In a perfect world, the Doc would be given carte blanche to publicly torch the Bowl Championship Series in effigy and institute the elaborate, double-elimination battle royale of his dreams. But we live in the world we live in, so each Sunday the Doc looks at what the new BCS numbers mean for the rest of the season. Rooting interest: chaos. Always chaos.

Seven teams go into the weekend undefeated, and seven teams come out unscathed for the second week in a row. And although there is some movement in this week's lineup -- Texas hops Alabama into the No. 2 spot across the board, Cincinnati leapfrogs TCU and Boise State to assume USC's vacant position at No. 5 -- the status quo remains numbingly consistent: If the "Big Three" at the top continue to win out, the BCS title game will inevitably feature Big 12 champ Texas vs. the winner of the SEC showdown between Florida and Alabama, or possibly LSU if the Tigers make their move by upsetting 'Bama this weekend and go on to take the SEC championship. The only drama as far as the top two positions are concerned is what happens if/when one of the "Big Three" goes down, opening up room for some chaos from the not-so-big contingent of upstarts lurking immediately behind them (see below).

But there's plenty of drama throughout the poll:

• First principles. Although it's still a long way from affecting anything at the top of the standings, one of the great poll debates down the stretch (assuming both keep winning) is destined to be Oregon vs. Boise State, and the test it puts to voters re: Boise's convincing win over the Ducks to open the season: As the Ducks surge toward the Pac-10 title and the Broncos' schedule is increasingly bogged down by the likes of San Jose State, Louisiana Tech, Utah State and New Mexico State, will Oregon's vast improvement and vastly more difficult schedule since the opening night debacle be enough to lift it past Boise, a la Oklahoma's offensive dominance down the stretch and tougher non-conference schedule overcoming its head-to-head loss to Texas last year? Or will the scoreboard on Sept. 3 remain sacrosanct for the rest of the year?

The human polls don't seem to be asking themselves this question yet -- Boise remains three spots ahead of Oregon in the Coaches' poll and four spots ahead in the Harris, probably too wide a gap for the Ducks to make up if both keep winning. But the computers had no such qualms: As a group, they ranked Oregon ahead of Boise State, and five of the six computer polls this week (all except Richard Billingsley's) break for the Ducks, who should only pull further ahead as they get further into the Pac-10 slate.

• As their affair progressed, the computers demanded Iowa bring them more than roses. The other interesting gap this week, like last week, is the divergent opinion between the humans and the computers about what to with Iowa. The Harris and Coaches' polls continue to turn up their noses at the Hawkeyes "ugly" wins, ranking them as the worst of the remaining unbeatens for the second week in a row; the computers continue to love the strength of schedule and couldn't care less about how the Ws keep coming. (Literally, they couldn't; it's against the rules.)

But even the machines, which almost unanimously voted Iowa No. 1 last week, have to back off this week as the strength of schedule was dilluted by Indiana and bad road losses by Michigan and Michigan State took some of the shine off the Hawkeyes' wins over the Wolverines and Spartans. The machines fall in line with feeble hu-mahn brains this week with a near-sweep for Florida; only Peter Wolfe's poll still submits Iowa as No. 1, and it's summarily tossed from the average as the Hawkeyes' high score.

Still, the computers are bullish enough to keep Iowa in place as the first contingency plan if any two of the 'Big Three' can't fulfill their duties up there. As long as it's still winning, you haven't heard the last from Iowa, even if you wish you had.

• The Brat Pack. I'm in search of a catchall term for the persistent cluster of unbeaten teams ranked 4-8 -- Iowa, Cincinnati, TCU and Boise State -- that, whatever their specific order from week to week, no one seems to really consider worthy of national championship consideration, yet which all sit very poised to slide into one of those top two spots if the dominoes in front of them start falling. I've referred to Iowa before as coming along in the "Commissioner Valchek" role, as an unappealing team that's very well adapted to its surroundings and manages to survive long enough to rise to the top, even when no one thinks they belong there, but that reference may be a little too obscure to stick. More readily accessible suggestions along those lines are welcome.