Full disclosure: My AP Top 25 ballot    I try to tell myself
(and my wife, most Sunday mornings) that I spend more time
poring over my AP top 25 ballot than most voters, though I don't
know that I finish the process more confident in my voting
rationale as a result. Often, there is no right answer, only
solid arguments on both sides of a debate, like today. Talked to
lots of people last night and this morning, and here's where
I am.  What matters most this week is whether Alabama or
Oklahoma State should be ranked No. 2. Watching the Cowboys
start to demolish rival Oklahoma on Saturday night, I wondered
how much they'd have to win by to make an argument to be ahead
of the Tide. The 34-point win certainly opened the discussion,
made you lay out the two teams side by side and poke and prod
and evaluate and re-evaluate.  Oklahoma State has a stronger
schedule, yes, but Alabama has faced a strong schedule. The
biggest difference to me is who their overtime loss came to --
losing to LSU in overtime vs. losing to a