Florida and Alabama remained on a collision course for a 1-2 SEC championship game showdown, and were followed -- as they were the week before -- Texas, TCU, Cincinnati, Boise State, Georgia Tech and LSU.
No. 9 Southern Cal's second beat down in three games opened the door for Pittsburgh and Ohio State to break into the Top Ten at No. 9 and No. 10, respectively. Iowa, No. 10 last week, fell to No. 13 after losing to the Buckeyes in overtime.
Meanwhile, the Trojans did their best Tom Petty in freefalling all the way down to No. 18. Stanford, the beat-er to USC's beat-ee, makes their 2009 BcS rankings debut one spot ahead of the Trojans at No. 17.
So, once again and to reiterate, as long the Big Three continues winning, it matters not at all what happens behind them. Not one single bit.
What's that one argument the BcS spinmeisters proponents always make when it comes time to prop up a limp system? Oh yeah, that any playoff system would devalue the regular season. "The regular season is the playoffs," they whine sniff say.
Yeah, try telling that to TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State. Especially TCU.
Why especially TCU? Cincy is undefeated in a BCS conference and should be ranked higher than TCU because of their SOS. I only hope that if/when they beat Pitt that they will vault up a little bit. Probably not however, since the pollsters will just say that Pitt wasn't as good as they originally thought.
The Big East is a strong conference with two top 10 teams and three other teams within the top 30-35 teams in the nation. That's over half of the conference in the top 30(ish).
The regular season is a play-off - that's why the undefeated teams from the major conferences are at the top. Cincy may have an argument but TCU and Boise State don't, if anything they are too highly rated at the moment.
We need a playoff so that people with once and for all accept the superiority of the SEC.
Finally, I agree with gator_prof :-)