The Ball State University football team was ranked No. 20 in the first BCS standings of the season that were released Sunday.The Cardinals were fifth among teams who are not from one of the six BCS conferences - the ACC, Big 12, Big East Big Ten, PAC 10 and SEC.The BCS standings are a combination of human and computer polls. They are used to determine which teams make the nation's largest bowl games.For more coverage of the Cardinals' ranking, check out Monday's edition of The Ball State Daily News.