When I went to bed on Saturday night, I felt quite confident that most AP poll voters would view the day’s college football results the same way I did.

I figured we’d all vote for Ohio State as the new No. 1 team in the country because the third-ranked Buckeyes beat the then top-ranked Texas Longhorns, 14-7, in Columbus. Preseason polls are flawed, sure, but I was one of the 25 voters who had put Texas in the top spot heading into the season — and I’ll own that. It’s clear now that that is not the best team in the country; new starting quarterback Arch Manning and his Longhorns have a lot of work to do.

But by lunchtime on Sunday, I saw a few of my peers in the national media making the case for LSU to be No. 1 after the Tigers’ 17-10 win over No. 4 Clemson at (Clemson’s) Death Valley. I

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