Man has it been a wild college football season thus far. First it starts with the biggest upset victory in college football history with Appalachian St defeating Michigan and then last week #1 LSU looses in a nail biter against a surprisingly good Kentucky team.  With all the drama so far, it has been even more exciting to try and predict the Top 5 rankings each week. Up until this week there was little debate as to who belonged and who should be left out according to the quality of wins each team has possessed. Well that all went to screeching halt when the BSC revealed that Ohio State was the number 1 ranked team in the country.

I could write a thesis about why the BSC sucks and is an incompetent method of selecting the National Championship participants, but I will save that for later. My main beef with the BCS rankings this week were not so much about the system but the unbelief that sports writers and coaches had come to a consensus that Ohio State deserved the top spot.  Which I feel is a complete crock of crap.

If you look at the Buckeyes schedule to this point they have played no one with any significance.   Take for instance the first game of the season. They played against a College Subdivision team in Youngstown St. that knew the moment they entered the stadium they were going to lose. Then following that game, OSU got a series of wins against a bunch of conference dwellers that have a combined record less than .500. These included teams like Minnesota and Washington that could not even get quality wins against lesser opponents. Follow that by a win against a Purdue team that got abused by Michigan last week, and I don’t need to remind you why that was an embarrassing loss for the Boilermakers (App. St.). Then of course the Buckeyes most recent victory over another MAC opponent proves that Ohio St has done nothing, zero, and zilch in proving its potential #1 ranking.

What really makes me questions Ohio States validity of their #1 ranking is the way they have won the first 6 games. Yes of course if you look at the scores of each of those games, Ohio State has won by an average of 30 points. However, that was done against teams that don’t have much offensive power to test that Buckeye defense in addition not one defensive unit the Buckeyes faced ranked higher than 30^th in total defense in the country. What that tells me is Ohio St is somewhat unproven defensively and their offense is really going to struggle when they have to face Penn St and Wisconsin.

So basically you can count Ohio St to lose the top BSC ranking in the next few weeks and it is quite possible they will be playing for “pride” when they face an SEC opponent in the Outback Bowl come January 1, 2008.

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