Carson Palmer is my new favorite quarterback

Just the other day I was musing with the happy ninja about how weak the Big Ten is. And now Carson Palmer gives us this nugget (from a recent radio interview on 570 KLAC in Los Angeles):

I don’t watch what I say. I cannot stand the Buckeyes and having to live in Ohio and hear those people talk about their team, it drives me absolutely nuts. We got Keith Rivers out there and we got Frostee Rucker, we finally got a couple other ‘SC guys. It’s amazing to hear what those guys think about that university and what they think about that football program and Tressel and all the crap I got to put up with being back there. I just can’t wait for two years from now when ‘SC comes to the ‘Shoe and I get to, hopefully have a home game that weekend and I can go out there and watch us pound on them on their own turf and kind of put all the talk to rest, because I’m really getting sick of it. I just can’t wait for this game to get here so they can come to the Coliseum and experience L.A. and get an old fashioned, Pac 10 butt-whooping and go back to the Big Ten.

I'm waiting for an NFL star to come from Appalachian State so we can get a quote like this for Michigan. But for now this will do fine, just fine.

Top 25 through week 1

			record		prev.
1	usc		1-0		1
2	lsu		1-0		2
3	florida		1-0		3
4	oklahoma		1-0		7
5	va tech		1-0		4
6	w. virginia		1-0		6
7	texas		1-0		5
8	louisville		1-0		9
9	rutgers		1-0		8
10	california		1-0		10
11	wisconsin		1-0		11
12	braskypants		1-0		13
13	ga tech		1-0		15
14	boise st		1-0		12
15	ohio st		1-0		16
16	ucla		1-0		20
17	georgia		1-0		17
18	tcu		1-0		21
19	tx tech		1-0		--
20	byu		1-0		24
21	hawaii		1-0		--
22	penn state		1-0		--
23	arkansas		1-0		--
24	s florida		1-0		--
25	auburn		1-0		--

dropouts: michigan, florida state, tennessee, arizona

***
- Appalachian State pulled off (likely) the greatest upset in the history of college football last week (I think I smell another top 10 list). However, they aren't eligible for Division 1-A polls, so I won't try to rank them here either. There are 1-AA polls, where they are actually ranked #1.

- My attempt each week will be to re-evaluate the teams as they've done so far for the entire season. Therefore, a win doesn't guarantee a move up nor does a loss guarantee a move down. In other words, my most-recent rankings won't be influenced only by what I previously thought.

- Lloyd Carr will not coach Michigan in 2008. There are 50 sandwiches with my name on them if I'm wrong on this. But I won't be.

Appalachian St. 34, Michigan 32

It's a great weekend already. I could probably just stare at that score for the next 3 months.

The pollsters need to do the right thing here and drop Michigan completely out of the Top 25. Congratulations to the Mountaineers. They exposed Michigan, and to an extent the entire Big 10, for the frauds that they are.