Top 25
CAPSULES AND RANKINGS
Team: 1. Florida (7-0)
Opponent: Idle
Comment: Dad-gum, no one to beat the tar out of this week?
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Team: 2. Ohio State (6-0)
Opponent: at Iowa
Comment: Mantra: Don’t look ahead (Michigan), don’t look ahead (Michigan).
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Team: 3. Florida State (5-0)
Opponent: Virginia
Comment: Bowden out to avenge his only ACC loss.
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Team: 4. Arizona State (7-0)
Opponent: at Stanford
Comment: Only second road game for Sun Devils.
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Team: 5. Nebraska (5-1)
Opponent: Kansas
Comment: Who scheduled Arizona State, anyway?
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Team: 6. Colorado (5-1)
Opponent: Texas
Comment: Will phone this one in (on someone else’s card).
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Team: 7. Alabama (7-0)
Opponent: at Tennessee
Comment: Isn’t (yawn) this ‘Bama (yawn) team something (yawn)?
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Team: 8. North Carolina (5-1)
Opponent: at Houston
Comment: If only Dean’s teams could play “D” this well.
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Team: 9. Northwestern (6-1)
Opponent: Illinois
Comment: Something really weird is going on in Evanston.
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Team: 10. Tennessee (4-1)
Opponent: Alabama
Comment: One more loss and it’s back to the hills.
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Team: 11. Michigan (5-1)
Opponent: Minnesota
Comment: Pull the plug on the Little Brown Jug.
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Team: 12. Wyoming (8-0)
Opponent: Idle
Comment: Will use week off to rope a few AP voters.
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Team: 13. West Virginia (7-0)
Opponent: Miami
Comment: Well, isn’t this season falling into place.
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Team: 14. BYU (7-1)
Opponent: at TCU
Comment: Washington loss may cost Cougars alliance bowl.
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Team: 15. Iowa (5-1)
Opponent: Ohio State
Comment: Tulsa: “Oh yeah, we knocked off Iowa.”
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Team: 16. Utah (6-1)
Opponent: Tulsa
Comment: Can’t be bad if the quarterback is named Fouts.
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Team: 17. Kansas State (6-1)
Opponent: Oklahoma
Comment: Wildcats favored for first time since 1913.
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Team: 18. California (6-1)
Opponent: UCLA
Comment: Take the bears over the cubs.
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Team: 19. Penn State (6-2)
Opponent: at Indiana
Comment: Joe Pa, how could you lead us astray?
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Team: 20. Army (6-0)
Opponent: Idle
Comment: Weekend passes for everyone!
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Team: 21. Notre Dame (4-2)
Opponent: Idle
Comment: Dumbfounded Irish flee to Ireland for Navy game.
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Team: 22. LSU (5-1)
Opponent: Miss. State
Comment: A good year if you don’t schedule Florida.
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Team: 23. Virginia (5-1)
Opponent: at Florida State
Comment: Hate to admit it, but the gag order worked.
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Team: 24. Air Force (4-2)
Opponent: Hawaii
Comment: Can high-flying Air Force land in time for kickoff?
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Team: 25. Washington (4-2)
Opponent: at Oregon
Comment: TB Corey Dillon averaging 108 yards per game.
THE POLLS: Associated Press and USA Today/CNN--C12
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