College Football's Most Overrated Teams

We are 4 weeks into the college football season now, and while some teams have already been caught with their pants down as some of college football's biggest pretenders (cough cough...Notre Dame), there are still teams out there that everyone might still be overestimating. I'm going to do a brief dive into 3 teams that I believe are some of the most overrated teams in the nation. These teams have been skating by at the moment, hanging by a moment, and could reveal their true mediocre form at some point in the regular season. So let's get into these overhyped soon-to-be losers (in order, of course):

3 - LSU Tigers

I can't get out of my head a few things about this team. They seem to always underperform in the first half, which isn't going to be great against the rest of their SEC schedule. We are going to witness their defense, which ranks 105th in defensive passing efficiency and 78th in total defense, play Ole Miss and Alabama (it doesn't matter that they will be at home). I could eat my words, being that we are 4 weeks into the season, but with the loss of their star linebacker (Harold Perkins Jr.) to a recent season-ending injury, I can't see their defense being able to withstand the stretch of wins they've been on since their opening loss to USC... who just lost to Michigan on the road. Somehow, the AP Poll has Michigan, USC, and LSU all ranked back-to-back in the top 15...

2 - Oregon Ducks

Here is a team everyone is giving grace to week over week. Sure, I agree, Boise State is actually a pretty good team and might be the Power 5 representative in the 12-team playoff this year if they win the Mountain West, but Oregon not only beat them by a field goal at the end of the game, they beat Idaho by 10 and put up 24 points...not sure I can say the same for Idaho as I can for Boise State. Now coming off their bye week, they are on the road to play UCLA which seems to be a game they will win, but what about the following week at home against Michigan State? Not sure why, but this smells like a trap game to me for Oregon given the fact they have Ohio State at home the following week and the Michigan State game is their first true Big Ten opponent (true meaning part of the previous Big Ten before the addition of the Pac-12 teams). A few other games beyond the Buckeyes that might be a dogfight for this Ducks team, that seems to be somewhat undersized in the trenches in comparison to these other teams, they have Illinois at home who doesn't care apparently if they are on the road, and then go into the Big House to play Michigan...good luck against bully ball.

1 - Missouri Tigers

This one pains me. I am a huge fan of Luther Burden III and was very high on him to begin with before he really came onto the scene mid-season last year. Not to mention that one could probably argue they have the best wide receiver room in the nation... but this team is flashing with red flags. Even the AP Poll noticed and bumped them down 4 spots after their OT win AT HOME against a Vanderbilt team that seems somewhat annoying to play this year and might not be so easy to put away for more dominant teams. Brady Cook, their QB who was fairly good last year, hasn't been a shadow of what he was last year. This team just scraped by against Vanderbilt and Boston College back to back weeks, and their defensive secondary has looked highly suspect at times against the deep ball during these first four weeks. This team might have one of the easiest schedules in the SEC and will only get tested twice on the road. They will go to Alabama on October 26th, and coming off their bye week this week, they go to Kyle Field to play Texas A&M... If I were a betting man, I might be interested to know what A&M's spread will be at home for that game.