At the end of the day on the College GameDay set, Lee Corso and I name our top five teams, but after last weekend's 26-3 domination of Tennessee, I grade Miami on a different scale. The Hurricanes are clearly the top team in the nation and behind them you can order everyone else however you like.

We can set aside all the questions surrounding the 'Canes. They used the doubt that had surrounded them over the last few weeks to motivate them for what was perceived as a difficult road game in Knoxville.

	Ken Dorsey manages a game better than anyone in college.

Outside of the 74-yard run by Cedric Houston early in the game, the Miami defense completely shut down the Vols -- allowing just 212 total yards. To see the Hurricanes dominate both athletically and with execution, shows how well-coached this team is.

It was amazing to see the disparity in athletic ability in person. The 'Canes were athletically superior in man coverage in the secondary, freeing up the safeties to help with the run game.

Tennessee is one of the elite programs in the country and has been decimated by injuries, but this was a case of men against boys. The lesson to be learned is that there may not be a team out there that can beat Miami when it is motivated to play and gives tremendous effort for four quarters

Sometimes a team has to lose a game to get back on the right track, but in Miami's case it kept winning games and lost only style points. Now the Hurricanes are back on track and control their own destiny

There has been a debate all year about who the best quarterback in college is but watching Ken Dorsey on Saturday ended that discussion. Dorsey manages a game better than anyone out there. He has incredible awareness of down and distance, clock management, substitutions, audibles, defenses and everything else on the field.

He is in complete control and always seems to deliver in situations where the 'Canes need a big play. There may be quarterbacks who are faster or have stronger arms, but as far as managing a game and exuding confidence goes Dorsey is the best.

Miami offensive coordinator Rod Chudzinski's old-fashioned, pro-style offense with a tight end, two backs and two receivers really helps. They are one of the few teams in the country that utilizes the tight end as an athletic weapon and not just a guy who keeps the defense honest.

Kellen Winslow, Jeremy Shockey and Bubba Franks have been almost as athletic in recent years as the Miami wide receivers, and they are all about 6-foot-5, 250 pounds. When teams are trying to defend Miami they worry so much about the receivers that the next thing they know Winslow comes down the field in a one-on-one mismatch with a linebacker.

And when the opponent is focused on the passing game, Miami is going to come back on the ground with one of the best backs in the country in Willis McGahee. The Hurricanes just have tremendous balance and great ball distribution to a number of different receivers.

The challenge for them now is to maintain that effort in the final three games against Pitt, Syracuse and Virginia Tech. When a team wins 30 straight games and is as talented as Miami, it knows it is better than its opponents. That feeling took some of the shine off this team when it showed up and did just enough to win in the previous three weeks.

Coach Larry Coker needs to get his team to play with the old Hurricanes swagger and not worry about outside influences providing motivation. From here on out, everyone is going to talk about how great Miami is and how it is clearly the No. 1 team in the country, so disrespect can no longer be a jump start.

Repeating as national champions should be the motivation.

Aggies surprise everyone
Everyone thinks of Texas A&M as being dangerous at home no matter who it is playing, but few saw the Aggies' 30-24 upset of Oklahoma coming. After all, A&M had already lost three times this year at Kyle Field coming into the game.

As usually happens in upsets late in the year, the Aggies hung around early and ended the first half tied at 13. That got the team and the crowd believing the upset could happen, and you could see as the game went on that A&M believed it was going to win.

Freshman quarterback Reggie McNeal helped by putting on an offensive show, coming off the bench to deliver 190 yards passing and four touchdown strikes. He also rushed for 86 yards and showed great poise for a freshman against one of the best defenses in the country.

Aggies coch R.C. Slocum has taken a lot of heat this year and this win was huge for him. It was vintage Texas A&M football, playing confidently at home. Even though Oklahoma had 401 yards of total offense the Aggies defense made key plays and got the ball back to the offense when it mattered.

This is the first time this year the OU secondary has had so may lapses and A&M did a good job of taking advantage. Give the Aggies credit for coming up with a scheme that exploited that weakness.

