College Football Recap

Week one of November has passed without too much drama. The big guys held serve and the only ranked teams to lose (Miami, Texas Tech and Michigan) did so to other ranked teams. Miami was the highest ranked team to fall but they didn't embarrass themselves too much and really need to be happy with a 7-1 mark at this point in the season with all the nonsense swirling around the program. The key for the Canes is shaking off this loss and refocusing immediately as they play a now desperate Virginia Tech and a sky high Duke the next two weeks. The Coastal Division of the ACC still needs to be secured and Miami is still the leader. Texas Tech is also a program that needs to look at this season as a quality one as long as they refocus and compete against a grueling finish of Kansas State, Baylor and Texas. The conference title hopes are gone but finishing 9-3 or even 10-2 will stamp this season as a very good one. Continuing their now two-game losing streak with one, two or god forbid three more losses will take away a lot of the good work done by this team. Michigan is in a different situation as they had high hopes for this season and now have to focus on ruining someone else's great season (we all know who that is). National title and Big Ten championship hopes are gone. Beating the Buckeyes is still available. What else? Florida State made a key statement in its quest for a spot in the BCS title game. They will now have to see what Oregon does Thursday night against Stanford. With the rest of the top teams blowing out lesser competition, the most impressive statements were made by Oklahoma State, who is still alive for the Big 12 title, and Michigan State, who is now Ohio State's biggest stumbling block to a second straight perfect regular season.