Wow. What a day. It had everything; upsets, gritty games by underdogs, a titanic defensive struggle, a surprising shootout, and some top teams just taking care of business. Easily the best weekend of football so far this year, in my opinion. It may just take more than just eight numbers to encapsulate what we learned from yesterday’s games.
- Alabama and LSU should NOT rematch in the BCS title game. While that was an epic defensive struggle, the offenses weren’t up to par. Both were averaging around 39 per game and they did nothing against each other. I’m very curious to see what an offense like Okie State or Stanford could do against that Tiger defense.
- Arkansas isn’t perfect, but they’re good enough to get the job done against a clearly depleted South Carolina team. Tyler Wilson is a gamer.
- Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald really does deserve a look by some teams looking for a new head coach. Northwestern isn’t that great, but they’re gritty. That’s an extension of their coach. They’ve been depleted by injury and have still been in most games they’ve played this year.
- Same goes for Vanderbilt’s James Franklin. He’s building a group of tough, dedicated players. They just don’t have the depth to hang in the SEC for four quarters yet, but they have been able to put the fear into their opponents.
- Kansas State, ahem, I mean Colin Klein just about took down Oklahoma State. If he can stay in once piece for the rest of this year and next, Kansas State will be in most every game they play. Also, Okie State needs to stop with the matte grey helmets.
- Notre Dame would make a very solid ACC team. That is all.
- Boise State continues to win. Kellen Moore captures the record for victories by a starting QB and the Broncos have no shot to play for the national title. Shame. I still think that Chris Peterson and Kellen Moore can play with any team in the nation for one game. Too bad we won’t get to find out…
- RGIII and Baylor chipped in their two cents on Mizzou’s exit from the Big 12 for the SEC as Griffin continues to be one of the more consistently excellent QBs in the nation this year.
- Oregon/Stanford is going to be a very, very interesting game next week.
- Don’t look now, but the following teams just made themselves bowl eligible: Rutgers, Tulsa, Ohio, Notre Dame, Iowa, Ball State, Virginia, SMU, and Florida State.