The Sooners do not need to question their defense, though. This game just proves that every team has a letdown. Oklahoma played well against Texas and Iowa State, but the coaches were a little disappointed in the way the team tackled against Colorado, so many figured that the Sooners would come back with great effort.

But they assuredly did not think Terrence Murphy, Greg Porter and Bethel Johnson would combine for 10 catches, 215 yards and four touchdowns to be the difference in the game.

Will OSU learn from Purdue?
I hate to say I told you so, but I said all week that Ohio State's toughest remaining game would be with Purdue. That's different from the biggest game, which, of course, is the season finale against Michigan.

Joe Tiller had an extra week to get his team prepared, the Buckeyes have struggled on the road this year and Purdue had a legitimate shot at winning in what turned out to be a 10-6 victory for OSU.

Ohio State helped the Boilermakers by being extra-conservative on offense, continuing to run the ball into the eight and nine-man fronts the Purdue defense presented.

It does not matter how good a running game is, it will face a lot of third-and-long situations against defenses that stack the line of scrimmage. In obvious passing situations last week, Purdue brought pressure and Ohio State's offensive line could not protect Craig Krenzel. The Buckeye's offense was swimming upstream the entire game.

When a team is ranked in the top three and plays good defense and special teams, there is a tendency for the offense to err on the side of caution and play not to lose the game. There is something to be said for that, but at the same time coaches have to be aggressive because they do not want to be in a situation where there is no chance to make plays that could win the game. Ohio State was overly-cautious and it almost backfired.

How ironic is it then, after all that conservative play, that on the biggest play of the year OSU pulled out all the stops on fourth-and-one and went with a streak down the sideline? To the Buckeyes' credit, Krenzel and Michael Jenkins made the play when they had to.

And then Chris Gamble came up with another big interception to seal the game. This guy has been outstanding on both sides of the ball all year and all four of his interceptions have come at critical times.

Ohio State now has a game at Illinois before coming back to Ohio Stadium to take on Michigan, and the question is whether the Buckeyes can learn from the mistakes against Purdue and give themselves a chance to execute or continue to rely on dominating defense and special teams to win another close game.

Hawkeyes, Trojans rolling along
Iowa and USC may not win their conference championships, but they are playing as well as anyone in the country right now.

For the Hawkeyes, Brad Banks continues to make a strong case for Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year. He had 197 yards passing against Northwestern, completing all 10 of his attempts and threw for three touchdowns. Oh, he also rushed for 54 yards on five carries and scored two more touchdowns on the ground. Iowa dominated Northwestern, 62-10, and won its eighth straight game to move to 10-1.

The Trojans had another strong overall performance and continued to get spectacular play from Carson Palmer. The senior quarterback went 22-for-32 against Stanford for 317 yards and four touchdowns. There is no doubt he should be considered one of the frontrunners for the Heisman Trophy. Palmer has cracked the 300-yard barrier in three of the last four games, all Trojan wins.

Wazzu gets its revenge
After the performance Onterrio Smith had against Washington State last year -- an Oregon-record 285 yards rushing and three touchdowns -- a lot of people were anxious to see how the Cougars' defense would hold up this year. It responded by shutting him down to the tune of 64 yards on 25 carries in a 32-21 win over the Ducks.

The WSU defense gave up only one touchdown as Oregon scored once each on interception and fumble returns, and allowed just over 200 yards of total offense as Jason Gesser and the Wazzu offense continued to be difficult to slow.

Gesser was 20-for-38 for 277 yards and four TDs in the game while Devard Darling and Mike Bush combined for 16 receptions, 240 yards and four scores. But what has made them difficult to defend is the balance running back Jermaine Green has given them, rushing for 180 yards against the Ducks.

The Cougars now have a bye week coming up and are just one win away from returning to the Rose Bowl for the second time in five years.

Even Randall can't save the Hokies
Virginia Tech's porous defense has been a shock over the last two weeks, especially giving up over 553 yards of total offense in a 50-42, three-overtime upset at Syracuse. Every year the Hokies put together a unit that is tough to run on, but in the last two weeks Syracuse rushed for 201 yards and and Pittsburgh for 275.

