IT was a great FOOTball weekend: Seems like college football cannot stay out of contradiction. Auburn's performance was really impressive.. but so was that of Oklahoma and USC's. They all beat their opponents really bad. Just that Bulldogs were ranked #5 while C'Huskers and WIldcats were unranked. It appears really unfair to rank AUBURN out of the top 2 spots, but it sounds equally strange to drop either of the top 2 teams also.AUBURN apparently had the most difficult schedule. But, to me USC's schedule is the weakest of all. I know people are talking about Dropping Oklahoma into 3rd.. but I am surprised why not drop USC to #3. Spot. After all USC is in the least competitive conference as compared to Oklahoma's BIG 12 or AUburn's SEC. Or is it because of the HYPE that is still being carried over from last year's final BCS standing!!! (Well... I once had a question IF THE Wolverines had beaten the TRojans, would they have been the National champion??) that none bothers to talk about USC and thier #1 rank. Auburn had beaten More teams ranked within TOP 10 (LSU, Tennessee and Georgia) than anybody else. But if we look at remaining of their schedule then we can see they had also beaten more nO Name teams than anybody else. However, All of the top 3 teams had beaten their opponets pretty convincingly excpet by USC against, Stanford (31-28), California (23-17), Oklahoma against Oklahoma State (38-35), Texas A &M (42-35), and Auburn against LSU (10-9). It's really difficullt to tell which team should be ranked #1? So, we might have to wait until the end of the regular schedule to see where does each of the teams fall under BCS final standings. USC has games against Notre Dame and UCLA and they should win comfortably given their oppoents haven'd have a good season. Oklahoma has to play Baylor, should be a big blow out game for them before playing for NOT yet determined opponent for the BIG 12 title. Auburn has Alabama in hand, which plays really good at home, but again shouldn't be a big problem, and then a tough SEC title game given that they beat Alabama. It looks like each of the top 3 teams have 2 games in their hands to maintain or change their future as of being top 2 in the final BCS standing. To do some more analysis I have these 3 teams season scores game by game: Game 1 #1 USC 24, Virginia Tech 13 #2 Oklahoma 40, Bowling Green 24 #18 Auburn 31, Louisiana Monroe 0 Game 2 #1 USC 49, Colorado State 0 #2 Oklahoma 63, Houston 13 #19 Auburn 43, Mississippi St. 14 Game 3 #1 USC 42, BYU 10 #2 Oklahoma 31, Oregon 7 #15 Auburn 10, #4 LSU 9 Game 4 #1 USC 31, Stanford 28 #2 Oklahoma 28, Texas Tech 13 #10 Auburn 33, The Citadel 3 Game 5 #1 USC 23, #7 California 17 #2 Oklahoma 12, #5 Texas 0 #9 Auburn 34, #8 Tennessee 10 Game 6 #1 USC 45, #19 Arizona State 7 #2 Oklahoma 31, Kansas State 21 #6 Auburn 52, Louisiana Tech 7 Game 7 #1 USC 38, Washington 0 #2 Oklahoma 41, Kansas 10 #4 Auburn 38, Arkansas 20 Game 8 #1 USC 42, Washington State 12 #2 Oklahoma 38, #20 Oklahoma State 35 #4 Auburn 42, Kentucky 10 Game 9 #1 USC 28, Oregon State 20 #2 Oklahoma 42, #22 Texas A&M 35 #4 Auburn 35, Mississippi 14 Game10 #1 USC 49, Arizona 9 #2 Oklahoma 30, Nebraska 3 #3 Auburn 24, #5 Georgia 6 Ranked Opponets within 25: USC: 2 (#7 California, #19 ASU) OU: 3 (#5 Texas, Okalhoma State # 20, #22 Texas A &M) AU: 3 (#4 Lsu, #8 Tennessee, #5 Georgia) #1 USC 42, Washington State 12 Box Score | Recap | Highlights #2 Oklahoma 38, #20 Oklahoma State 35 Box Score | Recap | Highlights North Carolina 31, #3 Miami 28 Box Score #4 Auburn 35, Mississippi 14 Looking through the stats. and the schedules I think Auburn should be #1, followed by Oklahoma At #2 and USC at #3. What do you guys think?? GO SOONERS jai NEpal