Week #5 - NCAA Ruminations

Quick hits:

My parents are in town visiting their newest grandson. I don't have a lot of time to expound upon the world of NCAA football but since I didn't need much time to review my results in the pool, I still have some things to say ( or at least observe):

Way to Represent ACC 

• The Hokies lose to Cincinnati in spectacular fashion by giving up the go-ahead touchdown in the last 1:30. The Hokies are undefeated in ACC play and 0-2 in the Big East.
• UVA loses, big, to Louisiana Tech (like Cincinnati, an undefeated team)
• Georgia Tech loses, for the first item since 1988, a second consecutive home game to Tennessee - no, correction, MIDDLE Tennessee.
• At least FSU put away South Florida (after a struggle) and UNC beat Idaho decisively. WOO HOO!

Offensive Offenses
There was some overtime work put in by the scoreboard operators this weekend.

• Georgia and Tennessee exchanged 95 points in what looked like a Mountain West contest.
• Texas and Oklahoma State provided that the Big 12 has no time or trivial matters like defense in a 41 to 36 Texas victory.
• Oregon drops half-a-hundred +1, again, in blasting Washington State.
• And in the granddaddy of crazy games, West Virginia scored 70 on Baylor, who matched it with 63 of their own points. Yes, the Mountaineers scored 70 and didn't cover.

You down with SEC

• Does it trouble anyone else that it took the #3 team in the country 3 quarters to put away a team from the subdivision Colonial conference?
• South Carolina is #6 in the country and undefeated with wins over Vandy, East Carolina, UAB, Mizzou, and Kentucky. The next three weeks go like this: #5 Georgia, at #4 LSU, and at #10 Florida. I think that #6 ranking might be quickly corrected.
• Georgia is #5 in the country and undefeated with wins over Buffalo, Mizzou, Florida Atlantic, Vandy, and Tennessee. The Dawgs are at South Carolina next week, then get Kentucky, and then #10 Florida in Jacksonville. In November, they get Ole Miss, Georgia Southern and Georgia Tech at home with a trip to the Plains to take on Auburn.  While I think SC gets corrected, I see UGA could easily go undefeated with two truly tough, but winnable games left. If so, it will likely face Bama or LSU in the SEC title game. Anyone thing the Dawgs could come within two TDs of the eventual West champ? Not me - not at this point.
• LSU's next five games: at #1 Florida, #6 South Carolina, at Texas A&M, #1 Alabama, and #20 Mississippi State. Even I get tired of the SEC rah-rah types but WOW, that's a big boy schedule.

Other Odditites

• The Big 12 has FIVE 4 and 0 teams.
• Conference USA has FOUR o and 4 teams.
• Northwestern could easily beat Michigan State at this point.
• Neither Purdue nor Michigan played a Big 10 team as of the end of September. They play each other next week. History SAYs - Wolverine win.
• Louisville is 5 and 0 and hasn't played a league game.
• Idaho is 0 and 5 and hasn't played a league game.