What's more eye-opening...the USF Bulls being ranked among college football's top ten, or being the highest-rated football program in the state?  A-P rates the Bulls the sixth best team in the country this week.  That is a long ways from that 80-3 victory over Kentucky Wesleyan in the program's debut back in '97.  As fun as that night was, I was even more impressed the next week when the Bulls nearly won at The Citadel.  That program has a long and storied history in football and the Bulls opened eyes despite the 10-7 loss.

 While the Bulls' performance in the ratings has everybody talking, rest assured Jim Leavitt really doesn't care.  On one hand, he's delighted with all the attention this program -- something he built from the ground up -- is now beginning to enjoy.  But, in reality, these ratings have opened college football's version of Pandora's Box.  Hopes have turned to Expectations and very quickly those will become Demands.  These days, the only thing tougher that earning a #6 ranking is "keeping" a #6 ranking.  If the Bulls don't beat FAU by more than  two touchdowns, they'll fall in the rankings.  Bulls fans, are you ready for that rollercoaster ride?  Remember, the only rankings that count are the rankings at the end of the season.  A top ten in January...now that would be incredi-BULL.  Al Keck.