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One of these interesting triangles in college football-Georgia Tech handled Va Tech easily, Clemson destroyed Ga Tech, now Va Tech is beating Clemson easily. This would be nice to get one of the 1 loss teams out of the way tonight. You see during halftime where Touchdown Charlie was whining about Tennessee jumping ahead of ND in the polls? I like how he was waving around his Super Bowl ring in the process.

Crap. Just heard on ESPN that UNC's John Bunting is stepping down at the end of the season. Figured this would happen, but now that it's official, UT's offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe may be one of, if not the top, candidate. It's also probably one of the few jobs he may leave Tennessee to take.

Cincy may have just blown the game open. :shock: Fumble by USF returned 45 yards for a Bearcat TD. 9-0 with 1 minute left in the third. And the Bearcats have likely sealed the deal after a failed USF fake punt. Cincy takes the ball just over the 50 and drives down to score. 16-0 with about 12 or so minutes to go.

Cincy may have just blown the game open. :shock: Fumble by USF returned 45 yards for a Bearcat TD. 9-0 with 1 minute left in the third.

I gotta say, as much as I've gotten on to the Big East, I'm thoroughly enjoying the USF/Cincy game. 2-0 at the beginning of the second half. Not too impressed by either (though I like Cincy's run game) but I am enjoying the game.

Let me tell you, if Rutgers becomes a power ND and Penn State can kiss their pipeline to Jersey goodbye. This school was a sleeping giant IMO and if they continue on this path it's going to hurt a lot of schools. And this hurts to write because I hate that school. Whether or not Greg Schiano (I think that's right) stays may have a huge impact on whether they get good. I've been hearing many rumors that he may replace Coker in Miami. No doubt, Schiano has that school jumping and I think it would be a mistake for him to go back to Miami. It's a hornets nest right now, let someone else deal with it. I agree, but it's very difficult to ignore what Miami used to be. Most good coaches will believe they can turn it around.

So long as Reggie Ball remembers Calvin Johnson is on his team and throws him the ball. A buddy and me were watching the game last night and screaming for Ball to throw to Johnson and he almost never did.

On to a personal note, it's finally time for vengeance upon Spurrier. I'm ready to get this UT v Spurrier matchup over with. I think it'll be a tough game, with Spurrier getting his boys fired up to beat us. Ultimately, I think we pull it out by no more than a couple TDs. Then we get ready for LSU and Arkansas. Tough stretch.

Let me tell you, if Rutgers becomes a power ND and Penn State can kiss their pipeline to Jersey goodbye. This school was a sleeping giant IMO and if they continue on this path it's going to hurt a lot of schools. And this hurts to write because I hate that school. Whether or not Greg Schiano (I think that's right) stays may have a huge impact on whether they get good. I've been hearing many rumors that he may replace Coker in Miami.

Honestly, I've been quite impressed with the Razorbacks. I do think your looking at a couple more losses (UT and LSU) though I think the LSU game is very winnable and you could pull it out over us if McFadden and Jones run wild. Really though, this season is why I thought the great desire to fire Houston Nutt was kind of odd. He's a great coach who had some problems after Auburn and LSU picked things up. I don't think there's any reason to fire Nutt, especially after this year. Nor I. I said, looking at the schedule, the advancement of all the young players from last year, and all, that the Razorbacks should win, at least 8 games this season, and 10 if things go smoothly. They've thus far exceeded my upper end expecations, as they'll likely go into Tennessee 8-1. the big issue with the Nutt-haters is basically that he took over a program in limbo, and after two losing seasons, they were still basically in limbo. There have also been a lot of people questioning his play calling and conservatism offensively. For the most part, though, he seems to get a lot out of lesser talent, and you'll never hear *him* say his talent is lesser, but the recruiting base for Arkansas leaves it usually in the upper botttom half of the SEC schools. I think the only thing that might shut those people up is if they can climb to the top and hang around, eventually bringing in some top out-of-state recruits and play the role of perennial powerhouse. With their youth and their current performance, they're in position to open next season ranked, possibly as high as top 10. That'd be new. Yeah, I view the Nutt situation much like the Ole Miss situation with David Cutcliffe while he was still the head coach there. He had them playing hard and well, with multiple good years. The problem was, he never got them to the elite level, which is hard to criticize your coach for in a conference as tough as the SEC. The same goes for Nutt, I think he's done quite a good job and could have Arkansas fighting for the West for a long time.

