Wasn't terribly long ago, in this very forum, when some blithering hack indicated the college football hierarchy would sort itself out.
Talk about your naivete and near-sightedness. In this preposterous autumn, order may never prevail. And does anyone really want it to?
Ballot stability be darned. Bring on the upsets and upheaval. Meantime, here's my latest stab at making a semblance of reason out of this chaos.
1. Clemson
2. Ohio State
3. Alabama
4. Oklahoma
5. Oklahoma State
6. Notre Dame
7. Iowa
8. Florida
9. Baylor
10. Michigan State
11. Houston
12. TCU
13.