Somebody's got to lose the UCLA-ASU game. If voters were to take an honest assessment of the season, they'd go ahead and move both of those teams below us. However, both of those teams will be below us soon enough as the winner of that game will most certainly lose to somebody else.


I only see one opportunity for a team to jump us, and that's if 4-0 NCST upsets FSU. That's not completely out of the question as NCST has been a pesky thorn in FSU's side for over a decade now and the game is at NCST, but FSU is heavily favored. I'd take NCST to cover the spread, though.

It's possible Mizzou could jump us with a win, but that was an embarrassing home loss to Indiana, and South Carolina, while ranked 13th, had that embarrassing game vs aTm, and then didn't look strong vs either ECU nor Vandy. Then again, that ECU win by Carolina is looking better by the week.


Two games to keep an eye on for upsets that would move us up are #16 Stanford at Washington and Oregon State at #18 SoCal. But that's about it for games that should affect our ranking this week.