- Florida (9-0) Though without Brandon Spikes on Saturday, their defense still held strong, albeit against an offense that's averaging seven points per conference game. Still, a win's a win as the top three stay the same.
- Texas (9-0) Colt McCoy (470 passing yards) and Jordan Shipley (273 receiving yards) probably hadn't run and passed around with this much ease since high school. Good luck trying to match those numbers on a video game.
- Alabama (9-0) Greg McElroy was happy to see November or the end of October at least. Alabama fans were ecstatic to see a healthy Julio, especially back in the endzone. Possibly overshadowed by those two were Mark Ingram's 144 rushing yards and another dominating performance by the Tide's defense. This was the first game in a month I remember a team throwing to a receiver that Javier Arenas was covering; the incompletion spoke for itself.
- TCU (9-0) I keep hearing that they're the team no one wants to play right now, that their defense is punishing teams, and that they're looking very strong. We'll see how the lights of Gameday look in Ft. Worth this Saturday.
- Cincinnati (9-0) With Iowa and Oregon already going down in the day, it seemed like Cincinnati was going to be the next victim. Not so fast, said the Bearcats.
- Boise State (9-0) Though the loss at Stanford quiets the "Oregon is a better team now than early in the season" crowd, it still drops Boise's only marquee win another notch.
- Georgia Tech (9-1) Such fun to watch this offense go, even if it's through a bi-polar conference.
- LSU (7-2) If Jefferson doesn't injure his ankle. If Scott doesn't break his collarbone. If the interception that really was an interception got called an interception. Then the game might have been closer than the nine-point difference. But not much. The fourth quarter means something again in Tuscaloosa.
- Iowa (8-1) Tough loss, both on the scoreboard and to the quarterback, Ricky Stanzi. They still had a chance to win, though. Funny how the voters easily forgive a Matt Barkley-less-but-still-talently-loaded USC team at Washington but drop a Ricky Stanzi-less Iowa team like a sack of dirt. Not here.
- Houston (8-1) Chase Keenum is putting up numbers that defy gravity. They danced with the Big 12 and won. They battled the SEC and won. They stumbled in El Paso but only then. Tulsa tossled them a bit, but they eeked it out. Good for them. Props for scheduling and for winning.
Pittsburgh: Weak, weak schedule so far. Could push Charlie Weis out of his hot seat on Saturday, though.
Utah: Could spoil things for TCU this weekend.
Oregon: Why they're not ranked ahead of USC confounds me and bothers me.
USC: Why they're not ranked ahead of Ohio State confounds me and bothers me.
Ohio State: Why they're ranked so high after defeating a clearly overrated and overhyped Penn State team just irks me.
Dude. You nailed it.
ReplyDeleteI've got Bama and Texas flipped and TCU down below Cincy and Boise, but other than that, you pegged my top 10. I can totally understand Texas above Bama though, and after Cincy's close win, they may not deserve the four spot. I just love the fact that they keep overcoming obstacles to win.
As for your close calls--right on par again! I went ahead and made a top 20 this week. Pitt and Utah are sitting 11 and 12, of course. I gotta put the one-loss teams up high. I've got OK State at 13, which is way higher than most, but I like them better than the alternatives.
14-17 are Miami, Oregon, USC, and OSU--in that order. I'm not particularly impressed with any of them. You're right though. Oregon > USC > OSU.
Penn State, Wisconsin, and BYU round out the top 20 for me. When it gets to that point and you're picking between 7-2/6-2/6-3 teams, I feel like it's pretty much a crapshoot.
The real question, though: Why do people say that LSU fans "smell like corndogs" or "are corndogs"? It makes no sense to me, but several people were discussing why this terminology was rampant around campus last week.
ReplyDelete(My proposition: Corndogs remind me of fair food, fairs are carnivals, carnivals are mini-Mardi Gras celebrations, Mardi Gras = New Orleans = LSU.)
-Cathy