Bama Bangin': Top 25 Thoughts

Here are My Week 5 Rankings.

1. Alabama  The Florida game was over by half-time. That's how far ahead of the SEC this team is.

2. Ohio State  Awful at Illinois, but a win's a win, and they are still the team to beat in the Big 10.

3. Oregon  Superb comeback at Autzen against No.9 Stanford must make them want to play every game at home.

4. Boise State  Another day, another 50-point victory.

5. TCU  Beat Colorado State comfortably. This is the sound of no hands clapping for that one.

6. Nebraska  Taylor Martinez proves that Big Red and Big Bo prove to be Big Noise. Texas next at Lincoln.

7. Oklahoma  Beating your biggest rival provides satisfaction for the Sooners, but they still aren't great.
8. Auburn  Smoked ULM at home. Could be the second-best team in the SEC.
9. LSU  It's a wonder Les Miles hasn't been found guilty for Misery To Tigers fans. The man's a joke. Even IF the Tigers won
10. Utah  Utes the third best non-conference team out there. Non-BCS, baby!
11. Arizona  Suddenly, the get-together with Oregon on November 26 becomes must-see viewing.
12. Miami  Jacory  Harris might not have been good, but Havercroft was great at Clemson on Sunday.
13. Stanford  Andrew Luck's a good QB, but there's nothing his D could do against the Ducks
14. Florida  Woeful performance at Alabama proves the weakness of the SEC East above anything else, really.
15. Arkansas  The road trip to Texas A&M will prove to us how good Ryan Mallett is without a home crowd behind him.
16. Michigan  Again a horrible defensive performance against Indiana, but Denard Robinson will take this program a long way. Sadly.
17. Iowa  Beat Penn State using great defense. It helped that PSU's D-line helped to make Ricky Stanzi look like Joe Montana at times
18. South Carolina  Marcus Lattimore's the man. Stephen Garcia will get work against Alabama, and we expect bad things...
19. Michigan State  Suddenly the usual Big Ten also-rans are dark horses for the title after upset of Wisconsin. Thoughts go out to Mark Dantonio.
20. West Virginia  The class of the Big East. Which isn't saying much.
21. Oregon State  Win over Cal propels them back into the Top 25. The Pac-10's good this year, if you hadn't noticed.
22. Florida State  Christian Ponder's the best QB in the ACC. Pity the 'Noles defense isn't!
23. Nevada  Colin Kapernick keeps the Wolfpack, er, howling.
24. Texas  New Offensive co-ordinator needed at the University of Austin
25. Missouri  Second best in the Big XII North by a mile.