NCAA Football

2014 BTD Top 25: Irish Dispute

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Notre Dame is the most disagreed upon school in the ranks and rightfully so.

By BeaverBeliever12 Sep 24, 2014, 9:30pm PDT

Notre Dame has had early success, but against poor competition.

Consensus Poll:

Rank	Team	Points
1	FSU	99
2	Alabama	94
3	Oregon	93
4	Oklahoma	88
5	Baylor	84
6	Auburn	80
7	Texas A&M	76
8	Michigan State	68
9	Georgia	67
10	Stanford	56
T-11	UCLA	48
T-11	Ole Miss	48
13	Wisconsin	46
14	South Carolina	45
15	USC	42
16	Mississippi State	41
17	Notre Dame	40
18	Arizona State	39
19	LSU	38
20	BYU	19
T-21	Oklahoma State	18
T-21	Nebraska	18
23	Ohio State	16
24	Duke	13
25	Boston College	7

Individual Polls:

	Chris	Andy	Kurt	Robert
1	FSU	Florida St.	Alabama	Florida St.
2	Oregon	Oregon	Florida State	Alabama
3	Oklahoma	Alabama	Oklahoma	Oregon
4	Alabama	Oklahoma	Oregon	Auburn
5	Auburn	Baylor	Texas A&M	Baylor
6	Baylor	UCLA	Michigan State	Oklahoma
7	Michigan State	Auburn	Auburn	Texas A&M
8	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	Baylor	Georgia
9	Arizona State	Georgia	Georgia	South Carolina
10	Stanford	Mississippi St	Mississippi	Notre Dame
11	Georgia	USC	Mississippi State	Michigan St.
12	Wisconsin	Michigan St.	Stanford	Mississippi
13	UCLA	Stanford	Notre Dame	Stanford
14	Ole Miss	Arizona St.	Wisconsin	LSU
15	Notre Dame	BYU	USC	Wisconsin
16	LSU	South Carolina	Clemson	Nebraska
17	South Carolina	Wisconsin	South Carolina	UCLA
18	USC	LSU	LSU	USC
19	Ohio State	Boston College	Oklahoma State	Mississippi St.
20	Duke	Mississippi	UCLA	Oklahoma St.
21	Oklahoma State	Duke	Arizona State	Arizona St.
22	BYU	Ohio St.	BYU	Ohio St.
23	Mississippi State	Nebraska	Nebraska	Kansas St.
24	Nebraska	Marshall	East Carolina	Duke
25	East Carolina	Kansas St.	Ohio State	Utah

Thoughts:

Notre Dame is a disputed school this week, rated up to 10th and they are unranked by Andy. They have not proven much, playing three mediocre teams and they will play another one next in Syracuse. Few teams have actually played meaningful games yet, although for most teams conference play will start and they will start to reveal themselves. The Fighting Irish will have a chance with their slate still including Stanford and Florida State, among a few other notables. There will be opportunities for them to show their true quality.
Mississippi State had a big win over LSU and jumped up the rankings. The Bayou Bengals dropped down the ranks, but still hung on at number 19. Clemson was also a loser on the day when the could not beat the Jameis Winston-less Seminoles and as a result they dropped straight out of the rankings.