My Top 25; Frogs 4th, Sooners 10th, Baylor 15th, Okla. St. 22nd, West Virginia 23rd. SEC takes a fall

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Michigan State has the best showing so far in 2015 while Ohio State‘s game at Virginia Tech and Alabama‘s pull-a-part over Wisconsin are worthy victories.  The SEC on the whole, is not as great as some (like me) thought just last week. I will not just rank teams from any conference just because they are a member of said conference. Auburn‘s near take down by Jacksonville State tells me more about the War Eagle and the SEC than the weak opponent played yesterday  .  Plus the dismantling of the Razorbacks of Arkansas in Little Rock by Toledo is just not acceptable on any playing field by a Top 25 team. Thus, the SEC takes a major hit in my Top Ten, yet LSU did win at Miss. State.  Big  wins this week come out of Knoxville with Oklahoma‘s gut check win over the Tennessee Vols in double OT and a nice win in Provo with the BYU Cougars putting Boise State  to sleep for this year.  In whole, the large scores of many good D1 schools against inferior competition just don’t do anything for me and that will be reflected in my personal rankings.  Like it or not, some teams do not belong on the same field with each other.  Baylor, TCU, Okla. State and USC, shame on your schedule.

FRED’s TOP 25

1. Ohio State

2. Michigan State

3. Alabama

4. TCU

5. Clemson

6. Notre Dame

7. Florida State

8. LSU

9. USC

10. Oklahoma

11. Georgia Tech

12. Oregon

13. BYU

14. Georgia

15. Baylor

16. Ole Miss

17. Texas A&M

18. Utah

19. Arizona

20. Wisconsin

21. UCLA

22. Oklahoma St

23. Temple

24. West Virginia

25. Northwestern

Everyone in my Top 25 is 2-0 except LSU and Toledo which are 1-0 and Oregon and Wisconsin 1-1.

On the cusp:  Auburn, Kansas State, Missouri, Arizona State, Virginia Tech, Mississippi State, Tulsa, Boise State.

Conference strength:  Big 12-5; Big 10-4; PAC-5; ACC-3; SEC-5; American-1;

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