Chris Spielman claims his alma mater, the Ohio State Buckeyes, should be ranked at #1 because they are undefeated. His partner in the booth had OU at #1. Of course, Spielman's lobbying for Colt Brennan as Heisman-worthy, despite not putting him in his top 3. Brennan has 10 interceptions, including 5 against Idaho and 4 against San Jose State. He does have 20 TD's, but he's not Heisman-worthy.
Anyway, back to Ohio State and the idea of undefeated teams being inherently better than one-loss teams. Proponents of Ohio State (and BC and others) point to them beating the teams on their schedule. The common quote is "All you can do is beat the teams on your schedule." The problem is, the teams on the schedule aren't plotted out by some "Random Schedule Generator". Ohio State scheduled Youngstown State, Akron, Washington and Kent State for their non-conference schedule. I don't know when the Washington game was scheduled, but the Huskies have been down for a while, although Ty Willingham and Jake Locker seem to have them on the upswing. YSU, Akron and Kent State aren't exactly juggernauts.
Whereas some teams play big games early in the season (Ohio State v. Texas in previous years), Ohio State's schedule is back-loaded. The Buckeyes play Penn State, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan in consecutive weeks starting next weekend. If they run the table, move them up. Just because they haven't lost doesn't mean they've proved they're better than LSU (who beat Florida, South Carolina and Va Tech but lost to Kentucky).
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