Following a tumultuous weekend filled with upsets, including Wisconsin falling at Michigan and Ole Miss upsetting Florida, the latest top 25 looks like it was thrown in a blender.

Starting at the top, with former No. 1 USC falling at Oregon State Thursday night, Oklahoma took over the top spot. But the Sooners aren't as popular a No. 1 as the Trojans were. Oklahoma grabbed 43 first-place votes, while new No. 2 Alabama, fresh off a 41-30 pasting of former No. 3 Georgia, captured 21 votes for the top spot. No. 4 Missouri also garnered one first-place vote.

Penn State jumped six spots to No. 6, cracking the top 10 for the first time since the end of the 2005 season. But a look at individual pollsters' ballots raises some questions.

Eric Page, from the Quad City Times in Davenport, Iowa must love himself some Big Ten football. He has the Lions third, behind Bama and Oklahoma. Maybe a tad high this early in the season.

Jason Franchuk from the Provo Daily Herald in Provo, Utah -- ironically the home of Brigham Young University (BYU) -- meanwhile, must be drinking too much water from the nearby Great Salt Lake. He has the Lions at No. 17, by far the lowest of any pollster.

Nobody that has ever watched one down of college football and is clinically sane should have Penn State ranked behind such one-loss teams as Ohio State, USC, Georgia, Auburn, Florida, Wisconsin and Kansas. He also has the Lions six spots behind homestate Utah and 10 spots behind hometown BYU.

But Franchuk shouldn't be second guessed. I'm sure he's seen more than enough Mountain West Conference football to know that its top two teams are both at least six spots ahead of the best of the Big Ten.

But then again, Franchuk is the same guy that put 26 teams on his top 25 ballot last season. He also felt Utah deserved to jump five spots after beating FCS Weber State by 16, but only moved Penn State up one spot.

Maybe by the end of the season Utah and BYU will be in BCS bowls and Franchuk will be validated. But for the time being, it's voters like this that make the AP poll such a joke and stresses the even greater need for a playoff system. I don't think any coach wants a guy that can't even figure out how many teams to put in his top 25 determining who should play for the national championship.

Sept. 28, 2008 AP Top 25

1. Oklahoma (43) 4-0 1,599
2. Alabama (21) 5-0 1,565
3. LSU 4-0 1,466
4. Missouri (1) 4-0 1,453
5. Texas 4-0 1,362
6. Penn State 5-0 1,252
7. Texas Tech 4-0 1,105
8. Brigham Young 4-0 1,098
9. USC 2-1 1,087
10. South Florida 5-0 1,035
11. Georgia 4-1 1,018
12. Florida 3-1 914
13. Auburn 4-1 860
14. Ohio State 4-1 829
15. Utah 5-0 713
16. Kansas 3-1 650
17. Boise State 3-0 549
18. Wisconsin 3-1 520
19. Vanderbilt 4-0 459
20. Virginia Tech 4-1 290
21. Oklahoma State 4-0 277
22. Fresno State 3-1 232
23. Oregon 4-1 199
24. Connecticut 5-0 126
25. Wake Forest 3-1 107

Others Receiving Votes

Maryland 46, Michigan State 42, Kentucky 40, Ball State 38, Northwestern 32, Tulsa 32, TCU 30, Illinois 24, North Carolina 21, Florida State 14, Ole Miss 13, Georgia Tech 10, California 5, Nebraska 5, Oregon State 3, Boston College 3, Colorado 2.

Dropped From Rankings

Clemson 20, Illinois 22, East Carolina 23, TCU 24.

-- Wible