\nWe now know the theme to this season is expect the unexpected. Texas Tech<\/b> and Missouri<\/b> played defense, Ok, sure, at least Missouri<\/b> played defense. Every talking head out there said take the over on a 75 point target. Let’s hope they put their money where their mouths are. South Carolina<\/b> spit the bit at home, against Vanderbilt<\/b>! USF<\/b> traveled to Rutgers<\/b> to get their first loss of the season. Iowa State<\/b>, sporting a 1-7 record, had Oklahoma<\/b> on the ropes for 3.5 quarters. UCLA<\/b>, thumped soundly by a bad Utah<\/b> team earlier this year, beats Cal<\/b>. LSU<\/b> wins on a last second pass over the same Auburn<\/b> team beaten by USF<\/b>. The list goes on… Buckeye opponent’s records after the 8th week, 53-42. After 5 weeks of conference play, Ohio State<\/b> and Michigan<\/b> have no losses and are in contention for the Big 10 championship. Illinois<\/b> gave away the game against Michigan<\/b> with penalties and poor special teams play – this was the chance to get them with RB Hart out. There’s still alot of football to be played, but it looks like it’s going to come down to the November 17th game in Ann Arbor, again…. \nAnd then there were five… 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>, and Hawaii<\/b>. An interesting aside, the SEC was an incomplete pass from being eliminated from national championship game consideration when LSU<\/b> pulled out the win. The SEC is down this year, its purported strength is all self-referential. The conference champion will be lucky to not have 3 losses. \nMy Special Bottom 5 rankings: (Why bottom 5? If you finish there you should be relegated to I-AA) Colorado State<\/b> got a win this week and leaves the Bottom 5, for now.<\/p>\n \nIn the coming week I’ll post an Penn State\/OSU<\/b> preview, a game review of Penn State\/OSU<\/b>, and a Weekend Update Sports edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another weekend, another few “unthinkable” upsets. Ho Hum. We now know the theme to this season is expect the unexpected. Texas Tech and Missouri played defense, Ok, sure, at least Missouri played defense. Every talking head out there said take the over on a 75 point target. Let’s hope they put their money where their […]<\/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\/684"}],"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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nOSU Opponent Watch<\/h2>\n
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\n<\/p>\nQuick Hits from Around College Football<\/h2>\n
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\nProjected BCS Top 5: Ohio State<\/b>, Boston College<\/b>, LSU<\/b>, Oklahoma<\/b>, and Arizona State<\/b>.
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\nGame of the week? LSU<\/b> came from behind to beat Auburn<\/b> 30-24 with 1 second left in the game. Runner-up: Penn State<\/b> beat Indiana<\/b> 36-31, with 27 combined points in the fourth quarter.
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\nMismatch of the week? Clemson<\/b> annihilated Central Michigan<\/b> 70-14.
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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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