College Football Rankings 2011: Oklahoma Sooners and 3 Overrated Top-10 Teams

Five weeks into the college football season, it is safe to say that we finally have some idea about who the best teams in the country are and which teams were just fooling themselves into believing they were BCS-worthy.

As is often the case in college football, there are still some teams in the Top 10—either in the AP poll, Coaches poll or both—that are still fooling themselves into thinking they are BCS Championship contenders.

Sure, they have a nice record but their schedules so far have left a lot to be desired. Perhaps these teams will emerge as contenders later on this season, but for now they do not deserve the rankings they have been given.

So which four teams ranked in the Top 10 are getting too much love?

Oklahoma Sooners (5-0) No. 1 in Coaches Poll, No. 3 in AP

Overrated is a relative term with the Sooners because they are one of the best teams in the country. But are they better than Wisconsin, Stanford or Clemson right now?

I want to see more from Bob Stoops’ squad before I put them in the same category as LSU, Alabama and Wisconsin. They won at Florida State, which was nice, but it looks less impressive today than it did when it happened.

The Sooners are still one of the seven best teams in the country, but they are not the best team or the third-best team in college football right now.

Stanford Cardinal (4-0) No. 4 in Coaches Poll, No. 7 in AP Poll

Quarterback Andrew Luck is having a great season that few people are talking about because the Cardinal have yet to play a marquee game.

But is this team really one of the Top-Five teams in the country?

If we are going to criticize Boise State for playing a weak schedule, we have to criticize major conference teams when they play a weak schedule.

And Stanford plays a ridiculously weak schedule.

They have beaten San Jose State, Duke, Arizona and UCLA so far—hardly a murderer’s row of competition—and things don’t get any more difficult for this team until Nov. 12 against Oregon.

As things stand right now, the Oregon game is the only one on the schedule the Cardinal will play against a ranked team.

Oregon Ducks (3-1) No. 9 in both polls

The Ducks are always going to be exciting to watch because they can score points in bunches. But there is a difference between being exciting and being great, and the Ducks are not a great team.

They had their chance to prove their worth in Week 1 against LSU. They were blown out in that game and have been beating up on inferior competition ever since.

The offense is going to get beat up by teams that have big, fast, physical defenses, and the defense still gives up too many points to compete with the best teams in the country.

Texas Longhorns (4-0) No. 10 in Coaches Poll

We are so quick to give praise to “traditional” powers that it does not matter what they have done on the field, so long as they are winning games.

The Texas Longhorns are 4-0 so far this season, but they have beaten Rice, BYU, UCLA and Iowa State. The defense has improved this season, but the offense is still sketchy, though it has gotten better over the last two games.

If the Longhorns want to prove they are legit, they'll have their chance against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the next two weeks.