I’m not quite sure what these voters are looking at. Maybe they like the mascots or the pretty colors of some teams’ uniforms, but I thought a breakdown of the Top Ten would be worthwhile. Since the two main polls are fairly similar, I’ll just go through the AP Poll. Here are this week’s rankings:

OSU is the Universe’s consensus #1, and I’m just not okay with that ranking. They’ve played well, and consistently. But, they haven’t had much competition to this point, and they struggled with a young PSU squad. Much moreso than an overwhelming #1 should. We’ll see how they hold up during their upcoming stretchof tough games, and I’d drop them to #2…because…

Florida truly deserves the #1 spot with the schedule they’ve had. It’s absurd that USC is ranked ahead of them in the USA Today Poll, and debatable that OSU is ahead of them. They have an even tougher stretch coming up, and if they survive it should vault them ahead of OSU just because of the strength of schedule measure.

USC at #3 is a by-product of their last few years and the media’s obsession with all things from southern California (including me). This is a team that hasn’t played ANYBODY, and barely squeaked by the two teams from Washington that define the word mediocre. USC will lose, and to ND, but they’re still undefeated so I’d drop them to #4 or so.

Given Michigan’s consistent and balanced play, on both sides of the ball, and their ass-stomping of the Irish, I’d put them at my #3. They’ve played tougher competition than USC, and deserve a higher ranking.

WVU at #5 is the spot that upsets me most. West-f-in-Virginia has played a bunch of teams that wouldn’t win a high school conference, and the rest of their schedule isn’t much tougher. Their big games are Pitt and Syracuse for the sake of our good and mighty Lord! Give ND WVU’s schedule, and the Irish win the national championship every year, including the horrible Davingham years. They should be at the bottom of the top 10, tops - okay, maybe 9 ahead of Cal. And who are the two CRACKHEADS that voted them #1? Do they even WATCH college football?

Texas deserves a high spot after taking down OU in the Red River Rivalry, and with only a loss to the Universe’s #1 OSU. But it was a pretty bad loss to be honest, and I think Tennessee might deserve to be ahead of them given their single point loss to my #1 Florida.

Louisville is Joke #2 in their placement. Again, they haven’t played anyone. They deserve the Top 10, but the bottom portion.

Tennessee has a single loss, by one point, to my #1 squad Florida. They should move up a few spots as they have looked solid throughout the year. David Cutliffe is a sicko - it’s too bad he bailed on the Irish, but what offensive guy wants to work behind Weis? No one wants to feel dumb.

ND deserves to move up a few spots, if only because of the absurd ranking of WVU and Louisville. But also because the team has improved, and suffered its only (albeit fairly brutal) loss to what-should-be-#3-Michigan (even though Michigan SUCKS).

The end result of this rambling analysis? The Biscuit’s Top Ten. Go ahead and tell me I’m wrong in the comments. Go ‘head. Do it.

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