Because Michigan and ND are a big rivalry game every season and without fail the winner becomes ranked no matter how bad they actually are. People might want to start thinking about that in future years. To be fair, Michigan is one of only a handful of teams who hadn't played a cupcake team in the first 2 games of the season, and they won both of their games. Of course I say that and UConn is getting beat by 2 scores by Temple.