Moss Report's Best and Worst

I am going to a monthly update of who I think are the best and worst teams in NCAA Football. I will mention the number of teams I feel worth mentioning.


The Worst.

I always enjoy checking out the Sagarin ratings once in a while since they rate all the Division 1 teams in one table. There are 242 1-A and 1-AA teams out there. The highest ranked 1-AA team at this point is Appalachian St at 80 and 7 1-AA teams in the top 100. Amazingly enough there are 4 teams in 1-A ranked below 150: Temple (151), Utah State (152), Buffalo (166), and Florida International FIU (174). Only one of these teams will win a game this year and that will actually happen early with an exciting Buffalo - Temple face off in Philadelphia on September 8th. Actually last season when these two teams battled in Buffalo, it was the first game that Buffalo was ever a favorite in. Buffalo won the game but it was actually a push against the spread. Utah State and FIU also have conference rivals who are close to as inept as they are Idaho at 146 and Florida Atlantic at 149, so in the end 3 of these 6 teams will end up with a win on the season but I would be very surprised to see any of the 6 beat any other team.

The Best

Lets just run down the teams the should win their conferences. USC, Texas, LSU, Michigan, BC, West Virginia, and TCU. Yes I am including TCU because if they beat Texas on September 8th they will be the BCS picture. Other teams with BCS potential, UCLA, Cal, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Auburn, Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Louisville, and possibly Hawaii or Boise State. This is just a quick run and we will revisit this after the first several weeks of the season.