Here’s the update from this weekend’s college football action.
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Buckeye opponent’s records after the second week, 21-11. Going into Big 10 play next week, the favorites to win the conference are Penn State<\/b> and Ohio State<\/b>. Wisconsin<\/b> is fading with a questionable defense. Michigan State<\/b> is playing themselves into consideration. Iowa<\/b> lost to a bad Iowa State<\/b> team today on a last second field goal… Michigan<\/b> looked like Michigan<\/b> should today with a thorough dismantling of Notre Dame<\/b>. There seems to be some trouble brewing in South Bend….
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\nTeams that look like MNC contenders from week 3: LSU<\/b>, Oklahoma<\/b>, and USC<\/b>. \nMy Special Bottom 5 rankings: (Why bottom 5? If you finish there you should be relegated to I-AA)<\/p>\n \nIn the coming week I’ll post an Northwestern\/OSU<\/b> preview, a game review of Northwestern\/OSU<\/b>, and a Weekend Update Sports edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s the update from this weekend’s college football action. OSU Opponent Watch Youngstown State (2-1) – Played Stony Brook at home, won 42-6. Conclusion: Expected Win Akron (1-2) – Played Indiana on the road, lost 24-41. Conclusion: Expected Loss Washington (2-1) – See game recap, lost to Ohio State at home, 14-33. Conclusion: Expected Loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe jury is out on these teams who are technically still in the running, but their play to-date leaves room for doubt: Florida<\/b>, West Virginia<\/b>, Wisconsin<\/b>, Ohio State<\/b>, Rutgers<\/b>, Oregon<\/b>, Texas<\/b>, and Penn State<\/b>.
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\nThese teams stand virtually no chance of contending for the MNC, but still looked good in week three: Cincinnati<\/b>, Clemson<\/b>, Kansas<\/b>, Boston College<\/b>, Texas Tech<\/b>, Purdue<\/b>, Arizona State<\/b>, South Carolina<\/b>, Texas A&M<\/b>, Alabama<\/b>, Indiana<\/b>, Kentucky<\/b>, Missouri<\/b>, Arizona St<\/b>, and Hawaii<\/b>.
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\nGame of the week, Mississippi State<\/b> beat Auburn<\/b> at home 19-14.
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\nMismatch of the week, Utah<\/b> hammered UCLA<\/b> at home, 44-6.
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\nMy Special Top 12 rankings: (Why Top 12? That’s where you need to be to get into BCS contention.)<\/p>\n\n
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