2010 Week 5 College Football Rankings and Review; Oregon #1, Alabama #2, Stanford #3, tOSU #4, Nebraska #5

There were some big games in week 5 including several decisive wins leading to a shakeup in the rankings.  The full rankings are on the web-site, but the top-30 is below for quick reference.

Stanford's stay at #1 was short lived with their loss to Oregon propelling Oregon to #1 and dropping Stanford to #3.  Alabama's convincing win moves them up to a strong #2.  Right now, Oregon and Alabama are far and away the top-2 with #3 thru #13 as close as #3 is to #1.

Nebraska makes a big move to #5 due primarily to their last opponent, Washington, pulling the upset at USC.  Iowa also moves up right behind at #6.  Virginia Tech's resurgence helps Boise St get back to the top-10.

While Oregon has a substantial lead on Alabama right now, that is due in large part to the extra couple of TDs at the end of their game.  So it is always useful to look at the performance charts.





Alabama has been more consistent but Oregon's big win over Stanford is the difference.  If Stanford falters the rest of the year, that will hurt Oregon, but the same goes for Florida and Alabama.

Performance charts for all teams are available as part of a newsletter subscription.

Picking games, the computer was ok doing well picking winners beating Vegas but not well against the spread going 22-28-1 against the spread and 39-12 picking winners while Vegas went 38-12 picking winners.  The computer is still 125-118-2 against the spread for the year though.  Full prediction performance here.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Oregon	96.089	5-0	65.934	+4,+10.473
2	Alabama	92.612	5-0	69.325	+1, +4.796
3	Stanford	88.972	4-1	73.808	-2, -6.230
4	Ohio State	88.079	5-0	63.966	-2, +0.000
5	Nebraska	87.143	4-0	58.223	+10, +6.511
6	Iowa	87.077	4-1	66.612	+4, +3.437
7	TCU	85.651	5-0	63.789	-1, +0.321
8	Arizona	85.236	4-0	67.080	-1, +0.762
9	Miami FL	84.519	3-1	69.376	+2, +1.020
10	Boise St	84.466	4-0	66.451	+2, +1.846
11	Nevada	83.308	5-0	62.871	-7, -2.496
12	Florida	82.860	4-1	71.693	-4, -1.054
13	Arkansas	80.952	3-1	62.817	+6, +2.376
14	Virginia Tech	80.491	3-2	72.868	+6, +2.098
15	California	79.845	2-2	72.226	+1, -0.672
16	Oklahoma	79.609	5-0	70.580	+6, +2.738
17	Missouri	79.347	4-0	62.051	+10, +3.383
18	Kansas St	78.582	4-0	69.196	+0, -0.466
19	UCLA	78.556	3-2	73.676	-6, -2.620
20	LSU	78.269	5-0	68.335	-11, -5.468
21	Michigan	77.313	5-0	65.635	+4, +0.841
22	San Diego St	77.242	3-1	55.333	+19, +4.709
23	Auburn	76.587	5-0	62.767	-6, -2.463
24	North Carolina St	76.452	4-1	66.940	-10, -4.509
25	Air Force	76.294	4-1	61.040	+3, +0.664
26	Oklahoma St	76.133	4-0	62.967	+0, -0.248
27	Florida St	76.024	4-1	62.847	+18, +3.784
28	Penn State	75.990	3-2	73.181	-4, -0.506
29	South Carolina	75.465	3-1	64.856	-6, -1.346
30	Arizona St	75.065	2-3	70.540	+9, +2.240