Updated Player Rankings

Quarterbacks

T-25. Ben Mauk(Cincinnati, Sr.)
25. Todd Reesing(Kansas, Sr.)
24. Erik Ainge(Tennessee, Sr.)
23. Matthew Stafford(Georgia, So.)
22. Matt Grothe(South Florida, So.)
21. Tyler Donovan(Wisconsin, Sr.)
20. Nate Longshore(California, Jr.)
19. Nate Davis(Ball State, So.)- the dual threat quarterback sophomore has passed for 1,436 yards, 14 touchdowns of two tuchdwns and came within one point of leading Ball State to upsetting Nebraska in a high scoring matchup two weeks ago.
18. Matt Ryan(Boston College, Sr.)
17. Kellen Lewis(Indiana, So.) A sophomore qb who has led the Hoosiers to a 4-1 record passed for 14 touchdowns, accounts for 240 passing yards per game, run for nearly 400 yards and thrown 5 interceptions. He ran for 199 earlier in the season, passed for 300 yards against Iowa and even ran in his own 74 yard passing touchdown on this play.

16. John David Booty(Southern Cal, Sr.)
15. Mike Teel (Rutgers, Jr.)
14. Todd Boeckman(Ohio State, Sr.)
13. Cullen Harper(Clemson, Sr.)
12. Willie Tuitama(Arizona)
11. Curtis Painter(Purdue)
10. Chase Daniels(Missouri, Jr.)
9. Sam Bradford(Oklahoma, Fr.)
8. Joshua Johnson(San Diego) | VIDEO-if the AP Poll can now rank I-AA teams, I'll do the same for players. This season, Johnson who has been mentioned by NFL scouts for a year now has passed for 1,100 yards, 16 touchdowns, and most remarkably-- 0 interceptions, while still completing 80 % percent of his passes, in three games! As if he wasn't dangerous enough as a passer, Johnson is more elusive than O.J. on an L.A. freeway.
7. Pat White(West Virginia, Jr.)
6. Brian Brohm(Louisville, Sr.)
5. Dennis Dixon(Oregon, Sr.)
4. Colt Brennan(Hawaii, Sr.)
3. Andre Woodson(Kentucky, Sr.)
2. Tim Tebow(Florida, Fr.)
1. Graham Harrell(Texas Tech, Jr.)- has passed for 2,301 yards, 24 touchdowns including a near NCAA record 646 yards through the air against Oklahoma State. According to ESPN.com he is on pace for 5,500 yards, 58 touchdowns(tying Brennan's record) and 5 interceptions. Colt Brennan has the better pro potential but why isn't Harrell even mentioned as Heisman candidate?

Running Backs

32. Yvenson Bernard(Oregon State)
31. Allen Patrick(Oklahoma, Jr.)-
30. Ryan Torain(Arizona St.)
29. Damion Fletcher(Southern Miss, So.)
28. Keon Lattimore(Maryland, Sr.)- Ravens All-Pro linebacker Ray Lewis' little brother
27. Thomas Brown(Georgia, Sr.)
26. Anthony Allen (Louisville, So.)
25. Amir Pinnix(Minnesota, Sr.)
24. Jamaal Charles(Texas, Sr.)
23. Knowshon Moreno(Georgia, Fr.)
22. Marlon Lucky(Nebraska, Jr.)
21. Andre Callender(Boston College)
20. Kahlil Bell(UCLA, Jr.)

19. Chris Wells(Ohio State, So.)
18.Rafael Little(Kentucky, Sr.)
17. Justin Forsett(California, Sr.)
16. Cedric Peerman(Virginia, Jr.)
15. Stafon Johnson(Southern Cal, So.)
14. Javon Ringer(Michigan St.)
13. LeSean McCoy(Pittsburgh, Fr.)
12. Terry Grant(Alabama, Fr.)
11. Tashard Choice(Georgia Tech, Sr.)
10. Jonathan Stewart(Oregon, Jr.)
9. P.J. Hill Jr.(Wisconsin, So.)
8. Ray Rice(Rutgers, Jr.)
7. James Davis(Clemson, Jr.)
6. Steve Slaton(West Virginia, Jr.)
5. Kevin Smith(Central Florida, Jr.)
4. Rashard Mendenhall(Illinois, Jr.)
3. Felix Jones(Arkansas, Jr.)- for the second straight season, Jones, who is averaging a first down for every carry has the highest yards per carry average in the nation...so why doesn't he get more carries? Just give it a little lnger and the Heisman whispers shuld begin for the man stuck in McFadden's shadow.
2. Mike Hart(Michigan, Sr.)
1. Darren McFadden(Arkansas, Jr.)

