08 November 2009

Week 10: Signs of Life

Finally...we see a little movement in the polls with this past weekends surprises. I was wondering if those top teams would actually remain and we would be in for five more weeks of nothing new.

Wow
BYU shuts out Wyoming 52-0 (the same Wyoming that almost beat then #14 Utah last week). Of course, no help to BYU was yet another FSU loss and an Oklahoma loss. The come-back kid for Iowa didn't make the bus this week. Cal falls again showing that they were over-rated in pre-season polls....along with now 5-4 Oklahoma and 6-3 Notre Dame. Oregon, surprisingly, lost to unranked Stanford (who takes on USC next week). And with the 'Bama-LSU showdown over the stage is now set for the SEC Championship: #1 Florida and #3 Alabama. And there are three teams getting 1st-place votes in the polls...usually we see just two.

BCS Talk
TCU is now two spots up on BSU and hoping for a loss or two of the teams above them. If they pull off a dominate win over Utah this week, then win out, and two of the three teams above them lose just once they could be in the NC game (Florida or 'Bama will lose at least one). Just think, a non-BCS team in the NC game...and BSU sitting at #6 has every right as well to play in a BCS bowl. This season could mark the beginning of the end of the BCS as we know it. Obviously, teams and conferences that were once considered doormats have come up to the level of the elite and that merits changes in the bowl system - big changes.

EndZone
Let's talk women's football...no, not the LFL...I mean women's soccer. In case you missed the BYU-Mew Mexico hoopla this weekend click here. If the SEC is suspending refs for making bad excessive celebration calls what is the NCAA women's soccer administrators doing to the refs who missed all this?