I woke up to the brand-new edition of the AP Top 25 rankings. Scanning, scanning, scanning, I checked and double-checked (just like Santa), and wouldn't you know it, BYU football remains on the outside looking in. The 26th-highest vote receiver -- right where they sat in the preseason poll.
Yet somehow, after handling a vastly overmatched Portland State as they should have (by a whopping 69-point disparity), BYU has been bounced for a second straight week. Kansas State and Boise State have been jostled from the tower thanks to some underwhelming on-field production, so one's logical inclination is to take the teams that performed well, and shift them accordingly.