Argh, will the Washington effect never end? The 3-5 Huskies still haunt me at #25. Despite a bye week, ‘Bama’s past victims did well enough to keep the Tide in the top spot. Oregon’s domination of USC does enough to move the Ducks to #2, and I finally give the Bearcats some love after they unseat . . . Syracuse? Oh, and the Gators and Longhorns, those teams everyone else has in the top two spots? Overrated!

1 - Alabama (8-0) (30.4765625) (1)
2 - Oregon (7-1) (30.46875) (3)
3 - Iowa (9-0) (29.359375) (2)
4 - Cincinnati (8-0) (28.9375) (16)
5 - LSU (7-1) (28.796875) (4)
6 - TCU (8-0) (27.8828125) (6)
7 - Florida (8-0) (27.734375) (8)
8 - Southern California (6-2) (27.65625) (5)
9 - Boise St. (8-0) (27.421875) (10)
10 - Notre Dame (6-2) (27.296875) (11)
11 - Texas (8-0) (27.2421875) (12)
12 - Virginia Tech (5-3) (27.0546875) (9)
13 - Georgia Tech (8-1) (26.9765625) (13)
14 - Pittsburgh (7-1) (26.90625) (7)
15 - Houston (7-1) (26.8515625) (18)
16 - Miami (FL) (6-2) (25.921875) (NR)
17 - Ohio St. (7-2) (25.6640625) (14)
18 - Auburn (6-3) (25.15625) (20)
19 - California (6-2) (24.90625) (25)
20 - Oklahoma St. (6-2) (24.84375) (15)
21 - Boston College (6-3) (24.25) (NR)
22 - Clemson (5-3) (23.328125) (22)
23 - Penn St. (8-1) (23.0390625) (NR)
24 - Arizona (5-2) (22.2578125) (17)
25 - Washington (3-5) (22.015625) (19)
dropped out: West Virginia, Stanford, Kansas

The directed graph is now large enough (4.2 MB) that I’m getting server time-out errors when I attempt to upload it to ImageShack. So, uh, no more directed graphs.