Weekly College Football Thoughts (10/22/11)

Thoughts on last weekend:
-Clemson is the clear favorite in the ACC. The only other teams that look good are inconsistent (Virginia Tech, Florida State & Georgia Tech…who lost to Miami).

-Kansas had no business being on the same field as K-State…who looks like a top 10 team.

-Anytime a Stoops brother loses, I rejoice. Therefore, I was rejoicing during Oklahoma’s loss to Texas Tech.

-West Virginia is not a top 25 team and for some reason nobody else noticed until this weekend’s loss to Syracuse

-Even at 6-2, Ron Zook has to be fired at the end of the season right? He continues to show incompetence on and off the field (remember when he admitted he didn’t know the score?).

-Apparently touchdown’s don’t have to be conclusive. Just look at the Michigan State winning TD over Wisconsin.

-I’m a big Paul Wulff backer and I still think he should get one more year, but man, he is not making life for backers like me easy. Just an ugly loss to Oregon State.

-I’m surprised Rick Neuheisel made it to the bus with a job. He has to be gone in the next two months. As one UCLA fan put it, "To call that game embarrassing is embarrassing to the word embarrassing."

-Stanford and Oregon continue to show that they are the teams to beat in the Pac-12, but USC’s win over Notre Dame (aka the one time a year I root for USC) shows the Trojans won’t be an easy win.

-Arkansas has to be the weakest team in the top 10 right? How can you, a top 10 team, barely beat Ole Miss?

-I can’t wait for “Oversigning Bowl” 2011: Alabama vs. LSU. Eleven Warriors makes some great arguments about how this should be a major storyline going into the game, but probably won’t. Les Miles is a Michigan Man, but he has some shady practices. I, for one, am glad he’s not Michigan’s coach. Oversigning is wrong on many levels: it is unfair to the athletes and it is unfair to teams that play by the rules. I can’t believe they continue to get away with this and I hope that the NCAA cracks down on this. They’re probably too busy making sure some football recruit isn’t sleeping on someone’s couch for a night without paying prorated rent and getting rides to practice. One of the players had to repay the $2.34 (literally) that the NCAA ruled he owed. But somehow Saban and Miles continue to get away with oversigning and then cutting players.


Games I’m most excited for this next weekend:
Clemson @ Georgia Tech (could determine ACC champion)
Stanford @ USC (we will see how good USC really is)
Oklahoma @ Kansas State (if Oklahoma loses, they are basically out of it)
Michigan State @ Nebraska (Michigan State’s first real road test)
Georgia @ Florida (great rivalry game)


If NCAA had playoffs they would/should look like if the playoffs started today: 1) Based on BCS standings for seeding and as a tie-breaker, 2) Assuming current standings hold as they currently stand:

1- LSU (SEC Champion)
16- Arkansas State (Sun Belt Champion)

8- Kansas State (at large)
9- Oklahoma (at large)

5- Clemson (ACC Champion)
12- Houston (CUSA Champion)

4- Boise State (MWC Champion)
13- Cincinnati (Big East Champion)

3- Alabama (at large)
14- Toledo (MAC Champion)

6- Stanford (Pac-12 Champion)
11- Michigan State (Big Ten Champion)

7- Oregon (at large)
10- Arkansas (at large)

2- Oklahoma State (Big 12 Champion)
15- Nevada (WAC Champion)