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College Football 2007 Week 7 analysis
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This continues to be a wild and woolly season with top contenders getting knocked off everywhere. High flying LSU bit the dust in Lexington Kentucky. This is the same University of Kentucky that told the legendary Bear Bryant that this town was not big enough for both him and Adolph Rupp. Will Kentucky still be standing at the end? Who knows? It would appear that now teams are starting into the meat of their schedule. Twelve games is a long season.
The SEC has reset itself for the rest of the season. And now is when teams really will take a toll. They may be the greatest conference in college football, but that does not bode well to produce an undefeated winner for the BCS. These next two weeks will likely shape the SEC championship with LSU facing Alabama and Auburn and South Carolina facing Tennessee.
UCLA keeps its head above water in the PAC-10 with no losses yet. They were helped by a bye week. But now the meat of the PAC-10 schedule has arrived, with Oregon, UCLA, Cal, USC, and Arizona State all playing one another. It is anybodys race with five teams still in the hunt. Stanford is out, but that win over USC could still be a determining factor. Cal was #2! They had a shot to be #1! But that has been the story of Cal football since the inception of television broadcasting. Like 2004, when they had a shot to be in the Rose Bowl, but they were punished for winning over Southern Mississippi and dropped from the Rose Bowl in favor of a Mack Brown Texas team. A few measly votes made the difference from the penthouse, to the outhouse (Holiday Bowl).
Surprise in the Big 10? Ohio State and Michigan are the two leading contenders. That Appalachian State loss seems a long time ago.
In the Big East a lot of people might be jumping on the South Florida bandwagon. Well, hold the phone because up comes the meat of their schedule too. One of the teams remaining is going to beat them.
The Big Twelve standings are inverted, with all the usual teams on the wrong sides. Kansas on top? Nebraska and Texas near the bottom? Missouri had a shot for greatness, but we are talking trying to win at Oklahoma here, and the Tigers just could not. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, Oklahoma may just grind it out to the end, and we will look back at this as the point where we knew they were going to do it.
Ohio State, Boston College, South Florida, Kansas, Arizona State, and Hawaii are still undefeated. This gives them the inside track to the BCS. The pundits are gnashing their teeth and screaming about Jim Delany. Jim is the Big Ten conference commissioner who supposedly is blocking a possible playoff.* The same pundits do not seem to be tarring Tom Hansen, the PAC-10 commissioner although he is under fire for having PAC-10 teams in the Rose Bowl and junk for the rest. It comes down to the fact that the Rose Bowl has a sweetheart deal for the BCS and the Big Ten and PAC-10 have said that they will take their Rose bowl and play elsewhere. They have a separate TV deal. The Rose Bowl has the premiere New Years Day time slot. The fact remains that all the other bowls pale in comparison to the Rose Bowl in terms of pageantry and history. The Rose Bowl deserves that kind of leverage. The Rose Bowl, PAC-10, and Big Ten are the haves in the world of college football. The SEC, Big IX, ACC, and Big East are the middle class looking in. The rest of the Division IA conferences are in skid row hoping to score in the lottery. Notre Dame has a sweet deal, but it really is not as sweet as the PAC-10 / Big Ten Rose Bowl deal. Why would the Big Ten, PAC-10 and Rose Bowl agree to ruin what I believe to be one of the best things about college football? The BCS guarantees a #1 vs #2 matchup. That is what lots of NCAA basketball pundits want but rarely get. It is hard to please everyone.
*Example pundit gnashing
Dan Wetzel is also a big time Delany basher, and while I like his NCAA basketball columns, I disagree with his take on the playoffs.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 @ 14:55:18 UTC by BB
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