#	Team	Avg.	Total	Win	Loss	Opp. Wins	Opp. Losses	Margin Value	Last Week
1	San Francisco	17.16	85.81	5	0	9	0	1.31	3
2	New Orleans	17.11	102.68	5	1	16	3	0.18	1
3	New England	16.83	101.00	6	0	10	0	1.68	8
4	Minnesota	16.83	100.96	4	2	9	3	1.41	6
5	Seattle	16.79	100.77	5	1	9.5	1	0.52	9
6	Green Bay	16.72	100.30	5	1	15	3	0.75	5
7	Kansas City	16.63	99.75	4	2	12	4	0.86	2
8	Los Angeles	16.59	99.55	3	3	11	5	0.55	4
9	Buffalo	16.50	82.50	4	1	5	0	0.43	10
10	Houston	16.50	99.00	4	2	9	3	0.49	14

Team that moved highest amount from last week: New England and Chicago +5
Team that dropped the furthest: Detroit -7

Complete Golden NFL rankings

• Undefeated Teams (Underlined teams will play each other this season.)
  American Athletic Conference: SMU 6-0, Memphis 5-0
  Atlantic Coast Conference: Clemson 6-0, Wake Forest 5-0
  Big 12: Baylor 6-0, Oklahoma 6-0
  Big Ten: Ohio State 6-0, Penn State 6-0, Minnesota 6-0, Wisconsin 6-0
  Mountain West: Boise State 6-0
  SEC: Florida 6-0, Georgia 5-0, Alabama 6-0, LSU 6-0
  Sun Belt: Appalachian State 5-0
  C-USA, Independents, Mid-American Conference, Pac-12: None
• Winless Teams
  Rice 0-6, New Mexico State 0-7, Akron 0-6
• Crazy Stats Game of the Week
  First downs: Georgia 30 South Carolina 16
  Total plays: Georgia 95 South Carolina 68
  Total yards: Georgia 468 South Carolina 297
  Possession: Georgia 36:04 South Carolina 23:56
  Turnovers: Georgia 4 South Carolina 0
  Score: South Carolina 20 Georgia 17
  
• LSU #1 in ESPN Power Rankings
  "The Tigers made a strong case for No. 1 by knocking off Florida 42-28 at home on Saturday night. Coupled with a win at Texas in the opener, LSU might have the most impressive pair of wins by any FBS team in the first half of the season. It was another big victory for LSU coach Ed Orgeron. His teams have seven wins over AP top-10 opponents since 2016; only Nick Saban and Urban Meyer had more, with nine each. LSU's offense continued to roll against Florida's well-respected defense. Quarterback Joe Burrow completed 21 of 24 passes for 293 yards with three touchdowns, and tailback Clyde Edwards-Helaire ran 13 times for 134 yards with two scores. The Tigers had two 100-yard receivers: Ja'Marr Chase caught seven passes for 127 yards with two scores, and Justin Jefferson had 10 receptions for 123 yards with one score."
  #2 Ohio State, #3 Alabama, #4 Oklahoma, #5 Clemson, #6 Wisconsin, #7 Penn State, #8 Florida, #9 Oregon, #10 Georgia
• Iowa TD Drought
  The Hawkeyes went almost eight straight quarters without scoring a TD. After losing to Michigan 10-3 in Week 6, Iowa didn't cross the goal line against Penn State until 2:31 was left in the game when Brandon Smith caught a 33y pass from Nate Stanley to make the final score 17-12 PSU.
• Next Two Weeks Critical for Harbaugh?
  Is the Michigan fan base, and more importantLY, AD Warde Manuel, finally losing patience with their alumnus coach? Jim Harbaugh has won 74% of his games at Michigan but is only 2-7 against ranked opponents on the road. He is also 0-4 against Ohio State. The Wolverines travel to Penn State Saturday, then host Notre Dame October 26. Lose both those games and Jim's seat will start to get very hot.
• Surprise Kentucky QB
  During UK's bye week, junior WR Lynn Bowden took first-team snaps while banged-up starter Swayer Smith recovered. Coach Mark Stoops didn't announce that Bowden would start against Arkansas until just before kickoff. All the former high school QB and runner-up for Ohio Mr. Football did was run for 196y - second-most in program history - and complete 7 of 11 passes for 78y. After a sluggish start that saw the Razorbacks jump to a 13-0 lead deep into Q2, the Wildcats scored 17 straight before the visitors retook the lead at 20-17. But Bowden's 24y run with 6:53 left put the Cats back in front for good.
  
