LSU tops Week 8 AP Poll and the Week 8 Harris Interactive Poll, and came in second in the Week 8 USA Today coaches poll. With that dominance of the college football rankings, It’s no surprise, then, that LSU is also on top of the initial BCS standings for 2011.
BCS Standings Week 8: LSU, Alabama Lead SEC At Top Of Rankings
LSU edges No. 2 Alabama in the initial BCS rankings, taking pole position in the race to the BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans next January.
But whether LSU or Alabama are on top of the BCS rankings or not is, at this point in the season, academic. That’s because both teams being in the top three means that either school should be able to win out and end up in the top two of the final BCS rankings, giving the SEC another BCS National Championship Game representative.
And barring a massive upset to a lesser-rated team, at least one of those squads will win out; one of the two must win the November 5 showdown in Tuscaloosa that many are viewing as a BCS play-in game.
Elsewhere in the SEC, Arkansas is No. 9, South Carolina sits at No. 14, and Auburn is No. 20, meaning that the SEC is both more shallow and more dependent on the SEC West than it has been in the last few years.
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