The top seven teams in the BCS standings remained the same, but an interloper, if you will, continues to move up the list.

Ohio State, Boston College and LSU remained first, second and third, but it's the team at No. 14 – Hawaii – that is notable. Despite being unranked by five of the six computers used in the standings, the Warriors moved up three spots this week because of their high standing in the media polls.

Hawaii, which mauled New Mexico State 50-13 on Saturday night, is 10th in the Harris Interactive poll and 11th in the USA Today coaches' poll.

A non-BCS league team is guaranteed a BCS spot in two ways. One is if it finishes in the top 12; the other is if it is ranked in the top 16 and its ranking is higher than that of a conference champion that has an automatic berth. Hawaii is the highest-ranked non-BCS team, and the six BCS leagues have at least one team in the top seven.

The Warriors' schedule is ranked as the weakest in the nation among Division I-A teams by the NCAA this week. They are off this week; they finish out the regular season with home games against Fresno State (Nov. 10), Boise State (Nov. 23) and Washington (Dec. 1) and a road game against Nevada (Nov. 16).

The three components of the standings are the coaches' poll; the Harris poll - voted on by media members and by former players, coaches and administrators - and six computers. Each of the components counts one-third. The best and worst computer rankings are thrown out, and the sum total of the remaining four is divided by 100 (the maximum possible points) to come up with the BCS' computer rankings percentage.

While strength of schedule isn't a BCS component, all six computers have a strength-of-schedule factor in their rankings.

The final BCS standings will be released Dec. 2. Teams first and second in the final standings meet in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 7 in New Orleans.

Ohio State's lead over No. 2 Boston College is .197 points; the lead was .258 last week. LSU is .680 behind BC; it was .387 behind last week.

At least one team in the BCS top five is guaranteed to lose this week, because No. 5 Oregon plays host to No. 4 Arizona State on Saturday. The Ducks beat USC this past weekend, and Arizona State downed California.

Some other items of interest from the third set of standings:

• Boston College is ranked first by four of the six computers and for the second week in a row has an average computer ranking of first. Ohio State is No. 1 in the other two computers and is tied for second with Arizona State in the average computer ranking.

• The ACC and SEC each have five teams in the top 25. The Big 12 has four, the Big East, Big Ten and Pac-10 have three each and the WAC has two. The Big 12 has the most in the top 10, with three.

• Oklahoma was idle over the weekend, but the Sooners' computer ranking jumped five spots, from 14th to ninth.

• For the third week in a row, Texas – which is 15th this week in the standings – isn't in the top 25 of any of the six computers. Hawaii, which is 14th, is ranked by just one computer. No. 21 Wisconsin also is unranked by all six computers.

• The biggest mover was Connecticut, which jumped 10 spots to No. 13 after beating USF. The Bulls, meanwhile, dropped from 10th to 18th. Other big moves: Georgia from 18th to 10th and Michigan from 20th to 12th. Other big drops: USC from 12th to 19th, Virginia from 15th to 23rd and Florida from 11th to 20th.

• Four teams moved in: Wisconsin at No. 21, Boise State at No. 22, Wake Forest at No. 24 and Clemson at No. 25. Kentucky (which had been 14th), South Carolina (16th), California (21st) and Penn State (25th) dropped out of the standings.

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