The New Poll Is Out - You Can Smell the Screwjob Coming

The latest AP Poll was released, and you can just smell the screwjob coming in December.
TCU defeated SMU on Friday, and dropped a place in the polls, falling from No. 4 to No. 5.
The No. 5 Frogs and No. 3 Boise State Broncos best start preparing themselves for when one or both get jobbed by the frauds who run the BCS. These two teams can be undefeated at season's end and be left out of the national title.
There was some decent shifting, most notably Texas falling from No. 7 to No. 21.
The Nevada Wolf Pack, 4-0, are ranked 25th.
West Virginia, which lost at LSU, is out. That leaves only Miami and now NC State to represent the Big East and ACC combined in the Top 25. Pathetic. And both of these conferences will send a team each to the BCS.
Here is my other rub; Iowa, Michigan, Penn State and Michigan State each moved up in the polls despite being part of a collective Big 10 effort to play the equivalent of a Class 3A high school schedule. 

1	Alabama (57)	4-0	1496	1
2	Ohio State (2)	4-0	1431	2
3	Boise State (1)	3-0	1356	3
4	Oregon	4-0	1276	5
5	TCU	4-0	1269	4
6	Nebraska	4-0	1158	6
7	Florida	4-0	1132	9
8	Oklahoma	4-0	1095	8
9	Stanford	4-0	891	16
10	Auburn	4-0	858	17
11	Wisconsin	4-0	852	11
12	LSU	4-0	804	15
13	Utah	4-0	790	13
14	Arizona	4-0	722	14
15	Arkansas	3-1	721	10
16	Miami (FL)	2-1	597	19
17	Iowa	3-1	503	18
18	USC	4-0	466	20
19	South Carolina	3-1	406	12
20	Michigan	4-0	396	21
21	Texas	3-1	374	7
22	Penn State	3-1	199	23
23	North Carolina State	4-0	163	NR
24	Michigan State	4-0	146	25
25	Nevada	4-0	120	NR

• Dropped from rankings: West Virginia 22, Oregon State 24

• Others receiving votes: West Virginia 62, Florida State 51, Missouri 51, Air Force 32, Kansas State 27, Oklahoma State 24, Clemson 9, UCLA 9, Oregon State 7, Northwestern 4, Houston 3

- Mac Engel
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Comments

[John Hedric]

In the coach's poll, Arkansas, who came within an eyelash of beating no. 1 Alabama was ranked at 15, just one spot above Texas at 16, who lost big to still unranked UCLA. Why is Texas still ranked anywhere in the top 25 at all? These polls are indeed a joke.

[Ryan]

What's up with the coach's poll, with Texas at 16!!?? That's a joke. They're certainly not a top 20 team...and after OU beats them, they shouldn't be in the top 25.

I don't understand how Oregon could leap over TCU. ASU is not a great team by any measure and they put up 31 points against Oregon's defense. If a defense can stop them from scoring, Oregon probably won't be able to slow down a talented Offense.

[Kelly Adkins]

I'd like to know two things:
1. With few exceptions, TCU has consistently been kicking the tar out of all its opposition for a long time. How can a team they beat just 3 weeks ago move ahead of them in the "polls?"
2. What dark and powerful force is it that keeps an obscenely flawed and blatantly partial BCS system in place instead of the playoff system that all of us know is needed?

[Rotten Arsenal]

Kelly... TCU beat Oregon STATE (Beavers) not Oregon (Ducks). And as a fanatical TCU fan, I don't disagree with Oregon jumping TCU... TCU is really good, but that SMU game exposed weaknesses. Oregon, thus far, has generally shown less vulnerability. Do I think that TCU gets it together and and moves back up? Heck yeah, but for this week... I'd vote Oregon ahead of TCU too... Don't know that I'd put Boise State 2 spots ahead of us though... Boise and TCU look pretty close in terms of ability.