• Is Minnesota for Real?
  The Golden Gophers didn't attract much attention when they defeated their first three opponents, South Dakota State, Fresno State, and Georgia Southern by a combined 13 points. But since then the Gophers have won three straight Big Ten games, albeit against second tier teams: Purdue 38-31, Illinois 40-17, and Nebraska 34-7. With Rutgers and Maryland on deck the next two weeks, the Gophers should be 8-0 with no trouble. Then the fun begins with Penn State, Iowa, Northwestern, and Wisconsin down the stretch. Bottom line: Don't bet on Minnesota going undefeated or even 11-1 this season. 10-2? Maybe.
• Twitter Wasn't the Problem
  Although Washington State coach Mike Leach loves to spend time interacting with reporters (usually about himself) and sending tweets, he decided to ban his players from social media after losing to Utah several weeks ago. Setting a good example, he has posted no tweets since October 3. However, after an open date, the Cougars lost to Arizona State 38-34 last Saturday to fall to 0-3 in the Pac-12 for the first time since Leach's first season there in 2012. As defiant as ever, Leach told reporters after the loss, "If I had to do it [ban social media] over again, I would have done it when we started camp."

3	TD passes by LSU QB Joe Burrow vs Florida
3	Incompletions by Burrow (21-of-24) against the Gators
1-9	Jim Harbaugh's record at Michigan in games against AP Top 10 teams.
15	Consecutive wins by Georgia against SEC East foes before the upset by South Carolina last Saturday
16	Consecutive home wins by Georgia before the USC loss
15-21	Georgia QB Jake Fromm's completion % when not under pressure from South Carolina
1-11	Fromm's mark, with an INT, when pressured by the Gamecocks
1	Rutgers' net passing yards (5 of 13) in their 35-0 loss to Indiana
3	Times Rutgers has gained single-digit passing yards in a game since 2016
75	Rutgers' total yardage against the Hoosiers
320	Rushing yards by Clemson in their 45-14 romp over Florida State
80	Combined points by which Clemson has beaten Florida State the last two seasons
3	Wins by the Mountain West Conference against the SEC this season: San Jose State over Arkansas, Wyoming over Missouri, and UNLV over Vanderbilt

Once, we were flying home from the West Coast after a win over the Rams in 1959. But first we had to wait four hours for the plane, and of course we all waited in the airport bar. The jet finally arrived, and since our famous coach, Weeb Ewbank, was too cheap to stock our flights with booze, we carried on our own. All of us had beer, except for Big Daddy Lipscomb, who was to wind up dead of an overdose a few years later. Big Daddy liked his VO, and he came strolling down the aisle of our plane with two fifths of whiskey.
We drank all the way back to Baltimore, and by the time we landed, the sun was up and everybody on the plane had a vicious hangover. Everybody piled off the plane in various states of drunken dishevelment except for our tight end, Jim Mutscheller, who halfway down the ramp decided he had to use the head on the jet because he couldn't make it the couple of hundred yards to the airport. The plane was refueling for the trip back to Los Angeles when Mutsch opened the door to the head, and who was sitting on the throne, passed out, but Big Daddy. He had his two fifths of VO, empty, cradled in his arms like babies. They would have flown back West with Big Daddy on that throne if Mutsch could have held his water another five min­utes.

