Sunset Vette

Another wild weekend in college football. The net result is that LSU entered the weekend at #7 and because of losses ahead of them will has become the most over-rated 4-0 team in the country. I don’t believe they’re a top-ten team, but losses to Ole Miss and Cal and Penn State and Miami… the attrition was terrible this weekend. LSU survived by holding Mississippi State out of the endzone from the 2 yard line on four plays. Alabama looks like the top team in the SEC now that Ole Miss has shown some weakness in losing to South Carolina. ‘Bama took on an Arkansas team that duked it out with Georgia and just shut them down. I’m not sure if that means Georgia is that bad (or that exciting) or ‘Bama is just really that good. We’ll find out when LSU plays the Dawgs in a few weeks. Until then, LSU is ranked #4, right behind Alabama and Texas and Florida. I would not bet on the Tigers taking on any of those teams and winning. Georgia, on the other hand… that might be an interesting game next week. I am not a betting man but if I were I would have to take Georgia against the Tigers next week.

On the other hand, Florida fans had to be holding their breath when Tebow went down and stayed down. The Gators visit Baton Rouge in two weeks, and if LSU does lose to Georgia then they will have to take care of Florida in order to keep a chance of winning the SEC West this year. Auburn is looking tougher than expected so the SEC West is likely to see their champ have at least one loss, perhaps two. Then again, if Alabama keeps rolling the way they have been, they could return to the SEC title game for the second year in a row. It’s going to be wild.

P.S. How can Alabama not have at least one first place vote in the latest poll?

In other conferences…

Houston, we have a football team. Houston has defeated two teams from the vaunted Big 12 South division. Houston got another boost in the polls this week after taking down Texas Tech. I don’t follow them much, but I hear they have a great quarterback. Good teams with great quarterbacks can be very successful.

Texas took care of business this week without much of a challenge. With Tebow following Bradford to the sidelines, and Cal’s running back Best being absolutely shut down this week, Colt McKoy has to like his chances for a Heisman trophy at this point in the year. The annual Red River Shootout comes up on October 10th and it would be great to see Bradford back on the field for that game.

USC takes on Cal next week. Each of them has one conference loss already, so the loser of this game is likely out of the Rose Bowl. On the other hand, depending on how things work out, they could still end up playing in a major bowl somewhere. Cal plummeted all the way down to the bottom of the polls after getting served by the Ducks this week. Miami, who seemed to be everyone’s darling last week, got wacked by Virginia Tech and dropped almost as much. Penn State lost to Iowa for the second year in a row and drops from the ranks of the unbeaten teams.

So basically the top five teams are made up of most of the major “name” universities that have yet to lose. I don’t expect LSU to remain up there for long, but ‘Bama looks like they are the real deal this year. It would be great to see them finish the season that got away last year.