Looks pretty good to me. I think if West Virginia can have another 10+ win season or two, they would crack the top 10; depending on UM and FSU's success. I think the only other program that has been consistently good over the last 5-6 years would be Wisconsin. Your list looks pretty spot on to me! :crystal::geaux::crystal::geaux::crystal:
Maybe OU should be somewhere in the top 10, but not in the top 5. Their recent BCS failures are what keeps me from being in the elite of the elite.
Thats a pretty solid list there. I wonder what a top 10 list of teams on their way to the top would look like.
I'm just curious as to why so many rival fans have basically set it in stone that Bama will not return to "elite status". Now before I go any further let me clarify what MY DEFINITION of "elite" is. "Elite" is a team that can routinely win 10 games a year, win it's conference on a regular basis (doesn't have to be every year), play in BCS bowls on a routine basis and is in the race for the NC more times than not. I just have seen SO MANY rival fans basically imply no matter what Bama does (recruiting, developing, coaching etc.) they will not be an elite team in the SEC anymore. That basically the tiers in the SEC are set and they will not and cannot change.....at least for Bama. NOBODY has ever perpetually sat a top the SEC and the last team that came close to doing that was Bama. And it was in a time that allowed it to happen. Times have changed and it is even THAT MUCH harder, next to impossible to perpetually sit a top the SEC. The 85 scholarship limit is basically the college's version of the salary cap. So in a day and age where the "system" is set up to allow different winners so to speak why can't Bama be one of those winners? :huh:
