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I almost didn't realize it—since I've been neglecting the poor Lineal Top 25—but there is a new "All-Time College Football Champion" and it is the Oklahoma State Cowboys!
Starting way back in 1869 with the Rutgers-Princeton winner and carrying through until today, if you leapfrog winners over losers, you can track the #1 team of all-time (in a sense) and extended down 24 more teams, you have the Lineal Top 25.
At the end of last season Missouri took over the #1 spot and didn't relinquish it until this week. Here is the current state of the Lineal Top 25:
Week 7 (games thru 10/11/2008)
lw new Team rec last week's result
-- 1. Oklahoma State 6-0 Beat Missouri
1 2. Missouri 5-1 Lost to Oklahoma State
2 3. Alabama 6-0
3 4. Texas 6-0
4 5. Florida 5-1 Beat LSU
5 6. Arkansas 3-3 Beat Auburn
6 7. LSU 4-1 Lost to Florida
7 8. Georgia 5-1
23 9. Mississippi State 2-4 Beat Vanderbilt
8 10. Vanderbilt 5-1 Lost to Mississippi State
9 11. Auburn 4-3 Lost to Arkansas
10 12. Utah 7-0
11 13. Michigan State 6-1
-- 14. North Carolina 5-1 Beat Notre Dame
12 15. Notre Dame 4-2 Lost to North Carolina
-- 16. Minnesota 6-1 Beat Illinois
13 17. Illinois 3-3 Lost to Minnesota
-- 18. Toledo 3-4 Beat Michigan
14 19. Michigan 2-4 Lost to Toledo
15 20. South Carolina 5-2
16 21. Mississippi 3-3
17 22. Pittsburgh 4-1
18 23. South Florida 5-1
19 24. Kansas 5-1
20 25. Boise State 5-0
Oklahoma State flies in all the way from who knows where to take the #1 spot. Technically I could figure out where they were last week but laziness has taken its toll on my interest in the Lineal Top 25 except on weeks where the top spot changes.
Not much else happened except Mississippi State, already on last week's list at #23, upset Vanderbilt to jump to #9. As normally happens, a cluster of same-conference teams formed around Arkansas and LSU, with a total of eight SEC teams in the top 11. During conference play this gets even more prominent, until the bowl season breaks things up a bit.
North Carolina and Minnesota jump in by beating Notre Dame and Illinois, respectively, but Toledo slips in at #18 by beating Michigan. They're the only MAC team in the Lineal Top 25, and probably the first one in a very long time. Again, I could research this but, nahh.
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