L-R: Art Donovan, Weeb Ewbank, Big Daddy Lipscomb

One of the best flights we ever had was after a loss in Detroit. Nobody was too happy to begin with, because we should have beaten those guys, and by the time we boarded the flight, half the team had a major-league pack­age on. It didn't take long for the other half to catch up. And up at around twenty-five thousand feet a huge brawl broke out between the offense and the defense. They were gouging and biting and blaming each other for the loss. Well, I was one of the guys trying to break up the fight but having no luck at all. Meanwhile, the plane was pitching back and forth as these behe­moths were throwing each other all over the goddamn cabin. Weeb would­n't get out of his seat because he was afraid somebody was going to throw him out the window.
Finally, the pilot got on the intercom and announced that if we didn't stop, he was going to have to make an emergency landing and we were all going to jail for air piracy or something like that. That was the only way to stop them. They were crazy animals. And Weeb never said a word throughout the whole trip.
Through my first four years in the league, before Weeb took over the Colts in 1954, I played at six-two, three hundred pounds. I was a light eater. When it got light I started eating. I had a bit part in a movie Two for the Money and when the wardrobe people asked me my clothes sizes they told them to check with Omar the Tentmaker. They used to weigh me on a scale downtown at a grain store. But after Weeb came in, I always had a clause in my contract stating I had to play at 270. They weighed me in once a week, and what a show that would be. I'd step on the scale, it would reg­ister something like 275. I'd take off my sweat shirt and drop two pounds. My pants would be another pound and a half. And I'd get down to 270 and a half by dropping my underwear. Just when everyone thought I'd be fined for coming in a half pound overweight, I'd pull the coup de grace and take out my false teeth.
Everything went fine until 1959. Toward the end of the season, the Colts were on the West Coast to play San Francisco and Los Angeles. We had to win both games to take the division title. We beat the 49ers and stayed in San Francisco to practice, and that was a big mistake. How can you not gain weight in San Francisco? My tonnage shot to 280.
Weeb was so preoccupied with the Rams game that he didn't have a team weigh-in beforehand. He only weighed a guy named George Preas and my­self. ... I had a $2,000 bonus clause in my contract. I'd collect if I stayed at 270 all season. Here we were in the last game of the year, and I had blown it. After he weighed me, I went up to Weeb and asked him about a deal. "Suppose I have a good Rams game," I said. His answer: "I'll talk to you about it after the game."
Anyhow it was about 110 degrees in L.A. by game time. Big Daddy begged out with a bad ankle, although I honestly believe he just didn't feel like playing in that heat, and I had to play the whole game. I was dying. Late in the game, with about three or four minutes left, we were murdering them by about five touchdowns. The Rams finally put in their rookie quarterback, a guy by the name of Frank Ryan, who went on to become a star with the Cleveland Browns ... I said to myself, "Thank God," because I was sure he had been sent in to run the clock.
But no. This guy Ryan got the ball and started running all over the field and throwing bombs. And I was chasing him and screaming at him and calling him all kinds of names. I yelled at him, "I'm gonna kill you when I get you!" But, truth be told, I couldn't have caught him if he was crawling on his hands and knees. So I finally figured the hell with this, and went over to the Rams huddle and said to this guy, "Listen, rook ... Give up the ghost. Run out the goddamn clock."
And he just calmly looked up at me and said, "Drop dead, you big, fat SOB." I was shocked. Stunned. I wanted to kill him. Suddenly I realized my team­mate Ordell Braase was yelling at me, "Hey, Fatso, you're in the wrong goddamn huddle!" And sure enough, the refs penalized us five yards for being offside. When the game ended I crawled off the field and went look­ing for Weeb. I wanted to ask him about my money.
"Hey, Weeb, ... I guess I'm going to get my two thousand dollars back now that we won the game and everything."
"Hell, no, Donovan," he said to me. "You don't get nothing 'cause you're out of shape."
I asked him what the hell he was talking about. After all, I had played the whole game in stifling heat. And that rat bastard told me that if I was in shape I would have caught Ryan and ended the game that much earlier. I never got the money, either.

Tim Wiles, 2004 World Series Program