Thursday night saw another major college football power fall to an unheralded team as USC fell to Oregon State. What a crazy season we have seen so far. The Big-10 is down, the Pac-10 is down and 6 non BCS teams are currently ranked in the top 25.
USC had been the lone bright spot in what has been a brutal start to the season for the Pac-10. They are the only ranked Pac-10 teams compared to the non-BCS, Mountain West which has 3 ranked team and non-BCS WAC which has 2. In addition the Pac-10 is 0-5 head to head against Mountain West teams.
The Big-10 hasn't fared much better as I wrote about 10 days ago following Ohio State's humiliating loss to the Trojans, which looks even worse now that USC was knocked off.
To put the current rankings into perspective.
The Mountain West has 3 ranked teams(#11 BYU, #17 Utah, #24 TCU), which is more than 3 conferences who qualify automatically for the BCS. The Pac-10 which has one ranked team, the Big East which has one ranked team and the ACC which has 2 ranked teams.
The WAC has 2 ranked teams(#19 Boise State and #25 Fresno State), which is more than 2 conferences who qualify automatically for the BCS. The Pac-10 and the Big East and they have the same number of ranked teams as the ACC.
Conference USA has one ranked team(#23 ECU) which is equal to 2 conferences who qualify automatically for the BCS. The Pac-10 and the Big East.
It's been a magical year for the "little guys" but thanks to the BCS, it's unlikely more than one of these teams, if any, ends up playing in a BCS game at the end of the year. But if nothing else, hopefully a few more seasons like this will lead to the talking heads who run college football to FINALLY come to the realization that a 16 team playoff is the only possible way to solve this madness.
*AP Poll data was used for all rankings information.
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