after week 6 burner rankings
welcome to the burner blog. i am just a normal guy who watches a ton of sports. i have a lot of takes and just looking for a place to let those takes get out there. i am not going to use capital letters so if you don’t like that i do not care.
the weekend of trap games. big weekend for teams that were frauds or on fraud watch.
- ohio state (last week — 1)
they were sleepwalking and beat minnesota 42–3. at this point they will have to do a lot of terrible things for myself or anyone to drop them to #2. obviously the ap voters (idiots) would drop them down if they lost a tough road game to a ranked team, but i’m not an idiot so they would have to do something much worse (lost to ucla or something similar) for me to move them from the top spot. they are so good. remember when people actually thought ryan day should be on the hot seat last year? what an absolutely terrible opinion those stupid people had.
2. oregon (last week — 2)
they didn’t play. the penn state win might not hold up that well but they are obviously legit and very deserving of their ranking. i will only say nice things about dan lanning from here on out.
3. miami (last week — 3)
has there been anyone that has completely destroyed their own draft stock like carson beck did last year, then completely turn it around and once again look like a first rounder? i don’t think so. they led fsu 28–3 and it didn’t look that close. they got conservative and didn’t do shit down the stretch and hung on 28–22. i have to give fsu some credit for making it look close, but i came away impressed with the canes again. i would also like to personally thank mike norvell for the field goal to preserve my miami -4.5 bet. i had a horrible weekend gambling wise and i definitely needed that one. thanks mike.
4. alabama (last week — 6)
ty simpson might be legit. alabama might be the best team in the sec. kalen deboer was the #1 most hated person in the state of alabama a few short weeks ago. now he’s reminding people why he has basically never lost as a head coach at any point in his coaching career. they still have a rough schedule and are not head and shoulders better than anyone in the league. but if you’re not respecting them you are just simply a hater.
5. indiana (last week — 5)
curt cignetti won the bye week by simply not playing ucla. biggest regular season game of cignetti tenure next week?
6. georgia (last week — 7)
they had a less than impressive victory against a soon to be fired coach but i can’t drop them. i’m not sold on gunner stockton and i probably never will be. random thought: i would sign up to watch kirby smart wrestle mark stoops. just seems like an entertaining matchup.
7. ole miss (last week — 8)
they didn’t play but they also didn’t lose to ucla.
8. texas a&m (last week — 12)
i actually thought this was an impressive win. sneaky tough trap spot against a frisky mississippi state team and they handled it with ease. they might be the beneficiary of everyone deciding to suck this season, but they also might be as good as they should be for once. credit to mike elko. i also would like to thank him for not completely running it up and securing miss st. +22.5 that i had in a teaser. i needed any win i could get this weekend and once again will not forget his integrity.
9. texas tech (last week — 10)
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did people actually think houston had a chance? some people thought it was a sneaky upset being at houston. all they did was dominate the game without even trying. i have a little trivia question for you all — what is the name of texas tech’s head coach?
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joey mcguire. he’s in his 4th year in lubbock and they are building something down there thanks to oil money. i just wanted to make sure everyone knew that now before they start pretending they watch the big 12. texas tech is really good and the big 12 is a fun league this year. the red raiders have a tough two week stretch coming up with a sneaky kansas team and then at kenny dillingham’s house the following week.
watch the big 12!
10. lsu (last week — 9)
brian kelly drops a spot here because two other teams did something worthy of jumping up. i probably still have them too high.
11. notre dame (last week — honorable mention)
the problem here is they might be too low. they needed a lot of help to get fully back in the mix and they got just that. penn state and texas puked all over themselves (think of the puke scene in team america: world police) and just like that the fighting irish are back in the top 12. ‘oh but burner they have 2 losses they have to go perfect from here on out’ — yes. i also think they will. try and think of 11 better teams than notre dame right now. i bet you can’t do it.
12. tennessee (last week — honorable mention)
congrats to josh heupel. guy didn’t play a game this week and jumps into the rankings. credit to him and the teams that puked all over themselves (see above) for getting tennessee here.
dropped out:
penn state: i truly can’t think of a loss worse than this one in recent memory. not only was ucla the last winless team in power 4 football. they hadn’t even led for a second all season. james franklin never ceases to amaze any of us. what an absolute loser. he has zero excuses. yes, they lost a heartbreaker at home the week before. yes, they had to travel across the country. i don’t care. they were favored by 3+ touchdowns and have one of the more talented rosters in the country. they just lost to a team that doesn’t even have a coach. pure embarrassment for james franklin and the entire penn state community. even if they win out and finish 10–2 they do NOT deserve a playoff berth. this loss was INEXCUSABLE. i still don’t think they should fire him though.
texas: maybe i was wrong about sark? maybe he’s not the chosen one. arch definitely isn’t the chosen one but as a whole texas was just isn’t awesome. maybe next year will be the year.
honorable mentions/monitoring:
oklahoma: they deserve to be ranked but i’m not going to do it until i see how the mateer return goes and how it will impact them.
georgia tech: they’re still alive.
i’m not mentioning anyone else because i don’t know if anyone else is good.
burner’s picks update
we aren’t gonna talk about it this week. it was bad. we did hang on and get back to almost even with an aggressive live play on kansas +124. next week i need to be better. i will also be at camp randall to watch the hawkeyes try to end the luke fickell tenure. how soon after he gets canned will he be standing next to marcus freeman in south bend?
thank you for reading this edition of the #burnerrankings.
