Andy

Looked like he turned his ankle on replay. Could be wrong but I'll guess he'll be back.

As much as I am sick of the SEC at this point, it probably shouldn't. Florida has some good wins (A&M and FSU on the road plus LSU at home) while Oregon has beaten only 1 team slated to be ranked tomorrow (although it would be 2 if USC did win).

I might pull an IMB! and stab heroin into my forehead.

The lowest-ranked team in the BCS is eliminated from the three-way tie, then it reverts to head to head, so it probably wouldn't be final until the BCS was released. Most likely it would be Oregon State since Stanford would probably fall behind the Beavers in the BCS. ETA: Or I'm stupid and Stanford beat both of the Oregons.

How much more money does LSU get for a Sugar Bowl bid than a Cotton Bowl? That's basically what John L. is handing LSU.

Mark Ingram, Gino Torretta, Chris Weinke, Jason White and Eric Crouch can't believe it's being alleged that the best players on the best team have a leg up on potentially more deserving candidates in Heisman voting.

Obvious holding there. (I'm kidding)

In less important but equally odd news, Boise State, San Diego State and BYU are talking about rejoining the Mountain West - in the former two's case, before they've even officially left.

9 conference games and drop ND for those that had them on the schedule. There's 12 other teams in the league besides those that have games scheduled with ND past 2014. Are none of them going to play a a marquee non-conference game?

Wait, before this, PSU and Illinois were the only teams in the Leaders division? Why are you mentioning PSU? I just pulled that from the "Onward State" Twitter feed, which is why it mentioned PSU.

With Miami self-imposing another bowl ban, Georgia Tech will play in the ACC title game, probably at 6-6. I legitimately can't believe that craptastic team won its division.

I was thinking they could dump the Kid Pix logo too. Surely some enterprising soul could cleverly fit 14 into a logo.

Maryland board has unanimously approved a B1G move, says Brett McMurphy on Twitter.

Lane Kiffin just confirmed Matt Barkley won't play Saturday.

Top 25 games ------------------------ (1) Notre Dame at USC (8 pm, ABC) Auburn at (2) Alabama (3:30 pm, CBS) Georgia Tech at (3) Georgia (12 pm, ESPN) (4) Florida at (10) Florida State (3:30 pm, ABC) (19) Michigan at (4*) Ohio State (12 pm, ABC) (5) Oregon at (15) Oregon State (3 pm, Pac-12 Network) (7) LSU at Arkansas (2:30 pm Friday, CBS) (8) Stanford at (17) UCLA (6:30 pm, FOX) Missouri at (9) Texas A&M (7 pm, ESPN2) (12) South Carolina at (11) Clemson (7 pm, ESPN) (21) Oklahoma State at (13) Oklahoma (3:30 pm, ESPN) (14) Nebraska at Iowa (12 pm Friday, ABC) TCU at (16) Texas (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) (18) Rutgers at Pittsburgh (12 pm, ESPN2) UConn at (20) Louisville (12 pm, SNY/ESPN3) Ohio at (23) Kent State (11 am Friday, ESPNU) Arizona State at (24) Arizona (10 pm Friday, ESPN) (25) Washington at Washington State (3:30 pm Friday, FOX) * Denotes AP ranking, ineligible for BCS Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Akron at Toledo (7 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Syracuse at Temple (11 am Friday, ESPN2) Ball State at Miami (OH) (1 pm Friday, ESPN3) Northern Illinois at Eastern Michigan (1 pm Friday, ESPN3) Marshall at East Carolina (2 pm Friday, CBS Sports) Buffalo at Bowling Green (2 pm Friday, ESPN3) Utah at Colorado (3 pm Friday, FX) Central Michigan at UMass (3 pm Friday, ESPN3) West Virginia at Iowa State (3:30 pm Friday, ABC) South Florida at Cincinnati (7 pm Friday, ESPN) Tulsa at SMU (12 pm, FX) UAB at Central Florida (12 pm, FSN) Indiana at Purdue (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Illinois at Northwestern (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Virginia at Virginia Tech (12 pm, ESPNU) Kentucky at Tennessee (12:20 pm, SEC Network/ESPN3) Miami at Duke (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) North Texas at Western Kentucky (1 pm, ESPN3) Baylor vs Texas Tech – in Arlington, TX (2:30 pm, FOX) Idaho at Utah State (3 pm, ESPN3) Maryland at North Carolina (3 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) Boston College at NC State (3 pm, ESPN3) Wisconsin at Penn State (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Michigan State at Minnesota (3:30 pm, BTN) Air Force at Fresno State (3:30 pm, NBC Sports) Tulane at Houston (3:30 pm, FSN) Vanderbilt at Wake Forest (3:30 pm, ESPNU) BYU at New Mexico State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Troy at Middle Tennessee (3:30 pm, ESPN3) South Alabama at UL Lafayette (5 pm, ESPN3) Mississippi State at Ole Miss (7 pm, ESPNU) Louisiana Tech at San Jose State (10:30 pm, ESPN2)

Speaking as someone who was in that spot three years ago, I can tell you there is pretty much no shot. Stoops and/or his agent seem to love inserting his name into any high-profile college football job opening, then staying at Oklahoma.

Ron Rivera and Cam Newton are now 8-18, 1-12 in games decided by 7 or less.

Carolina is just wildly impressive at finding ways to lose. 10-32 the last two-plus seasons.

Crush? Maybe. But I think the general consensus - or at least it seemed to me - was that Bama was the better team in the first matchup, so them winning was hardly surprising. By that logic, it was silly to think Kansas State would beat a 4-5 Baylor team that can't play defense. I'm not sure why you think your second paragraph supports your argument and not mine. In a sport where blowouts sometimes happen for seemingly no reason, one would think a blowout would be, at least, on the table when: (1) the computers like one team better; (2) the eye test supports that same team; (3) the same team crushed a common opponent on a neutral field while the other team barely beat the common opponent at home; etc. For the record, if Alabama plays Notre Dame, I don't expect a "crushing" because I think Notre Dame's defense is too good for that. I think Alabama by ten-ish points would be likely though. You act as if I say there is no possible set of circumstances under which Alabama would destroy Notre Dame in a football game. That isn't what I said. I said it shouldn't be expected or assumed that they would, which several people seem to be doing.

I like Deshaies based on what little I've listened to Astros' broadcasts in the past. He'd probably get along well with Len.

He went to San Diego State. Beyond that I've got nothing.

Crush? Maybe. But I think the general consensus - or at least it seemed to me - was that Bama was the better team in the first matchup, so them winning was hardly surprising. By that logic, it was silly to think Kansas State would beat a 4-5 Baylor team that can't play defense.

I'm not arguing against any computer ranking. I'm saying that to think a team with a loss and only 2 wins over legitimately good teams is going to crush an unbeaten team with wins over three BCS-ranked teams, two of them likely to finish in the top 10, because of the conference they play in or the 'eye test' or whatever, is probably a misguided idea.

3 coaches did give 1st-place votes to SEC teams, 2 to Alabama and one, perplexingly, to Georgia.