The Balance of Power in the Pac-10 Has Officially Shifted

Week 11 in college football saw 6 teams remain unbeaten and thenational championship picture had no real changes. The top 8 in the BCSretained their spots from a week ago. There were, however, several goodexciting games in the next tier of teams. Most notably was the Ohio State vs.Iowa game, which Ohio State pulled off in overtime. I was particularlysurprised by the line on this game. The official line I saw was 17 points infavor of OSU and my computer said OSU by 12. Two teams in the same conference who each had lost 1 conference game and the team that alsolost an out of conference game (albeit to USC) was favored by more than 2 touchdowns. Wow.

The other big game in the rest of the top 25 was Stanford'sdrumming up on USC at USC. Many people thought Stanford would really give thema run for their money this year because Harbaugh hasdone an excellent job getting the Cardinal competitive in the Pac-10. It was a 55-21 drubbing at the Coliseum in LA. It's good to see the Southern Caldynasty end. They have been one of the nation's most loved teams for solong and I like to see conferences that are competitive, with several teamsnear the top that are still alive for the conference championship this late inthe season. Harbaugh has to be a top candidate forNational coach of the year, along with Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech and David Cutcliffe at Duke, who have been winning at schools worldrenowned for academic excellence.

Here are the new Asbury computer rankings and a comparisonthe the BCS:

Team
Rank
Prev
SS rank
Rating
BCS
W
L

Alabama
1
2
26
98.920
2
10
0

Florida
2
3
34
96.379
1
10
0

Texas
3
1
57
95.824
3
10
0

Cincinnati
4
4
56
92.553
5
10
0

Ohio State
5
6
21
85.238
10
9
2

TCU
6
5
91
84.872
4
10
0

Pittsburgh
7
9
67
82.065
9
9
1

Georgia Tech
8
7
52
81.912
7
10
1

Boise State
9
11
110
81.210
6
11
0

Oregon
10
8
15
79.893
11
8
2

Oklahoma State
11
19
42
75.019
12
8
2

Virginia Tech
12
12
3
74.616
15
7
3

Wisconsin
13
17
31
74.388
16
8
2

LSU
14
13
40
73.676
8
8
2

Iowa
15
10
33
73.537
13
9
2

Rutgers
16
26
87
72.689
NR
7
2

Penn State
17
16
75
70.077
14
9
2

Clemson
18
20
25
69.723
23
7
3

Oregon State
19
21
20
68.631
19
7
3

Miami
20
18
16
65.891
20
7
3