Florida finally proved that it did deserve its number one ranking. They had not done anything this season not to have it but now there is no question. Alabama switched places with Texas (finally, as mentioned in several other posts) to take the #2 spot. Our previous #4 dropped all the way to 10th which is complete bullshit. LSU held Florida to 13 points; no team has done that since Meyer took the reigns at Florida and went up against a ridiculously stout defense.
There four 1-loss teams ahead of them: Virginia Tech, USC, Ohio State, and Miami. Tech lost to Bama in the season opener but has played mostly solid since and rightly deserves their #4ish spot. USC lost to Washington, enough said. Ohio State lost to USC, which lost to Washington, enough said. Miami lost to Virginia Tech. Now, if you can follow that pecking order that means there is no way in hell that LSU is to be ranked below Miami, Ohio State, and USC. Chances are pretty good that LSU would pound BSU and Cincinnati as well. LSU also happens to have beaten that Washington team I keep referencing. Like I said in my inaugural post, wins and losses are not treated equally.
Ohio State went up in the rankings after whipping a #25 Wisconsin squad (turned about as fair play finally, Oklahoma when down 1 spot for winning) and jumped Cincinnati, whose sole BCS victory came at Oregon State. The Bearcats can however make a statement this weekend versus South Florida. Nebraska jumped up to #15 with their only loss coming to Virginia Tech. Not sure if you watched that game, but Nebraska had Tech shut down like a clown Charlie Brown. The Huskers were toying with the Hokies, but Tech got lucky, held on and in the last seconds, scored to win.
With the exception of our #25 team, the polls seem to be on a relatively even keel.
Notre Dame climbed to #25 in this week’s poll. This is rather odd because they did not play this weekend after beating Washington in OT two weeks ago. But Trojans are coming to South Bend this weekend and I bet that Taylor Mays gets wood at the thought of pounding Jimmy Clausen to the ground on his ass, again, again and again. A Fighting Irish victory and I offer a public apology to my ND misgivings. Otherwise I don’t want anymore talk about Notre Dame. See my inaugural post for my reasons why.
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I don’t think LSU is as good as you say. They have played down to their opponent in each of their games and somehow managed to win. #10 sounds about right to me. Coming into this game, they weren’t the #4 team in the country and they still aren’t.