Greg McElroy and Cole Cubelic opened a debate on their show on WJOX in Birmingham about the different formats and reasons to rank a team No. 1 at this point in the season.

“The best team in college football based on resume is Florida State,” McElroy said. “Some people might feel a little differently about that, but if I had my AP Top 5 right now, I’d have Florida State at No. 1. Georgia fans would be up in arms, Michigan fans would be up in arms. ‘OK, you had a choice, you could have played a big-time opponent early and you chose not to.'”

McElroy then rounded out his top teams by then ranking Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Washington.

“Some people differentiate with how games should be played, it’s purely opinion based,” he said. “Just because you won it all last year doesn’t mean you should be No. 1 this year if you haven’t earned it yet.”

Cubelic agreed, and said if he were voting, that’s how he would vote. But Cubelic has Georgia at the top because he sees the Bulldogs being better than so many other teams at multiple positions. And then Florida State and Texas are also in the mix.

“Why is Utah never in that conversation,” Cubelic said. “Collectively, I’m saying a win at Baylor, and a win against Florida is a pretty good resume comparatively to what a lot of other people have done who are in that conversation. Georgia being one of those teams, Michigan being one of those teams.”

McElroy said Utah didn’t look great against Baylor, and they both agreed that Baylor is not as bad as many think, even though the Bears are 0-2.

“Utah doesn’t get that kind of billing because they’ve never done it before, they aren’t that type of program, people are going to hold that against them,” McElroy said, and added that it’s similar to TCU that teams like that must earn it over a 12-game season.

About USC, McElroy said he doesn’t trust the Trojans and he’s in see-it-to-believe-it mode with them because they still have work to do on defense.

Ohio State does not make it McElroy’s conversation of top teams because the Buckeyes are “very average. You can tell me all day long about the wide receivers and how good they are at wide receiver and that’s great. Can you block anybody,” he said. “Are you accurate? Are you going to get open consistently.”