There are two media members we follow a little closer than others when it comes to their opinion rankings of college football teams during the season. One is ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit and the other is FOX’s Joel Klatt.
Herbstreit is taking a tact of only ranking teams that have played so far this fall, while Klatt is looking in the totality of what he believes teams are whether they’ve played or not. Because of that, Ohio State has been missing from Herbie’s top four, but firmly in the mix with Klatt’s top ten.
He released his latest opinion on who the best ten teams are in college football so far this season after the weekend’s games and he has Ohio State at No. 2, right where he had them after last week, just behind No. 1 Clemson and in front of No. 3 Alabama.
The rest of his top ten consists of Florida (4), Georgia (5), Miami (6), Penn State (7), Notre Dame (8), Oregon (9), and Oklahoma State (10). Michigan is nowhere to be found.
My new Top 10 (10/3)
1) @ClemsonFB
2) @OhioStateFB
3) @AlabamaFTBL
4) @GatorsFB
5) @GeorgiaFootball
6) @CanesFootball
7) @PennStateFball
8) @NDFootball
9) @oregonfootball
10) @CowboyFBAlmost: @TarHeelFootball @BYUfootball @LSUfootball @GoBearcatsFB
— Joel Klatt (@joelklatt) October 4, 2020
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It’s great to see someone still giving some respect to Ohio State as it waits to get the season off the ground. Across the media landscape, it seems to the exception to the norm, almost like an out of sight, out of mind scenario.
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