THE TIMES’ TOP 25

CHRIS DUFRESNE’S RANKINGS AND COMMENTS:

Rk.; Team (Rec.); Comment (last week’s rank)

1

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2

SOUTH

FLORIDA (6-0)

Tampa St. (more geographically accurate) jumps Ohio St. after routing Disney Central Florida. (5)

3

OHIO STATE

(7-0)

Rankman will formally apologize to Buckeyes after BCS title win over Boston College (4)

4

OREGON

(5-1)

Ducks get to take a load off at Washington before getting a load of USC. (5)

5

BOSTON

COLLEGE (7-0)

Might be No. 1 attraction if Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Harvard crew team left town (6)

6

OKLAHOMA

(6-1)

Looking to make a move to the BCS top, Sooner rather than later. (7)

7

CALIFORNIA

(5-1)

Street vendors offering three-for-one discounts on giant “We’re No. 1” foam fingers. (2)

8

S. CAROLINA

(6-1)

Spurrier is 14-0 lifetime against Vanderbilt and 3-0 in a past lifetime. (8)

9

KENTUCKY

(6-1)

Fined so many times by league office it consid- ers making Mark Cuban honorary captain. (18)

10

LOUISIANA

STATE (6-1)

Rankman sends Tigers to bed without dinner after losing to former Pac-10 coach. (1)

11

VIRGINIA TECH

(6-1)

Hokies would be ranked higher had LSU defeat not been shown on television. (9)

12

WEST VIRGINIA

(5-1)

Game vs. Mississippi St. more exciting than Miami-Florida St. or USC-Notre Dame. (11)

13

USC

(5-1)

Mastermind coach discovers, in game six, guy named McKnight sitting on bench. (12)

14

FLORIDA

(4-2)

One more loss and Tom Osborne may need to take over as interim athletic director. (13)

15

ARIZONA

STATE (7-0)

The Sun Devils’ schedule is more back-loaded than Wisconsin’s offensive line. (15)

16

HAWAII

(7-0)

Jones puts Brennan on pitch-count limit after QB throws WAC-record 75 fastballs. (14)

17

CINCINNATI

(6-1)

Team is three or four more Notre Dame transfers away from being a title contender in 2009. (17)

18

MISSOURI

(5-1)

Big 12 calls reserve stat keepers off vacation for this week’s game against Texas Tech. (10)

19

KANSAS

(6-0)

Jayhawks have lost five straight at Colorado but at least they don’t have to play Rockies. (20)

20

GEORGIA

(5-2)

Stomping on Vanderbilt’s logo after win is so ungentlemanly and un-Uga like. (22)

21

TEXAS

(5-2)

Team license plate suggestion: “At Least We’re Not Nebraska.” (23)

22

BOISE STATE

(5-1)

Scored more touchdowns Sunday than Notre Dame’s offense has on seven Saturdays. (24)

23

MICHIGAN

(5-2)

Was “cold, cold, cold” after Appalachian State loss but now is “hot, hot, hot.” (25)

24

AUBURN

(5-2)

First time any SEC team has used a quality loss to South Florida to justify ranking. (NR)

25

TEXAS TECH

(6-1)

Needs to change nickname from Red Raiders to Pinball Wizards. (NR)