Honestly, I've been quite impressed with the Razorbacks. I do think your looking at a couple more losses (UT and LSU) though I think the LSU game is very winnable and you could pull it out over us if McFadden and Jones run wild. Really though, this season is why I thought the great desire to fire Houston Nutt was kind of odd. He's a great coach who had some problems after Auburn and LSU picked things up. I don't think there's any reason to fire Nutt, especially after this year.

I thought they were 25 in the coaches last week? Anyway, the more I look at it, the more I figure UGA probably is a little more deserving than Oregon, though neither should be a top 25. Just nobody that's actually deserving left.

I gotta wonder how Nebraska, Oregon and UGA are still in the polls and how Nebraska is ahead of Mizzou. I hate polls.

Well let's see. Air Force lost by one to Tennessee at Tennessee so you're right, Navy must be a bad team. as is Tennessee then. Since Tennessee is a bad team how are they in the top 10? I'm just using your criteria Truffle. No, you're not. Geez, how hard is it? He named ALL of Navy's wins to show that none were particularly impressive; you named one close game for Tennessee and said they were a bad team. Ridiculous. He's calling Navy a bad team while they beat Air Force at Air Force while Tennessee wins at home by one. Not only that but in the last seconds. What makes Tennessee so much better? A single game does not make or break a team. Sure, Navy beat Air Force and Tennessee barely beat AF. Navy has also beaten UMass, Stanford and East Carolina. Is that a great group of wins? UT on the other hand has beaten UGA, Cal, Bama. Which three wins are better? Also, how do you have any question whether UT is better than Navy?

