College Football Week 5 Rankings
These College Football Week 5 Rankings are based on the odds offered by SBG Global of teams winning the 2010 BCS Championship game.
*1. Florida at +200 odds would pay out $200 for every $100 bet. Be especially careful here as the Florida Gators may meet a very good LSU team (their biggest challenge of the season thus far) without their star quarterback.
Florida coach Urban Meyer thinks the odds are good that Tim Tebow, recovering from a concussion in the third quarter of the Kentucky game that sent him to the hospital overnight, will be ready for the Gators' next game on Oct. 10 at LSU.
"Tim's doing good,'' Meyer said after Monday's practice. "All the tests are coming back positive and I'm going to leave it up to the medical staff to update (the media) because I don't want to give you information I don't know. But he's doing good. I talk to him all the time. He's feeling better.''
That being said, the Gators at 2/1 odds is some pretty good value.
*2. Alabama +300 odds (pays $300 for every $100 bet)
*3. Texas +400 odds
*4. USC +1000 odds
*5. Cincinnati +1000 odds: Not only has Cincinnati climbed the polls, they also face a favorable schedule ahead.
Cincinnati beat Fresno State 28-20 to go 4-0, clearing the way for another significant move up the rankings and intensifying talk that a relative outsider has a puncher's chance at a national title in the most exclusionary of sports, writes Pat Forde of ESPN.com.
*6 LSU +1700 odds: This is why the Gators need Tebow back after this week's bye.
*7 Ohio State +2000
The remaining College Football Week 5 Rankings were pretty much tied due to the similar odds of winning the 2010 BCS Championship.
*8 Virginia Tech +2700
*9 Oklahoma +2700
*10 Notre Dame +2700
Boise State and TCU would be found under the "field" option at SBG Global, which pays out $1000 if either of these two teams or another school not explicitly mentioned happens to win the 2010 BCS Championship game.
Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com
