Here’s the update from this weekend’s college football action. (And yes, I do realize it’s September 24th, but for the purposes of consistency, across the season, I’m keeping the title…)
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Buckeye opponent’s records after the fourth week, 32-16, a respectable .667 winning percentage. With the first week in the book of Big 10 play, the conference favorites are Ohio State<\/b> and Wisconsin<\/b>, with Purdue<\/b> as a dark horse contender. I believe the Boilermaker’s defense is suspect and will be exposed. The Badgers are living on the edge, and will fall. Anyone playing Michigan<\/b> needs to spread the field. The first two weeks of the season showed that dramatically and the win over Penn State<\/b> simply reinforces that power football allows Michigan<\/b> to compete. Spread football confounds them. Note to coaches: Play spread against Michigan<\/b> until they prove they can slow it down. Despite being 1-0 in conference play, I’m highly skeptical of this Michigan<\/b> team.
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\nTeams that look like mythical national championship (MNC) contenders from week 4: LSU<\/b>, Oklahoma<\/b>, West Virginia<\/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 Minnesota\/OSU<\/b> preview, a game review of Minnesota\/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. (And yes, I do realize it’s September 24th, but for the purposes of consistency, across the season, I’m keeping the title…) OSU Opponent Watch Youngstown State (3-1) – Played Lock Haven at home, won 35-3. Conclusion: Expected Win Akron (2-2) – Played Kent State at home, […]<\/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\/627"}],"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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"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>, Ohio State<\/b>, Rutgers<\/b>, Clemson<\/b>, Oregon<\/b>, Boston College<\/b>, Michigan State<\/b>, California<\/b>, and Texas<\/b>.
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\nThese teams stand virtually no chance of contending for the MNC, but still looked good in week four: Cincinnati<\/b>, Wisconsin<\/b>, Kansas<\/b>, Purdue<\/b>, Arizona State<\/b>, Kentucky<\/b>, Missouri<\/b>, Connecticut<\/b>, South Florida<\/b>, and Hawaii<\/b>.
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\nGame of the week, Georgia<\/b> beat Alabama<\/b> on the road in overtime, 26-23.
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\nMismatch of the week, Hawaii<\/b> beat down Charlston Southern<\/b> at home, 66-10. At least the Charleston players got to go to Hawaii!
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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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