Good point on OU but they haven’t won a game yet. They may yet turn out to be a top ten team, but they’ve got to earn it. BYU was a heavy underdog and overcame adversity of their own (their best RB didn’t play, their best defensive player went down in the 1st quarter).

Finally, give me someone, ANYONE, to replace UM with and I’ll do it.

Homerism aside, I gotta vote for PSU above OSU this week. Next week, we’ll see.

I have a problem with the distance between BYU and OK. Either you have BYU really high, or OK too low. Can’t have it both ways… either OK isn’t top 10 material, in which case needing the QB and TE to go out w/ injuries & still only squeaking out a victory isn’t “top-10″ impressive, or OK is so good that when a top-10 BYU team takes out it’s QB and TE they still almost win (making #14 too low).

Boise > California, if for no other reason than surviving ULTIMATE FALCON PUNCH alone.

Cincinnati should be above Miami. Defending Big East champs continue offensive machine crushification of conference opponents. Cincy’s decisive, clean victory at Rutgers (setting QB records, btw) beats the Canes’ sloppy thug-filled win against Bowden’s band of academic violators. In fact, Cincy may deserve closer to #15.

Finally, Michigan has to do a LOT better than win one game against a Mac team to get ranked, dude. They were 3-9 last year, and one victory against the MAC whipping boys does not a top 25 ranking make. I’ll listen if they beat ND, or play hard against PSU, OSU, etc.

@NMU – I agree with Sylvester on my BYU/BSU ranking. It looks like Oregon is going to stink up the joint this year, whereas BYU beat a solid (if not injury-riddled) Oklahoma team. As far as Michigan, I don’t know if they belong in the top 25, but compared to MSU, I’ll take a win over any MAC school before a big win over Montana State.

@YNBA – I don’t know how to gauge that LSU/UW game because I didn’t see the whole thing, but based on what I saw, they are both solid teams. Maybe LSU is a little high here.

I only caught bits of Ole Miss, but what I did see looked decent. But Memphis wasn’t much resistant.

See my above comment about OSU. I may bump them down a spot or two.

1. LSU looks about right. Hopefully for LSU fans, there is room for improvement, because once Sark let Locker run it was a different ballgame.
2. Michigan is not a Top 25 team…not based on a high-octane showing against a MAC team.
3. Cincy is probably a Top 20 squad, but we’ll see how they do when they play a team that has a defense.
4. Ole Miss…really? They looked kind of crappy, but as long as ESPN tells us Snead is awesome, I suppose I have to believe it.
5. Ohio State. Playing to the level of it’s competition since 2002 (except for those MNC games in 2006 and 2007). Maybe just maybe, Sneaky Pete wont be ordering up a “Number 6″ on the Buckeyes this week. I really feel like OSU deserves a 12-15 ranking until they can prove that they deserve to be in the Top 10.

based solely on the level of competition they beat….

BYU beat a top 5 team who was poised to make a NC game run.

BSU beat a team whose best hit was after the game….

no team north of Toledo should be ranked yet lol.

ND will win 10 games this year and then lose badly to a good team in a bowl game.

as of right now today NO WAY Ohio State is a top 10 team. When we are 2-3 weeks in the season and can judge these teams better I will be more thoughtful in my opinions but I always do my rankings off of can a team beat the other teams in a mythical head to head lol…. OSU might be good this year but we wont know until Saturday. So I say OSU is somewhere in the 11-15 range.

Just my thoughts