The AP and BCS polls are out after a relatively light weekend in college football. While it wasn’t a Saturday marked by marquis matchups, there were three happenings over the past few days that are worthy of note.

The first is Jeremiah Masoli rallying Oregon from a 4th quarter deficit at a very tough Arizona team to eventually win the game in overtime. Not only was this a huge win for the 8th-ranked Ducks, it kept alive Oregon’s PAC-10 and Rose Bowl hopes. Donovan McNabb should watch tape of that game and see Masoli’s poise both on the field and on the sidelines. He put on a leadership clinic.

Secondly, Les Miles’ ineptitude in the LSU/Ole Miss game. After making about 4 clock management mistakes on their final possession, Miles and his coaching staff delivered the self-inflicted coup de grace by instructing quarterback Jordan Jefferson to spike the ball with 1 second on the clock. Needless to say the game ended, LSU lost and the SEC looked stupid.

And the greatest/worst occurrence surrounding this week’s college football is reports that Jimmy Clausen was punched in the face by an irate fan upon leaving a restaurant with his family on Saturday night. Of course, the Notre Dame quarterback is hardly the scapegoat in South Bend: he completed 67% of his passes against Connecticut for 329 yards and 2 TDs. Regardless, someone has to pay the price for this fan’s frustration, though if I were that guy I would have punched Les Miles.

Ok. Time for my weekly beef: in a sign that the AP voters simply cannot shake their old boys club bias, they have Penn State ranked ahead of Iowa. For my part, I think Penn State is probably playing better football than Iowa at this point but if fairness and demonstrated performance mean anything, this is an absolute farce.

How can a PSU team with the same 10-2 record as Iowa be ranked ahead of the Hawkeyes when Iowa beat Penn State at Happy Valley? How can Penn State who is behind Iowa in the Big Ten standings be ranked ahead of Iowa? How can Penn State, who lost to Big Ten leader Ohio State 24-7 at home be ranked ahead of an Iowa team who took Ohio State to overtime at the Horseshoe, be ranked ahead of Iowa?

The AP voters are like a bunch of second rate criminals who can’t get their story straight. They flub around, hoping nobody will notice that all they really do is rank their traditional favorites as high as they can and hope it’ll slide. Of course, their inability to do their jobs correctly may be part of the reason their poll isn’t used in determining a national champion.