FOX analyst Joel Klatt names his top 10 teams after Week 4
In college football, nothing brings the takes and starts debates like rankings. Seemingly every outlet, as well as many individual reporters, like to share their own rankings on a weekly basis.
FOX analyst Joel Klatt shared his latest top 10 after the Week 4 slate came to close. Klatt takes an interesting approach with three No. 1s: Ohio State, Alabama and Clemson.
After that, he has LSU at No. 4. Klatt’s rankings of Georgia (No. 7) and Auburn (No. 10) differ from the popular polls. It’s unclear from the tweeted rankings whether Klatt is valuing eye test, resume, metrics or just going purely on feel. Auburn being at No. 10 and below two one-loss teams (Texas and Notre Dame) suggests the rankings are not based on resume. Florida, No. 9 in the Associated Press Top 25, is absent from Klatt’s top 10.
Here is Klatt’s full top 10:
My Top 10 in CFB
1a) @OhioStateFB
1b) @AlabamaFTBL
1c) @ClemsonFB
4) @LSUfootball
5) @OU_Football
6) @BadgerFootball
7) @GeorgiaFootball
8) @TexasFootball
9) @NDFootball
10) @AuburnFootball— Joel Klatt (@joelklatt) September 22, 2019
Hate Georgia but no way are they the 7th best team. Lol. Ohio State at 1? Who have they played. Even Florida’s games were against better opponents then osu’s.my top ten…
#1 Clemson
#2 Georgia
#3 Lsu
#4 Alabama
#5 Auburn
#6 Wisconsin
#7 Florida
#8 Oklahoma
#9 Texas
#10 Ohio state
And, just like Klatts opinion poll, yours doesn’t mean shît either!! @gayturdnation
None of them matter. Just the records at the end. You sound twelve.
Can we say butthurt much. Apparently mine do matter cause u upset I don’t have u as number 1 or 2. Win a game first against good competition and maybe you will get some love.
Whoa, relax, it’s just someone’s opinion. It’s ok for people to not all unanimously agree on ranking the top 10.
Should be:
1. LSU
2. UGA
3. Auburn
4. Wisconsin
5. Clemson
6. Bama
7. Ohio State
8. Oklahoma
9. Florida
10.Texas
Based on games played. Clemson and Bama should be punished for not playing anyone.
I’d go
1. Clemson
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Oklahoma
5. Ohio State
6. LSU
7. Auburn
8. Wisconsin
9. Florida
10. Notre Dame
Who’s Ohio State played? They played teams that aren’t terrible. They have the hardest schedule in the Big10. The Florida Miami game was the ugliest game I’ve ever seen. Florida is going to get demolished by LSU. Clemson at 1? Who the hell do they play? Justin Fields has 13 touchdowns and one turnover off of a safety at the one yard line while Trevor Lawrence has 7 touchdowns and 5 INTERCEPTIONS. Congrats to Clemson on their HUGE win against Texas A&M. That’s the only ranked team they will play this year.
Who the hell is Joel klatt?
That’s a very good question.
Two of these teams are not like the other. If you have an L at this point, you don’t belong in the top ten.
And quite honestly, teams like Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State have played absolutely zero quality opponents to this point. The rankings should be earned. Imagine if those teams had to fight there way into the playoff instead of just coasting?
Eh I think UT deserves consideration. Only loss is to a top 4 team. Def better then anything Ohio state has done
Are the playoffs being announced today? No? Then your comment makes no sense. The playoff spots will be earned on a team’s success across the whole season, not the first 4 weeks. Rankings right now are just placeholders.
Ohio State hasn’t played anything close to a worthy competition to be ranked no. 1. I can understand giving Bama and Clemson the benefit of the doubt given their recent success, but even they haven’t really played anyone. Texas and ND lost, and even though it was to top-10 teams, at this point the top-10 should be undefeated teams, so Florida should be ranked above either.
Completely agree.
Fox’s bias towards the Big 12 and Big 10 especially, is pathetic. I can buy Ohio St in the top 5, but if they didn’t start the season as your preseason #1, how can anyone justify, based on what we’ve seen so far, having them #1 now?
Silly scrubs saying Clemson and Bama haven’t played anyone. There’s Clemson, Bama and then everyone else. Stop acting like beating Notre Dame, Texas, or Oregon is some big accomplishment. Until you beat Clemson or Bama you ain’t done jack.