Wow...talk about a tight race - our top 6 (Lance, Jen, Dave, Shaun, Blaine, Michael) are all within 1.1 points of each other. The bottom three (Robert, Scott, Jeff) just switched places a little. Of our 11 players only two (Blaine, Robert) improved their score this week.
As for football this past week: Nobody is safe. Season 2007 will go down as the season of surprises. Nobody...nobody would have predicted Notre Dame 0 - 5, Michigan un-ranked, Louisville un-ranked, and USF in the top 10...nobody. If there was ever a year to make the drive to Wendover and bet on the underdog, this is the year.
Nine of the top 25 lost this week; five of those nine were in the top 10 and four of those elite top 10 were humbled by non-ranked teams: OK lost to Colorado, Florida to Auburn (again), Texas to Kansas State (again) and Rutgers to Maryland. And what about the USF jump...from #18 to #6? Wow!
This raises the question (again) of the validity of a ranking system. If voters pick the best teams how is it that four of the top 10 all lost to un-ranked teams? And two other top 10 teams (USC, Wisconsin) seriously struggled to win by a field goal. Maybe the voters should be ranked and their votes counted accordingly.
Next weeks poll results will also be interesting as the SEC will get a big shake up: Florida at LSU, UGA at Tennessee and Kentucky at South Carolina. Five of those six teams are in the top 12.