NCAA Week 8 Top 25

Upsets continue to plague the top of the rankings.  Two of them were located in the midwest, but the east had one.  The Syracuse Orangemen, who have been having a season comparable to their basketball team, upset West Virginia, the top team in the Big East.  Pitt now takes the lead, with Syracuse biting at their heels, and West Virginia barely holds on to the Top 25, the lone Big East representative in the rankings.

The Big XII saw the other two upsets, and both were losses by unbeaten teams.  Nebraska shocked Oklahoma State, knocking them from the Top Ten as well as from the ranks of the unbeaten.  It was a tough day for Oklahoma football, as the Sooners also suffered their first loss.  That leaves only seven unbeaten teams.  The only conference with more than one unbeaten team is the Mountain West, as both TCU and the top-ranked Utah (who stayed there despite a colossal victory by Oregon) remain unbeaten.  The ACC, Big East, Conference USA, and MAC have no unbeaten teams, although each has at least one team unbeaten in conference play.

This week's rank [Last week's position]
1.  Utah Utes (7-0) [1]
2.  Oregon Ducks (7-0) [2]
3.  Boise State Broncos (6-0) [3]
4.  TCU Horned Frogs (8-0) [6]
5.  Missouri Tigers (7-0) [12]
6.  Auburn Tigers (8-0) [11]
7.  Ohio State Buckeyes (7-1) [7]
8.  Alabama Crimson Tide (7-1) [8]
9.  Michigan State Spartans (8-0) [9]
10. Stanford Cardinal (6-1) [10]
11. Oklahoma State Cowboys (6-1) [4]
12. Nebraska Cornhuskers (6-1) [16]
13. Oklahoma Sooners (6-1) [5]
14. Wisconsin Badgers (7-1) [17]
15. Nevada Wolfpack (6-1) [15]
16. Virginia Tech Hokies (6-2) [21]
17. LSU Tigers (7-1) [13]
18. Arizona Wildcats (6-1) [20]
19. Florida State Seminoles (6-1) [19]
20. Iowa Hawkeyes (5-2) [14]
21. USC Trojans (5-2) [22]
22. South Carolina Gamecocks (5-2) [24]
23. Michigan Wolverines (5-2) [23]
24. Baylor Bears (6-2) [NR]
25. West Virginia Mountaineers (5-2) [18]

On the Edge:  Mississppi State Bulldogs (6-2), Hawaii Warriors (6-2), NC State Wolf Pack (5-2), Northern Illinois Huskies (6-2), Fresno State Bulldogs (5-2), Miami Hurricanes (5-2), Florida Gators (4-3)

Dropped: Texas Longhorns [#25]