I also think a fair argument can be made that they'd handle us head to head, so what are you gonna do?
Oregon on the other hand deserves to be slightly ahead of us...they lost close to Auburn then won 9 straight and we're up to number 6 and got upset in a close one to ASU (if memory serves, last time we played ASU we got royally F'd up so let's not be too judgy about it)...they dropped 8 spots after losing a close one on the road, we dropped 8 spots after getting our shit pushed in on the road by a better opponent, seems fair enough. ...and I'm someone who likes to complain about fairness in the polls.