There's simply no way this is true. There are 3 downright bad teams out of only 8. What are the bad teams? Syracuse that lost to once beaten Wake Forrest by 10 and Iowa in OT and beat Illinois. UConn beat Indiana. S.Florida beat North Carolina but did lose to Kansas, Cincy played Ohio St and VTech tough so tell me how are they god awful? Mississippi, Vanderbuilt, Miss St, South Carolina and Kentucky haven't beaten one major conference team this year...none and have blown out when they have. Georgia played a 1-6 Colorado, LSU a 3-4 Arizona, Alabama a 0-7 Duke and the only one that acutally plays teams Tenn which beat Cal and Air Force by 1. By this, tell me why this is the best conference? Is it your perception of what you think is good? I admit the wonderful stadiums being full and the great tradition they have is something the Big East does not have but in 2006 they are not better or deeper. I'd say the PAC 10 would be the toughest top to bottom if Stanford didn't suck. Man, this is homerism at its finest. UConn beat a bad Indiana team, Syracuse beat a bad South Florida beat a North Carolina team that hasn't won a game against a I-A opponent, and Cincy lost all their non-conference games against good competition. I'm pretty sure that just about all those teams listed above could've beaten Indiana, Illinois or North Carolina. It's pretty easy to say that South Carolina hasn't beaten a big conference team in an OOC game, because they haven't played one. Mississippi State played one, West Virginia, and they got hammered because they suck. Ole Miss lost two (Mizzou, Wake) because they aren't very good. Vandy hasn't beaten a major conference team because the only one they played happens to be the #2 team in the country. That's a little more of a challenge than taking on Indiana or UNC. Kentucky played Louisville on the road, and of course they got killed because Louisville is good and Kentucky clearly is not. You give credit to USF for beating UNC, but then goof on LSU for playing a 3-4 Arizona team? Come on. And while we're at it, let's compile a list of the Big East non-conference games this year: WVU - vs Marshall, vs Eastern Washington, vs Maryland, @East Carolina, @Mississippi State Louisville - Kentucky, @Temple, vs Miami, @Kansas State, @Middle Tennessee State Rutgers - @UNC, vs Illinois, vs Ohio, vs Howard, @Navy Pitt - vs Virginia, vs Michigan State (loss), vs Citadel, vs Toledo, @UCF USF - vs McNeese St, vs FIU, @UCF, @Kansas (loss), @UNC Cincy - vs Eastern Kentucky, @Ohio State (loss), @Virginia Tech (loss), vs Miami OH, vs Akron UConn - vs URI, vs Wake Forest (loss), @Indiana, vs Navy (loss), vs Army Syracuse - @Wake Forest (loss), vs Iowa (loss), @Illinois, vs Miami OH, vs Wyoming Wow, quite the illustrious record there. The best win is Louisville at home against a Miami team that barely beat Duke. The second best is probably West Virginia beating Maryland at home - by the way, Maryland barely beat Florida International at home. Then there's Rutgers' win over a physically outmatched Navy team. USF's best win is over a team that has only beaten Furman. I could go on, but it's pretty obvious that there really isn't much to brag about there, and that's putting it mildly. And, I'll remind you now that Florida plays F$U later in the year, Georgia plays Georgia Tech, and South Carolina goes to Clemson. Georgia Tech and Clemson are better than any non-conference team that West Virginia, Louisville, Pitt or Rutgers will have faced this year. So the bottom of the Big East is better than the bottom of the SEC, correct? Also, Navy is 5-2 and a very good team. Maryland also beat NC State. I admit I'm a homer but I'll also admit when I'm wrong and I know I'm right about the SEC. What also is going to stink is that the bowl system is set up for the BE to fail. We have one big game and the rest are against teams that the BE teams should beat or are suppose to beat and no games against the "big boys" as they all play each other in the bowls since they are set up ahead of time and not earned. Actually they are fairly close, the problem for the Big East is, how do we know for sure the top (WVU and Louisville) are better than UT, UF, and Auburn? They both play very similar non-conference schedules. The difference I see is that I would take the middle of the SEC (Bama, LSU, SCar, Arkansas) over the middle of the Big East (Pitt, Rutgers). Thus, the in-conference SEC schedule is better and the SEC is better. Incredibly? No, but still better.

