It doesn’t matter at all. Alabama can beat ACC teams all they want .. they’re going to drop a game or two in SEC play. USC is going to either get beaten by Cal, or look really bad beating them.

IMHO, I think Alabama deserves to be ranked ahead of us, and probably Florida too, they have a win over a good team on their resume. I think OSU should also move into the top 3 for their win against Georgia.

Neither of those things will happen though, because of the tremendous amount of inertia held by teams ranked highly (this is one of the biggest problems of the “poll” systems — perceptions change very slowly).

but will be long forgotten in a month, especially if they begin winning in typical fashion (not a given, though). If USC puts OSU out of it’s misery already, then they will likely get pushed ahead of Texas then, anyway. If not, they drop. Bama will get rolled at one point. I’m not concerned about that.

I almost hope someone like USC or Ohio St. jumps over us…if nothing else it give this team even more motivation to absolutely destroy every team they play, otherwise how hard is it to get jacked up to play Wyoming…we need to be frothing at the mouth each and every game this year and win out regardless of whether OU is still a ‘quality’ opponent come Red River Shootout time [and yes I like to use the old rivalry terminology, the new one stinks!]

college football is such a beatdown. One week in and everyone is already worried about who might be jumping who in the polls.

What a waste.