Bleacher Creature College Football Poll: Iowa, Cincy On The Move

Last week we talked about the Saturday upset and about how it had become common this season. Then came yet another series of upsets.

Ohio State fell on the road for the first time in 16 games to lowly Purdue, a team that had won one game this season before Saturday. Virginia Tech lost to the Georgia Tech option, Nebraska fell victim to Taylor Potts and Texas tech, and Kansas dropped its first game of the season to a one win Colorado team.

Then there were the near misses that could have made for a real interesting Saturday. Florida needed a late field goal (and some help from the refs) to hold off Bobby Petrino's Razorbacks, Texas needed a comeback to get by rival Oklahoma, and USC stopped playing defense in the fourth, but managed to hold off a charging Notre Dame squad.

The Alabama Crimson Tide have been this season's most dominant team thus far and this week's poll reflects that. For the first time this season, the Tide are the clear cut number one.

Can Nick Saban's team avoid the upset bug that has plagued the rest of the college football world this season? Will Urban Meyer's Gators? Or Mack Brown's Longhorns?

Only time will tell. ... The race for Pasadena is heating up.

The conference breakdown for Week 8 is as follows: Big East (4), Big XII (4), SEC (4), Big Ten (3), ACC (3), Mountain West (3), Pac-10 (2), Conference-USA (1), WAC (1)

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Now, on to the Week 8 Bleacher Creature College Football Rankings ...

1. Alabama (20) 571

2. Florida (1) 542

3. Texas (2) 508

4. Iowa 475

5. USC 458

6. Cincinnati 455

7. Boise State 446

8. TCU 415

9. Oregon 376

10. Miami (FL) 369

11. LSU 339

12. Georgia Tech 308

13. Penn State 311

14. Oklahoma State 245

15. Virginia Tech 244

16. BYU 236

17. Houston 190

18. Ohio State 152

19. Utah 149

20. Pitt 131

21. West Virginia 109

22. Texas Tech 82

23. Kansas 70

24. South Carolina 54

25. South Florida 46

Others Receiving Votes: Nebraska 38, Arizona 18, Wisconsin 19, Ole Miss 15, Michigan 16, Idaho 13, Notre Dame 13, Central Michigan 12, Missouri 12, Oklahoma 10, Oregon State 3

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Bleacher Creature Pollsters: 78Lion, Allen Kenney, BabyTate, Brad Vipperman, Bret Feddern, Brooks Webb, Caleb M, Carl Stine, Dan Scofield, Dean Walker, Delane Kelley, Garrett Traggorth, GeorgiaDawg, HD Handshoe, James Crytzer, Jameson Fleming, Joe Guarr, Joel Barker, Joseph Morgan, Justin Potts, Keith Shelton, Kevin McGrady, Kevin Trahan, Kristofer Green, Les Adkins, Mark Welling, Michael Collins, Michael Foster, Michael Oleszek, Michael Shibley, Misthaufen, Mitch Wilson, Mitchell Morse, Paul Salman, Peter Rohman, Rick McMahan, Ron Clements, Ryan Jelley, Sportscaster007, Tiger Histalmos, Timothy Croley, Tyler Stimson.