With Ohio St. recent loss to Illinios makes me wonder why are they #7 in the BCS when Arizona St has a sole loss at Oregon, who's a very strong #2. It seems to me that the current system that we have established for our rankings is set up more as a popularity contest rather than a way to establish the best teams in collage football.

Does it really matter? Oregon proved they should be #1.

your right....its because Ohio State has more history

Look at Kansas, haven't lost all season but are ranked 4th in both polls and 3rd in the BCS.....any powerhouse with that record would easily be #1

because the voters think OSU is better.

Yeah, but most powerhouses play a much tougher schedule.

Ky i NOW ranked 20 21 22 respectively.

simple hard to drop from # 1 to #10 .asu is a good football team no doudt ,but look at orgeon 10-0 lsu lost one to unranked now ky thats what don't add up to me trying to figure out how is 1 loss team better than 10-0 i will my mmm off if orgeon plays lsu kicks there butt

Because OSU sucks a** and the BCS seems to put schools like that in the top 10 for some odd reason. Remember the NC game last year, OSU talked all this s*** about how bad they were going to beat Florida,......? You bring up a good point my friend, keep it up! Arizona State, by far has a tougher schedule than damn Ohio State.

No duh.

yes i agree with you. asu should be ranked above osu. but dont worry too much, osu will lose to michigan therefore making appalacian st the big-10 champion. unfortunately i also think kansas might actually win out and the get slaughtered in the nc game against lsu. oregon v lsu would be a much better game, lsu would only beat oregon by 14 as opposed to beating kansas by 28. nobody comes into new orleans and beats LSU!

No reason other then big 10 bias. Big 10 teams always get rankings higher then they deserve. no other way to explain Michigan being #12 before this weeks loss

Probably because if they played, Ohio State would beat Arizona State... not a fan of either team.

Because BCS stand for Big Crock of Sh!t!

I agree with you but not about Arizona State. Who your wins come against SHOULD make a huge difference in the power/bcs rankings. I use this formula to pick my teams.

LSU has 9 wins over teams with a combined 52 wins plus wins over 6 top 25 teams , shortened to 9+52+6=67/10 games played or 6.70 PR (PR=power ranking). Now lets look at everybody.

- LSU 9+52+6=67/10 or 6.70 PR
- Oregon 8+46+2=56/9 or 6.22 PR
- Oklahoma 9+43+2=54/10 or 5.40 PR
- Kansas 10+40+1=51/10 or 5.10 PR
- W Virginia 8+35+1=44/9 or 4.88 PR
- Missouri 9+44+2=55/10 or 5.50 PR
- Ohio St 10+53+2=65/11 or 5.90 PR
- Georgia 8+41+3=52/10 or 5.20 PR
- Arizona State 9+40+1=50/10 or 5.00 PR
- Virginia Tech 8+39+1=48/10 or 4.80 PR

That's the AP top 10 as of today in the order they rank them with the wins over top 25 teams as they run week to week. At the end of the regular season I would use the year end top 25 team standings to calculate the wins over top 25 teams which could change the standings dramatically.

As of this week I would rank them like this:

- LSU 9+52+6=67/10 or 6.70 PR
- Oregon 8+46+2=56/9 or 6.22 PR
- Ohio St 10+53+2=65/11 or 5.90 PR
- Missouri 9+44+2=55/10 or 5.50 PR
- Oklahoma 9+43+2=54/10 or 5.40 PR
- Georgia 8+41+3=52/10 or 5.20 PR
- Kansas 10+40+1=51/10 or 5.10 PR
- Arizona State 9+40+1=50/10 or 5.00 PR
- W Virginia 8+35+1=44/9 or 4.88 PR
- Virginia Tech 8+39+1=48/10 or 4.80 PR

If I dug a little deeper into the top 25 some of these teams may not even make the top 10. Take it with a grain of salt, it's just my opinion but after week 6 of the season it works pretty well.