This week had three tantalizing match-ups between high ranked teams: Bama at Florida; Clemson at VT; and Nebraska at Wisconsin. All of them turned into high-class duds for games. The real action took place earlier in the day, beginning with a very interesting Illinois/Northwestern game that I otherwise wouldn't have watched a single down except it caught my eye at the end. At the same time, Texas A&M and it's soon to be conference brethren Arkansas Razorbacks went toe-to-toe in a slugfest in the Jerry Jones dome. This too was an awesome game.
The second round of games were also intriguing with Kansas State bursting Baylor's bubble in the last minute of regulation, Auburn looking like it may not have lost too much mustard from it's hotdog by beating the Stephen "Fence Post" Garcia led South Carolina Gamecocks, and SMU BEATING TCU in overtime!?!?!? TCU's downfall has been hard - think about the fact that Andy Dalton is a starting NFL QB one year removed from TCU and you begin to see how the smaller programs fortunes can really ride on that once-in-a-lifetime player.
The evening games might have answered some questions, but then again, might not have. Is Bama THAT good or was Florida really not tested yet? Brantley's injury really didn't have much to do with the outcome. Florida couldn't run against Bama - period. Mark it down folks - November 5th. Tide/LSU...as showmethemoney texted to me last night "someone will likely get decapitated in that game" because those two teams are just nasty. I really didn't see much of the Wisconsin Nebraska tilt but I was never sold on Nebraska and I couldn't figure out why they were ranked so high. As much as it pains me to say it, the Badgers are the REAL deal. There really is no one in the Big10 that is even close right now. The rest of their schedule doesn't have Michigan, which appears to be the only Big10 team with any kind of offensive pulse right now.
I don't think I can stomach addressing the Virginia Tech debacle. The offense in Blacksburg is so putrid right now it makes one wonder what has to happen for Beamer to EVER make a change. This was a team that simply couldn't do anything with the ball. The shame of it is the defense is top tier caliber again. I certainly expect Clemson to stumble as always (look for a loss to NC State on Nov 19 - big trap game before facing South Carolina) but they took it to the birds in the Burg last night. Yuck.
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