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The crazy season continues. This week, we saw good Midwestern defense in the Pac-10, and some west coast shootouts in the SEC. Missouri ended a great run by the Kansas team. Personally, it would have been fun to have Kansas win the title just to see Coach Mangino's players try to carry him off the field. One more week of regular season games left, so there will be some more movement. It looks like West Virginia will finish #1 for me even though they are #3 this week. Although, anything can still happen.

These rankings are a little more scientific. I devised a simple formula for each team which was (2 X wins X defeated opponent wins) - (losses X defeated by opponent losses). For teams that beat a Division 1-AA team, the win did not count and is not reflected in the record. And, for teams that lost to a 1-AA team, they were credited with a loss to the worst team in D-1.

                Team-record (prior week)                           Points

• 1. Missouri (10-1) (6)                                      1098
• 2. LSU (10-2) (2)                                            1082
• 3. West Virginia (10-1) (11)                             1057
• 4. Ohio State (10-1)(1)                                    1057
• 5. Oklahoma (10-2) (5)                                   1040
• 6. Boston College (9-2) (13)                              932
• 7. Georgia (9-2) (12)                                        918
• 8. Virginia Tech (9-2) (15)                                 910
• 9. Tennessee (9-3) (14)                                   876
• 10. Florida (9-3) (16)                                       840
• 11. Kansas (10-1)(3)                                        839
• 12. Texas (9-3) (4)                                          786
• 13. Arizona State (9-2) (10)                              764
• 14. Oregon (8-3) (7)                                        752
• 15. Virginia (9-3) (8)                                        744
• 16. USC (9-2) (23)                                           734
• 17. Illinois (8-3) (9)                                         719
• 18. South Florida (8-3) (24)                              674
• 19. Brigham Young (8-2) (--)                            656
• 20. Clemson (8-3) (--)                                     645
• 21. Cincinnati (8-3) (21)                                  630
• 22. UCF (9-3) (--)                                           615
• 23. Hawaii (9-0) (--)                                      594
• 24. Michigan (8-4) (17)                                    584
• 25. Boise State (9-2) (20)                                578

Dropping out was Wisconsin, Penn State, Connecticut, and Utah.

And the Bottom Five

• 1. Idaho (0-11) (4)                                        -682
• 2. Southern Methodist (1-11) (2)                     -667
• 3. Florida International (0-11) (5)                    -649
• 4. Northern Illinois (2-10) (3)                          -632
• 5. Duke (1-11) (--)                                        -573

Updated Bowl Projections:

BCS Championship - Missouri vs. West Virginia

Rose Bowl - Ohio State vs. USC

Orange Bowl - Boston College vs. Georgia

Fiesta Bowl - Arizona State vs. Kansas

Sugar Bowl - LSU vs. Hawaii