Plano's Rex Burkhead, posing for the school yearbook 1. Would love to see a Boise State-TCU championship game, or;
2. The BCS world gain a bit more credence as a "season long" tournament.
Three top 10 teams and two top 5 teams bit the dust today. For the second straight week, the No. 1 team in the national fell (Ohio State).
It's good news for those non-BCS teams like Boise State and TCU, but it's much better news for the BCS teams who are currently undefeated and who weren't ranked high enough to get their just due, like Oklahoma, Michigan State and Auburn.
Unfortunately, those teams have to keep playing top 25 talent every weekend, whilst TCU and Boise State get directional schools every week.
Texas 20, Nebraska 13
Holy shit. What a bizarre game. First off, when's the last time a Texas team completed just four passes and rushed 46 times?
Then there was the upset. I thought Nebraska was going to kill Texas since it was in Lincoln, due to last year's controversial last-second Big XII championship game and because Nebraska's BCS hopes rode on it. If those factors were going to motivate Nebraska, it didn't seem like it worked. Mistakes allowed Texas to start possessions three times in Nebraska territory. That meant 13 points. Texas could barely do anything otherwise.
Then the drops. It was confounding. I think there were seven when it was all said and done. At least two would've been touchdowns without a doubt. Texas wasn't all that great, but Nebraska was absolutely awful.
By the way, road teams went 5-1 this week in the Big XII.
TCU 31, BYU 3
The Horned Frogs have allowed three points in 12 quarters. How'd BYU get so bad so quickly? Bad recruiting?
Oklahoma State 34, Texas Tech 17
The Cowboys are better than we think. Not top 10 good, but top 15 for sure. They can score at will through any means necessary. Today, they even decided to play a little D. A nice road win.
Missouri 30, Texas A&M 9
OK, I'm giving up on the Aggies. They stink. I gave them the benefit of the doubt the last year and a half and it is pretty evident that they are not going to win and probably not going to win with Mike Sherman around. Mizzou went up 23-0 in College Station. The Aggies are a joke.
Baylor 31, Colorado 25
A nice win for the Bears. On the road to Boulder is nothing to sneeze at if you're Baylor. Bears controlled the game with 306 yards rushing. Bears now sit at 5-2.
Oklahoma 52, Iowa State 0
On the day when two teams in front of them in the rankings lost, the Sooners turned in their best game in three years.
Navy 28, SMU 21
Last year, SMU lost games like these. We chalked it up to inexperience. We thought by 2010, the Mustangs would learn to win these games. They haven't. They've lost to Tech and, now, Navy, by a touchdown each. They haven't learned to win these type of games.
SFA 30, Central Arkansas 7
Caught this game on the TV set. SFA looked awful. I catch the one game where they're not throwing it at will for 500 yards a game. What looked worse? Apparently the Central Arkansas cheerleaders. Yikes!
Florida International 34, UNT 10
There's not a bigger snakebit team in college football today than the Mean Green.