There's simply no way this is true. There are 3 downright bad teams out of only 8. What are the bad teams? Syracuse that lost to once beaten Wake Forrest by 10 and Iowa in OT and beat Illinois. UConn beat Indiana. S.Florida beat North Carolina but did lose to Kansas, Cincy played Ohio St and VTech tough so tell me how are they god awful? Mississippi, Vanderbuilt, Miss St, South Carolina and Kentucky haven't beaten one major conference team this year...none and have blown out when they have. Georgia played a 1-6 Colorado, LSU a 3-4 Arizona, Alabama a 0-7 Duke and the only one that acutally plays teams Tenn which beat Cal and Air Force by 1. By this, tell me why this is the best conference? Is it your perception of what you think is good? I admit the wonderful stadiums being full and the great tradition they have is something the Big East does not have but in 2006 they are not better or deeper. I'd say the PAC 10 would be the toughest top to bottom if Stanford didn't suck. Cuse, You make your argument that the Big East is a deep conference by pointing out they're barely losing to (at best) mediocre major conference teams? Syracuse, who won 1 game last year, has proven themselves by going 3-5 and losing to the only decent teams they played? Sure, I'll give you their improved and probably will get better over the next few years. But I don't see the evidence that they are a good team. UConn, who is 3-4, is a good team because they beat Indiana? The Hoosiers (and I apologize to any IU fans I may upset with this, I have a good friend who is an IU fan) is year in, year out the worst team in the Big 10 and typically the weakest of any major conf. team and most minor conference teams. By the way, you left out that UConn's biggest win is over the powerhouse Army. They also were killed by another beast, Navy. As for USF, didn't you or someone criticize Bama for struggling against Duke, and then you praise the Bulls for beating a terrible UNC team? Plus, USF squeaks out a win over FIU (1 point) and UCF (7 points). You can't give Cincy credit for hanging tough with OSU (they lost by 30) unless you give Vandy credit for hanging tough with Michigan (lost by 20 and were down by much less until the fourth quarter). Otherwise, the Bearcats' biggest wins are over decent MAC teams Akron and Miami of Ohio. Let me ask you a question, Why are we supposed to give the Big East credit before they prove anything to us? WVU beat UGA last year and Louisville's typically a decent top 25 team. You complain about the SEC getting the benefit of the doubt, but you demand the Big East get the same treatment? I'll give you the SEC is down this year, but so is the rest of college football. The key difference is, the SEC has been good in previous, recent years, the teams currently comprising the Big East have not. Dew, As my friend TransTiger pointed out, the past is the past and I'm talking about the current. You admitted the SEC is down but if you listen to all the College "experts" they go on and on about the SEC as if they are the best. As I've wrote many times, they are talented but to have 4 to 5 teams in the top 11 is redicules. But, if you want to talk the past, how far do you want to go? WV had one loss last year and Louisville had 3. How many games did Auburn or Florida lose last year? I mentioned those teams like Indiana because the bottom of the BE has beaten the bottom of the other conferences thus IMO proved they are better. As I pointed out, Kansas did beat SFlorida and Pitt lost to Michigan St and I give you that. Cuse, I ask you, if not Tennessee, Florida, Auburn (the only three in the top 11) then who? It's the same reason I don't have a problem with ND in the top ten, the crop of college football teams this season is very weak. Traditionally good teams such as Iowa, UGA, Oklahoma, FSU, Miami, Va Tech, etc. are all having worse years then normal. Who would you argue are unquestionably better than UT, UF, and Auburn? And believe me, it pains me deeply to say Florida's a good team, I hate them. Also, in terms of the ESPN "experts" their main goal is to promote viewership so their not going to admit that traditional powers such as the SEC and Big 10 are weak this year, though they are. But I still have not seen any reason to say those two, who consistently are the best conferences, are worse than the Big East. The BE simply hasn't been that impressive as a whole, primarily because I have doubts about them and they play no one to convince me otherwise.

There's simply no way this is true. There are 3 downright bad teams out of only 8. What are the bad teams? Syracuse that lost to once beaten Wake Forrest by 10 and Iowa in OT and beat Illinois. UConn beat Indiana. S.Florida beat North Carolina but did lose to Kansas, Cincy played Ohio St and VTech tough so tell me how are they god awful? Mississippi, Vanderbuilt, Miss St, South Carolina and Kentucky haven't beaten one major conference team this year...none and have blown out when they have. Georgia played a 1-6 Colorado, LSU a 3-4 Arizona, Alabama a 0-7 Duke and the only one that acutally plays teams Tenn which beat Cal and Air Force by 1. By this, tell me why this is the best conference? Is it your perception of what you think is good? I admit the wonderful stadiums being full and the great tradition they have is something the Big East does not have but in 2006 they are not better or deeper. I'd say the PAC 10 would be the toughest top to bottom if Stanford didn't suck. Cuse, You make your argument that the Big East is a deep conference by pointing out they're barely losing to (at best) mediocre major conference teams? Syracuse, who won 1 game last year, has proven themselves by going 3-5 and losing to the only decent teams they played? Sure, I'll give you their improved and probably will get better over the next few years. But I don't see the evidence that they are a good team. UConn, who is 3-4, is a good team because they beat Indiana? The Hoosiers (and I apologize to any IU fans I may upset with this, I have a good friend who is an IU fan) is year in, year out the worst team in the Big 10 and typically the weakest of any major conf. team and most minor conference teams. By the way, you left out that UConn's biggest win is over the powerhouse Army. They also were killed by another beast, Navy. As for USF, didn't you or someone criticize Bama for struggling against Duke, and then you praise the Bulls for beating a terrible UNC team? Plus, USF squeaks out a win over FIU (1 point) and UCF (7 points). You can't give Cincy credit for hanging tough with OSU (they lost by 30) unless you give Vandy credit for hanging tough with Michigan (lost by 20 and were down by much less until the fourth quarter). Otherwise, the Bearcats' biggest wins are over decent MAC teams Akron and Miami of Ohio. Let me ask you a question, Why are we supposed to give the Big East credit before they prove anything to us? WVU beat UGA last year and Louisville's typically a decent top 25 team. You complain about the SEC getting the benefit of the doubt, but you demand the Big East get the same treatment? I'll give you the SEC is down this year, but so is the rest of college football. The key difference is, the SEC has been good in previous, recent years, the teams currently comprising the Big East have not.

