As noted in this earlier post, Las Vegas Sports Consultants publishes their OddsMakers Top 25 each week in which they rank major college football teams based on injuries, performance, skill and game location, not on won-loss record and not on which teams will draw the greatest or least betting action (they leave that for the bookies). The poll is becoming quite popular with the betting markets and is currently published every Monday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Inasmuch as this ranking is based on the profit motive (LVSC is attempting to attract betting customers through the accuracy of its research), my sense is that the OddsMakers Top 25 ends up being a more accurate ranking than the traditional polls, which tend to be plagued by the subjective bias of its voters. For your weekend football viewing pleasure, The following is this week’s Oddsmakers Top 25 poll with the team record and BCS ranking in parentheses:

1. Ohio State (11-0, 1)
2t. LSU (8-2, 11)
2t. Southern Cal (8-1, 3)
4. Michigan (11-0, 2)
5. Texas (9-2, 13)
6. Notre Dame (9-1, 5)
7. Florida (9-1, 4)
8. Cal (8-2, 15)
9t. Louisville (8-1, 10)
9t. Oklahoma (8-2, 17)
11. Wisconsin (10-1, 9)
12. West Virginia (8-1, 8)
13t. Arkansas (9-1, 7)
13t. BYU (8-2, 25)
15. Oregon (7-3, 24)
16. Clemson (8-3, NR)
17. Rutgers (9-0, 6)
18. Nebraska (8-3, 23)
19t. Auburn (9-2, 14)
19t. Tennessee (7-3, 22)
21. Hawaii (8-2, NR)
22. Georgia Tech (8-2, 18)
23. Virginia Tech (8-2, 21)
24. Penn State (7-4, NR)
25. Boise State (10-0, 12)
Not ranked by Oddsmaker Top 25: Wake Forest (16th in BCS), Maryland (19th), Boston College (20th).
And in the college head coaching carousel, check out the YouTube video below by a Michigan State fan who is, might we say, quite supportive of LSU defensive coordinator Bo Pelini’s candidacy for the MSU head coaching position: