Ray's Top 25: Stanford jumps

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Every week, our Senior Decider votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, which of course makes all other opinions both superfluous and valueless (hey, dont say you never get your moneys worth here).

So here, after Week Two, is the world of college football, whether you like it or not. And if you dont, theres a new one next week you might like better.

RELATED: Ratto's Week Two rankings

1AlabamaWidenedtheir advantage over the field to the point that the next ranked team shouldbe No. 52Florida StateBoxed a nice set of ears in Wake Forest.3OregonHaving finished the Hostess Cakes portion of the schedule, theynow get down to business.4LSUIdaho really is too beneath them.5GeorgiaWaiting for the other shoe to drop, but until it does . . .6TexasSo. Mississippi is the lesser of the three Mississippis, butit's a Mississippi nonetheless.7StanfordDavid Shaw says he likes the school very much. He's about tofind out how much is much.8OklahomaResting comfortably.9Notre DameNavy, Purdue and Michigan State. All wins. Hard to argue so far.10FloridaTennessee was ranked by some folks. No more.11Ohio StateEither Cal is better than we thought, or the Big Ten is exactlyas bad as we think.12South CarolinaEast Carolina is still the best win.13UCLAHouston has been seen quite enough, thank you.14ClemsonFlorida State will tell us everything we need to know next week.15Kansas StateOklahoma is next, and unlike Missouri State, Miami or NorthTexas in every way.16SouthernCaliforniaStanford didn't win, Stanford dominated.17Michigan StateNotre Dame didn't win, Notre Dame dominated.18West VirginiaDana Holgerson said James Madison was a tougheropponent thanMarshall. It wasn't.19RutgersSouth Florida was a worthy win in a shrinking conference.20TCUI'm pretty noncommittal about this team. Well, most teams, infact.21MississippiStateMoved up because Virginia Tech took the pipe. Other than that,not a lot to gush about either way.22MichiganMassachusetts. That's all.23Iowa StateThe conference schedule begins next week, and doesn't get easyuntil November 17. They do this, they're good.24ArizonaJust making a cameo until Oregon gets hold of them.25OhioInterchangeable with Louisville; their best wins were againstdisgraced Penn State and disgraced North Carolina.

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