Week 5 Wrapup

Rankings are absurd. Houston goes from being the #12 team in the country to unranked. That's silly. These absurd swings show how little the ranking mean since one win or one loss can move you so far. That's why it's important to have more defined ways of determining rank, so that huge swings don't radically affect the outcome of the season.

Looking at the new week of action there are a few more teams that are no longer in competition for the national championship and thus playing meaningless games:
Minnesota
North Carolina
Kentucky
Washington lost 3 games.
Arizona St lost at home to an unranked team.
Mississippi St lost 3 games.
California lost one game at home and one to an unranked team, and has no more games vs ranked teams, and is not ranked this week. Out.
but......
Oklahoma's lost two games to two ranked teams and has #2 Texas still on the slate, I'll leave them in.
Indiana's lost two to ranked teams. It doesn't look possible, but I'm being conservative so they'll stay in.
Georgia still has 3 ranked teams on the slate including #1 Florida so it is certainly possible they come back from 2 losses, especially since both losses were to top 10 teams.

P.S. What happened to Houston's defense. That's pretty awful.

Ok, so we've got 7 more teams eliminated. Let's see how many more games don't matter.
California v Washington St
California @ Arizona St
California @ Washington
Arizona St @ Washington St
Arizona St v Washington
Washington v Washington St
Kentucky v Louisiana Monroe
Kentucky v Mississippi St
Kentucky v Eastern Kentucky
Kentucky @ Vanderbilt
Kentucky v Tennessee
Mississippi St v Houston
Mississippi St @ Middle Tennessee St
North Carolina v Georgia Southern
North Carolina v Florida St
North Carolina v Duke
North Carolina @ North Carolina St
Minnesota v Purdue
Minnesota v Michigan St
Minnesota v Illinois
Minnesota v South Dakota St

That's a whopping 22 more games that don't matter.