\nIn a season that continues to serve up the unexpected, both former #1 LSU and former #2 California lost – the first time since 1996 when #’s 1 & 2 lost on the same weekend. I’m guessing the bookies are having a tough season because the point spreads have been screwy too. Perhaps the 85 scholarship limit has finally caused parity to break out?
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\nNot one of the conferences is dominant. The SEC is bad this year, the Pac 10 is looking bad, the ACC is horrible, the Big 12 looks soft, the Big East looks weak, and everyone knows the Big 10 is bad (though, I don’t think the B10 is any worse than the SEC or Pac 10 this year.) This year more than others it seems that talent levels have evened out and any team can beat another given the right circumstances (turnovers, home field, weather, etc.)
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Buckeye opponent’s records after the seventh week, 48-35. After 4 weeks of conference play, Ohio State<\/b> and Michigan<\/b> have no losses and are in contention for the Big 10 championship. Wisconsin<\/b>, Purdue<\/b>, Indiana<\/b>, and Illinois<\/b> had devestating losses taking them out of contention. Penn State<\/b> and Michigan State<\/b> rebounded nicely from tough losses. Guess there’s some life in Iowa<\/b> and Northwestern<\/b> yet. What can you say about Minnesota<\/b>? They’re still playing hard…The season is a long way from over and the next 5 weeks will be very interesting.
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\nAnd then there were seven… These are the undefeated survivors; give them credit for standing tall when others are losing games they should win: Arizona State<\/b>, Boston College<\/b>, Ohio State<\/b>, Kansas<\/b>, South Florida<\/b>, Boston College<\/b>, and Hawaii<\/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 Michigan State\/OSU<\/b> preview, a game review of Michigan State\/OSU<\/b>, and a Weekend Update Sports edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Underdog BITES! In a season that continues to serve up the unexpected, both former #1 LSU and former #2 California lost – the first time since 1996 when #’s 1 & 2 lost on the same weekend. I’m guessing the bookies are having a tough season because the point spreads have been screwy too. […]<\/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\/668"}],"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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAside from Ohio State<\/b> and Hawaii<\/b>, I can honestly say I wouldn’t have picked any of these teams to be undefeated rolling into week 8. The way the season has gone thus far, it wouldn’t surprise me to have zero unbeaten teams at the end of the season.
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\nProjected BCS Top 5: Ohio State<\/b>, South Florida<\/b>, Boston College<\/b>, Oklahoma<\/b>, and South Carolina<\/b>.
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\nGame of the week? Kentucky<\/b> 43, LSU<\/b> 37. Runner up: Oregon State<\/b> 31, California<\/b> 28. The SEC and Pac 10 are good, right? Over-rated.
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\nMismatch of the week? Texas<\/b> creamed Iowa State<\/b> on the road, 56-3. This is how Texas<\/b> was expected to play all season.
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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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