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Chris Dufresne’s top 25 rankings

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Rankman’s No. 1 team since Day 1, the Texas Foghorns, can see the lighthouse at the end of the channel even if some would argue they’re only the second-best team in Texas located off Interstate 35. And Florida, Rankman’s No. 2 since Day 2, has only to beat Alabama in Atlanta to play in its third Bowl Championship Series title game since 2006. Texas versus Florida at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 7: Who could have predicted that, other than everybody? Nebraska, which faces Texas in Saturday’s Big 12 Conference title game, is the only hope left to knock this season off its axis.

RK. TEAMComment (Last week’s ranking)
1 TEXAS 12-0 Time warp: Young beats Leinart same year Rose Bowl hosts BCS title. (1)
2 FLORIDA 12-0 Verne Lundquist narrates documentary on Tebow brushing his teeth. (2)
3 TEXAS CHRISTIAN 12-0 That’s one small BCS step for man, one giant leap for frogs. (3)
4 ALABAMA 12-0 Bylaws dictate governor will run state while Saban is in Atlanta. (4)
5 CINCINNATI 11-0 Bearcats seek first undefeated/untied season since ’87 (1887). (5)
6 BOISE STATE 12-0 Waiting for Texas to win before signing BCS bowl escrow papers. (6)
7 OREGON 9-2 Officials say tonight’s Civil War is on, come rain or . . . rain. (8)
8 OHIO STATE 10-2 No team slithers back into top 10 better than Buckeyes. (9)
9 IOWA 10-2 Likely BCS pick would have finished, what, fifth in Pac-10? (10)
10 GEORGIA TECH 10-2 Coach warns team not to look behind to last week’s Georgia loss. (7)
11 PENN STATE 10-2 Paterno wouldn’t mind playing in that new Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. (12)
12 VIRGINIA TECH 9-3 Six straight wins over Virginia is halfway to 12 straight. (14)
13 BRIGHAM YOUNG 10-2 Hall sorry for calling Utah the dirt bag school he thinks it is. (15)
14 OREGON STATE 8-3 Baseball coach inspires team with “ducks on the pond” speech. (18)
15 CALIFORNIA 8-3 Playing Washington this weekend in case you’re disinterested. (19)
16 STANFORD 8-4 Tiger tells school mascot he’s sorry about running into the tree. (20)
17 USC 8-3 Gen. Carroll would have ordered one last air strike on Grenada. (22)
18 HOUSTON 10-2 Cougars nearly blow 59-0 lead to Rice, hold on to win, 73-14. (23)
19 MIAMI 9-3 ESPN 30-for-30 film focuses mostly on Jimmy Johnson’s hair. (24)
20 PITTSBURGH 9-2Steel Town thought playing a Cincinnati with Carson Palmer was tough? (13)
21 OKLAHOMA STATE 9-3 Pickens says he’ll buy a BCS bowl and take the Cowboys there. (11)
22 LOUISIANA STATE 9-3 Miles is brilliant in overtime because there are no clocks involved. (25)
23 NEBRASKA 9-3 Next two opponents could be Texas (Big 12) and USC (Holiday Bowl). (NR)
24 UTAH 9-3 Next year’s BYU game will be moved to Vince McMahon’s backyard. (NR)
25 ARIZONA 7-4 Finally! Something bounced right for Arizona at the end of a game. (NR)
Dropped out: Temple (16), Navy (17) Clemson (21). Moved in: Nebraska, Arizona, Utah.
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