| Associated Press Top 25 |
| 1 Alabama |
| 2 Florida |
| 3 Texas |
| 4 Southern California |
| 5 Cincinnati |
| 6 Boise State |
| 7 Iowa |
| 8 Miami (Fla.) |
| 9 LSU |
| 10 TCU |
| 11 Georgia Tech |
| 12 Oregon |
| 13 Penn State |
| 14 Oklahoma State |
| 15 Virginia Tech |
| 16 Brigham Young |
| 17 Houston |
| 18 Ohio State |
| 19 Utah |
| 20 Pittsburgh |
| 21 Texas Tech |
| 22 West Virginia |
| 23 South Carolina |
| 24 Kansas |
| 25 Oklahoma |
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The first installment of the BCS this year came out today but most of the over-hyped news was about the leap frog Alabama did right over Florida in the AP poll. Although it did come as a surprise to many, nothing should be made out about it. Texas will not and cannot jump Florida if they continue to handle their own business. All three teams surprisingly are in the drivers seat to the National Championship game. If all three teams run the table Texas WILL be in awaiting the winner of the SEC title game. The SEC title game could very well be a national title game in its own right with possibly #1 facing #2. When it is all said and done there is pretty fair chance 6 teams could end up undefeated (UF/Bama, Texas, Cincy, Boise, Iowa and TCU) with 2 BCS conference teams being left out of the title game. The only time that an undefeated BCS conference team was left out of the title game was 2006 (Auburn). As we know the season must play out and these next few games have the greatest chance (possible doom days) of setting off champagne bottles by the BCS backers(or MIT and Cal Tech crunchies).
University of Florida(11-28)
South Carolina would be the obvious choice by many experts but that only means that Florida would highlight that game on their calendar. As if Florida ever needs any motivation when playing the ol' ball coach; who is dying to get one over Florida!
My game is University of Florida vs. Florida State University on their usual and ironic Thanksgiving weekend date- before you question this and call me completely insane (maybe a little but mark it down), read on. The only chance Florida is going to lose is in this very game and the following are possible reason why:
- Trap game!- With a meeting against Bama' just in their sight the Gators could possibly look over for a peak.
- High Intensity- Every time these two teams get together, it brings out a competitive fire (which could and should mean more to FSU in this disappointing season)
- Could be and probably will be Bobby's last game against Florida (do you believe in Karma?)
- Florida State ranks 10th in passing yards/game (yea who knew)- Christian Ponder has 1800 yards passing with 9 TD's and 1 Int (a desperation 50 yard bomb as time expired in half against Miami). So FSU can move the ball through the air. If the defense is able to make just 1 big play this offense has a shot. If UF had a tough time against Arkansas with Mallet, than Ponder can have a huge game.
Auburn seems to be slipping and all that praise that Gene received after his 5-0 start has hit its expiration date. LSU seems to be the only team that has a shot. LSU has a great defense but their offense looks like their playing with medicine balls. How LSU can win:
- They will need to score on defense!
- They need to be able to run the ball and control the clock! The shorter they can make this game the better. Time of possession will be huge!
This one is obvious. On Halloween (full moon?) against OK State. Dez Bryant or not this team can put up points. Zac Robinson has been targeting Hubert Anyiam as of late (Yesterday 10-119) but he will need to find his new #2 receiver. How OK State can win this one;
- Running the ball! OK State has a very underrated rushing attack with their top 2 backs averaging over 5 yards a carry. If they can get that going early it should open up some holes for Zac.
- Texas rushing game needs to be stopped. Oklahoma did a good job early at this and it made Colts life very difficult. If they can use that blueprint OK State has a shot.
The only thing that stands in the way between them and an undefeated Big East run, was, well really last week. Seriously speaking, from here on out Dave Wandsted has the only shot. Pitt can score as is evident by the fact that the least they have scored in a game this year is 24 (2) and both of those times came in wins. This weekend we will learn more about Pitt as they take on USF.
Boise(11-14)
Will run the table with Tulsa being the last team with a real opportunity to beat them. For the sake of argument we will say Idaho who is 6-1 and always somehow finds a way to win, with its biggest one against ummm........
TCU-(11-14)
Two tough games left make this decision quite difficult. BYU has been playing well lately and Max Hall has found his rhythm after a very tough start but Utah has one loss to apparently a good Oregon team that has really rallied after that nightmare of a Laggarate Blount incident. I think that TCU will have its work cut out against Utah who have an explosive offense!
Coming up later this week..Upset picks and games to watch this coming week!
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