While the Colorado Mammoth still leads the Lacrosse-Network.com Experts Poll this week, the Tusks have lost their perfect score and another team lost ground after winning -- to a team that lost.

Colorado, which "only" won 10-8 at Portland on Thursday and then beat Calgary at home on Sunday, drew 103 points on seven first-place votes and one second-place vote.

That's still enough to stay well ahead of second-place Rochester (97 points, one first-place vote), which crushed the very same LumberJax, 18-12, two nights later at Blue Cross Arena.

Winning, and margin of victory, seemingly became less important with the next three positions, where Buffalo jumped both Philadelphia and Arizona to move into third place, at 81 points.

While it makes sense that the Bandits overtook the Wings (following a 12-8 win at Philadelphia this past weekend), it was far less expected that Philadelphia would manage to break its tie with Arizona (which beat Edmonton in overtime) and establish a 78-71 lead.

The only other move this week was a big one, with Portland paying dearly for losing to both division leaders. The LumberJax lost nineteen points from last week (46 to 27) and, more importantly, slid three spots, to eleventh.

In the wake of Portland's fall, Minnesota (48 points), Chicago (41 points) and Edmonton (30 points) all moved up one spot.

Our panel of eight experts includes a wide range of top lacrosse minds, including Outsider's Guide writers, players, and coaches. Scoring is on an 13-12-11-etc. basis, so that the maximum score a team can earn is 104 points and the minimum is eight points.

The complete rankings from this week's Experts Poll, with comments (win-loss record through Sunday is in parentheses):

WEEK EIGHT                                      Pts  Prv
 1. Colorado Mammoth (8-1)                      103    1
    Coasting towards division title
 2. Rochester Knighthawks (6-2)                  97    2
    When they're on, they're ON
 3. Buffalo Bandits (4-4)                        81    5
    Playing Wings again, this time at HSBC...
 4. Philadelphia Wings (4-3)                     78   3t
    ...Philly hoping 12-8 loss just a fluke
 5. Arizona Sting (5-2)                          71   3t
    Really having difficulties with Rush
 6. Calgary Roughnecks (4-3)                     70    6
    Home-and-home against hated Rock...
 7. Toronto Rock (3-3)                           55    7
    ...Winning streak likely to end this week
 8. Minnesota Swarm (4-3)                        48    9
    Needed two wins last weekend, and got 'em
 9. Chicago Shamrox (3-4)                        41   10
    Reality starting to creep in
10. Edmonton Rush (2-4)                          30   11
    Playoff team by default?
11. Portland LumberJax (2-6)                     27    8
    Offense! [clap clap] Offense! [clap clap] 
12. San Jose Stealth (1-5)                       16   12
    Saturday, at NY: 2007 Toilet Bowl
13. New York Titans (1-7)                        11   13
    Defense! [clap clap] Defense! [clap clap]