Week 7 College Football Rankings 2011: Texas and 3 Teams That Will Tumble

Week 6 of the 2011 college football season was about as predictable as any we've yet seen this calendar year. Only one Top 25 team lost in an upset, though that team (No. 23 Florida State) had lost its previous two games and had looked like anything but a preseason BCS National Championship contender coming into (and out of) a 35-30 defeat at Wake Forest.

The Seminoles are all but certain to find themselves out of the rankings after this weekend, though they weren't the only ones whose standing within the world of NCAA pigskin took a serious hit.

Texas

The 11th-ranked Longhorns got hooked by No. 3 Oklahoma in a humiliating 55-17 defeat in the annual Red River Rivalry game. The Sooners made sure to reveal to the world what a sham Texas was being ranked so highly, burning the 'Horns for 459 yards while limiting Mack Brown's boys to just 259 yards of their own.

Everyone knew that UT was talented, young squad, but Saturday's disappointment showed that the 'Horns just don't have the experience to compete for the Big 12 title just yet.

No matter how many younger siblings of former standouts they have in the lineup.

Things don't figure to get much better, with the sixth-ranked Cowboys of Oklahoma State riding into Austin to round up Bevo and leave their own shade of orange strewn about the state capital.

Florida

If Mack Brown is seeking advice on how to keep his young team from sinking so precipitously after two straight game against Top-10 teams, he need only turn to Will Muschamp, his former defensive coordinator and the current head coach for No. 17 Florida.

Just one week removed from getting rolled by the second-ranked Crimson Tide in The Swamp, Muschamp's Gators got chomped and stomped by No. 1 LSU in Baton Rouge in a 41-11 laugher.

A predictable outcome, to be sure, given the injuries to quarterbacks John Brantley and Jeff Driskel, but a disappointingly gruesome one nonetheless.

All the Gators can do now is put this weekend's failures behind them as they prepare to bounce back against another SEC team in need of a hug.

Auburn

The league's other Tigers won't spend too much time licking their wounds, though there are plenty to be tended to at No. 15 Auburn.

Gene Chizik's club went from unranked to the middle of the Top 25 in the span of a week on the strength of a 16-13 road win at South Carolina and the realization that a loss at Clemson isn't all that bad.

Then again, the Tigers are once again teetering on the edge of the polls after floundering at No. 10 Arkansas, 38-14. Cam Newton isn't about to suit up for Auburn anytime soon, as much as Chizik may want him to with the way Barrett Trotter and Kiehl Frazier struggled on Saturday.

The Tigers will have to address the situations under center and on defense with some haste, lest they resign themselves to further humiliation against Florida and, more dauntingly, at LSU the week after.