THE TIMES’ RANKINGS

*--* No School W-L Comment 1 MIAMI 1-0 Incoming Florida hopes the game will be a Brock (Berlin) Buster 2 OKLAHOMA 1-0 Sooners like chances this week so long as Shula coaching Alabama isn’t Don 3 OHIO STATE 1-0 Clarett turns down redshirt option; will take red-faced season instead 4 USC 1-0 Trojan defense tells offense to go ahead and take some vacation days 5 TEXAS 1-0 Faces Arkansas on Sept. 13 in a game billed as “Not the Game of the Century.” 6 MICHIGAN 1-0 Marshmallows no longer allowed in stadium, except for C. Michigan, Houston 7 KANSAS STATE 2-0 Coach has petitioned NCAA to play all games in August next year 8 VIRGINIA TECH 1-0 Opened the season on a Sunday; NFL opens on a Thursday? 9 N.C. STATE 1-0 Philip Rivers hopes to become the next Norm Chow-tutored Heisman winner 10 TENNESSEE 1-0 Rankman-Ripley fact: Opening crowd of 103,869 fell short of stadium capacity 11 GEORGIA 1-0 If not for off-season turmoil, what, team beats Clemson by 60? 12 PITTSBURGH 0-0 Opens the season against the right states: Kent and Ball 13 FLORIDA STATE 1-0 Coach says beating North Carolina beats the heck out of testifying under oath 14 LOUISIANA STATE 1-0 Looks to follow win over Louisiana-Monroe with win over University of Arizona-Monroe 15 NOTRE DAME 0-0 Coach agrees to say more this year to media without really saying anything 16 AUBURN 0-1 As they say down there in the South, it’s not the heat, it’s the futility 17 WASHINGTON 0-1 Post-Ohio State gloom turns to joy upon hearing Indiana is swimming upstream 18 PURDUE 0-0 Suffered first loss without playing when top its rusher is ruled academically ineligible 19 ARIZONA STATE 0-0 Math wizard says QB Andrew Walter + vs. Northern Arizona = 400 yards passing 20 PENN STATE 1-0 Sweat drips from coach’s brow after a close brush with Temple 21 WISCONSIN 1-0 Nice to see receiver Lee Evans catching on again after missing a year with injury 22 VIRGINIA 1-0 QB Matt Schaub out for S. Carolina; Holtz says backup is better than Elway 23 COLORADO 1-0 Reviewed tape of last year’s “steamroller offense” in advance of UCLA’s arrival 24 NEBRASKA 1-0 Rankman welcomes bug-eaters back to the poll with a fruitcake and a warm hug 25 HAWAII 1-0 Win over Appalachian State has the school thinking it could win I-AA title

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