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College Football’s Most Boring Weekend: No One Wants to Lose
To call this season of college football boring would be a terrible, terrible mistake.
To call this past weekend’s serving of college football boring – well that might be a pretty good assessment.
Another weekend goes by, and nothing seems to change in college football. In fact, this weekend, only one top ten team lost to an unranked opponent, No. 9 USC’s shocking home loss to Stanford.
Other than the Trojan egg laying at the LA Coliseum, favorites won out.
The most interesting storyline to come out of the weekend was probably that Ohio State claimed the first BCS bowl bid with their 27-24 overtime victory over Iowa. In clinching at least a share of the Big 10 conference title, the Buckeyes also hold the BCS bid tiebreaker, and will likely head to the Rose Bowl.
The weekend was supposed to be about a threat to TCU’s ascension to BCS glory. That didn’t exactly pan out.
Instead what we got was a really entertaining show from the Horned Frogs, enough that many might call for TCU to jump at least Texas in the next BCS standings. Will it happen?
Likely not, but expect the Horned Frogs to inch closer to the Longhorns in tomorrow’s BCS standings.
We’re inching closer to other BCS bowl bids filling up, especially in the ACC, where Georgia Tech clinched the ACC Coastal Division and a chance to win the conference’s bid for a likely Orange Bowl berth. Clemson is a step away from that game as well after CJ Spiller helped the Tigers win on Saturday.
In the Big East, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh both won, setting up an ultimate showdown on the regular season’s final weekend for the conference’s BCS bowl bid, if the two teams can make it there without a conference loss.
Texas, Alabama and Florida all continued their respective marches to their conference title games as well.
So the entire top eight won on Saturday, so tomorrow’s BCS will look mighty familiar to us all, except probably at the eighth spot, where Ohio State is likely to take over for LSU, who was pretty darn close to losing to Louisiana Tech on Saturday, and won’t find any help from the human element or the computer element for that surprisingly close result.
The Buckeyes on the other hand will get help in both areas for beating a previously adored Hawkeye team, especially in the computers.
Without any polling information, here is a quick stab at what the BCS top 8 might look like when released after the end of NFL action on FOX Sunday evening:
Projected BCS Standings November 15th
| Rank | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Florida |
| 2 | Alabama |
| 3 | Texas |
| 4 | TCU |
| 5 | Cincinnati |
| 6 | Boise State |
| 7 | Georgia Tech |
| 8 | Ohio State |
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