Congratulations to the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Please tell me that we won't see most of those guys on defense in October. Please. Pretty, pretty please.

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Championship weekend. The question: If Georgia can pull off the upset (currently somewhere between +10 and +11.5), does LSU still go to the BCS Title game? Discuss

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I wasn't joking about wanting to watch the world burn.

And it has become chaotic thanks to the recent spate of upsets. Now we get to play the fun game of who is number two.

Attention this week on our soon to be new conference: Friday's game at Baton Rouge between Arkansas and LSU and Saturday between Auburn and Alabama.

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As usual, in the 24 hour sports media cycle a lot of noise and attention is focused on speculation and thinking about the what if's.

Well, things have cleared up quite a bit from last month when there were all of those undefeated teams, right?

Now the path appears to be clear for LSU and Oklahoma State. Win out and you're in the BCS Title Game.

If either or both lose...be ready to watch the world burn.

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STANDARD DISCLAIMER: Ignore the deltas. This ballot was filed from scratch with zero regard for last week's ballot. Thus, the "you dropped X team Y spots for beating team Z [score] to [score]???" argument does not stand.

This week we went back to ground zero and tried to truly reassess the top 25 ballot. Again, this is one man's opinion from someone who watches about 15 hours of football each Saturday and has seen all or part of at least one game from every team this season.

Although after thinking hard about it, I did bring Wisconsin back in this week. Not because they curbstomped Purdue, but because after looking at the entire body of work, they deserve to be back in.

Game of the week is at "The Farm" as Stanford hosts Oregon to decide who is in the catbird seat in the Pac-12 North.

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So here is how you can tell I was sick as a dog last week. The ballot I filed for the BlogPoll was incredibly wack.

Wisconsin being left off for a last second Hail Mary loss?

SMU moving up on the ballot after losing?

Yeah. Mistakes all around.

What can I say? NyQuil is a helluva drug. 

But this week's ballot should be less out of whack and more in line with what I actually think.

Remember a couple of weeks ago when there was a lot of chatter about all of these undefeated teams and how BCS Armageddon was on the horizon?

Yeah, not so much at this point. Maybe folks should wait until Armageddon actually happens and then talk about what it means.

Game of the week: LSU at Alabama on Saturday night. Appointment viewing. I'll also be attending Boise State at UNLV to see if the Rebels can keep it under 50.

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In Friday's Quick Slant I mentioned that the Bedlam game was one of the games that most professional (and some amateur) college football prognosticators and pundits thought would be critical to determining who would play for the BCS Championship.

Well, there is still a chance it might determine who plays for the crystal football in January, but some of the shine may have been taken off of the game with Oklahoma's stunning loss to Texas Tech at home on Saturday night.

Wisconsin also spit the bit, losing on an Hail Mary pass to the Michigan State Spartans.

Key games to watch: Michigan State at Nebraska, Oklahoma at Kansas State, Stanford at USC and Clemson at Georgia Tech.

Here's where the season starts to get crazy. I'm rooting for chaos.

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 STANDARD DISCLAIMER: Ignore the deltas. This ballot was filed from scratch with zero regard for last week's ballot. Thus, the "you dropped X team Y spots for beating team Z [score] to [score]???" argument does not stand.

I think I fall into the camp of believing in a stratification effect in college football this year.

I would say that of my top eleven teams, the top four are probably, right now, playing the best football around and are clearly head and shoulders above everyone else.

Of the other four unbeatens in the top eleven, Boise has done what they can and needs a lot of help to reach the BCS title game, but as long as they don't lose late or struggle down the stretch, they should earn a trip to a BCS bowl again.

Wisconsin, Clemson, Stanford and K-State still have chances to make a move, but will also need a lot of help.

Of course, the nuclear scenario is still in play and it will be interesting to see if that plays out. We are just past the halfway point (hence the release of the BCS Standings on Sunday) and so we can now start to look ahead and see who will project where.

And it's funny: I'd actually rather talk BCS than expansion. I never thought I'd write those words.

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