If your school had beaten two decent teams at this point, it would be at the top of the list. Unfortunately, two games into the season, no one has done that. So most on this list beat one decent team and gave some poor sister everything the Geneva Conventions would allow. Boy, adding that 12th game really ratcheted up the drama, didn't it?
1. The Mormon-Pacific Islander Coalition Known as BYU
TMPICKABYU followed up its upset of Oklahoma by thrashing Tulane, which any halfway respectable team should do without too much trouble. The game was in New Orleans, though. Did the Mormons convert anyone on Bourbon Street? Did any of them defect?
2. Alabama
After beating Virginia Tech in that Chick-fil-A game, Bama devoured Florida International, the college football equivalent of a Chicken Mini.
3. LSU
The Tigers have a rarity at this point: Two victories against teams from BCS conferences. OK, so it's Washington and Vanderbilt, but that's a president and a commodore, right?
4. Michigan
Was it us, or does that new addition make Michigan Stadium look a little like Lambeau Field, another pile of bricks with luxury boxes piled on top? Wolverines had every opportunity to fold up against the scrappy Irish, but somehow managed to win despite Clausen's wholesale destruction of their cornerbacks. Good thing nobody throws in the Big 10. (Oh, and can somebody tell Big Charlie Weis to get some plain-front pants? The pleats on his khakis were screaming so loud that they drowned out the Michigan band.)
5. Southern Cal
USC is cagey. They head east only to play big-name teams that aren't as good as they used to be. Virginia, Nebraska, Ohio State, that kind of thing. OK, Ohio State's a little better than those previous two, but they can also be counted on to lose any big game outside the comfy confines of the Big 10. By the way, USC at Syracuse in 2012. Like we said, cagey.
6. Houston
Prolific offense + SI cover jinx = hard times at T. Boone Pickens State. It was a lousy weekend for OSUs. And come to think of it, a pretty crappy weekend for the Big 12: Colorado humiliated at Toledo, K-State goes down to a Sun Belt team, Iowa State proves that Iowa (and thereby Northern Iowa) is several levels above it, and Missouri nearly craps its pants at home against a MAC team.
7. Georgia Tech
That first-week pasting of Jacksonville State looks a little better after JSU nearly took out Florida State in Tallahassee. Then there was Tech's shootout last Thursday with Clemson, which packed about as many big plays into one game as you'll see this season. We'd say Tech can't pass to save their lives, but that's pretty much what they to did to avoid full-out collapse against the Tigers.
8. Boise State
What better way to fade back to obscurity after a national TV game than pistol-whipping a really bad MAC team at home?
9. UCLA
That home victory over San Diego State in Week 1 didn't do much for us, but anybody who shuts up Lane Kiffin, even for a moment, is OK by us. Florida, you have your marching orders.
10. Minnesota
Hope there are some adrenaline junkies up in Minneapolis this season. Gophers come back on the road against Syracuse and Greg Paulus (whose eligibility grows blessedly closer to an end every day) and win in OT, then score two touchdowns to avoid the ignominy of opening their new stadium with a loss to a Mountain West team.
Teams that were on the list last week before embarassing us as well as all their family and friends by losing, but that's OK, right, because it's just a game: T. Boone Pickens State, Notre Dame, South Carolina
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