Rutgers does deserve to be at that rank. Did u see the way they went from no one knowin 'bout them to the whole country lookin at them? And look at Ray Rice rushin for a total of 20 td's and rushed for 1,794 total yards. Thats an a$$ whoopin on other teams. And it dont matter about there schedule. It is easy but u know wut teams are scared to play rutgers. I bet u that Louisville and WVU were scared when they saw rutgers on there schedule. So, rutgers does deserve to be there!

Rutgers proves that you don't have to play anybody to be ranked. The Big Least is a joke of a conference. Yeah 5-0 in bowls, WHO DID THE BIG LEAST PLAY??? South Florida against ECU (that must have been a good game, I should have set my Tivo for that). Rutgers against Kansas State (wow, the third place Big Least team can beat the 7th Ranked Big 12 team). Cincinnati against Western Michigan (Are you really using this win to define your conference?) Louisville against Lowly Wake Forest (They barely have DIV 1A talent on that team, just a VERY GOOD Coach, and they were winning in the 4th Quarter against a team that doesn't even make their players go to class!) West Virgina against Georgia Tech (Georgia Tech was using a backup that had never started before and he was still lighting up that slow a$$ Big Least Defense). Those are some quality wins there.

Now what exactly did Rutgers do to deserve this ranking? They beat Louisville at home last year with a big comeback (fine one quality win). They played close with West Virgina, but lost in 2OT (Fine another plus, OH WAIT, did Pat White play in that game? No, he didn't. Did WVU have to play a first time starter in that game? Yes. Was Steve Slaton hurt and did he play only half the game? Yeah. So maybe that game wasn't so special.) Maybe it was the loss to Cincinnati (who again were playing another first time starter against Rutgers). How many first time starting QBs did you play last year? Illinois, UNC, Cincinnatti, and West Virgina? So I don't know maybe it was Rutgers' tough out of conference schedule that earned them a high place; Howard (need I say more), UNC (they finished 3-9 and were a goaline fumble away from beating Rutgers), Illinois (2-10 on the season and playing a first time starter), Ohio (well i guess they are better than the previous names, they did have their 4th winning season in 20 years), and finally the best out of conference game was against Navy (who by the 2nd half were on their 3rd string QB).

Now those were just the obvious observations, with a little more insight more can be said about Rutgers schedule. First is the obvious, tryign to make a point and beating an ACC team at the beginning of the year (one with TWO brand new QB's). Fine this game was scheduled in advance and Rutgers didn't know they would be so bad. Second, Rutgers schedules a by-week before Navy so they can get an extra week to prepare for the option. Not to mention this game is convieniently scheduled the week after Navy plays at Air Force (a game after an academy rivalry game would of course be the perfect time for a letdown), but that really didn't matter since Navy was on it's third string QB by the start of the second half. Thrid comes the big Louisville game. Rutgers gets 10 days to prepare for this barn burner after playing UConn, while Louisville gets 7 days after playing West Virginia (hmmmm...possibly another letdown game). Finally, Rutgers plays West Virginia at last game of the year. On the surface this seems perfectly fine. However, if you look closely you can see that WVU was picked to walk through this conference. By this point they were supposed to have locked up a bid to the BCS and be the big boy in the Big Least, with Louisville following behind. But, the Big Least needs another team to give the league some substance. So they schedule Rutgers to play WVU on the last game thinking that WVU would have the conference locked up and possibly have some injured players and Rutgers can go in there and beat them. WVU would be 11-1 and still go to the BCS and the Big Least would have a third team. Now, most of this could be looked at as a conspiracy theory that doesn't hold any weight, until you look into this years schedule. The same trends continue; first the out of conference schedule is somehow worse than last year (something I didn't think possible). Second, Rutgers plays an ACC team (the league that the Big Least comissioner hates), after a by-week and if you consider that the game before is Norfolk State Rutgers actually has 3 weeks to prepare for this game. OH, and again Maryland is playing a new QB this year, what a surprise! Then Rutgers gets a 9 day break before playing West Virginia. And Rutgers plays Louisville on the last game of the season (maybe some injuries), and they get 12 days rest again. To be fair so does Louisville, but why is Rutgers never the team playing on less rest?

So if those aren't enough reasons for Rutgers to be a legit #10 maybe it is the great Greg Schaino that gives them the edge. The same great coach blew a 3 touchdown 4th quarter lead to Illinois (who went 2-9 that year), with the same GREAT talent that Rutgers had on their 11-2 team! So maybe it's not that Rutgers is a great team, but that they have dumbed down their schedule so far that even lowly Rutgers can't lose. Rutgers was a doormat for over 100 years and all of a sudden when the conference needs a team to bail them out along comes powerhouse Rutgers?!? I don't buy it!

I don't see how you can rank a team that plays this type of schedule and will still find a way to lose one or two of them and still hype them every year and i don't mean just Rutgers I'm talking about the entire big east. Another thing too is Louisville has the best QB in the nation and they are 10 points better than Rutgers.