Top 25

College Football

Top 25

1. Alabama 11-0, 1
2. Texas Tech 10-0, 2
3. Texas 10-1, 3
4. Oklahoma 9-1, 4
5. Florida 9-1, 5
6. Southern Cal 9-1. 6
7. Utah 11-0, 7
8. Penn State 10-1, 8
9. Boise State 10-0, 9
10. Oklahoma State 9-2, 10
11. Missouri 9-2, 11
12. Georgia 9-2, 12
13. Ohio State 9-2, 13
14. Ball State 10-0, 14
15. Texas Christian 9-2, 16
16. Brigham Young 10-1, 17
17. Michigan State 9-2, 20
18. Louisiana State 7-3, 19
19. Cincinnati 8-2, 22
20. Pittsburgh 7-2, 21
21. Miami, FL 7-3, NR
22. Maryland 7-3, NR
23. North Carolina 7-3, 15
24. Georgia Tech 7-3, 23
25. Boston College 7-3, NR

OUT: Florida State, Wake Forest, South Carolina.
VOTES: Florida State, Oregon, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Western Michigan, California.

Florida bomb blasted South Carolina 56-6, handing former Gator and current Gamecock Coach Steve Spurrier his worst loss ever. And South Carolina is generally thought to be a strong defensive team. Who knows, but what is clear that when this team wants to get after it offensively, they are impossible to defend. Florida is on a collision course with top ranked Alabama in a hide the women and children SEC Championship Game.

Michigan, with Ohio State looming this weekend, has lost 8 games in a season for the first time in their storied history....Troy led LSU 31-3 but could not hold it as LSU stormed back in the final quarter to win 40-31....Miami FL has taken command in the ACC Coastal playing very limited offense all year.....Meanwhile, Florida State continues to excel on either one side of the ball only or neither side, as was the case last evening as a rather pedestrian Boston College resembled a vintage San Francisco 49er team in confusing our talented? defense. This lack of cohesion is really getting difficult to absorb, particularly when considering the veteran coaching staff and player talent on hand. Somehow, I managed to avoid the police in all my goings on cruising chicks at The Musical Moon and have not thrown any chairs either.....Vanderbilt is bowl eligible after dumping Kentucky, so congrats to the 'Dores....Although they got by an average Auburn team, Georgia is not playing very well. In fact, outside of Florida and Alabama, the SEC seems rather weak....Mercifully, Greg Robinson has been axed at Syracuse. His tenure there has been nothing short of a disaster, and what Syracuse was thinking dumping Paul Pasqualoni some years back remains puzzling as the program has hit rock bottom.....President elect Barack Obama has thrown his two cents into the college football playoff debate commenting that he would be in favor of an eight team playoff. I am hoping we limit the items he is going to screw up and keep this beloved game away from his influence.....We await two big games this week as Texas Tech visits Norman to take on OU while BYU and Utah tangle out west....Texas A&M got slapped by Baylor behind the standout frosh signal caller leading the Bears and A&M is really struggling....Nebraska threw up over 600 yards of O in crushing K-State, where it does appear a coaching change is a sound move. Mr. Mouth Josh Freeman left the game after being battered all afternoon....Texas, behind Colt McCoy and a stellar no name defense, does look very good this year and has now won 10 games in 8 consecutive seasons, the longest current streak and ties for the second longest in modern history....Tulsa, ranked for much of the season, gave up 70 to conference foe Houston, which perhaps indicates why they are no longer ranked.