GopherHole.com Top 25 (9/17/06)

There are once again a few major shakeups in the latest GopherHole.com Top 25. The biggest jump was Michigan moving from #17 to #6 after their big road win over Notre Dame. I wasn’t that high on Michigan coming into the season, and it was difficult to tell how good they were through the first two weeks of the season because they did not face good competition. But after their impressive performance against a good team on Saturday it looks like they are for real. The defense was perhaps better than advertised and the offense showed big play ability via sophomore wideout Mario Manningham. The Gophers face Michgian at the Metrodome in 2 weeks.

Just a week after declaring my belief in Notre Dame, the Irish responded with a sloppy offensive performance, and on defense showed an inability to stop the big Wolverine passing plays (and Michigan averaged only about 120 passing yards per game coming in…) The vast contrast in performance by the Irish in one week to the next once again has me confused about them, but it looks once again as if their defense will keep them from being a top 5 team at the end of the year.

Louisville also jumps into the top 10 after their 31-7 drubbing of Miami (Fla). The key for Louisivlle the next few weeks will be if they can survive the loss of their starting QB for the next 4-6 weeks, but backup Hunter Cantwell filled in nicely today going 3/4 for 113 yards in relief of Brian Brohm.

	Team	Record		Last Week
1.	Ohio State	3-0		1
2.	Auburn	3-0		2
3.	Southern Cal	2-0		3
4.	West Virginia	3-0		5
5.	LSU	2-1		6
6.	Michigan	3-0		17
7.	Texas	2-1		7
8.	Florida	3-0		8
9.	Louisville	3-0		13
10.	Oklahoma	2-1		10
11.	Tennessee	2-1		11
12.	Georgia	3-0		14
13.	Iowa	3-0		15
14.	Virginia Tech	3-0		18
15.	Notre Dame	2-1		4
16.	Clemson	2-1		21
17.	Oregon	3-0		22
18.	Florida State	2-1		9
19.	California	2-1		19
20.	Miami	1-2		12
21.	Arizona State	3-0		20
22.	TCU	3-0		NR
23.	Wisconsin	3-0		24
24.	Nebraska	2-1		16
25.	Boston College	3-0		25

Dropped Out:
23. Texas Tech (Lost to TCU, 12-3)

These rankings are GopherHole.com’s vote in the CollegeRivals.org Top 25 poll. Its voters are staff members from various independent college football websites just like GopherHole.com. Check back each week throughout the season to see the newest poll. Click Here to view the latest CollegeRivals.org Top 25. (This poll will be updated every Tuesday afternoon through out the sesaon.)

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