Written by Gene Zarnick | 26 September 2009

I already did my rant on college football rankings and my own solutions in my article, "College Football Shouldn't Have Rankings".  After watching the South Carolina/Ole Miss game on Thursday it became even more clearer.  Did you know that before the game today, that in the season of college football already eight Top 5 teams have lost?  Now this is exciting and brings drama to the games, but it also doesn't give a solid representation of how good a team really is.  South Carolina beat Ole Miss, but how good was Ole Miss really?  USC beat Ohio State and then lost the next week, so how good are either of those teams.  I get it.  Rankings give us something to visualize and give us meaning in matchups that we're unsure about.  The problem is that just more uncertainty comes from after the game as it did before the game.  So don't take rankings too seriously, no need to debate right now, because tomorrow they will be different.  Every week it's going to change and until the end of the season we will never really know the truth about the teams.  I'm happy my Penn  State Nittany Lions are ranked 4th, but it's good and bad.  They can move up easier in the rankings, but a loss would be crushing to any national championship or BCS bowl chances.  Let's just enjoy the games and forget about the numbers on the side of the team's name on the television.