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Just the usual anti PAC-10 bias. Until the bowl games come along, and they say “woops - I guess those guys were better than we thought”

The rankings are a ridiculous farce - to the point where it isn’t even worth the time to document - but ehre is an easy one -

Stanford - #12. one loss on the road at Oregon.
TOSU (another year of over rated chokers) - #10 - one loss - Wisconsin? With wins at Ohio, Eastern Michigan, and marshall? Is their quality win supposed to be Indiana or Illinois? WTF - both have most wins against like Towson, Western Kentucky, and Akron -

Seriously -

Or maybe it is Illinois’ tough wins against Southern Illinois or Northern Ilinois -

It is the same every year.

Iowa - #15 - already lost to AZ, #18. If Iowa hadn’t played a PAC-10 team, the comments would be “how good is Iowa at 6-0” etc. Where is the quality in the Iowa schedule that is missing from the AZ schedule? Is Iowa’s “quality win” Penn State? ???? Michigan? (did they really schedule Massachusetts?)

So now the Pac 10 will ruin the PAC-10 - by adding teams, and screwing with schedules, because frankly an off week in the PAC-10 is playing somebody “unranked” like USC or Washington or UCLA (destroyers of “quality teams? in other conferences.) or AZ State - lost by one to what we now know to be a powerful Wisconson team.

The jackass commentators would be asking “can Texas still play for the national title since its only loss is to OK” - if they hadn’t played UCLA and got their ass kicked. They are still ranked #19 - with two losses - based on ? one quality win over Nebraska?

OK = #1 - must be those high pressure games at Utah State, Air Force, Cincinnatti, (those three wins by a total of 12 points) Iowa State ..... well - they had that “big win” against Texas. The same Texas man-handled by the unranked UCLA average PAC-10 team. OOh - and Florida State - is the Big East still division 1?

Oregon wins - Tennesee, AZ State, Stanford - (and a rather hapless other 3.)

So - to predict the rest of the year - 50% probable Oregon will lose to some PAC-10 team, OR State, or AZ, or Washington will put together 4 good quarters - or USC or UCLA will play giant killer - then they will somehow be “overlooked” for an OK vs Auburn or LSu or AL national title game.

Oregon will go to the Rose bowl, ranked 4 or 5, play some team ranked 5 or 6 - Michigan State or Wisconsin. And dismantle them. 42-10 or something - and all the pollsters will say “gee - maybe they were better than we thought” - or make some lame excuse like “maybe TOSU was just depressed that they weren’t playing for the title” or some claptrap.

Same thing every year.