Michigan Holds at Fourth in AP

Its mostly because someone has to be ranked No. 8.  And while Notre Dame isn't that good, they are still better than what other teams in that area of the rankings have played.

I mean teams 9-12 are Washington, Texas A&M, Wisconsin, and Georiga.  Those are all interchangable.

Don't worry about it. When Michigan beats MSU, the Spartans will be out of the picture anyway.

And somehow Texas had zoomed up to #11 before last night, apparently solely based on beating ND at home in double-overtime.

They went on the road, at a team ranked higher than them at night, and other than getting lazy dominated ND.

Texas lost. Wisconsin looked like junk. Washington hasn't played anybody.

Pretty justifiable? 

It was that they dominated - and I think it was pretty clear that if MSU hadn't let up on the gas midway through the 3rd quarter, ND would have lost by a lot more than the final score indicated. Sparty looked like a totally different team than the one that struggled against Furman. Sure, one could say that Dantonio had two weeks to prepare his team, but he had FOUR weeks to prepare for Furman, and, yeah....

In a week where half of the other ranked teams were playing cupcake games against community colleges. At least Notre Dame was ranked going into the game. Colorado should have been ranked, or at least their 1st string should have been ranked.

respeckt for Sparty.

MSU was the better team but ND's 3 turnovers (and having an interception ripped out of their DB's hands for a TD) were ultimately the difference in that game.  Though in fairness, ND always seems to commit a lot of turnovers.

Hey, first half Ole Miss is the No. 1 team in the country.  That has to count for something, right?