When Virginia Tech cannot take away the run it becomes mortal. Defensive coordinator Bud Foster is surely irate and probably just as confused as the rest of us. The Hokies have had some injures, but that is no excuse for giving up nearly 500 rushing yards in two games.

The most surprising thing was that the Orangemen came into the game 3-6 and put forth such a great effort. They decided to show some life and also showed a lot of heart by coming through in three overtimes.

Paul Pasqualoni has dealt with a lot this year and some people have called for his job, but the administration is sticking by him and he is obviously doing something right to get that kind of game out of his team considering the circumstances.

If Miami has one potential pitfall remaining on the schedule it is the Nov. 30 game in the Carrier Dome. Miami will be fired up against Pitt and Virginia Tech at home, but may overlook a Syracuse team that is currently 4-6 the and at least give the Orangemen a chance.

As for Virginia Tech, its running game is predicated on success in the passing game because teams put so many players guys at the line of scrimmage. The Hokies have to prove they can throw and get teams to respect the passing game, which will get them to back off a little and open up the running game.

But Syracuse never backed off against the run and Virginia Tech had to continue to throw the ball. The Hokies threw it well, getting 505 passing yards and five TD passes from Bryan Randall, but that wasn't because they missed Kevin Jones or thought Randall could win the game by himself. They were taking what the defense was giving them.

Did that just happen?
After Kentucky hit a field goal to go up 30-27 on LSU with 11 second to go, I was about to say "What a win for Kentucky and Guy Morriss". The coach got the victory shower and fans were ready to charge onto the field, and no one in the world would have expected what happened next.

LSU started at its own 13-yard line and got a completion from Marcus Randall to Michael Clayton that moved the ball to its own 25. Randall then dropped back and hurled the ball to the Kentucky 20, where it was tipped and ended up in the hands of Devery Henderson, who slipped between two defenders for the winning score.

But what made the play incredible was that Henderson managed to get into the end zone. Why did Kentucky not have at least one guy deeper than everyone else in case that very scenario unfolded? The ball fell right into Henderson's hands and kept LSU's hopes alive in the SEC West.

That ending ranks up there with the great finishes in college football history -- the Kordell Stewart Hail Mary that beat Michigan in 1994, Doug Flutie's game-winning pass against Miami in 1984 -- and is one of those I-can't-believe-what-I-just-saw moments.

Players of the Week
Chris Brown, Colorado - Continued to dominate with 211 yards and three touchdowns in an overtime win at Missouri. The more I see of Brown the more I like his power and deceptive speed, and he ranks among the top backs in the country.

Reggie McNeal, Texas A&M - The freshman showed poise by coming off the bench to throw for 198 yards and four touchdowns in an upset of Oklahoma, the Aggies' first-ever win over a No. team.

Carson Palmer - His four TD passes in the rout of Stanford give him 61 for his career, breaking the school record formerly held by Rob Johnson.

Bryan Randall, Virginia Tech - The Hokies came up short in overtime, but not because of the effort Randall put forth in throwing for a Big East-record 504 yards and a school-record five touchdowns.

Kliff Kingsbury, Texas Tech - Threw for 425 yards and four touchdowns in a win over Oklahoma State, moving up to No. 5 on the NCAA career passing list with 11,394 yards.

Carlyle Holiday, Notre Dame - Led the Irish to 15 fourth-quarter points in a comeback win against Navy. Finished the game 13-of-21 for 272 yards, including the game-winning, 67-yard TD pass to Omar Jenkins.

The entire Miami defense - The 'Canes dominated the Tennessee offense, giving up just 212 total yards and three points against the Vols.

Coaches of the Week
R.C. Slocum, Texas A&M - The big win over OU could not have come at a better time for him and his staff.

Ralph Friedgen, Maryland - Last year's ACC Coach of the Year has done an even better job this year as the Terrapins have overcome injuries to win seven in row, move to 8-2 and make the ACC race very interesting.

Kirk Herbstreit is an analyst for ESPN College GameDay.