So much for my insistence on WBAL yesterday that the Maryland Terrapins would crack the Top 25 after their second victory over a Top 20 team in three weeks. The Terps were the odd team out in the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll, finishing 26th in the voting. They were 30th in the USA Today coaches poll.

Nevertheless, the Terps and the Midshipmen of Navy both scored unlikely victories on the road on Saturday against ranked teams, and the Redskins traveled to Dallas to pull off another Maryland-based upset yesterday. That leaves the Ravens needing to hold up their end as they go into tonight's Monday Night Football showdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field as a five-point underdog.

I cannot tell a lie. I picked the Steelers to win this one by 10 points, but I would have picked Wake Forest to trounce Navy and I had little confidence in Maryland at Clemson. Didn't care one way or another about the Redskins, but I'll give them credit for letting some of the air out of the team that a lot of people think will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.