College Football Momentum Tracker

The College Football Momentum Tracker measures in net change in votes a team receives in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches' Polls. It takes a deeper look into the polls themselves and shows you how the writers and coaches' opinions of teams are changing.

Teams at the top of the polls have more room to fall than to rise, and vice versa. Keep that in mind when you read the Rising and Falling lists below.

Rising
With all the upsets of this week, the biggest winners are those teams ranked outside of the top 10 last week. USF's victory over Auburn looks even better since Auburn knocked off Florida. Combine that with last week's upset of West Virginia, and USF is the biggest winner of them all this week.

1	USF	+1173
2	Kentucky	+861
3	Arizona State	+606
4	Boston College	+502
5	Georgia	+496
6	Wisconsin	+466
7	Ohio State	+448
8	California	+438
9	Purdue	+417
10	South Carolina	+392

Falling

This week's biggest loser (take your pick): Florida, West Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, Rutgers, Clemson, Oregon. Carnage all around the college football world this past week. Good news is that a loss now does not necessarily remove you from the National Championship picture, but it does make it tough.

1	Texas	-1277
2	Rutgers	-1263
3	Clemson	-1031
4	West Virginia	-1031
5	Oklahoma	-875
6	Florida	-733
7	Penn State	-718
8	Alabama	-408
9	Oregon	-288
10	Michigan State	-148

The Only Accurate Preseason Top 25

Lets face it, a preseason college football Top 25 is ridiculous. No games have been played. At this time of year it is all about reputation and appearances. Voting should not be done until after at least four or five games have been played.

Teams like TCU are punished for their low early ranking, while a team like USC will be rewarded. What happens if USC, ranked #1 in the newly-released Coaches' Poll, loses one out of their first five games while TCU, ranked #22, wins their first five? Lets say USC loses to Nebraska and beats Idaho, Washington St, Washington, and Stanford. TCU's first five games are against Baylor, Texas, Air Force, SMU, and Colorado St. Chances are USC will still be ranked higher than TCU based on where the teams started the season. I would argue that TCU's five victories (especially the one over Texas) would make them a more impressive team than USC.

My general disdain for preseason poll's aside, I feel compelled to release my own College Football Preseason Top 25. I think it is the most accurate one you will find anywhere.

God Loves The Gators Preseason College Football Top 25
1. (TIE) Florida, USC, LSU, Michigan, West Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma
According to Bodog.com, these seven teams have the best odds to win it all. On paper they definitely look like the best teams in the country. Florida and LSU play each other this season, as does Texas and Oklahoma. USC, which starts the season #1, is trying to go wire-to-wire. Ohio State proved last season how hard that is to do.

8. (TIE) Everyone else.
Well maybe not everyone else. Even I can't make a case for a team from the Sun Belt, at least half of the teams in the MAC, Conference USA, WAC, and Mountain West, Stanford, or Duke. But you get my point. Let the kids on the field determine who the best team is. Of course that would probably require a playoff, huh?