Another week, another set of Action News Pac-10 Power Rankings. Not a ton of movement up top, but some shuffling down below. Except of course for that bottom slot, which Stanford seems dead-set on keeping all season long.

T-Wire/Action News Pac-10 Power Rankings – Week 3

1.) USC

Even a week off and a controversial Yahoo! Sports article can’t knock Papa Bear from his throne.

2.) Oregon

Played tough against the always formidable Bulldogs of Fresno State. Next up is the Ducks first REAL test — Adrian Peterson and Oklahoma.

3.) Cal

Restored some dignity beating Minnesota. But didn’t look nearly good enough to make anyone forget about Knoxville.

4.) (TIE) Arizona State

Rudy Carpenter obviously musked up before suiting up to play Nevada. With 594 yards passing and 7 TDs through 2 games, Ruuuuuudy! might even be emerging as a darkhorse Heisman candidate. Next up is Colorado, where Rudy will need to pad those stats some more, before an UGLY 3-week stretch against Cal, Oregon and USC.

4.) (TIE) UCLA

After a solid opener against Utah, Bruin enthusiasm was tempered somewhat with a less-than-impressive 26-16 victory over “The Stanford of Texas.” This week Tits McGee heads north for its first conference game against Washington. We’re waiting for this week’s input from Hugh Johnson before we analyze the Baby Blues any further.

6.) Arizona

We didn’t necessarily expect the Wildcats to BEAT LSU, especially after their tepid opener against BYU. But we at least thought they’d show up and play. Instead LSU turned the Wildcats’ visit into their own personal Whammy-fest.

7.) Washington

After that shameful opening game against San Jose State, at least they showed up against Oklahoma — putting up 20 points and forcing Adrian Peterson (Is there anyone else on his team? We didn’t notice.) to actually work for the W.

8.) Washington State

Look out world — Garth looked pretty tough against the Vandals of Idaho.

9.) Oregon State

Just when we started to get excited for the Beav (around the time they went up 14-0 on Boise State), somebody comes along and chops an arm off, to the tune of 42 unanswered points. Ouch.

10.) Stanford

With 2-0 Navy coming into town (and their MVP suspended for the game), an 0-3 start is looking pretty likely for the Tree People.