Wide Receivers

25. Mike Wallace(Ole Miss, Jr.)-possesses the highest yards per catch average in the nation.

24. Danny Amendola(Texas Tech, Sr.)
23. Martin Rucker(Missouri, Sr.)
22. Travis Beckum(Wisconsin, Jr.)
21. Jordy Nelson(Kansas State, Sr.)
20. Jamarko Simmons(Western Michigan, Jr.)
19. Mike Thomas(Arizona, Jr.)
18. Malcolm Kelly(Oklahoma, Sr.)
17. D.J. Hall(Alabama, Sr.)

16. Juaquin Iglesias(Oklahoma, Jr.)
15. Dorien Bryant(Purdue)
14. Earl Bennett(Vanderbilt, Jr.)-caught more passes in his first two seasons than any receiver in SEC history 13. Ryan Grice-Mullin(Hawaii, Sr.)
12. James Hardy(Indiana, Jr.)
11. Adarius Bowman(Oklahoma St.)
10. Brian Robiskie(Ohio St., Jr.)
9. Mario Manningham(Michigan, Jr.)
8. Darius Reynaud(West Virginia, Jr.) | VIDEO

7. Keenan Burton(Kentucky, Sr.)
6. Tiquan Underwood(Rutgers, Jr.)
5. Chris Williams (New Mexico St., Jr.)
4. Percy Harvin(Florida, So.) | VIDEO- is he a running back, a wideout? Well, the Michael Vick of receivers seems to have finally turned the corner as a receiver over the past four weeks and has surpasses his receiving number's from last season.
3. Harry Douglas(Louisville, Sr.)
2. Michael Crabtree(Texas Tech, Fr.) | VIDEO Leads the nation in receiving yards, receptions and touchdowns. According to ESPN.com projections he's on pace to catch 144 passes, for 2,208 yards and score 34 touchdowns, which would all be NCAA records. What's most impressive is that he also leads the nation in yards after catch. With the bias against wideouts. No wide receiver has won the Heisman Trophy since Larry Fitzgerald, Peter Warrick Desmond Howard but the Heismancampaign needs to begin now for Crabtree.
1. DeSean Jackson(California, Jr.) | VIDEO -Crabtree has the numbers but DeSean Jackson is the most exciting playmaker in college football and his gutsy performance against Oregon solidified his Heisman candidacy. What most people don't know is that besides his special teams prowess, he was a 1,000 yard receiver as a sophmore. Something Ted Ginn never did.

Freshman

Arrellious Benn(Illinois, WR) | VIDEO
Jake Locker(Washington, QB) | VIDEO
Noel Devine | VIDEO - right now the diminutive speedster is Heisman hopeful Steve Slaton's understudy but he is already the most exciting running back in college football.
DeMarco Murray(Oklahoma, RB) | VIDEO
Graig Cooper(Miami, RB) | VIDEO- Miami's next great running back has already supplanted incumbent Javarris James as the starter.
Chris Smelley(South Carolina, QB)
Tyrod Taylor(Virginia Tech, QB) | VIDEO
John Chiles(Texas, QB) | VIDEO -If Colt McCoy were Chris Leak, John Chiles would be Texas' Deep South Tim Tebow. This dual quarterback system is really catching on.

Ronald Johnson(Southern Cal, WR) | VIDEO
Joe McKnight(Southern Cal, RB) | VIDEO
Jonathan Dwyer(Georgia Tech, RB)
Jahvid Best(California, RB) | VIDEO
Terrance Tolliver(LSU, WR) | VIDEO
Ricky Sapp(Clemson, DE)
Omar Bolden(Arizona State, DB)
Donovan Warren(Michigan, DB)
Major Wright(Florida, DB) | VIDEO
Eric Berry(Tennessee, DB) | VIDEO

Week 6 Picks (I'm Feelin' Clairvoyant)
last week: 7-4

25)Nebraska loses @ (17)Missouri
Bowling Green loses @ (7)Boston College
(13)West Virginia wins @ Syracuse
(18)Arizona State wins @ Washington State
Utah State loses @(16)Hawaii
Maryland wins @ Georgia Tech
Kansas wins @ Kansas State

(20)Cincinnati wins @ (21)Rutgers
This game screams hey look at me. I started to say Rutgers was going to halt Cincinatti's surge but there's the matter of last season's unexpected rout by Cincinatti which ended the Scarlet Knight's undefeated season. Much the same way, South Florida has found the Mountaineers soft spot and Kansas State continually drops the hammer on Texas' undefeated seasons perhaps Cincinatti with Ben Mauk, one of the most efficient quarterbacks in the nation can vault the Bearcats into the college football forefront. Plus, it'll make for an interesting Coach of the year debate and a potential Oscar-caliber dramatic snene on November 23 when the two face infringe on high school football's friday night timeslot.

