Reason No. 4576 why Division IA College Football needs a playoff . . .

Okay - a new low in the polls after this week's games. I'll take each one on in turn.

AP poll voters - I understand my beloved Nittany Lions not being ranked. Really, I do. Three losses, two of which were close (as anyone who actually WATCHED the Ohio State game would know), even to #1, #2, and #10 in your poll, is not justification to have enough votes to be ranked in the top 25. But what kills me is that not a single pollster voted Penn State even #25. No single points. Iowa, which lost to Indiana of all teams, and Georgia, who provided Vandy with a number of firsts this weekend, have 61 and 63 points, respectively. I'm sorry - you get votes for losing to teams you shouldn't have lost to, but not for losing to those you should?

Even worse, the coaches' poll still has Iowa and Georgia ranked. That is worse than last year's debacle with the Harris poll voter being the brick laying son-in-law or whaterver of Troy University's coach. How can anyone, who follows college football, think those two teams should be ranked at all?

But, to top everything off, the BCS poll has Tulsa as Number 25. Tulsa. Now I don't want to badmouth the Golden Hurricane, but let's compare some notes. Tulsa is 5-1, after losing to BYU by 25 points, and beating the powerhouses from Stephen F. Austin, North Texas, Navy, and East Carolina. Their only decent win is against Southern Miss. Meanwhile, 6-1 Pittsburgh? Not in the BCS top 25. 6-1 Wake Forest? Nope, not there either. 6-1 Missouri is there, with a sole quality win over Texas Tech, but Texas A&M who BEAT Missouri yesterday is not. For all those who've said the computers are less biased and more objective than the human polls, this surely must show the failure in relying on computers. Ah, Tulsa - enjoy your stay, due to whatever foul programming mistake that put you in the BCS top 25. I don't expect it to last too long.