The debate entering Sunday night's unveiling of Week 9's BCS rankings: should Oregon or Kansas State be ranked No. 3 behind Alabama and Florida? Notre Dame and Oregon State also had cause to enter that discussion, but I didn't hear much of that debate. Just the other one.

We know Bama's No. 1, and we know Florida strengthened its hold on No. 2 in the BCS standings with its convincing beatdown of South Carolina. But with the Ducks flattening everything on their (not-so-tough) schedule and Kansas State now owning two excellent road Big 12 wins, it appeared we'd come down to the battle between man and machine. The machine won.

Both human polls have Oregon ranked ahead of Florida, then Kansas State. The computers, however, love K-State's strength of schedule, even more than they did a week ago, when multiple selectors had the Wildcats No. 1 and within .003 points of the Ducks. This week, the robots have Oregon behind even Oregon State, which the humans rank as low as No. 9 (pffft ... humans). With Kansas State getting Texas Tech next while Oregon fiddles with Colorado, the Cats could extend their lead even further in seven days.

The complete BCS Top 25 with six weeks to go (full selector rankings via ESPN):

BCS Harris Coaches Computers Rank Team Avg Pvs Rank Pts % Rank Pts % AVG A&H RB CM KM JS PW % 1 Alabama .9625 1 1 2868 .9976 1 1475 1.0000 4 5 1 4 5 3 3 .890 2 Florida .9310 2 3 2622 .9120 3 1329 .9010 1 2 5 1 1 1 2 .980 3 Kansas State .9111 4 4 2571 .8943 4 1326 .8990 2 1 4 5 3 2 1 .940 4 Oregon .8966 3 2 2727 .9485 2 1403 .9512 6 6 2 6 6 7 7 .790 5 Notre Dame .8512 5 5 2374 .8257 5 1221 .8278 3 4 3 2 2 5 5 .900 6 LSU .7862 6 6 2270 .7896 6 1164 .7892 7 7 6 9 7 4 6 .780 7 Oregon State .7421 8 8 2001 .6960 9 974 .6603 5 3 7 3 4 6 4 .870 8 Oklahoma .7126 9 7 2021 .7030 7 1084 .7349 8 8 10 13 8 8 8 .700 9 USC .5767 10 9 1934 .6727 8 1014 .6875 16 16 8 17 19 15 19 .370 10 Georgia .5379 11 11 1603 .5576 11 850 .5763 13 13 12 16 15 12 17 .480 11 Mississippi State .5265 12 12 1602 .5572 12 800 .5424 13 9 20 8 17 18 12 .480 12 Florida State .4925 14 10 1911 .6647 10 948 .6427 21 22 22 15 0 23 20 .170 13 South Carolina .4797 7 16 1189 .4136 16 598 .4054 10 14 9 12 10 9 11 .620 14 Texas Tech .4736 17 17 1074 .3736 17 571 .3871 9 10 11 7 9 10 9 .660 15 Rutgers .4703 15 15 1205 .4191 15 637 .4319 11 12 17 11 14 11 10 .560 16 Louisville .4196 16 14 1324 .4605 14 720 .4881 18 15 25 14 21 21 16 .310 17 Stanford .3850 20 18 929 .3231 19 401 .2719 11 11 13 10 11 13 14 .560 18 Clemson .3692 19 13 1562 .5433 13 788 .5342 27 25 19 24 0 0 0 .030 19 West Virginia .2178 13 22 363 .1263 22 173 .1173 15 17 15 19 13 16 15 .410 20 Texas A&M .2123 18 21 465 .1617 21 229 .1553 17 20 0 20 12 14 18 .320 21 Boise State .2070 22 19 762 .2650 18 407 .2759 24 23 14 21 0 0 0 .080 22 Michigan .1898 NR 20 490 .1704 20 264 .1790 19 24 16 25 18 19 21 .220 23 Texas .1221 25 24 237 .0824 24 109 .0739 20 18 21 23 20 20 22 .210 24 Ohio .1171 NR 23 293 .1019 23 132 .0895 22 19 0 0 0 17 13 .160 25 Wisconsin .0593 NR NR 136 .0473 25 104 .0705 25 0 0 22 22 25 25 .060

Fun facts from the National Football Foundation:

• First-time school(s) in the BCS Standings: Ohio. A total of 85 schools have appeared in the BCS Standings since they were created in 1998. • Schools debuting in 2012 BCS Standings: No. 22 Michigan, No. 24 Ohio, No. 25 Wisconsin. • Dropped out of BCS Standings: No. 21 Cincinnati, No. 23 TCU, No. 24 Iowa State. • The No. 1 team in the second week of the BCS Standings has gone on to play in the BCS National Championship Game 10 times, including the last two (Auburn - 2010, LSU - 2011). • The No. 2 team in the second week of the BCS Standings has gone on to play in the BCS National Championship Game seven times, including the last three (Alabama - 2009, Oregon - 2010, Alabama - 2011). • The Southeastern Conference has had at least one team in the No. 1 or No. 2 position in 34 of the last 35 BCS Standings, dating back to Dec. 2, 2007. • Kansas State has tied its highest-ever ranking at No. 3 (1998). • Notre Dame was ranked No. 5 for the second consecutive week, marking the sixth time in the history of the BCS Standings that the Irish have appeared in the top five. The Irish have not been ranked No. 5 in consecutive weeks since Nov. 12 and Nov. 19, 2006. • The first two weeks of the BCS Standings mark the first time intrastate rivals Oregon (No. 4) and Oregon State (No. 7) have been ranked in the top 10 since 2000; the first time two Big East schools have been ranked inside the top 20 since 2009; and the first time a MAC school has been ranked in the Standings since 2010.

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