Adam Burke shares his weekly college football power ratings
The college football season is flying by. It is already Week 6, which means that some teams will have played 50% of their regular season games by Saturday night. The Week 5 results had many of us asking the same question we’ve asked over the last few weeks, as it simply does not appear that we have a truly elite team in college football this season.
There are 22 undefeated teams in the nation right now and not one of them comes from the SEC West, so that becomes a very interesting storyline with Georgia looking rather human through five games and Kentucky on the docket this week, along with Missouri, Ole Miss, and Tennessee in November, plus the likely SEC Championship Game.
But, that is just one of many storylines out there. We’ve got five Pac-12 teams ranked in the Top 15 (I only have three in my Top 15 – Washington, Oregon, USC). We’ve got three Big Ten East teams in the Top 10 (as do I) and there will be some eliminator games later in the season in terms of undefeated records. One unbeaten will fall this week in the Big 12 with the Red River Rivalry game between Oklahoma and Texas.
I don’t have to spend as much time on the intro this week, as I’ve talked about my process and why box score study is so important. Hopefully you’ve been doing your own research to find those misleading final scores or those games where there was more than meets the eye.