Wow! Talk about a lot of upsets and close calls at the top of the rankings this week. I guess I just couldn't wait to get the rankings going!

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. USC
4. Rutgers
5. Florida
6. Arkansas
7. Louisville
8. Notre Dame
9. West Virginia
10. Wake Forest
11. Wisconsin
12. Boise State

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. Rutgers
4. Arkansas
5. Florida
6. Louisville
7. LSU
8. Wake Forest
9. Boise State
10. Wisconsin
11. USC
12. Georgia Tech


blah, this year sucks.

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. USC
4. Florida
5. Arkansas
6. Notre Dame
7. Rutgers
8. WVU
9. Wisconsin
10. Boise State or Louisville.

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. Florida
4. Southern Cal
5. Notre Dame
6. Arkansas
7. Rutgers
8. Wake Forest
9. Boise State
10. Louisville
11. Wisconsin
12. West Virginia

PSU lion.....just out of curiosity, what's your reasoning for putting Wisconsin who hasn't beaten a ranked team this year, ahead of Southern Cal who beat three (Arkansas, Oregon, and Nebraska) ??

You could look at it that way, or you could look at it in the sense that Wisc lost to Michigan in a close game, while USC lost to Oregon State (lol)

It's a fluid situation, but I definitely don't believe USC is up in the top 4 or 5 for that simple reason. Despite the fact that Cal lost to Arizona last week, I still believe they will beat USC next week.

1 Ohio State
2 Michigan
3 USC
4 Rutgers
5 Florida
6 Arkansas
7 WVU
8 Notre Dame
9 Louisville
10 LSU
11 Wake Forest
12 Wisconsin

Hmmm. West Virginia over Louisville? No bias there!

Well the latest USA Today poll released today has WVU at 7, Rutgers at 8 and Louisville dropped all the way to #12. Makes no sense to me.

Ummm...

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. USC
4. Notre Dame
5. Arkansas
6. Florida
7. Rutgers
8. Louisville
9. West Virginia
10. Wisconsin
11. LSU
12. Wake Forest

Both AP and USA Today have the same top 4 - Ohio State, Michigan, Florida then USC. Then the polls diverge somewhat. AP has Arkansas 5, Notre Dame 6, Rutgers 7, WVU at 8, LSU at 9 and Louisville 10.

The USA Today Poll has the Irish 5, Arkansas 6, WVU ahead of Rutgers at 7, Rutgers at 8, LSU 9 and Wisconsin 10. Louisville dropped to 12.

Should be interesting down the stretch. It is still not out of the question for Notre Dame or Arkansas to still be in the Championship game. If somebody dominates the Michigan - Ohio State game the loser might drop 3-4 places. If the Irish beat USC and Florida loses the SEC championship game to Arkansas who goes to the championship?

Pat if the circumstances of your question becomes a reality, all hell in college football will break lose. Moreover, what if that happens and LSU beats Arkansas and Arkansas beats UF in SEC championship game?

Michigan/OSU rematch could happen or WVU could "sneak" in. As I have said, WVU doesn't have a national championship caliber defense. But, what teams do this year when you collectively look at results of the top 10-15 teams and their defensive production this year?

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. Florida
4. USC
5. Arkansas
6. Louisville
7. Rutgers
8. Texas
9. LSU
10. West Virginia
11. Boise State
12. Notre Dame

1. Michigan
2. Ohio St
3. USC
4. Rutgers
5. Arkansas
6. Notre Dame
7. Florida
8. Boise St
9. Louisville
10. Wake Forest
11. Cal
12. West Virginia

1- Ohio State
2- Michigan
3- Florida
4- USC
5- Arkansas
6- Rutgers
7- Notre Dame
8- Boise State
9- Louisville
10- WVU
11- Wisconsin
12- LSU

When you look at it, Michigan really has been more impressive than Ohio State this year (they've given Wisc and Notre Dame their only losses) but well, it doesn't matter at this point who's number 1 vs number 2, right? The only other incongruity I perceived is having LSU ranked above Auburn, despite both having two losses. I finally decided that LSU hasn't looked really bad all year, whereas Auburn looked really AWFUL on Saturday.

1. Ohio St
2. Michigan
3. Rutgers
4. USC
5. Arkansas
6. Notre Dame
7. Florida
8. West Virginia
9. Louisville
10. Wisconsin
11. Wake Forest
12. Boise St

sounds good to me as well

You're just agreeing with him because he's hot.

Yeah there's no way anyone should be voting West Virginia over Louisville. I mean, geez, did their game mean nothing? As of right now, you'd have to say it's Rutgers, Louisville and WVU in that order.

hot and smart!

Ohio State
Michigan
USC
Florida
Arkansas
Rutgers
Notre Dame
WVU
Louisville
LSU
Wisconsin
Wake

Undefeateds, then 1-loss, then 2-loss

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. Rutgers
4. USC
5. Notre Dame
6. Arkansas
7. Florida
8. Louisville
9. West Virginia
10. Wake Forest
11. California
12. LSU

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. USC
4. Florida
4. Rutgers
5. Arkansas
6. Cal
7. Notre Dame
8. Wisconsin
9. Louisville
10. WVU
11. LSU
12. Georgia Tech

The votes are in...

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. USC
4. Rutgers
5. Florida
6. Arkansas
7. Notre Dame
8. Louisville
9. West Virginia
10. Wake Forest
11. Wisconsin
12. Boise State

Others receiving votes: LSU, Cal, Texas, Georgia Tech

Movers
down: Louisville drops to 8th (from 3rd last week), Texas was 4th and is out of top 12 now, Auburn is also out after holding 7th spot last week, California also out (from 5th)

up: new teams in with Rutgers huge jump to 4th, Wake Forest and Wisconsin, USC to 3rd (from 8th), Notre Dame moves from 11th to 7th, Arkansas 9th to 6th

I don't understand that either unless the voters are saying a loss to Rutgers is worse than a loss to L'ville

Edited because I had a brain fart and got it backwards.
A peculiar assertion, given that Rutgers is ranked above Louisville. The only thing I can think of is West Virginia clobbered Maryland, which has proven to be a pretty good team.

Thanks, Zeno, for doing the tally. We ought to expand this to a top 25 (or 30) poll and let outsports know that we take this poll more seriously than that of the so-called outsports college football experts.

I've been adding the numbers the last few weeks; but I want to give credit to GymMountaineer for starting the top 12 and making the calculations the first weeks.

DCBcuky Pickem and the top 12 makes me follow US college football weekly.

In the top 12, ranks 4 and 5 were very close and 10 to 13 were separated by only a few points so every movement in individual top 12 could affect the overall ranking. Next week how Michigan is ranked by us will be interesting.