Sports: College Football: Boise State 48 wallops San Jose 0

According to the projection of ESPN's Brad Edwards, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, is the leader of College Football teams.  The Boise Broncos top the ESPN researcher's list.

According to the projections, the No. 1 Buckeyes would place fifth in the BCS standings, percentage points behind Oklahoma.

Bronco Busting?

ESPN's Brad Edwards has projected what the BCS standings would look like if they were released today. According to his projections, consensus No. 3 Boise State would be on top -- and consensus No. 1 Ohio State would be fifth.

Team	Rating
1. Boise State	.913
2. Oregon	.863
3. TCU	.854
4. Oklahoma	.8425
5. Ohio State	.8421
6. LSU	.782
7. Nebraska	.777
8. Auburn	.744
9. Michigan State	.642
10. Alabama	.634

Edwards projects the unbeaten Broncos, the highest-ranked team from a non-automatic qualifying conference, as the top team in the standings by a comfortable margin, followed by Oregon. 

... TCU places third in Edwards' projections, followed by Oklahoma at .8425 and Ohio State at .8421.

Edwards explained that although the Buckeyes are No. 1 in ... the Harris and the USA Today coaches' poll -- they're deemed 10th-best by the BCS computer rankings, due in part to the Buckeyes' strength of schedule to date compared with the other unbeaten teams. The computers do not take margin of victory into consideration.

Boise State rated higher because the Broncos are third in the Harris and USA Today polls and second in the BCS computer ranking, Edwards said. But he also noted Boise State has already played the toughest part of its schedule, while Ohio State and the other top-10 teams from automatic qualifying conferences face tougher competition in the weeks ahead.

Just today, the Broncos beat the Spartans [San Jose University, San Jose, California] by a score of 48-0.

Elsewhere Brad Edwards is c+ted as indicating that "Boise State is likely to be No. 1 in the first BCS rankings but they have no shot of staying there all season."  We'll just have to wait and see, Mr Edwards.

-- Sportikos