The Big East is a lot like the Lion King, just when the Mufasa of the Big East Louisville gets comfortable as king of the jungle, an antelope stampede of lesser regarded teams as their jealous sibling West Virginia watches them fall to their death out of the rankings. Simba takes the form of Rutgers which somehow found a way to regain the throne from the Mountaineers and Cardinals just so Timon and Pumbaa(South Florida and Cincinatti) can hakuna matata into the sanctity of the Top 25. If Cincinnati doesn't win South Florida and Conneticut remain as the only teams left with zero's in the overall loss column, and atop the conference standings to carry on Simba's Pride....so the circle of life continues in the Big East

Virginia Tech loses @Clemson
Freshman quarterback, Tyrod Taylor, has struggled in recent weeks and to win this game he's going to have to have that defining game which signals his arrival to the nation.

(5)Wisconsin wins @ Illinois
If quarterback Kurt Kittner watched an entire Illinois game the he'd probably notice how the program has diverged more from the pass heavy offense he ran in 2002 than the King of Pop after a week long plastic surgeon's convention, because of recruiting extraordinaire and Coach Ron Zook's new spread option offense.

Unfortunately, so many people jumped on the bandwagon last week, we had to get out the BMW, buy a minivan and it just doesn't seem like the cool pick anymore. There's a bunch of people, you don't know, babies cryin', nobody knows where we're going or whose and I just can't be a part of that. In the pre-season, I predicted Illinois would challenge for the Big 10 title, but that Wisconsin would win it. Illinois may be riding high but their youth is about to get served by Wisconsin.

(4)Ohio State wins @ (23)Purdue
As simple as it may seem to discount the Buckeyes winning the Big-10 without Troy Smith until I remember how Craig Krenzel last led the Buckeyes to a national championship in 2002 with the aid of a gritty rushing offense. Defensive end Vernon Gholston is the most underrated defensive end in the nation. It's easy to forget that before their loss to Florida, Jim Tressel was being touted as the best coach of the 21st century and his program as the top powerhouse of the past decade.

(12)Georgia wins @ Tennessee
Every one loss team in the SEC still has legitimate championship chances, no matter how farfetched they may seem. Mark Richt has won two SEC Champinships as a head coach but has yet to coach in a national championship game.

Florida is my benchmark for Georgia. While the 52 points, the Gators layed out in the Swamp against Tennessee might be unattainable because of our ball control offense, which eats up the clock(one of the few offenses in the nation nt using the spread), a comfortable win will be satisfactory. Deep down, I've always felt like Georgia was never a last stop for Richt and if he tires of the difficult SEC schedule, one day the chance to return to Florida State and succeed Bobby Bowden may pull him from Georgia. Maybe it's all in my head maybe not, maybe aliens really have body snatched our world leaders.
I see conspiracies everywhere. But if you keep doing that long enough, sooner or later you're going to get one right. Plus, Gary Barnett, the coach who once said girls can't play football to the only girl to ever score in Division I-AA football game, branded Georgia as his upset pick.

(10)Oklahoma wins @(19)Texas
The 2007 installment of the Red River Rivalry features two teams trying to stop the bleeding after unfortunate losses sullied their undefeated seasons. Going into last week, the Longhorns and quarterback Colt McCoy appeared unusually vulnerable while Sam Bradford and the Sooners were playing flawlessly.

(9)Florida wins @ (1)LSU

The Gators are gonna have to be careful not to overrdose on the antacid for this-- a gut check game for the Gators of Florida, however, it seems to be of less importance for the LSU Tigers. For the Florida Gators, a 2 loss season would place them in a deep crater in the SEC East standings, putting their SEC Championship hopes in doubt and eradicated their repeat aspirations.

This is one of the situations where Dunson's Law applies. I made this theory to justify why the Colts would win the Super Bowl against all the odds in the loaded AFC after their defense turned to mush last season and since then I've applied it to Boise State in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.

Basically a team has to have the odds stacked heavily against them in a national headline grabbing game against a team favored. The underdog has to be coming off a monumental loss which has exposed a weakness(for the Gators it's their running backs) which requires a quick solution against an elite opponent. All reason says the Tigers will win but that one surprising X-factor will emerge for the Gators.

Florida may have a young, vulnerable defense but LSU's passing game is far from dynamic. Just like Florida's offense used Tebow and Leak last season, LSU will be utilizing a duo of dual threat quarterbacks with starter Matt Flynn and former mega-recruit Ryan Perrilloux under center. The Perrilloux-Flynn combination appears identical to a Cajun remix on Florida's Tebow package in 2006, but the only difference is that Perrilloux will come in for multiple offensive series' instead of single plays. In fact, Perrilloux ran a fake draw which resulted in a touchdown pass that seemed eerily similar to Tebow's first career touchdown pass, against LSU in his freshman season. The Tigers have scored points in droves against lesser teams but they held the same distinction last season until they dropped a dud against Auburn for their first loss of the season.
The first two touchdown passes of Tebow's career came against LSU, but this time around they will be expecting him to pass. LSU on the other hand, can drop a game, win the SEC West with ease and still play for a national championship off of just reputation. With urgency on their side, the Gators will win.