\nArizona State<\/b> and Boston College<\/b> left the ranks of the unbeaten today. The SEC took on the sisters of the weak in non-conference play (and people critize Big 10 schedules! Ha!) LSU<\/b> survives again, barely. Oregon<\/b>, Oklahoma<\/b>, Missouri<\/b>, and Kansas<\/b> impressed today. It’s nearly certain 50% of the MNC game will have at least one loss. Buckeye opponent’s records after the 9th week, 62-55. After 7 weeks of conference play, Ohio State<\/b> and Michigan<\/b> have no losses and are in contention for the Big 10 championship. Congratulations to Indiana<\/b> who will likely have a chance to “play 13” as Coach Hep inspired them to do, today they became bowl eligible. With a win today, Iowa<\/b> is now a win away from bowl eligibility, a very unlikely event given the team’s start. Northwestern<\/b> and Michigan State<\/b> still need a win a piece to place themselves in a bowl situation. It is possible that 10 of the 11 Big 10 teams will be bowl eligible at the end of the season. \nThese are the undefeated survivors; give them credit for standing tall when others are losing games they should win: Ohio State<\/b>, Kansas<\/b>, and Hawaii<\/b>. The Warriors didn’t play, the Jayhawks destroyed the Huskers, and the Buckeyes thumped the Badgers today. Utah State<\/b> and Florida International<\/b> maintained their perfect records with zero wins between them this year. \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 Illinois\/OSU<\/b> preview, a game review of Illinois\/OSU<\/b>, and a Weekend Update Sports edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And then there were three Arizona State and Boston College left the ranks of the unbeaten today. The SEC took on the sisters of the weak in non-conference play (and people critize Big 10 schedules! Ha!) LSU survives again, barely. Oregon, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas impressed today. It’s nearly certain 50% of the MNC game […]<\/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\/720"}],"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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"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>, LSU<\/b>, Oklahoma<\/b>, Oregon<\/b>, and West Virginia<\/b>.
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\nGame of the week? Michigan<\/b> beat Michigan State<\/b> 28-24, scoring 14 points in the last 6 minutes of the game. Runner-up: Navy beat Notre Dame in 3OTs to end a 43 year losing streak.
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\nMismatch of the week? Kansas<\/b> de-pantsed Nebraska<\/b> 76-39.
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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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