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College Football Rankings Week 5

2009-09-28 01:22

The college football rankings for week 5 look as topsy-turvy as ever. College football rankings in week 5 were complicated at the top 10, but the college football rankings for week 5 reorganized the top 10 as best they could.With pretty much every top 10 team losing this week, the college football rankings for week 5 were bound to look very interesting. In fact, they are so interesting that Boise State is in the top 5, and teams like Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are moving up the college football rankings again.

According to USA TODAY, the new college football rankings for week 5 of the coaches poll have Boise State as the new number 5, their highest ranking ever. The top 3 stayed the same - and was about the only thing that stayed the same - as Florida, Texas and Alabama are still 1-2-3. LSU is number 4, despite needing a goal line stand to beat Mississippi State.

According to ESPN, the AP college football rankings and the USA TODAY coaches poll are the same at the top. Both polls have Florida, Texas, Alabama, LSU and Boise State in the top 5, followed by Virginia Tech, USC, Oklahoma and Ohio State. Cincinnati rounds out the top 10 in the AP poll, while TCU has that spot in the coaches poll.

The college football rankings in week 5 now look most unusual, and have more question marks than ever. With all the top teams losing so much lately, Boise State is now in an early position to knock on the BCS door. LSU is in the top 5, despite almost no one being impressed with them this season. And Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are national title threats again, despite ugly losses in September.

Given what has happened this season, the college football rankings are sure to change again soon enough. Already, teams like Ole Miss, Cal and Penn State have been exposed as overrated. And teams like Miami and BYU have had big wins, only to get knocked back down to earth with ugly losses of their own.

No one in college football has shown any consistency this season, except for the top 3 teams - and Florida is in big trouble if Tim Tebow's concussion is serious. Now their game at LSU in two weeks looms even larger, with LSU in the top 5 now.

The college football rankings for week 5 now have Iowa and Oregon knocking on the door of the top teams, with Iowa at 13 in the AP poll and Oregon at 16, despite lower rankings in the coaches poll. Houston is now in the top 15 too - but can the surprise starts for these teams last much longer? Consistency has eluded everyone else in this college football season, except for a select few with question marks of their own.