NCAA: College Football Review 10/10/00

By Jason Brandt

Another wild weekend of college football has passed and it is now time to again gather myself and see what I learned over the weekend. Here are my thoughts as things stand now.

Nebraska has kind of returned to form. NU went to a hostile environment at Iowa St., where some experts were picking the ‘Huskers to slip, and played a pretty complete game. The defense held an Iowa St. team with the nation’s fourth leading rusher to 37 yards rushing on 29 attempts. They still gave up too many big pass plays, but they seem to be coming around. Crouch is just a warrior.

Kansas St. is very strong. This team is the longest running joke to national media there is. They take their shots, though fair sometimes, at the Cats’ schedule. They say they have not won a big game against a top ten team, which is also true. This cat team has a different look to me. It is a very experienced squad with a very steady quarterback that just does not make many mistakes. This week a revitalized Oklahoma squad invades the little apple to try to tame the Cats’. We will learn a great deal about Kansas St. this week, but I am already sold.

Miami is overrated. I know that is not the correct thing to say in most folks minds after the win over Florida St., but I looked at the AP poll this morning and saw Miami at number four. I continued to look to the right and saw that Miami has a loss. Is this fact lost on the voters? In my opinion, Miami should be sitting firmly behind Clemson, Ohio St. and Oklahoma until they lose a game. TCU does not count, they ducked out of a three year agreement with Nebraska to rack up wins, you bow out of contracts, you tell me you are scared of the big boys. Therefore, you aren’t rated with them.

Mack Brown is a great recruiter and that is it. Every year I seem to buy into this hype like everyone else that Texas is going to arrive this year. I should have known after a loss to a Stanford team that San Jose St. beat, that Texas was not good. I thought they would show up for their rivalry game with Oklahoma. It turned out to be like if I was to ask Cindy Crawford to my High School prom. One of us would show up and that is what happened Saturday, I would have played the part of OU. Oklahoma kicked Texas all over the field. Brown should be embarrassed at not having his kids ready to play this game. 3-5 in the last eight games is not doing much for job security. It is nice to see Oklahoma back in the top ten, congrats to coach Stoops.

The SEC and Big 11 are mirror images. They play different brands of football, but these conferences look the same to me at this point. Both have some very solid teams at the top of the conference, both have great top to bottom depth and we have no idea who will win either league at this point. Northwestern sits atop the Big 11, yet they are an underdog at home this week against Purdue. In the SEC, you have a 4-1 Mississippi team as an underdog to a 2-3 Alabama team. That is parity within a conference. Who’d have thought both Alabama and Tennessee would be 2-3 after five games?

That will do it for thoughts on this week. I be picking the games of the week on Friday.

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