Sorry I am couple days late reporting my thoughts on the 11th week of the college football season, but hey it's only Tuesday. As I expected this was not THAT exciting of a week since it had very few enticing match ups, but it is still college football and it must be watched and reviewed.
Thursday gave us a pivotal Mountain West Conference match up in which Utah beat Texas Christian 13-10 to remain undefeated and in the hunt to play in a BCS game. If they take care of BYU they should be a lock. You may ask how the MWC can have a pivotal match up, but just look at their record against the "ever mighty" PAC-10...they owned them this year (6-1). Do not try to tell me the Big East is the worst conference in the BCS...it is clearly the PAC-10. And without USC, they could probably one of the worst of all the conferences. The ACC also saw a shakeup on Thursday as Virginia Tech took care of Maryland 23-13. After this week the ACC is still up for grabs with Florida State and Wake Forest tied for the lead in the Atlantic division, and a three way tie between North Carolina, Miami, and Virginia Tech in the Coastal. Wake Forest and North Carolina would have it if the season ended today because of tie breakers.
On Saturday the prime time game was #2 Texas Tech hosting #8 Oklahoma State. Not much to comment on the shellacking Tech did of the Pokes (56-20) except that they are now my new #1 team. The tandem of Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree seems unstoppable. Next week will be a true test as they face Oklahoma in Norman. This is a game which I can foresee a Red Raider loss, but I am hoping Texas Tech can continue to win to keep Florida out of the BCS championship.
Alabama remained atop the BCS standings with their 27-21 overtime win over #15 LSU. Sure Bama won, but I am not sure they are the best team in the nation. With the way Florida is playing it will be shown in the SEC Championship (mark my words).
The big upset of the week came with Iowa defeating undefeated #3 Penn State. All I can say about this is thank you Kirk Ferentz and the Hawkeyes for keeping a Big 10 team out of the title hunt. The last thing I wanted to witness was another team from this conference getting pummeled in a championship game (playoffs anyone?)
Other games of note were #19 North Carolina beating #22 Georgia Tech 28-7, #7 Southern Cal defeating #21 California 17-3, and Boston College shutting out Notre Dame 17-0 to extend their winning streak to six over the Irish (nothing better than ND losing).
If you thought this week was a bit of a snooze (like I did), then get your sleeping gear prepared for the the coming set of match ups. The only top 25 teams that will playing each other are Florida and South Carolina. I anticipate the Gators will win by at least 2 touchdowns.
Here is my new top 25:
1. Texas Tech
2. Alabama
3. Florida
4. Texas
5. Oklahoma
6. USC
7. Utah
8. Boise State
9. Penn State
10. Oklahoma State
11. Missouri
12. Georgia
13. Ohio State
14. North Carolina
15. Michigan State
16. Ball State
17. Florida State
18. Pittsburgh
19. TCU
20. Cincinnati
21. Georgia Tech
22. LSU
23. Tulsa
24. Oregon State
25. Virginia Tech
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