkansas	10	2	19.09	7.57

Stanford now sits at 4 (sounds familiar), but the number 1 and 2 are Auburn and Oregon, just like the BCS. Maybe there'll be some upsets next week, but if not the nation's best college football team will have proved it all too late.