Boise St. would control it’s own fate if they won out. However with BYU beating Oklahoma the Mtn West has once again set itself up for a BCS run. If any of the big 3 in the Mtn West can go undefeated I think they will leap Boise St. and go to a big bowl. It’s going to be tough to go undefeated in this conference though. We shall see.

They looked impressive over Nevada. I thought Nevada had a good enough offense to score against Notre Dame, but the Irish defense was strong enough to get the shutout. I also thought Nevada was a top 50 team this year so the blowout victory says something.

Drop out Iowa. They were completely unimpressive in their 17-16 victory over FCS team Northern Iowa.

than Iowa at #25.

I thought Illinois was a fringe top-25 team before the season, and Mizzou crushed them.

I know the U wasn’t very impressive early, but in the 2nd half, they dominated.
On the other hand, TCU didn’t even play a game.

Shouldn’t the U be ranked higher than TCU then?
TCU’s future sched is looking weaker too, given that Virginia just fell hard to a D-II team.

We all know polls this early are flat out absurd and can hurt derserving teams (Utah ranked number 25 preseason in 2004), but if it has to be this way at least there is some appropriate jumps in the poll. BYU at no. 10 is exactly where I would have put them. ND absolutely should be in the top 25 considering their talent level and that Nevada is a solid team especially offensively and ND’s D shut them down. It was refreshing, however, to see the media not giving ND more credit than they deserve.

 Ultimately these things will work themselves out. Pollsters know that the preseason polls are always flawed and there will continue to be big jumps and falls in the first few weeks before we get a real picture of the teams.

The way I see it is that if you lost your first game and haven’t won a game yet…why are you still ranked? I could care less if you are Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Georgia, or even Utah.
You haven’t won a game. You know for a fact if Utah or BYU would have lost they wouldn’t be ranked. So why does OU, Georgia, and VT get the pass? I know that they are probably still going to pull out. Maybe even win out. And I also know they lost to other ranked teams but why should they be ranked? They haven’t proved anyone to anybody yet, except that they can’t hang with ranked opponents….just a thought…
Plus I would rather not see ND in the poll this week. If they beat Michigan, then we can talk about it.

you are my hero. Just for that last comment. They wouldn’t live through the grind of the MWC. They can’t even survive their own conference.