Monday Night QB

Oklahoma is number one. For now. Maybe they can hold it longer than the last 2 teams.

Missouri and Texas are top-5 teams. But, what order should they go in? I think I might slide Texas up to the 3 spot and Missouri down to 5. I'm still not sold on the Tiger's D.

Alabama is number 2 after looking like Mike Vick in the Sanford dawg house. Stafford, Moreno and company were drowned, body-slammed and electrocuted all over the field. Just look at the post-game injury report for proof of the physical dominance. My only suspicion about Bama now, is maybe Georgia wasn't a very good football team after all. No top-5 team this side of Columbus has folded like that in a top-10 showdown recently. It's also Georgia's second blow-out loss in two years (14-35 Tenn in 07). Dawgs, don't mention being champions of anything until you clean up your over-penalized, sloppy, soft, inconsistent style of play. I'm not as sympathetic as Orson Swindle.

Tennessee will probably beat us by 14 points.

I defended Auburn last week, wondering why they were dropped so far after losing to LSU. Now, after Tenn., I'd say that spot is fair. Florida should be close behind. Georgia should be sub-15.

Penn State is rolling. They look like the best team in the Big-10 and could possibly hang with some of the better teams around the nation. Or, win out and flop in big-game, bowl season, Buckeye-fashion.

BYU, Utah, and Boise State are all still in it. East Carolina is officially out. Fresno State's lurking in the bushes with one loss.

Virginia Tech is on the way back up after knocking off Nebraska. Wake and Clemson lost, opening the top spot back up for the Hokies. But, beware the Terps!

Despite TCU's loss at OU, I'd still rank the MWC ahead of the Big East. Probably the ACC, too. And, maybe, the bottom nine of the PAC-10.

I'm really fighting giving respect to Texas Tech. They'd be such an easy space filler between the easily chosen top-6 and the bulk of the one-loss, small-potatoes, has-beens and knuckle draggers that flush out the rest of the top-25. The Red Raiders are undefeated, but don't we know they're going to lose 3-4 games down the line? Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, and Kansas all still lurk on the schedule. And, if we know they'll be 8-4 in two months, why waste our time ranking them 7 or 8, now? Not me. I'll put the less risky (but just as easily criticized) Bulls of SoFla and the BCS Busters from BYU ahead of Leach's Leeches.

Over and out-