First, this week’s poll:
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State | — |
| 2 | Southern Cal |  3 |
| 3 | Auburn |  1 |
| 4 | Michigan | 6 |
| 5 | Florida | 1 |
| 6 | West Virginia | 2 |
| 7 | Louisville | 4 |
| 8 | Louisiana State | 5 |
| 9 | Texas | 2 |
| 10 | Georgia | 1 |
| 11 | Arizona State | 6 |
| 12 | Cal | 6 |
| 13 | Oregon | 8 |
| 14 | Virginia Tech | 5 |
| 15 | Iowa | 5 |
| 16 | Notre Dame | 12 |
| 17 | Boston College | 9 |
| 18 | Tennessee | 5 |
| 19 | Clemson | 6 |
| 20 | Oklahoma | 6 |
| 21 | TCU | 5 |
| 22 | Florida State | 10 |
| 23 | Nebraska | 8 |
| 24 | Michigan State | 2 |
| 25 | Boise State | 2 |
Now, my reasons (though this week, they’re REALLY few and far between, since I felt the process flowed pretty well, and I didn’t feel like anyone was too out of place, either high or low):
Michigan might be a tad high, but in the words of Tom, a former blogger around these parts and OSU alum, in the voicemail I alluded to on Saturday, “Sweet fancy Moses! What the f*ck happened with that team?!?! Dear holy God! It’s bizarre enough that I’m rooting, cheering, yelling for Michigan, that makes me feel dirty in itself … at least fatass is going down hard. I’m sure he’ll console himself with a side of beef and 6-8 pies. That’s all I’ve got, I just wanted to say ‘sweet fancy Moses’ to someone. Bye.”
Yes, sweet fancy 4th-ranked Moses indeed. Of course, the next five weeks of “top of the Little 8” goodness will either solidify this position or send the currently raucous U-M fanbase into a tailspin, but that’s not what this poll is for this week, is it?
Help or no, Auburn and Oregon got the job done, albeit it a little close for comfort and at home in each case. Auburn is only penalized a hair because of the number USC did on Nebraska, without too much help from the officials. Besides, spots 2-6 or 7 are damn near interchangeable at this point, from week to week in my opinion. LSU only drops five spots, while Oklahoma drops a bunch, because they handled their loss like a bunch of little bitches. Not just Saturday afternoon, not even Sunday morning, but its still going. WAAAAH!
I had initially tried to get Rutgers in at 24, if only for putting Ohio U. fans in their drug-induced place, but Michigan State actually looked impressive in what I saw of them at Pittsburgh, who I previously had ranked. Don’t worry, Scarlet Knights, MSU only has six wins each season, and they done used up three of ’em already!
WHAT I WATCHED: Rotated through OSU-UC, MSU-Pitt, Iowa-Iowa State… caught glimpses of CMU-Akron, Kent State-Miami(OH) and Buffalo-NIU and the whole BG-FIU game online… most of the UM-ND game, although parts of that were tough to watch in the late stages, and I’m pretty sure was illegal in most states (I’m kidding, I watched most of it and loved damn near all of it)… some USC-Nebraska (funny looking ankle injuries aside), the end of Florida-Tennessee… some Ball State-Purdue… and here-and-there glimpses of Indiana losing one to a I-AA school for their coach. AH! And the end of Army-A&M, where common sense took a backseat during the last two stupid sweep of a running play when a shot at the endzone THEN a running play would have been the move to make.
Maize N Brew has the new roundtable up, and it looks kind of fun. That can come tomorrow.
If you’ve stuck with me this long, Episode 2 of “Rolling Along: The Podcast” is also available, if you’re down for 31 minutes of BGSU chatter. But for the second effort, I think it’s sounding pretty good.