With the first week’s action out of the way, and all of the Pac-10 sporting a game under their belts, here’s our first update to the Action News Pac-10 Power Rankings. As usual, no tricky dance moves, no high impact gyrations:

T-Wire/Action News Pac-10 Power Rankings – Week 2

1.) USC

After an offseason spent retooling, Papa Bear gave the entire nation two tickets to the gun show. And the nation said “oh no, not again.”

2.) Oregon

Sure it was Stanford, but the Ducks looked good. If a QB emerges in Eugene to lead this team, they are almost assured of just barely getting assed-out by the BCS yet again.

3.) Cal

We’re still too disgusted by what we saw to even comment. Wes Mantooth, you’ve disgraced the entire San Diego anchorman profession with your showing in Knoxville last weekend. Go sit in a corner and think about what you’ve done.

4.) Arizona

Sure they needed a late field goal to put away BYU. But Arizona is our darkhorse Pac-10 pick (and first conference opponent) — so we’re going to chalk that first game up to nerves/a surprisingly tough BYU team, and keep our eyes on the Wildcats real test — this weekend against LSU.

5.) UCLA

The Southpaw Jesus era has officially begun in Pasadena. How do you know when it’s September in Southern California? It’s the time of year when the powder blue Kool-aid is being guzzled by the gallon.

6.) Arizona State

Down against Northern Arizona in the 2nd half? Not a good start for the Sun Devils.

7.) Oregon State

The 56 points they put up was impressive, even if it was Eastern Washington they scored them on. The Beavers are going to surprise somebody this year — we’re just hoping for more than 5% visibility when the Trojans make the trip to Corvallis.

8.) Washington

The Huskies enjoyed one of the first “if the rule change wasn’t in place, what might have happened?” victory on Saturday against San Jose State. Next up is an Oklahoma team who didn’t exactly overwhelm people against those stalwart Blazers of Alabama-Birmingham.

9.) Washington State

They hung tough with Auburn thru a lot of the first half, and didn’t really get totally put away until the 4th quarter. Sure they really never had a chance — but they didn’t look much worse against Auburn than Cal did against Tennessee.

10.) Stanford

Yikes Stanford, yikes. Sure Wazzu lost too — but at least they put up a fight on the road in Auburn. You guys headed a few hours north and got run over. Can’t you guys get the Google billionaires to shell out and buy you a real team?