Hlas' AP Top 25 ballot

At 11 a.m. Saturday I was was watching college football. At 12:30 a.m. Sunday I was watching college football.

In between, I wrote about college football. And had a very nice sandwich. So that makes me qualified to vote in Associated Press' Top 25 poll. As much as the next couch potato, that is.

1. LSU (10-0). Western Kentucky scored more points vs. LSU (9) than did Alabama.

2. Oklahoma State (10-0). The Cowboys' 66-6 win at Texas Tech was (insert "mark of the beast" punchline here).

3. Alabama (9-1). This, I couldn't believe when I saw it on TV Saturday night. Mississippi State, which lost to 'Bama Saturday, played a quarterback named Dylan Favre. He is Brett's nephew. Dylan Favre.

4. Oregon (9-1). The Ducks scored on roughly one of every 2.8 offensive plays in the second half against Stanford.

5. Oklahoma (8-1). The Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game of Dec. 3 will eclipse every conference-title game that day.

6. Arkansas (9-1). This may be the best punt return I've ever seen. And my favorite part was how Joe Adams planted the ball in the end zone after he scored.

7. Stanford (9-1). Andrew Luck is good, but Oregon's speed kills.

8. Clemson (9-1). Clemson fans stormed the field after beating Wake Forest by three points. The rest of the country thinks that's weak. The storming of the field, that is.

9. Virginia Tech (9-1). Yes, let's have a Clemson-Virginia Tech ACC title game since Clemson only beat the Hokies by 20 points in Blacksburg.

10. Houston (10-0). The Cougars have averaged 66.3 points in their last four games. A lot of college basketball teams don't do that.

11. Wisconsin (8-2). Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium wasn't quite as hostile to the Badgers as it was to Iowa two weeks earlier.

12. Kansas State (8-2). The Wildcats beat Texas A&M in four overtimes for their fifth win this season as an underdog.

13. USC (8-2). Hawaii played at chilly Nevada and Arizona State played at cold Washington State Saturday night. I channel-surfed between both games in 68-degree comfort.

14. Nebraska (8-2). With wins over Michigan and Iowa, I've got Nebraska penciled in for a BCS bowl. How about a Nebraska-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl?

15. Georgia (8-2). If Georgia beats LSU in the SEC title game, either Alabama or LSU is shut out of the BCS altogether. That would be entertaining.

16. Michigan State (8-2). If Dr. Joyce Brothers married Kirk Cousins, she'd be ... an 84-year-old woman married to a college kid.

17. TCU (8-2). The Horned Frogs beat Boise State in the biggest Mountain West Conference game ever televised by Versus.

18. South Carolina (8-2). The Gamecocks are 6-0 over the last two years against Florida, Georgia and Tennessee. Such a thing seemed impossible not long ago in Columbia, and in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.

19. Boise State (8-1). A whole lot of Americans didn't want Boise State in another BCS game. Now they have to start hating on Houston.

20. Michigan (8-2). If the Wolverines beat Nebraska and Ohio State to finish 10-2, do they go to a BCS bowl?

21. Penn State (8-2). Finishing the season at Ohio State and Wisconsin ... difficult. That's football-difficult. There are worse kinds of difficult.

22. Southern Mississippi (9-1). I'm ranking more teams from Conference USA than the Big East.

23. Florida State (7-3). Remember when Florida State, Florida and Miami were all really, really good?

24. West Virginia (7-3). Won at Cincinnati. A great day for the Big 12, with TCU and West Virginia both winning road games over ranked teams.

25. Notre Dame (7-3). Someone had to be No. 25, and North Dakota State lost to Youngstown State, so ...