The only 2 loss teams ahead of us are Oklahoma, and LSU, so that's about right. I think LSU is too high at 14th.Two losses is two losses, regardless of preseason ranking, or percieved team strengths.
At this point, I hope Notre Dame gets beat again, and if we can win out, and beat Texas, maybe we could get in a bowl matchup with ND. I think we'd beat the crap out of them.The last thing I want to see, is ND win out, and the media snake them into the national title game, but it would not surprise me.
As far as us holding our poll position relatively well, I think because it was widely televised, many got to see that we had them beat, but for the unfortunate fumble, and it helped us.