Kanye West doesn’t care about purple people

My friend Marcelo, a fellow Trojan, posted this on Facebook and Flickr Saturday:

Heh. [Bumped. -ed.]

P.S. Washington is now ranked in the AP poll — at #24 — though not in the slower-to-adjust coaches poll, in which they’re effectively #31 (sixth in “others receiving votes”). I’ve gotta agree with the AP on this one: the Huskies have both a “better loss” (to LSU) and a higher-quality win (over USC) than just about any other one-loss team out there. How are Ohio State, with wins over Navy (barely) & Toledo and a loss to USC, or Oklahoma, with wins over Idaho State & Tulsa and a loss to BYU, more accomplished than Washington at this point? They’re not, of course, but the pollsters simply believe they’re better than the Huskies (as do I, let’s be honest), and so preseason expectations keep the purple people down. For now.

But let’s see what UW can do. If they can win at Stanford and at Notre Dame in the next two weeks, there will be no excuse for not taking the Huskies seriously. Personally, I hope they go 7-2 the rest of the way — losing only to the Irish, and one other Pac-10 team — and get to play in the Rose Bowl. Meanwhile I hope the Trojans win out, which would allow them to claim the mantle of “co-champions” with the Huskies in this scenario (though they’d lose the tiebreaker), a locution that would be helpful for their title-game argument. If they don’t reach the title game, though, UW’s ticket to the Rose Bowl would prevent the Trojans from having to play some lame-ass Big Ten team in Pasadena again; instead, they’d get shipped to the Sugar or Fiesta or Orange, possibly to face an SEC or Big 12 opponent.

First things first, though. Beat the Cougars! And, if we fans are permitted to look past the worst* BCS-conference team in the country: BEAT THE BEARS.

*Wazzu is ranked #122 in the country by Jeff Sagarin, ten spots lower than their closest “competitor” from a BCS league, #112 Northwestern. (The other BCS teams in triple digits, if you’re wondering, are #101 Syracuse, #107 Vanderbilt, and #108 Virginia. #97 Colorado and #98 Maryland are knocking on the door.) There are 21 Division I-AA teams ranked ahead of the Cougars, and just 19 I-A teams below them — mostly the dregs of the MAC, Sun Belt and C-USA.