This is my third season doing top 25 polls here on AmStat. However, for the first time, I decided against a huge series of prognostications and preseason rankings. My reasoning was simple...they're never right, so why embarrass myself? Why waste time making predictions when the results of actual football games will give us all the indication we need to tell who has the look of a champion, and who just looks good in their uniforms. Four weeks are in the books for this 2011 college football season, and with the last remaining conference opening their league schedule next week (of course, it would be the nauseatingly old-fashioned Big Ten that has yet to start playing conference games), there is no better time to start from square one than week four. At this point, contenders have emerged and pretenders have been exposed. This will probably be the most accurate top 25 AmStat has ever did for the simple fact that I've never been able to build a ranking from scratch with up to four games to use as a reference. I may eventually go back to more expansive preseason coverage in the future, but I will always regard my week four poll as the first one that really matters. Without further ado, the first AmStat Top 25 of the 2011 season.
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| "The Hat" has three road wins over ranked teams this year |
1. LSU Tigers (4-0)
2. Oklahoma Sooners (3-0)
3. Alabama Crimson Tide (4-0)
4. Boise State Broncos (3-0)
5. Stanford Cardinal (4-0)
6. Oklahoma State Cowboys (4-0)
7. Wisconsin Badgers (4-0)
8. Nebraska Cornhuskers (4-0)
9. Clemson Tigers (4-0)
10. Florida Gators (4-0)
11. South Carolina Gamecocks (4-0)
12. South Florida Bulls (4-0)
13. Virginia Tech Hokies (4-0)
14. Baylor Bears (3-0)
15. Texas Longhorns (4-0)
16. Illinois Fighting Illini (4-0)
17. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (4-0)
18. Michigan Wolverines (4-0)
19. Oregon Ducks (3-1)
20. Texas A&M Aggies (2-1)
21. Arkansas Razorbacks (3-1)
22. TCU Horned Frogs (3-1)
23. Arizona State Sun Devils (3-1)
24. West Virginia Mountaineers (3-1)
25. Ohio State Buckeyes (3-1)
Also Considered...
Kansas State (3-0)
Houston (4-0)
Michigan State (3-1)
Penn State (3-1)
Texas Tech (4-0)
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