I realize this is a little late but, TITANS WIN! Woohoo, now we improve to a great 1-5. Vince just keeps looking better with line of 13-25 for 161 and most importantly, no picks. Great seeing the former Vol Travis Henry tearing it up in back to back weeks, with a career high 178 today. If he continues, we'll have a formidable rushing game for a long time between him and LenDale White. Now we just need to draft a #1 caliber receiver or a shut down CB.

Why didn't you list the win against LSU? Florida is more highly rated than Cal, and LSU and Georgia are similarly ranked. The rest are cakewalks, and even then Auburn winning at USC is probably better than winning at home v. Air Force. Honestly, I forgot about LSU. Also, Memphis is probably nearly as good as Air Force, if not better. We have horrible problems with mobile quarterbacks and have for years, that's the main reason we struggled against Carney and the Falcons, and Matt Mauck, and DJ Shockley, etc. Memphis would give USC a run, if not beat them. That leaves Buffalo and Wash St for Auburn and Marshall and Cal for UT. Still an advantage for the Vols. Memphis? 1-4 Memphis? Who lost to Ole Miss, East Carolina, and UAB? Who have yet to beat a 1-A team this year? They're terrible, no way are they better than Air Force, or USC. Wow, I hadn't looked close at their schedule recently. It's strange too because they've got some nice young talent (Martin Hankins, Joseph Doss, a few good young receivers). But I'll grant you their not very good now. Even then, the schedules shake out as:(wins in order of how good they are) Auburn Florida LSU S Car Wash St Buffalo Tennessee Cal UGA AF Mem Marshall Florida is better than Cal, LSU over UGA, AF is slightly better than USC (very similar schedules thus far), Memphis over Wash St, Marshall over Buffalo or Miss St. Still an advantage for Tennessee, plus as you said Tennessee lost to a better team than Auburn and looked significantly better doing it. When it comes down to it, though, you can't just look at schedules. Auburn has been very unimpressive, UT has played very well so far.

