Syracuse spits the bit and loses to a bad team Pitt.
The Cuse didn't play, jury still out.
Michigan State spits the bit and loses to a hitherto 1-3 team Northwestern. Nice homecoming in East Lansing.
State redeems themselves with a gutsy away win.
As sometimes happens two teams have identical W/L records and have played each other. Yet the team that won that matchup is ranked lower than the team that lost.
Both teams win so I believe the situation will remain static for the time being.
Nick Saban is unhappy with the way they played on defense. What a surprise. Only this time he may actually have a point.
Saban's defense, to me, seems to not be quite as good as earlier versions. Not to say they're bad, just not as disciplined as we're used to seeing. Speaking of undisciplined, will the SEC step in and suspend Raekwon Davis for a game? IMO they should if Nicky doesn't do it himself.
Speaking of Alabama is there another team out there that is averaging more points offensively in the first half than them? I mean there might be, I haven't actually checked.
Still haven't checked but that average went down a notch.
And is OSU the consummate underachiever in the first half or a second half powerhouse? Or both?
After looking at yesterday's game this hypothesis seems to have some merit.
Is Texas back. Would a one loss Longhorns(Or the Sooners) team have a shot against another one loss power five team(Or ND) when it became Football Four pickin time? Or is West Virginia going undefeated the Big 12s only real hope?
WVa goes down and goes down hard. Texas loses their starting QB but pulls off another W. Barely as their offense gets skunked in the second half. Herman may have a problem.
The AAC East, three undefeated teams still there at this point.
UCF and USF roar back and then both hang on for dear life. Cincinnati is dormant.
Is Miami a paper tiger? 5-1 yet lost to the only good team they played.
The theory that the Hurricanes are a paper tiger also seems to have some merit.
If the Gators don't look past Vandy and win they then get a weeks rest before Georgia comes into town. Do they have a good shot against the Dawgs?
IMO the Gators did look past Vandy. But they looked an entirely different team in the second half. The chippiness before the end of the first half had a little something to do with that no doubt.
UCF Knights, at this point in time it looks like the pretenders get their two toughest opponents back to back at the end of the regular season. First at home and then away. Does an undefeated UFC get in this year over any one loss non conference champ Power Five or ND? Or even a one loss Power Five conference champ, if it is let's say a Big 12 team?
The jury is still out on this one as far as I'm concerned.
Lastly, how good is Notre Dame?
I don't think anyone is impressed with what Notre Dame did yesterday. Is it because Pitt is improving or ND came in expecting a cakewalk? Maybe a little bit of both. The Irish get Navy next.
And as a bonus, speaking of Navy. Army looks to have one of the best teams I've seen from them in a long long time. But the Cadets get a couple of MAC teams back to back before facing an Air Force squad that sunk the Middies earlier in the year and also skunked beloved Stony Brook. GO ARMY!
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