COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEKEND OBSERVATIONS

by WCT, The Ship of Fools

What an entertaining Saturday! A weekend that did not look very promising on paper actually brought us some very entertaining games.

- Is there a coach with bigger balls than LSU head man Les Miles? Fourth down? Screw it, we’re going for it! Game-tying field goal? F that, we’re chucking it into the end zone! It may not be the wisest way to run a team, but it sure makes for entertaining games!

- The Florida-Kentucky game played out pretty much as I expected. I have officially done a 180 on Tim Tebow's Heisman candidacy. He carries that team.

- By the way, if you were unfortunate enough to bet Kentucky +7, I feel for you. When Kentucky scored their final TD as time expired, gamblers all over the sports bar I was at were ecstatic. Only to be crushed when they saw that the meaningless (to some anyway) extra point would not be attempted, and the Cats lost by eight. What an emotional rollercoaster!

- The SEC East division is an absolute mess! South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee are all tied in the loss column. South Carolina losing at home to Vanderbilt is inexcusable, but they STILL control their own destiny to win the division, and have the advantage of playing Florida at home.

- If you couldn’t see that South Florida loss coming, then you haven’t been paying attention.

- Just when I’m ready to proclaim Oklahoma the best team in the nation, they lay an egg at 1-7 Iowa State, and very nearly lose the game. The Cyclones were ahead for most of that game.

- That being said, the Big 12 has been a pleasant surprise this year. Missouri crushed a decent Texas Tech team, and Kansas avoided an obvious trap game at Colorado.

- If I were to tell you that the final score of a game was 55-34, and asked you which BCS conference the teams involved were from, how many guesses would you need? This of course was the final score of this week's Oregon-Washington game. Oregon can obviously move the ball and score with anyone in the country (465 rushing yards. That is not a typo. Four Hundred Sixty-Five) but would it kill them to play some defense every once and a while?

- Kansas, Virginia, and Connecticut (who makes their first appearance in the BCS top 25 this week) are a combined 20-2. Weird, weird year.

- To the surprise of no one, the Miami-Florida State game was an absolute joke. Those two teams set offensive football back decades with that performance. This, however is hilarious.

- With teams from the Big Ten losing to 1-AA teams (Minnesota joined Michigan on this list with the loss this week to North Dakota State) and allowing one-win teams like Iowa State and Duke their only wins, its becoming harder and harder to defend that conference.

- Oh, and west-coast homers, don’t start laughing at the weakness of the Big Ten just yet. Who is 4-0 and tied for the lead in the Pac-10? A UCLA team that lost to Utah by 38 points and allowed Notre Dame its only win of the season.