Welcome to the top-five

If you are a fan of the UCF Knights then you have to like your chances against USF on Saturday simply because USF is now a top-5 team.

The South Florida Bulls moved up a spot in the AP polled released Sunday to five, which, naturally, is the highest ranking in school history.

But being a highly ranked team – or ranked, period – is turning into a curse this season.

Led by then-No. 2 USC, 11 ranked teams, including four in the top-10, went down Saturday, and that came just a week after five top-10 teams and nine ranked teams overall lost.

USF even had a scare against FAU in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday before pulling away late in the fourth quarter.

All these upsets have given the AP top-5 a strange look.

At No. 2 is Cal, which hasn’t been ranked that high since it was No. 1 in 1951.

At No. 4 is Boston College. The last time the Eagles were No. 4 was in 1984.

Fifth is USF, and we know all about the Bulls.

It’s refreshing to see the new faces.

Nothing against the Oklahomas, Floridas, Michigans and Notre Dames, but the new faces will make things more interesting the rest of the way.