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LSU and Alabama remain on top of BCS standings

By Chris Dufresne

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Louisiana State and Alabama, each with a week off to prepare for their Nov. 5 showdown in Tuscaloosa, dominated Sunday’s second release of the Bowl Championships Series standings.

LSU (8-0) remained on top with a BCS average of .9702, followed by Alabama (8-0) at .9627.

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Weekend defeats handed to last week’s No. 3 Oklahoma and No. 6 Wisconsin, though, scrambled the standings and created opportunities for others.

Oklahoma State, with an average of .9240, took Oklahoma’s spot at No. 3 followed by Boise State at .8302 and Clemson at .8240.

Stanford moved up two spots to No. 6, followed by Oregon, Kansas State, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

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Oregon, the highest-ranked one-loss team, plays at Stanford on Nov. 12.

Wisconsin paid heavily for its last-second loss to Michigan State. The Badgers dropped nine positions to No. 15, one spot behind Nebraska.

The top two schools in the final standings Dec. 4 will meet for the BCS title in New Orleans.

--Chris Dufresne

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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