I'd also like to mention that Auburn just pulled out a big win in a really intense last few minutes at Arkansas. Three field goals. They somehow managed to contain both McFadden and Felix Jones. Surprising victory for Auburn, despite their being more highly ranked than Arkansas.

AP rankings are up!

AP Top 25
1. Ohio State (50) 7-0 1,599
2. South Florida (11) 6-0 1,503
3. Boston College (1) 7-0 1,448
4. Oklahoma (1) 6-1 1,399
5. LSU (1) 6-1 1,331
6. South Carolina 6-1 1,247
7. Oregon 5-1 1,177
8. Kentucky 6-1 1,098
9. West Virginia 5-1 1,090
10. California 5-1 1,065
11. Virginia Tech 6-1 951
12. Arizona State (1) 7-0 948
13. USC 5-1 932
14. Florida 4-2 865
15. Kansas 6-0 664
15. Missouri 5-1 664
17. Hawaii 7-0 551
18. Auburn 5-2 488
19. Texas 5-2 348
20. Tennessee 4-2 339
21. Georgia 5-2 279
22. Texas Tech 6-1 241
23. Cincinnati 6-1 194
24. Michigan 5-2 189
25. Kansas State 4-2 107

Hmm. USC actually dropped in ranking by 3 positions. I was hoping they would at least stay at #10 or maybe drop one position. But 3?

That is what happens when you lose to a terrible team and then the next week almost lose to another terrible team.

Also, I am pretty surprised that South Florida is ranked number two. I think this year might be one of those years where both teams playing in the big game have losses.

Well...for the Rose Bowl it looks like its going to come down to the following games as long as Cal, USC and Oregon keep playing strong.

Cal vs. USC
USC vs. Oregon

If Cal manages to shake the loss to Oregon St. off and have Longshore stay healthy Cal has a good chance to possibly make it to the BCS championships.

USC its hard to see them making it to the BCS championships.

Here is the new USA Today poll:

USA Today Poll
1. Ohio State (56) 7-0 1,495
2. Boston College (1) 7-0 1,383
3. South Florida (3) 6-0 1,320
4. Oklahoma 6-1 1,288
5. LSU 6-1 1,173
6. Oregon 5-1 1,077
7. West Virginia 5-1 1,007
8. South Carolina 6-1 997
9. California 5-1 983
9. USC 5-1 983
11. Virginia Tech 6-1 982
12. Arizona State 7-0 936
13. Kentucky 6-1 874
14. Florida 4-2 726
15. Kansas 6-0 705
16. Hawaii 7-0 558
17. Missouri 5-1 519
18. Texas 5-2 396
19. Auburn 5-2 372
20. Georgia 5-2 282
21. Texas Tech 6-1 232
22. Tennessee 4-2 193
23. Cincinnati 6-1 192
24. Virginia 6-1 184
25. Penn State 5-2 128
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South Florida, by far, has the best resume of the remaining unbeatens. The other 5 have pretty much played a cupcake schedule. And I wouldn't really be impressed if BC, Kansas (up to the Big-12 title game anyway), or Hawaii went undefeated.

Kansas doesn't play anyone, so I'm not really worried about them. They'll suck in conference play (Ehh, we probably will, too. Oh well)

As odd as this may sound, I'm not very happy South Carolina is ranked so high. The UNC game was horrible. I sat in the stands thinking, "we might lose to UNC...what the fuck."

I hope Steve gets the boys working. We play like that against Florida or Tennessee, and we're dead. I would much rather be sitting at 12th or 13th and have somewhere to go.

The BCS computer rankings blew my mind the most. If I understood it correctly, the computers has us ranked at 3rd. I'm glad the AP poll and USA today rankings brought it down. The team is good, but not 3rd.

And here are your BCS computer Rankings

1 Ohio State
2 South Florida
3 Boston College
4 LSU
5 Oklahoma
6 South Carolina
7 Kentucky
8 Arizona State
9 West Virginia
10 Oregon
11 Virginia Tech
12 California
13 Kansas
14 USC
15 Florida
16 Missouri
17 Auburn
18 Hawaii
19 Virginia
20 Georgia
21 Tennessee
22 Texas
23 Cincinnati
24 Texas Tech
25 Michigan

God I hope the Pac 10 takes out Arizona St.

If the season ended today, then, I guess it would be:

NCG: Ohio State vs. South Florida
Rose: Arizona State vs. LSU
Orange: Boston College vs. Oklahoma
Fiesta: Kansas vs. Pac-10 #2 (in all likelihood)
Sugar: South Carolina vs. West Virginia/Virginia Tech

Worst bowl season ever.

QFT.

Also, LSU has got a big game against Auburn this weekend. It won't be a cakewalk, that's for certain. Deathvalley has its advantages, but as Florida showed two weeks ago, it isn't full proof.

russ and I shall duke this one out. :boxing:

USC and Notre Dame this Saturday. USC with a 19 point spread. Either way, I think this will be an interesting game. Sanchez will most likely play and ND is staring a new QB. Last time USC played at South Bend, we almost lost. 7 seconds with Bush pushing Leinart for the touchdown.

Oh, and LOL at ASU. #8! They'll be playing Cal and Oregon next so we'll see.

Beat the Irish!

I think this is kinda bullshit that ASU is ranked below Cal and Oregon, as far as AP, USA Today and Harris. I can understand why but thats crap since they are undefeated in the Pac-10

ASU hasn't played jack shit. What, do you think Kansas should be ranked ahead of everyone too?

Kansas hasn't played anyone either, but at least they blow the crap out of everyone they play. ASU has struggled against some of its lesser opponents.

On paper, this doesn't look good for Auburn. Going to the bayou, to face what will certainly be an angry LSU squad. But hey, Auburn is good about stepping up for big games, as shown by the game against Florida. Plus Auburn and LSU have been playing each other very tough each of the last several years. I'm looking forward to watching this one on ESPN HD.

USF lost tonight! Upset by unranked Rutgers 30-27. This should do LSU some good, especially with a win against Auburn Saturday!

Wow, Baylor is only down 10-7 to Texas, that alone is a huge upset.

Alright, so far we have two teams in the top 10 that are out

USF
and South Carolina.

Kentucky is on its way to being the third top ten team of the week to go down.

Kentucky is done. Theres no way they're going to get 12 or so points in 15 seconds

Additional Spam:
Oh My God...the end of the LSU game...amazing...

The fact is that Auburn's defense sort of broke down in the second half, however, the officials fucked Auburn so hard. First they wave off a very warranted flag so that LSU gets credit for a touchdown, then on the final drive, they give LSU the most ridiculous spot I have ever seen. They spot the ball nearly a full yard past where it should have been spotted, which of course gave them a first down. I mean when the official, who is standing right there, spots the ball beyond even where the player slid, much less where he was actually down, come on, that's just bogus.

Seems like officiating today was just...fucked up in general.

The Cal v. UCLA game was filled with some of the worst officiating ever as well.

That spot was the most retarded spot I'd ever seen. Auburn got screwed right there, straight up.

Also, I love how Coach Miles didn't know how much time was left on the clock when he had Flynn throwing it deep in the endzone at the very end.

Auburn should've challenged it.

More crap

Okay, so fuck any other polls we got going on here, these are the only ones that matter now

BCS RANKINGS
Cal is one lucky duck. They have their next 5 games or so to prove themselves and to move up. A win over USC and Arizona St. will definitely put them back in the race for the Pac-10 title and a trip to the rose bowl. Same for Oregon.

These BCS standings are messed up. Last week was WVU's bye week and they went down a ranking. This week was Boston College's bye week and they went up. Unless I'm mistaken, I didn't see Arizona State play this week either and they went all the way up to #4? Again, I'd rather not use WVU as an example but when they had their first loss...it was to a ranked team and they went from #5 to #13, granted that wasn't BCS standings. LSU loses to a ranked team and they go down to #4? How the hell does that work?

I'm surprised Oklahoma went down this week. They did just as well as Ohio State did, yet they dropped to #6.