Week 3 Football Top 25
September 17, 2011 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
| 1 |  |
Alabama | Alabama starts out conference play with a tough home game against Arkansas, but the key word is home. |
1 |
| 2 |  |
Oklahoma |
Following the game against FSU, Oklahoma will be tested again this week when Missouri comes to Norman. |
2 |
| 3 |  |
LSU |
LSU proved they have a great defense. It will again be the D that needs to show up to stop West Virginia. |
3 |
| 4 |  |
Wisconsin | The Badgers continue their streak of offensive terror. South Dakota is the next victim. |
4 |
| 5 |  |
Nebraska | Nebraska keeps having slow starts, but they win big. That should not end at Wyoming. |
5 |
| 6 |  |
Boise State | Boise State easily handled a road trip to Toledo. A shootout victory against Tulsa awaits this week. |
6 |
| 7 |  |
Oklahoma State |
The Big 12 season starts with a bang as OSU and Texas A&M battle for the second spot behind the Sooners. |
8 |
| 8 |  |
Stanford | Stanford could use a week off after road trips to Duke and Arizona. They get to stay at home for a few weeks now. |
9 |
| 9 |  |
Florida State | The schedule does not get any easier for Florida State with a trip to Clemson coming up. |
7 |
| 10 |  |
South Carolina | South Carolina is not always pretty, but they get the job done. Hosting Vanderbilt could be another example. |
10 |
| 11 |  |
Oregon | Oregon will have a tougher time at Arizona this week than they did against Missouri State last week. |
11 |
| 12 |  |
Texas A&M |
Texas A&M and OSU both have their eyes on Oklahoma, but this is a huge game between two top tier teams. |
12 |
| 13 |  |
Arkansas |
Arkansas can prove they are a major contender for the national championship if they can knock off Alabama. |
13 |
| 14 |  |
West Virginia |
West Virginia could shoot towards the top ten if they can knock off LSU in Morgantown. |
18 |
| 15 |  |
Florida | Florida has another SEC opponent in week four, but a game in Kentucky is not the toughest SEC road trip. |
15 |
| 16 |  |
Virginia Tech | Virginia Tech’s Beamer Ball keeps on getting results and a trip to Marshall should not slow down the Hokies. |
17 |
| 17 |  |
Texas |
Texas finally looked good last week when they beat UCLA and they have a week off before starting Big 12 play. |
21 |
| 18 |  |
Miami |
Miami is moving in the right direction and they should have little trouble with KSU after shutting down OSU. |
NR |
| 19 |  |
Clemson | Clemson beat Auburn to get into the Top 25. If they can knock off FSU, they will be the team to beat in the ACC. |
NR |
| 20 |  |
Illinois |
Nathan Scheelhaase and Illinois keeps on winning and they should have a nice shootout with WMU this week. |
NR |
| 21 |  |
USC |
USC needs to beat somebody decent and Arizona State, on the road, would be a very, very good win. |
19 |
| 22 |  |
Ohio State |
Ohio State’s offense has two more games without their star running back and receiver. First up is Colorado. |
13 |
| 23 |  |
Penn State | Penn State did not look pretty against Temple, but even their anemic offense should look decent against EMU. |
23 |
| 24 |  |
Baylor |
Baylor has another easy game this week with Rice coming to Waco, but Robert Griffin has looked great. |
24 |
| 25 |  |
Arizona State |
The two Pac-12 South favorites face off early and this could be a huge game for ASU if they can win at home. |
16 |
