A theme for the weekend began Friday night with the SMU-TCU battle through late last night when Oregon outlasted Arizona State. And that theme is, while there are some good teams in college football this season there are no great teams. Now do not misunderstand me. I love a competitive season and hate that three to four teams have a stranglehold on the BCS title game. But many of the usual suspects--like Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and USC--have multiple flaws and the teams bunched at the top of the polls--that would be Alabama, Ohio State, Boise State and TCU--all have a weak spot or two.
What should also be intriguing are the conference races. In the Big Ten, Ohio State has looked very good this year but still has road games at Wisconsin and at Iowa. In the SEC, Alabama needed to rally to pass their first test yesterday in Arkansas. Up next? Florida on Saturday. Meanwhile Auburn won another barn burner yesterday, nipping a game South Carolina (and for the first time in my life I actually felt bad for Steve Spurrier). With their favorable schedule--they play both Arkansas and LSU at home--the Tigers just need to keep on chugging to become a top ten team. The SEC East may be decided on November 13 when the Gamecocks travel to Gainesville. Nebraska has now become the team to beat in the Big 12 with the winner of the Texas-Oklahoma game next weekend needing to make some improvements before being up to the task of handling the Cornhuskers defense. Miami may be the class of the ACC but that does not mean that they will win it. Oregon and Stanford have played the best of the Pac 10 squads with Arizona and USC also looking capable. UCLA is suddenly surging thanks to beatings administered to two old Southwest Conference teams Houston and Texas. TCU, and to a lesser extent, Utah have dominated the news out of the MWC but look out for both Air Force and my San Diego State Aztecs. Conference USA and the Big East are both wide open while Nevada is doing its best to become a challenger to Boise State in the WAC.
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