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Top 16 Teams - Nov. 5
Ohio St. Holds on to #1 Ranking
Team of the Week - Oregon
Frank Coyle - Head Scout - Draft Insiders
The college football top 25 rankings continue to change with two undefeated clubs, Boston College and Arizona St tasting defeat for the first time vs conference rivals. The top 10 turned upside down once again for the 6th week in a row with several big upsets that affected the rankings. The top ranked club, Ohio St beat a good Wisconsin club soundly and continues to roll through the Big Ten. Boston College lost vs a fired up Florida St. club that stoned QB Matt Ryan. Oregon won a key conference game vs undefeated Arizona St who fell out of the top ten as a result. Oregon was lead by QB Dennis Dixon who threw 4 TD passes in the 35-23 bashing of the Sun Devils. Several clubs improved their position in the top 16 positions as a result with Oregon, Missouri, Michigan, Georgia and Connecticut all moving higher off nice victories.
1. Ohio St.
2. LSU
3. Oklahoma
4. West Virginia
5. Oregon
6. Kansas
7. Missouri
8. Boston College
9. Virginia Tech
10. Michigan
11. Georgia
12. Arizona St.
13. Connecticut
14. Hawaii
15. Southern Cal
16. Auburn
Frank Coyle is a longtime member of the FWAA and votes in all the major college awards - the Heisman Trophy, Lombardi, Outland, Jim Thorpe including all the defensive awards. He is also a voter for the FWAA on the College team polls, the Grantland Rice Polls. He is a nationwide radio and TV personality and makes frequent appearances on sports talk shows from coast to coast. He has been a regular guest on major radio shows such as the Score in Chicago, Sporting News Radio, ESPN Radio nationwide, WEEI Boston, WFAN in New York and Sports Extra in San Diego as well as every major sports talk show nationwide. His Heisman Trophy and Jim Thorpe Award ballots are released annually in early Dec.