And the popularity polls seems to be giving Boise State more credit than is due.
2010 NCAA BCS Football Rankings - Week 9 (Oct. 24)
RK TEAM RECORD
1 Auburn 8-0
2 Oregon 7-0
3 Boise State 6-0
4 TCU 8-0
5 Michigan State 8-0
6 Missouri 7-0
7 Alabama 7-1
8 Utah 7-0
9 Oklahoma 6-1
10 Wisconsin 7-1
11 Ohio State 7-1
12 LSU 7-1
13 Stanford 6-1
14 Nebraska 6-1
15 Arizona 6-1
16 Florida State 6-1
17 Oklahoma State 6-1
18 Iowa 5-2
19 Arkansas 5-2
20 South Carolina 5-2
21 Mississippi State 6-2
22 Miami (FL) 5-2
23 Virginia Tech 6-2
24 Nevada 6-1
25 Baylor 6-2
Auburn could actually hold on to # 1 for a few weeks. Their schedule is Mississippi, Chattanooga, Georgia then Alabama. They could drop in the computers after beating Chattanooga, a Football Championship not BCS school. The Alabam game may be the actual National Championship game before the SEC Championship even.
Being # 2 takes some luster out of the Oregon-USC game next weekend.
Paul in PA
I like the SEC, but I don't see Auburn being #1 in the BCS. I mean they were 4th and leap-frogged Oregon - who hardcore OWNED UCLA. From a non-statistical perspective, Oregon looked like the best team in the nation against UCLA. Auburn was OK. I firmly believe in a classical playoff system, and think the BCS should be used for seeding purposes in said playoff system, where the bowls are certain levels of the brackets. But I will probably be too old to care by the time they implement the idea.
