College Football Program Rankings

[BCWWF]

I was bored, so I came up with these. I did a similar thing before the season, but I think this one is better. There are a couple that could go either way, like Tennessee being in the top group or Florida State being in the second group, but it is all relative. Tell me which ones you think should change.

National Power: Not neccessarily always amazing, but on any given year one of these teams could be the national champion and it wouldn't be a big shock.
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Auburn
Florida
Florida State
LSU
Miami
Michigan
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Texas
USC

Second Tier: These are teams that you will find in bowls like the Capitol One, Cotton, Peach, etc. They are always good teams, almost always have more than 6 wins, but it would have to be an uncharacteristically good year for them to be BCS Champions.
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Alabama
Arkansas
California
Iowa
Georgia
Louisville
Nebraska
Oregon
Penn State
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
West Virginia
Wisconsin

Bowl Teams: Generally, you will find these teams in bowl games. Generally, they will be 6-8 win teams. On a rare year, you might find them in an upper tier or BCS Bowl, and you might find them missing bowls too.
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Arizona State
Boston College
Clemson
Colorado
Georgia Tech
Kansas State
Maryland
Michigan State
Minnesota
Missouri
Oklahoma State
Oregon State
Pittsburgh
Purdue
Rutgers
South Carolina
South Florida
Texas Tech
UCLA

Just Under: These are teams that can very well make a bowl game and it wouldn't be too surprising, but for one of these teams to be a 7 or 8 win team anytime soon would be kind of a big deal. Generally speaking, these are teams that will struggle to consistantly win six games.
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Arizona
Cincinnati
Iowa State
Kansas
Kentucky
North Carolina
NC State
Northwestern
Ole Miss
Virginia
Washington
Washington State

Piss Poor: If one of these teams makes a bowl game, or even wins as many as four games, it is big news.
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Baylor
Connecticut
Duke
Illinois
Indiana
Mississippi State
Stanford
Syracuse
Vanderbilt

[Joey Slugs]

WHOA WHOA WHOA....

You are missing Notre Dame from the national power teams. Say what you will... any team that has it's own national TV deal and has the nickname of "University of Football"... needs to be recognized.

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Rutgers?

They've had one good year

[BCWWF]

Shit, forgot Notre Dame because they weren't in the BCS conference standings that I was looking at when making this list. In all honesty though, I think they belong in the second group.

As for Rutgers, and the same thing with Wake Forest, after the year's they have had, I can't imagine them falling off too hard. I know Wake has a good recruiting class coming in, not sure about Rutgers, but I would have to imagine. There is probably a good argument that both programs would fit under the third category though.

[BCWWF]

Wait Rutgers already is in the third Tier, I think that's legit.

[BCWWF]

Remember earlier in the year I ranked the conferences and Stima got all upset because I said the Pac-10 was almost as good as the ACC? Well fuck it, now I will rank the conferences how they ended up.

Southeastern Conference
Big 12
Big Ten
Atlantic Coast Conference
Big East
Pac-10

I rank the Big 12 higher than the Big Ten because after Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin, the Big Ten is incredibly average. In the Big 12, there are 9 out of 12 teams that are going to bowls this year. That is one hell of a feat. So they weren't neccessarily top heavy, but by far the deepest conference.

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

The ACC was awful this year though, like probably the worst year for the ACC that it has ever had. Miami 6-6? FSU 6-6? Wake Forest vs Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship game?

[James Steele]

Is it just possible that all the other teams in the ACC just got better?

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Virginia Tech should be in the top tier teams. They've won at least 10 games 6 of the last 8 years. I also would say Tennessee deserves to be in the top tier as much as Florida and LSU.

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Is it just possible that all the other teams in the ACC just got better?I mean they could have improved, but the ACC champion was barely in the top 25 last week, and now the loser of the game (Georgia Tech) isn't even ranked anymore.

Miami and FSU had down years, both will be back though I think. New offensive coordinator at FSU and new coach at the U

[BCWWF]

The thing about the ACC this year, Miami and FSU had bad years, but that doesn't mean that the whole conference is bad. I would just say that this year, Wake Forest and Georgia Tech, as well as teams like BC stepped up and were the better teams. There were I think five ranked teams at the end of the year, which I think says a lot, especially isnce Florida State and Miami were not among them.