New USA Today Poll

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1. USC (56) 2-)
2. OU (2) 3-0
3. Georgia (2) 4-0
4. Florida (1) 3-0
5. Missouri 4-0
6. LSU 3-0
7. Texas 3-0
8. Wisconsin 3-0
9. Texas Tech 4-0
10. Alabama 4-0

11.BYU
12. Penn St
13. Ohio St
14.Souh Florida
15. Wake Forest
16.Auburn
17. Utah
18. Kansas
19. Clemson
20. Boise St.
21.Illinois
22. Oregon
23. TCU
24.Fresno St.
25. Vanderbilt
 
One thing I never understood about poll voters, why do teams that lost in the top 10 always move down in the polls? What all of a sudden that same team cannot beat the teams now ranked above them. Especially when that same team lost to a team ranked above it, and only lost by 4 points. Never understood that logic.
 
Don't you just know Wisconsin and SoCal are eagerly waiting to see SEC and Big XII teams knock each other off?
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If you are only 4 points "worse' than a higher ranked team, then you were about where you belong anyway. Therefore, you should remain. Now, if you get taken to the woodshed, that's another story.
 
Other teams will lose and drop as well. I think this puts things in an orderly fashion as the season bears on. Like a previous poster wrote, they'll get back into the top ten if they win.

Heck, even with 2 wins they can still play for the NC.
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If Wisconsin and USC are in the NC game, then neither the BIg10 or PAC10 champ is in the Rose Bowl. That would leave an opening for us even if we are second in the B12 South. I could use another trip to LA for the holidays.
 
I think Auburn's loss at home to LSU probably magnified their close call with Miss St. last week. Couple that with the way Georgia Tech took Miss St. to the woodshed this week justifies Auburn's drop in the polls. What I don't understand is how LSU's narrow victory over Auburn justifies them moving ahead of Mizzou.
 
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That's my whole point, it should be based on how good the team is not who they are. Now I know that in reality that is not what happens but Auburn should not have fallen based on the ranking they had and the fact they only lost by 4 points. OSU from the previous week deserved their fall since they got man-handled by USC but maybe they were seriously overrated. I think overrated based on their play through their first four games.
 
Unfortunately - setting up the bowls with high to low rankings for TV ratings plays a role as well. How could the winner of the Big10 play in the "grandaddy of them all" be ranked behind 10 other teams?
TV's influence of our game is getting ridiculous.
 
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