1. SEC - Georgia, Florida and LSU are all impressive, but this conference was not worthy of 5 simultaneous Top 10 teams.
2. Big 12 - Oklahoma and Missouri have been beasts so far and could potentially both run the table before meeting in the Big 12 Championship for a title game berth.
3. Big Ten - I would give Wisconsin the nod as the early favorite, they've had the most impressive victory of the non-conference slate at Fresno State (pending what Oregon State does on Thursday), but Ohio State gets Beanie back and rules Big Ten play. Penn State? Too early to give a solid read.
4. Pac 10 - It's USC and no one else deserves mentioning.
5. ACC - Wake Forest looks the strongest, but we'll see how the rest of the conference rebounds.
6. Big East - It's South Florida and no one else deserves mentioning
Games watched: Kansas State/Louisville, West Virginia/Colorado, Baylor/UConn, Temple/Penn State, Notre Dame/Michigan State, Virginia Tech/North Carolina, Florida/Tennessee, Wake Forest/Florida State, LSU/Auburn and Georgia/Arizona State.
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southern Cal | -- |
| 2 | Georgia | -- |
| 3 | Oklahoma | -- |
| 4 | Florida | -- |
| 5 | Missouri | -- |
| 6 | Texas | -- |
| 7 | Wisconsin | -- |
| 8 | LSU | -- |
| 9 | Texas Tech | -- |
| 10 | South Florida | -- |
| 11 | Penn State |  1 |
| 12 | Alabama | 1 |
| 13 | Brigham Young | 1 |
| 14 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 15 | Wake Forest | 2 |
| 16 | Kansas | 3 |
| 17 | Utah | 3 |
| 18 | Oklahoma State | 3 |
| 19 | Vanderbilt | 3 |
| 20 | Auburn |  9 |
| 21 | TCU | 2 |
| 22 | Nebraska | 2 |
| 23 | Fresno State | 2 |
| 24 | Boise State | 2 |
| 25 | Illinois | 1 |
Dropped Out: East Carolina (#15), Oregon (#18).
Moving Up:
Wake Forest - dismissing a Florida State squad that had no business being associated anywhere near a Top 25 was thoroughly satisfying.
Illinois - didn't know who to drop in the 25 slot, but of the teams that were standing on the outside of my rankings, they've had the loss to the most impressive team.
Moving Down:
Auburn - if they had had a better showing following that terrible 3-2 game they wouldn't have dropped this far, but there is no way around it that offense is beyond bad.
East Carolina - probably a little harsh to be dropped completely, but a combination of losing to a pathetic NC State team and diminishing impressiveness of their early season victories were an unfortunate mix this week.
#1 Southern Cal
at Virginia 52-7 (558/187)
Ohio State 35-3 (348/207)
at Oregon State
#2 Georgia
Georgia Southern 45-21 (535/290)
Central Michigan 56-17 (552/309)
at South Carolina 14-7 (252/289)
at Arizona State 27-10 (461/212)
Alabama
#3 Oklahoma
Chattanooga 57-2 (487/36)
Cincinnati 52-26 (592/326)
at Washington 55-14 (591/338)
TCU
#4 Florida
Hawaii 56-10 (406/241)
Miami 26-3 (345/140)
at Tennessee 30-6 (243/258)
Mississippi
#5 Missouri
Illinois 52-42 (549/532)
Southeast Missouri State 52-3 (592/334)
Nevada 69-17 (651/362)
Buffalo 42-21 (590/286)
at Nebraska
#6 Texas
Floria Atlantic 52-10 (503/292)
at UTEP 42-13 (404/412)
Rice 52-10 (600/318)
Arkansas
#7 Wisconsin
Akron 38-17 (479/297)
Marshall 51-14 (487/314)
at Fresno State 13-10 (304/343)
at Michigan
#8 LSU
Appalachian State 41-13 (459/239)
Troy ppd.
North Texas 41-3 (425/199)
at Auburn 26-21 (398/320)
Mississippi State
#9 Texas Tech
Eastern Washington 49-24 (639/364)
at Nevada 35-19 (421/488)
SMU 43-7 (693/274)
UMass 56-14 (538/258)
at Kansas State
#10 South Florida
Tennessee-Martin 56-7 (520/97)
at UCF 31-24OT (504/226)
Kansas 37-34 (458/434)
at Florida International 17-9 (320/189)
at NC State
#11 Penn State
Coastal Carolina 66-10 (594/250)
Oregon State 45-14 (454/332)
at Syracuse 55-13 (560/159)
Temple 45-3 (546/138)
Illinois
#12 Alabama
Clemson (in Atlanta) 34-10 (419/188)
Tulane 20-6 (172/318)
Western Kentucky 41-7 (557/158)
at Arkansas 49-14 (402/309)
at Georgia
#13 BYU
Northern Iowa 41-17 (563/362)
at Washington 28-27 (475/337)
UCLA 59-0 (521/239)
Wyoming 44-0 (364/273)
at Utah State
#14 Ohio State
Youngstown State 43-0 (495/74)
Ohio 24-16 (272/254)
at Southern Cal 3-35 (207/348)
Troy 28-10 (309/315)
Minnesota
#15 Wake Forest
at Baylor 41-13 (376/250)
Mississippi 30-28 (348/360)
at Florida State 12-3 (276/220)
Navy
#16 Kansas
Florida International 40-10 (384/139)
Louisiana Tech 29-0 (538/267)
at South Florida 34-37 (434/458)
Sam Houston State 38-14 (528/385)
at Iowa State
#17 Utah
at Michigan 25-23 (341/203)
UNLV 42-21 (440/288)
at Utah State 58-10 (446/116)
at Air Force 30-23 (440/191)
Weber State
#18 Oklahoma State
at Washington State 39-13 (367/196)
Houston 56-37 (699/483)
Missouri State 57-13 (572/196)
Troy
#19 Vanderbilt
at Miami (OH) 34-13 (360/340)
South Carolina 24-17 (225/325)
Rice 38-21 (344/407)
at Mississippi 23-17 (202/385)
Auburn
#20 Auburn
Louisiana-Monroe 34-0 (406/220)
Southern Miss 27-13 (380/305)
at Mississippi State 3-2 (315/116)
LSU 21-26 (320/398)
Tennessee
#21 TCU
at New Mexico 26-3 (291/186)
Stephen F. Austin 67-7 (525/143)
Stanford 31-14 (378/193)
at SMU 48-7 (498/210)
at Oklahoma
#22 Nebraska
Western Michigan 47-24 (483/350)
San Jose State 35-12 (315/353)
New Mexico State 38-7 (553/339)
Virginia Tech
#23 Fresno State
at Rutgers 24-7 (422/369)
Wisconsin 10-13 (343/304)
at Toledo 55-54OT (420/598)
at UCLA
#24 Boise State
Idaho State 49-7 (582/207)
Bowling Green 20-7 (340/307)
at Oregon 37-32 (424/464)
Louisiana Tech
#25 Illinois
at Missouri 42-52 (532/549)
Eastern Illinois 47-21 (533/278)
Louisisana-Lafayette 20-17 (341/287)
at Penn State
Dropped out:
#15 East Carolina
at Virginia Tech 27-22 (369/243)
West Virginia 24-3 (386/251)
at Tulane 28-24 (316/312)
at NC State 24-30 (383/384)
Houston
#18 Oregon
Washington 44-10 (496/242)
Utah State 66-24 (688/306)
at Purdue 32-26OT (503/408)
Boise State 32-37 (464/424)
at Washington State
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