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Jackson Fryburger

ESPN releases Top 25 power rankings after rivalry week

As hard as it is to believe, the college football regular season is over. We have one more week of football before the Army-Navy game and bowl season, which is incredibly scary and sad.

Before we kick things off one last time, we’ll relish in the moment right now and go over some interesting power rankings.

Where does ESPN have the Dawgs in one of its finals power rankings? At No. 5 behind the Utes of Utah.

*Pauses for extended eye-rolling*

Below, you will find the network’s Top 10 teams.

  1. LSU
  2. Ohio State
  3. Clemson
  4. Utah
  5. Georgia
  6. Oklahoma
  7. Baylor
  8. Alabama
  9. Florida
  10. Wisconsin

The full Top 25 can be found here:

What do we dislike here? LSU at No. 1 over Ohio State is a coin flip, but works in this scenario. However, having Georgia at No. 5 and even Alabama No. 8 is a crime.

The Dawgs have a better resume than all of the other one-loss teams and we may be biased, but we sure do believe they deserve that Top 4 spot. As for Alabama, what the heck?

That’s one way to fight the ‘Bama Bias’ narrative, putting the Tide over a Gators squad trending in the right direction, with a better resume than Alabama. One could even make a case Wisconsin, Auburn, Minnesota and Penn State should be above the Tide in a power ranking.

But that’s none of our business… Ho hum, Alabama is still glum.

 

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