For the first time this season, a new number one. The Week 10 BCS Standings feature the Kansas State Wildcats as the number one team in the nation, with Oregon coming in at second. What does this mean for Notre Dame, also undefeated? Unless Oregon and/or Kansas State lose, there’s a very small chance the Fighting Irish make the national championship game.

BCS		Harris Poll			USA Today			Computer Rankings
RK	TEAM	AVG	PVS	RK	PTS	%	RK	PTS	%	AVG	A&H	RB	CM	KM	JS	PW	%
1	Kansas State	.9674	2	2	2774	.9649	2	1427	.9675	2	1	1	3	2	2	2	.970
2	Oregon	.9497	3	1	2844	.9892	1	1460	.9898	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	.870
3	Notre Dame	.9396	4	3	2634	.9162	3	1346	.9125	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	.990
4	Alabama	.8534	1	4	2494	.8675	5	1243	.8427	5	5	4	4	5	9	5	.850
5	Georgia	.8328	5	5	2398	.8341	4	1260	.8542	6	6	5	6	7	4	6	.810
6	Florida	.7955	6	7	2113	.7350	7	1079	.7315	3	3	6	2	3	3	3	.920
7	LSU	.7331	7	8	2082	.7242	8	1040	.7051	7	7	7	9	6	6	7	.770
8	Texas A&M	.6621	15	10	1842	.6407	10	967	.6556	8	9	10	8	8	10	8	.690
9	South Carolina	.6349	8	11	1732	.6024	11	903	.6122	8	8	9	10	9	8	9	.690
10	Florida State	.6071	10	6	2175	.7565	6	1143	.7749	17	16	17	14	0	0	16	.290
11	Clemson	.5921	13	9	1972	.6859	9	1033	.7003	15	15	14	13	22	0	14	.390
12	Oklahoma	.5797	12	12	1631	.5673	12	799	.5417	10	13	8	15	10	7	10	.630
13	Stanford	.5705	14	13	1621	.5638	13	793	.5376	11	10	11	7	11	11	11	.610
14	Nebraska	.4679	16	14	1239	.4310	14	653	.4427	13	12	15	11	12	18	12	.530
15	Texas	.4259	17	15	1095	.3809	15	615	.4169	14	14	12	16	14	13	15	.480
16	Oregon State	.4161	11	16	1081	.3760	17	490	.3322	12	11	13	12	13	12	13	.540
17	UCLA	.2925	18	19	870	.3026	16	494	.3349	20	18	24	17	20	21	21	.240
18	USC	.2769	19	18	886	.3082	21	343	.2325	17	21	19	22	17	16	18	.290
19	Louisville	.2159	9	17	943	.3280	18	442	.2997	27	24	0	20	0	0	0	.020
20	Louisiana Tech	.1911	20	20	728	.2532	19	413	.2800	25	0	22	24	0	0	24	.040
21	Michigan	.1665	NR	24	264	.0918	23	144	.0976	16	17	21	18	18	20	17	.310
22	Rutgers	.1529	23	21	571	.1986	20	354	.2400	27	25	0	19	0	0	25	.020
23	Texas Tech	.1416	22	22	325	.1130	25	106	.0719	20	20	16	0	21	15	23	.240
24	Oklahoma State	.1088	NR	NR	118	.0410	24	111	.0753	22	19	18	0	19	19	0	.210
25	Washington	.0850	NR	NR	1	.0003	NR	7	.0047	19	22	23	25	15	14	19	.250

It’s interesting to see how the computers give KSU the push, rankings second on both human polls, but first or second on five of the six comuters. Oregon are number one in both the Harris and the Coaches poll, but aren’t ranked higher than third on the computers. Notre Dame are either second or first on the computers, but are way behind the top two in the human polls. As they tend to go, unless Oregon or Kansas State lose, they’re going to the national title game.

What about the SEC? Places 4-9 are all SEC; Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Texas A&M and South Carolina. Georgia have clinched their SEC East crown and will be in the conference title game, while Alabama are probably in. Still, Alabama will need two of the three teams above them to lose in the next few weeks in order to make it to a third national title game in four years. Georgia also have an outside shot if two of the three lose and they manage to win the SEC.

As for Oregon’s number one status: The computers will probably give them a push in the next few weeks, with games against Stanford (#13), Oregon State (#16) and the Pac-12 title game all waiting in line. They won’t be knocked off the number one spot in the polls if they don’t lose, and the computer rankings can only get better. Kansas State have only Baylor and Texas left on the schedule, without any conference championship game. Notre Dame don’t have a conference championship game as well, with Wake Forest and USC waiting on the last day of their regular season.

Newcomers to the rankings this week: Michigan (#21) after beating Northwestern, Oklahoma State (#24) after beating West Virginia and Washington (#25) after beating Utah 34-15. Toledo, Northwestern and Mississippi State were dropped from the standings.