That game is at Auburn. I look forward to seeing Auburn winning and going right back to #2. The SEC is just that darn good. If Florida loses (please, I'm begging), and an SEC team moves to #2 it better as heck be Tennessee. We are far more proven than any other SEC team. Which seems strange to say after last season, feels good to say it though. :) If Florida were to lose to Auburn, I don't see how Tennessee would be far more proven than Auburn. I guess Tennessee's loss is a "better" loss than Auburn's, but on the other hand Auburn would have beaten the team UT lost to. I'm not saying Auburn would deserve to be ranked ahead of UT, but I don't think anyone could be too upset with either being in front of the other. This is why it's foolish to even have teams outside of the SEC ranked so high. The SEC teams play such a tough out of conference schedule and then beat up on each other I just don't see any other way to say it but to just hand them the title. WV plays at Miss St and wins 42-14 and is called for 13 penalties by the SEC refs and they drop in the polls...yeah, good ole boys just sticking together. I am a proponent that if you play a tough conference schedule, it's ok to play nobody non-conference. If you play nobody in conference, you should play some teams in conference. Tennessee plays some decent to bad non-conference each year and typically one good to very good team. For example, this year we play Cal and then Air Force (one of the better mid majors), Memphis (usually decent), and Marshall (bad). We've also played Miami and ND, and upcoming we have Oregon, UCLA, Oklahoma, etc. Other SEC teams that have or will play tough non conference foes, Florida (Fl St), LSU (AZ St, Va Tech), Bama (Fl St, ND, OK, Nebraska). There's a reason the SEC is respected, we've earned it over the years. I don't have too much of a problem with the Big East, they've got a great future. But when the best teams in your conference leave, you've got to go out and earn respect. You won't by beating up on teams that have not been historically good, UConn, Rutgers, Cincinnati. I respect Louisville for going out and taking on Miami, but West Virginia hasn't gone out and gotten anybody. When they had the chance, they got the weakest SEC team, Miss St. I don't deny that UT plays the toughest out of conference in the SEC but LSU plays or played La-Lafayette, Tulane, Fresno St, and Arizona. WV has played a tougher schedule than most think but it is weak and they have everyone back from last years team that beat the SEC Champ in the Sugar Bowl, since you added history to the debate. Let me add that BE is tougher than any conference top to bottom. Last place Syracuse goes to OT with Iowa and beats Illinois in Illinios, UConn beats Indiana, and Louisville, who I think is the best team in the country, played at Kansas St and beat them there. I don't disagree that your worst may be better than most others' worst. The question I have is what has WVU done to be handed a top five spot? And that's what early polling is, what have you done in the past for the pollsters to hand you a spot. I hate the polls and desperately want a playoff system, until then though, there is a respect factor that is built up over time that WVU hasn't done enough to earn yet. Beating UGA was a good step, but even I'll admit the SEC was very weak last year with Fla having three or four losses, UT going 5-6, etc. WVU plays Marshall, Miss St, Eastern Washington, Maryland, and East Carolina non-conference. Maryland is the best and they are a weak ACC team. Even LSU has a better schedule than that, though barely.

Why didn't you list the win against LSU? Florida is more highly rated than Cal, and LSU and Georgia are similarly ranked. The rest are cakewalks, and even then Auburn winning at USC is probably better than winning at home v. Air Force. Honestly, I forgot about LSU. Also, Memphis is probably nearly as good as Air Force, if not better. We have horrible problems with mobile quarterbacks and have for years, that's the main reason we struggled against Carney and the Falcons, and Matt Mauck, and DJ Shockley, etc. Memphis would give USC a run, if not beat them. That leaves Buffalo and Wash St for Auburn and Marshall and Cal for UT. Still an advantage for the Vols.

That game is at Auburn. I look forward to seeing Auburn winning and going right back to #2. The SEC is just that darn good. If Florida loses (please, I'm begging), and an SEC team moves to #2 it better as heck be Tennessee. We are far more proven than any other SEC team. Which seems strange to say after last season, feels good to say it though. :) If Florida were to lose to Auburn, I don't see how Tennessee would be far more proven than Auburn. I guess Tennessee's loss is a "better" loss than Auburn's, but on the other hand Auburn would have beaten the team UT lost to. I'm not saying Auburn would deserve to be ranked ahead of UT, but I don't think anyone could be too upset with either being in front of the other. Auburn has wins over South Carolina (barely), Miss St, Buffalo, and Washington St. If they beat Florida, that's their only good win. Tennessee has dominated Cal, put up 50 on a good defense at Georgia (granted their offense isn't real good), and beat Memphis, Marshall, and Air Force (barely). The Vols' resume is much better than Auburn's. Also, let me say I'm not arguing UT should be #2, just hypothetically if you put an SEC team there, it should be Tennessee. Auburn sure didnt look very special against Arkansas. I was watching the game saying.....ok what makes this team look like a #2 team? After it was over i was like oh....maybe it was supposed to be #12. I saw nothing that made them look scary, #2 teams should look scary. I agree, they haven't been impressive. Tennessee has, and I don't think I'm being biased.

