Wherein we sum things up with one eye towards the past, one towards the future, and stumbling over ourselves from looking at the world cross-eyed.

Wherein the bottom gets pushed around, and the third-best is up for the debate, but the top of the heap remains unchanged.

The Flashes keep on winning, and wind up getting surpassed in the rankings by teams that didn't even play - including the team they just defeated.

Wherein the top is flipped again, and we have some educational moments now that all this non-conference nonsense is done and over with.

It's time to end October right. . . with some football!

Wherein I throw a wrench into the proceedings - because I can, and because I think it's only fair for you to lose your hold on a position when you've done nothing recently to justify it.

The Ohio Bobcats stay atop the latest power ranking, since they remain unbeaten, but I'm not convinced they're the best MAC team anymore (throws bone to live Husky mascot to avoid certain death).

Wherein we revel in the absolute explosion of offense that was week five, and discuss the worries that have cropped up as a result for some teams.

Well, it's week four in the books now, and the top is still the top, while the bottom is still the bottom. There are... signs of trouble: BG's offense Toledo's pass defense EMU's entire team ...

Not everyone had a game to show up to this week...and not everyone that had a game to play actually appeared to do so. Either way, I have re-ranked the squads accordingly in this week's MAC Power Rankings