Week 7 Football Top 25
October 16, 2011 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
| 1 |  |
Alabama | Alabama looks to remain perfect against Tennessee and the poor Vol’s are coming off a loss against LSU. |
1 |
| 2 |  |
Oklahoma |
The Sooners have a few tougher games coming up, like at KSU and Baylor, but first up Texas Tech comes to town. |
2 |
| 3 |  |
LSU |
LSU went to Neyland Stadium and took care of business. Hosting Auburn should not be much more difficult. |
3 |
| 4 |  |
Wisconsin | Michigan State is riding high and this will be Wisconsin’s first true road game of the year…and it’s late October. |
4 |
| 5 |  |
Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State has won nine games in a row away from home. They’ll look to make it ten this week at Missouri. |
5 |
| 6 |  |
Boise State | BSU is running out of opportunities to lose and it will now take a major, major upset to keep them out of the BCS. |
6 |
| 7 |  |
Stanford |
Stanford may face their toughest test of the year this week against Washington. It gets harder after that. |
7 |
| 8 |  |
Clemson |
Clemson had to have a big comeback to beat Maryland and the UNC defense may be able to stop them this week. |
8 |
| 9 |  |
Oregon |
The Ducks beat a good ASU squad and now hit the road for three of their next four games, starting with Colorado. |
9 |
| 10 |  |
Nebraska | Nebraska should keep their momentum moving in the right direction after a trip to Minnesota this week. |
10 |
| 11 |  |
Arkansas | Arkansas needs to avoid looking ahead too much. A road trip is never easy in the SEC, even if it is Ole Miss. |
11 |
| 12 |  |
South Carolina |
South Carolina is not winning pretty, but they are winning. A week off may help the new look offense gel. |
12 |
| 13 |  |
West Virginia |
Syracuse is trying to be a real contender in the Big East, but they will have to go through WVU on Friday night. |
13 |
| 14 |  |
Michigan State |
Coming off of a big win over Michigan, the Spartans host Wisconsin in what is now a game with title implications. |
21 |
| 15 |  |
Kansas State | Kansas State might just be for real after winning a tough road game against Texas Tech, but we’ll learn more later. |
19 |
| 16 |  |
Virginia Tech | Virginia Tech keeps rolling along and they should have little trouble with BC coming to Blacksburg on Saturday. |
16 |
| 17 |  |
Michigan |
Michigan has traditionally fallen apart after losing to MSU. This time they have a week to think about it. |
14 |
| 18 |  |
Texas A&M |
Texas A&M has rebounded very nicely after a couple close early losses. They should keep winning this week. |
23 |
| 19 |  |
Georgia Tech | Georgia Tech’s schedule is getting tougher and after losing at Virginia they have to head to Miami. |
17 |
| 20 |  |
Illinois |
Illinois could not do anything against OSU’s defense last week. The offense will get back on track against Purdue. |
18 |
| 21 |  |
Arizona State |
There is no shame in losing in Eugene and ASU may get another shot at Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship Game. |
15 |
| 22 |  |
Washington |
Washington’s one loss came at Nebraska and this week they’ll give Stanford their stiffest test to date. |
NR |
| 23 |  |
Penn State | Penn State does just enough to win, but the schedule will catch up with them starting with a trip to Northwestern. |
24 |
| 24 |  |
Houston |
Coming off of a bye week, Houston’s offense should be ready to have another great outing against Marshall. |
25 |
| 25 |  |
Texas |
Few expected Texas to beat Oklahoma State last week, but they played pretty well and that is a good sign. |
20 |