That game is at Auburn. I look forward to seeing Auburn winning and going right back to #2. The SEC is just that darn good. If Florida loses (please, I'm begging), and an SEC team moves to #2 it better as heck be Tennessee. We are far more proven than any other SEC team. Which seems strange to say after last season, feels good to say it though. :) If Florida were to lose to Auburn, I don't see how Tennessee would be far more proven than Auburn. I guess Tennessee's loss is a "better" loss than Auburn's, but on the other hand Auburn would have beaten the team UT lost to. I'm not saying Auburn would deserve to be ranked ahead of UT, but I don't think anyone could be too upset with either being in front of the other. This is why it's foolish to even have teams outside of the SEC ranked so high. The SEC teams play such a tough out of conference schedule and then beat up on each other I just don't see any other way to say it but to just hand them the title. WV plays at Miss St and wins 42-14 and is called for 13 penalties by the SEC refs and they drop in the polls...yeah, good ole boys just sticking together. I am a proponent that if you play a tough conference schedule, it's ok to play nobody non-conference. If you play nobody in conference, you should play some teams in conference. Tennessee plays some decent to bad non-conference each year and typically one good to very good team. For example, this year we play Cal and then Air Force (one of the better mid majors), Memphis (usually decent), and Marshall (bad). We've also played Miami and ND, and upcoming we have Oregon, UCLA, Oklahoma, etc. Other SEC teams that have or will play tough non conference foes, Florida (Fl St), LSU (AZ St, Va Tech), Bama (Fl St, ND, OK, Nebraska). There's a reason the SEC is respected, we've earned it over the years. I don't have too much of a problem with the Big East, they've got a great future. But when the best teams in your conference leave, you've got to go out and earn respect. You won't by beating up on teams that have not been historically good, UConn, Rutgers, Cincinnati. I respect Louisville for going out and taking on Miami, but West Virginia hasn't gone out and gotten anybody. When they had the chance, they got the weakest SEC team, Miss St.

That game is at Auburn. I look forward to seeing Auburn winning and going right back to #2. The SEC is just that darn good. If Florida loses (please, I'm begging), and an SEC team moves to #2 it better as heck be Tennessee. We are far more proven than any other SEC team. Which seems strange to say after last season, feels good to say it though. :) If Florida were to lose to Auburn, I don't see how Tennessee would be far more proven than Auburn. I guess Tennessee's loss is a "better" loss than Auburn's, but on the other hand Auburn would have beaten the team UT lost to. I'm not saying Auburn would deserve to be ranked ahead of UT, but I don't think anyone could be too upset with either being in front of the other. Auburn has wins over South Carolina (barely), Miss St, Buffalo, and Washington St. If they beat Florida, that's their only good win. Tennessee has dominated Cal, put up 50 on a good defense at Georgia (granted their offense isn't real good), and beat Memphis, Marshall, and Air Force (barely). The Vols' resume is much better than Auburn's. Also, let me say I'm not arguing UT should be #2, just hypothetically if you put an SEC team there, it should be Tennessee.

I meant more from a national interest perspective. NBC wants everyone to be interested, not just Bronco fans. But you're right of course. If the Bears were playing the Raiders, I'd sure be tuning in. :) Raiders and football fans may still watch for a while hoping for an upset. I'm rooting for Oakland and against Detroit the rest of the way this year. Big weekend for the Panthers. Luckily, they get a Monday night team from last week for the 2nd time in 3 weeks. Let's see if Peppers can break McNair's sternum. I've said this a lot already this year (I'm going to say it a lot more) and I'm going to say it again now. Brady Quinn is going to look good in Silver and Black next year. :D And Adrian Peterson or Calvin Johnson will look good in green and gold :wink: Careful, the Titans may just pick before you and we may be very interested in either Calvin or Ted Ginn. Course, I wouldn't mind at all if we traded down a few spots and grabbed a hometown shut down corner, Jonathan Wade out of Tennessee.