Week 8: Solidification?

The first BCS poll is out, the top teams are still winning, but the national championship picture is not really as clear as in years past this time of the season - too many undefeated teams that might stay that way. You can already here the rumblings of which undefeated team(s) gets left out of the big dance.

Usually by the BCS polls there are a few teams that look solid enough that we all begin narrowing down our picks for the champion. But this year there are still 10 undefeated teams, nine of which are in the top 11 with Houston not getting much credit for the teams they have played. However, some of those teams play each other which will leave a few 1-loss teams also vying for a shot at the championship game and claiming better schedules than the possibly-not-to-lose Boise and Houston and Clemson and Wisconsin. Oh, boy! Here we go again...strap in and hang on.

My post this week is late since a few buddies and I went to the BYU - Oregon State game in Corvallis. What a great time, beautiful scenery, fun fans on both sides, and a BYU win to make it all worth while. But - OS is obviously young but up and coming and will likely be a PAC-12 contender the next few years.

NOTE: Yes...I skipped form Week 6 to Week 8 in order to keep it straight with the numbering system used by the polls. I call pre-season "Week 0", they call it "Week 1" so i just skipped Week 7 to avoid any confusion.