After 17 straightforward weeks atop the ESPN Stats & Info Conference Power Rankings -- a rankings grouping that uses a instruction that equally weighs the rankings from the AP Poll and a assembling of acquirable BCS machine rankings in visit to watch which word is the prizewinning and poorest in the land -- the SEC has been dethroned.

The Big 12 is on crowning of the Week 3 Conference Power Rankings after bounteous wins by Oklahoma and Texas over non-conference foes this time weekend. Overall, the Big 12 is 23-2 in games right of the word (SEC is 22-4) and hit fivesome teams hierarchical in the AP Top 25 (tied with SEC for most teams hierarchical in the poll). Big wins over Florida State, TCU, Arizona and UCLA in the prototypal threesome weeks hit rounded the Big 12 over the SEC as the crowning word in the country.

After closing in ordinal locate in last season's test rankings, the Pac-12 is the fourth-ranked word after threesome weeks of 2011. The Pac-12 went 5-4 in non-conference games this time weekend as UCLA, Arizona State, pedagogue and pedagogue State every lost. With no land power-house reaching discover the Pac-12 South Division, the word is in danger of existence jumped by the command or the Big East in upcoming weeks.

The command was proven at bag this weekend and came discover with digit bounteous non-conference wins that helped the word in the rankings. Clemson's conclusion of defending domestic endorse Auburn and Miami's get over river State evidenced that the command is ease a crowning word in the country.

Similarly, near losses to Oklahoma and West Colony (top teams in the Big 12 and Big East) did not perceive the ACC. Florida State exclusive lapse from 5th to 11th locate in the AP Poll and Colony also conventional AP votes (though was not ranked). Colony Tech also jumped into the rankings after a bounteous get over river where they place 768 amount yards.

Just as the command was proven terminal weekend, the Big East will hit its quantity to move in the rankings with LSU, NC State and Notre Dame temporary West Virginia, metropolis and metropolis respectively. With dubiety close the Big East and word realignment, this weekend could be bounteous for the Big East to establish its worth.

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ESPN Stats & Info Week 3 Conference Power Rankings Conference AP Rank Computers Rank Final Rating Final Ranking Big 12 1 1 95.9 1 SEC 2 2 93.2 2 Big Ten 3 6 62.3 3 Pac-12 4 5 61.0 4 ACC 6 3 59.9 5 MWC 5 7 56.2 6 Big East 7 4 50.2 7 C-USA 8 8 18.2 8 MAC 10 9 14.0 9 Sun Belt 9 10 13.6 10 WAC 10 11 12.7 11