HTR's Top 25: Week 12

Borges point!

Rank	Team
1	LSU
2	Oklahoma State
3	Alabama
4	Oregon
5	Oklahoma
6	Arkansas
7	Clemson
8	Stanford
9	Boise State
10	Virginia Tech
11	Houston
12	South Carolina
13	Georgia
14	Michigan State
15	Wisconsin
16	USC
17	Michigan
18	Kansas State
19	TCU
20	Nebraska
21	Penn State
22	Florida State
23	Southern Miss
24	Baylor
25	Notre Dame

• The Big Ten season...it is almost over, guys. Two more regular season weeks of this before the conference hits the road during bowl season, hoping to infect their opponents with the derp virus just enough to maybe scrape together a 3-6 bowl record. It's important to set lofty goals in life, B1G. 
• Please please please no rematch. Mike Gundy, just go ahead and win these last two games and make this easy for everybody. You're a man plus four years now so it shouldn't be too hard. 
• Georgia gives one more beating to the boys from Auburn, who are ready to be done with the "SEC Revenge Tour" known as the 2011 season. Auburn is not very good but beating a rival like that is nothing to scoff at. UGA is definitely an order of magnitude or two below LSU/Bama in quality, but I will say it again: they definitely stand a chance. Assuming they beat Kentucky and GT, a 10-2 finish would be pretty amazing given the way that they started, getting embarrassed in their own back yard by a team from Boise, Idaho. 
• If Marcus Coker is the Dollar Tree version of Beanie Wells then Virginia Tech's Logan Thomas is the Dollar Tree version of Cam Newton (there's a Cam joke in there somewhere). Good thing for the Hokies, he's only a sophomore. Virginia Tech looked good in Bobby Dodd Stadium on Thursday, no small feat given the short week to prepare for that often frustrating to defend option attack. Like Georgia, the Hokies are currently riding the silent waves of non-recognition, a fact that comes with the territory of losing early in the season. 
• Stanford confirmed my suspicion that they were severely overrated, thus ending a brief run in the national spotlight. Greater Palo Alto: you may go back to not caring about football instead of kind of pretending to care.