I knew the BCS standings were coming out Sunday afternoon, and I was ready.Ready to hate the standings, ready to hate the teams in the top five and ready to hate the system all over again — hate that is rekindled annually.But Sunday afternoon came and went, and hate wasn’t one of the feelings I felt for the polls.I felt a feeling of satisfaction from knowing — at least for one week — the computers got almost everything right at the top of the standings.Florida and Alabama occupy the first two spots in the poll, and no two teams are more deserving — although I’d contend Alabama has, for the most part, looked to be a better team than Florida.Whether or not either team is No. 1 or No. 2 right now is irrelevant since they are likely to face one another in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game in December.Florida hasn’t really played very many good teams, and its signature win is against then-No. 4 LSU.Alabama, on the other hand, has played a few tough teams and has done remarkably well. They hold signature wins against then-No. 7 Virginia Tech, then-No. 20 Ole Miss and then-No. 22 South Carolina. All three games were on the road with the game against the Hokies at a neutral site.Texas is at No. 3 following a lackluster win against archrival Oklahoma in a game that was less of a Red River shootout and more of a reason to take a mid-afternoon nap.The Longhorns have only faced one ranked team thus far, and their best wins are against the then-No. 20 Sooners and an unranked Texas Tech squad that is currently 5-2.But after the top three is where it gets a little hairy for some people.Boise State, Cincinnati and Iowa are Nos. 4, 5 and 6, respectively, and many have said they should be lower.Well, they shouldn’t.All three teams are undefeated, which should go a very long way in terms of rankings seven weeks into the season.Additionally, none of the one-loss teams behind them have exactly proven they’re better than any of these three teams.If all three teams remain unbeaten at the end of the season, Iowa would probably get a nod over the other two for inclusion in a championship game if it came down to one of the three of them being included.They bested Penn State at the Nittany Lions’ annual “white out” game and will go on to face Ohio State. A win against the Buckeyes would be a very attractive one for the pollsters. Cincinnati plays in the weakest of all the BCS conferences, the Big East. This will hurt them. The Bearcats will have to play current No. 20 Pittsburgh and current No. 23 West Virginia and have already beaten then-No. 21 South Florida.The least sexy of the three teams is Western Athletic Conference powerhouse Boise State.The Broncos’ only good win is against then-No. 16 Oregon, and they won’t face another ranked team all season. Since their conference has no automatic BCS tie-in, they’ll have to play loss-free for the rest of the season if they want to stay included in the national championship picture.No. 7 is the team I had the most problems with. USC is good, I’ll give them that, but there’s no way they should be ranked ahead of TCU, LSU and Miami.The Trojans just don’t have the résumé.TCU is undefeated and in the same boat as Boise State by virtue of being in a non-BCS conference. Its first game against a ranked team comes Saturday against No. 16 Brigham Young. We’ll see what these Horned Frogs are made of.USC, on the other hand, has one loss, and it’s an ugly one, and its wins don’t look so good either.The Trojans lost to a very average Washington squad on the road in week three, and they’ve beaten then-No. 8 Ohio State, then-No. 24 California and then-No. 25 Notre Dame.Neither the Golden Bears nor the Irish are currently ranked, and as of the current BCS rankings, they’ll face two other ranked teams in No. 11 Oregon and No. 22 Arizona.LSU and Miami are Nos. 9 and 10, respectively, and this seems pretty fair for these two teams, but both could make a case to be higher than USC.LSU has a win against then-No. 18 Georgia, and its only loss is to No. 1 Florida.Miami has knocked off three ranked teams, and its only loss is to then-No. 4 Virginia Tech.Both of these teams have some very winnable games left on their schedule and have a lot of space to either move up or down with the remainder of their schedules. It all depends on how they play.We’ll see how the rest of the season plays out and how these rankings go from here, but for now, I’m happy.Johanathan Brooks is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Powder Springs, Ga. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_jbrooks.
 
 
 
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