21 October 2007

Week 8 - 2007



Aaaa...the NCAA FBS landscape begins to show signs of stability (yea...right). Actually, this was the first week since week 1 that there were no newcomers to the AP and Coaches top 25. And wow what a change in our little game. With Hawaii in the top 15 (in 1 poll) and Cal out (of all 3 polls), last weeks bottom 3 players are this weeks top 3! And 1st place Blaine is 2 points up on the pros! Two weeks ago we were all within 5 points, last week it was 8 points and now we are all back within 5 points.

Saturday Summary: We are down to 5 undefeated teams (OSU, BC, AZ State, Kansas, Hawaii), Cal has lost 2 straight to unranked teams, LSU bets and wins again, and Auburn shows up as the first top-25 3-loss team. And, why is there so much praise for USC blanking Notre Dame with words like "USC Pummels ND" and "USC Throttles ND"? Hello...this is un-ranked, un-impressive, 1-7 ND. How difficult was it really to "throttle" the Irish? Was someone expecting ND to win?

And, this Thursday's match-up of BC and Va Tech will be the first real test for BC and could quickly change the top 5 positions.

A few pics of the #31 BYU game are shown...it was quite the snowstorm in the 4th quarter. BYU looked sloppy in the first half and will need to clean up their game before taking on TCU and UofU.