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What a Knight!

Rutgers shoots up to No. 26 after stomping Howard

Posted: Tuesday September 26, 2006 12:17PM; Updated: Friday September 29, 2006 1:20PM
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College Football Power Rankings: 26-119
SI.com ranks the rest of the Division 1 teams.
RANK LAST WEEK TEAM
26 32
Rutgers (4-0)
27 27
Michigan St. (3-1)
28 26
Wisconsin (3-1)
29 25
Arizona St. (3-1)
This week's recipient of the Most Humbled Player Award: Sun Devils QB Rudy Carpenter, who threw four interceptions in a 49-21 loss to Cal and then stated afterward (in the Arizona Republic, "I'm obviously not as good as I thought I was." Good for Carpenter's job security, and bad for ASU's program, is the reality that it has no other option at the position now that Sam Keller -- the guy coach Dirk Koetter originally named No. 1 -- has transferred to Nebraska.
30 28
Texas Tech (3-1)
31 23
UCLA (2-1)
32 33
Missouri (4-0)
33 43
Arkansas (3-1)
34 35
Texas A&M (4-0)
35 46
Purdue (4-0)
36 37
Utah (3-1)
No one -- seriously, no one -- had a better Saturday than Utes' defensive back Eric Weddle. He picked off three passes in a 38-7 win over San Diego State. He returned two of them for scores, both from 30 yards out. Impressed yet? Weddle also ran for a two-yard touchdown on offense, via a direct-snap play. "You dream about those situations," Weddle said. "To run back one and then later in the game run back another is something I'll remember for the rest of my life."
37 36
Miami (Fla. (1-2)
38 62
Wake Forest (4-0)
39 59
Houston (4-0)
40 30
Penn St. (2-2)
For a man who's been around football longer than every player -- and most of the other coaches -- on the field have been alive, there are very few firsts left for 79-year-old Joe Paterno. Saturday at the Horseshoe, though, he did something he'd never done before: leave the field mid-game. In the second quarter, JoePa, who had been ailing all week, beelined for the tunnel due to what he called "the old G.I. disease." Nearly everyone -- from the ABC announcers to his own players -- was confused. "I thought he was going to yell at the referee, but he kept going," running back Tony Hunt told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Then, I figured he had to go to the bathroom."
41 41
Pittsburgh (3-1)
42 31
Alabama (3-1)
43 40
Southern Miss (2-1)
44 42
Air Force (1-1)
45 57
Tulsa (3-1)
46 47
Washington St. (3-1)
47 67
Kansas (3-1)
48 34
Navy (3-1)
49 39
Iowa St. (2-2)
50 49
Oklahoma St. (3-1)

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