Week 2 - Top 10

This top 10 isn't based on your past reputation or how many national championships you've won between 1902 and 1950 or where your recruiting class ranked nationally.  It's based soley on how you're doing on the field.

1. Alabama - Offense is clicking, defense has allowed six points in two games and even with their Heisman winner Mark Ingram out, the Tide is Rolling.
2. Ohio State - Defense is looking tough and if not for the gaffes on kick coverage, they would have beaten Miami by 20+.
3. Oregon - The Ducks point-a-minute offense is downright scary.  Spot an SEC team a 10-point lead in their building and then roll off 45 straight points to send Vols fans to their jugs.
4. TCU - A solid win over Oregon State and a blowout of Tennessee Tech are what you're supposed to do as a top 10 team.
5. Boise State - Virgina Tech did the Broncos no favors by losing to James Madison this weekend, but there's very few teams I'd take to beat these guys on a neutral field.
6. Iowa - Finally allowed a touchdown to Iowa State for the first time in four years.
7. South Carolina - Gamecocks with two solid wins and without the mistakes of past years plaguing the offense.
8. Cal - Two routs and the defense is looking good.  They're here for now...let's see if they pull their normal Jekyll and Hyde routine the rest of the year.
9. Oklahoma - Just squeezing in here with the destruction of Florida State, but the bad taste of that far-too-close win over Utah State still lingers.
10. Nebraska - The defense has been good with 6 picks (2 returned for touchdowns) and they're putting the games away early.

On the outside looking in: 

• Florida, Texas, Wisconsin all for the same reason - you're letting inferior competition hang around too long and in the case of Florida, your offense is disjointed and painful to watch.
• Stanford - Absolute beatdown of the Bruins in the Rose Bowl on Saturday night.  Do the same to Wake Forest (the cream of the ACC so far) this weekend and you'll be in the top 10.
• Michigan - The Notre Dame comeback win was big, but this isn't an Irish team from the 60's or 70's.  Your next two games are gimmes, Massachusetts and Bowling Green, but I guess Appalachian State always lingers in your minds now.
• LSU - Yeah, the defense was good against Vanderbilt but the offense let the Commodores stay in the game too long.  The 27-3 final score should have been the halftime score.