NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 13

LSU holds on to #1, as always. I was really pulling against them this week, as I understood a loss by them would result in some sort of odd 3-way tie where Arkansas would win the SEC West, and LSU and Alabama could still wind up in the BCS Championship.  If nothing else it would force more scrutiny on the BCS, which is always a good thing.  Virginia Tech is back up to #2, and I'm surprised to see it's the BCS computers, not the polls, keeping them down.  Houston is stalking the idle Alabama at #4.  The top of my rankings actually aren't that far off from the BCS rankings this week, with a match at #1 and the same top 6.

In the reverse of the Virginia Tech situation, Missouri surprisingly showed up in the top 25 despite being absent from both polls.  The BCS computers ranked them as high as 15 and 16, whereas I have them at #42 this week.  With any luck, that will help them get a higher profile bowl game.

1	LSU	12-0
2	Virginia Tech	11-1
3	Alabama	11-1
4	Houston	12-0
5	Stanford	11-1
6	Oklahoma State	10-1
7	Michigan	10-2
8	South Carolina	10-2
9	Boise State	10-1
10	USC	10-2
11	Georgia	10-2
12	Oregon	10-2
13	Wisconsin	10-2
14	Michigan State	10-2
15	Arkansas	10-2
16	Oklahoma	9-2
17	Kansas State	9-2
18	Nebraska	9-3
19	Clemson	9-3
20	Penn State	9-3
21	Southern Miss	10-2
22	TCU	9-2
23	Baylor	8-3
24	Arkansas State	9-2
25	Northern Illinois	9-3
26	West Virginia	8-3
27	Notre Dame	8-4
28	Toledo	8-4
29	Ohio	9-3
30	Rutgers	8-4
31	Virginia	8-4
32	Cincinnati	8-3
33	Tulsa	8-4
34	Georgia Tech	8-4
35	North Carolina	7-5
36	Florida State	8-4
37	Texas	7-4
38	Louisiana Tech	8-4
39	Auburn	7-5
40	Louisville	7-5
41	Brigham Young	8-3
42	Missouri	7-5
43	North Carolina State	7-5
44	Washington	7-5
45	Iowa	7-5
46	Temple	8-4
47	Wyoming	7-4
48	California	7-5
49	Utah	7-5
50	Louisiana-Lafayette	8-4
51	Iowa State	6-5
52	San Diego State	7-4
53	Florida International	8-4
54	Southern Methodist	7-5
55	Texas A&M	6-6
56	Air Force	7-5
57	Western Michigan	7-5
58	Miami (FL)	6-6
59	Florida	6-6
60	Western Kentucky	7-5
61	Ohio State	6-6
62	Illinois	6-6
63	Mississippi State	6-6
64	Vanderbilt	6-6
65	Marshall	6-6
66	Wake Forest	6-6
67	UCLA	6-6
68	Arizona State	6-6
69	Eastern Michigan	6-6
70	Ball State	6-6
71	Purdue	6-6
72	Pittsburgh	5-6
73	Utah State	6-5
74	Northwestern	6-6
75	Tennessee	5-7
76	Nevada	6-5
77	South Florida	5-6
78	Syracuse	5-6
79	Texas Tech	5-7
80	Kentucky	5-7
81	Connecticut	5-6
82	Kent State	5-7
83	Bowling Green	5-7
84	Hawaii	6-6
85	East Carolina	5-7
86	UTEP	5-7
87	Navy	4-7
88	San Jose State	5-7
89	Arizona	4-8
90	UCF	5-7
91	Boston College	4-8
92	Rice	4-8
93	North Texas	4-7
94	Fresno State	4-8
95	Washington State	4-8
96	Minnesota	3-9
97	Miami (OH)	4-8
98	New Mexico State	4-8
99	Oregon State	3-9
100	Duke	3-9
101	Central Michigan	3-9
102	Louisiana-Monroe	3-8
103	Colorado	3-10
104	Kansas	2-10
105	Maryland	2-10
106	Army	3-8
107	Buffalo	3-9
108	Ole Miss	2-10
109	Troy	3-8
110	Colorado State	3-8
111	UAB	3-9
112	Idaho	2-9
113	UNLV	2-9
114	Middle Tennessee	2-9
115	Indiana	1-11
116	New Mexico	1-10
117	Memphis	2-10
118	Florida Atlantic	1-10
119	Tulane	2-11
120	Akron	1-11