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.
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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.
One thing I do have to mention is that we’re starting to see the coaching carousel spin. Georgia Tech demoted Andrew Thacker and named Kevin Sherrer the lone defensive coordinator. Dana Dimel’s seat is hotter than lava at UTEP. Frankly, I’m shocked he hasn’t been fired yet, but maybe the UTEP athletic department doesn’t want to pay the buyout. Other names will start to surface. Those can make for some really uncomfortable scenarios, especially because these coaches make promises to players and players go to schools because of the coaches that recruited them.
We keep racking up the data points on the field and those allow people like me to keep tweaking power ratings, but there are always those intangible things that can have an impact.
Here are my Week 6 College Football Power Ratings:
