Week 12 Ranks & Picks | THE HONORABLE

Rankings - Going into Week 12 Play
1) Texas Tech
2) Alabama
3a) Texas... only loss at Texas Tech
3b) Oklahoma... only loss is Texas, tie-breaker
3c) Florida... a solid 3, but must suffer for that Ole Miss loss
6) Penn State... starting to look average
7) USC... Oregon State game is the tie-breaker (45-14 W vs. 21-27 L)
8) Boise State... no real chances to move up any further
9) Utah... win over a bullish TCU earns points
10a) Oklahoma State... beat down by my #1, close loss to #3a
10b) Ohio State... suffered beat down to my #7, close loss to #6
12) TCU... beat down (not without a fight) at #3b, close loss at #9
13) Missouri... looking not-so-hot the past two weeks?
14) Georgia... Kentucky averaged less than 14 in SEC play, until UGA...
15) BYU... beat down by #12, living on the ropes every since
16) North Carolina
17) Michigan State
18) Florida State
19) Pittsburgh
20) Cincinnati
21) South Carolina
22) Ball State
23) Virginia Tech
24) LSU
25) Wake Forest

WEEK TWELVE PICKS
1) Virginia Tech over Miami
2) Cincinnati over Louisville
3) South Florida over Rutgers
4) Navy upsets (...?) Notre Dame
5) Michigan over Northwestern
6) Penn State over Indiana
7) Ohio State over Illinois
8) Iowa over Purdue
9) Clemson over Duke
10) Texas over Kansas
11) Auburn surprises Georgia
12) Air Force surprises BYU
13) Wake Forest over N. C. State
14) Wisconsin over Minnesota
15) North Carolina over Maryland
16) Nebraska rolls Kansas State
17) Oregon State over California
18) Florida over South Carolina
19) Baylor over Texas A&M
20) Arizona State over Washington State
21) Missouri over Iowa State
22) Oregon over Arizona
23) Mississippi over Louisiana-Monroe
24) USC over Stanford (watch for the upset)
25) LSU survives Troy
26) Alabama over Mississippi State
27) Connecticut over Syracuse
28) Kentucky over Vanderbilt
29) Oklahoma State rebounds over Colorado
30) Florida State over Boston College
31) UCLA survives Washington

As usual... may the best teams win.

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November 17, 2008 12:32 PM ET

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To further demonstrate your bias against the Pac10, you don't even know that Oregon isn't playing Arizona this week. Oregon State is however - and should be included in your top 25.