Winners:
Louisville. They won by more then 10 points for the first time since September 8. QB Teddy Bridgewater had another monster game throwing for 324 yards and 5 touchdowns. He's leading a team that is 9-0 and should be in the heisman discussion.
Notre Dame. They were down 20-6 to begin the 4th quarter and 20-12 with under 3 minutes to go and rallied to force OT against Pittsburgh. After both teams kicked field goals in the 1st OT, ND fumbled on their 2nd OT possessions and the Irish survived a missed Pitt field goal that would have won it. Pitt kicked a FG their 3rd OT possession and ND won it with a touchdown on their possessions to get them to 9-0 for the first time since 1993 and kick them squarely in the hunt for the national championship.
Army. Beat Air Force for only the 2nd time since 1996 and will leave the Army vs. Navy game in Philadelphia on December 8 for the Commander-in-Chief's trophy which goes to either Army/Navy/or Air Force whichever team wins the most games in a season. Army hasn't won the trophy since 1996.
San Jose state. With a 42-13 win over Idaho, improved to 7-2 on the season and look to be on their way to only their second bowl game since 1990, and first since the 2006 New Mexico Bowl. With a win next week @ New Mexico state, SJSU would match their 3 previous seasons wins total.
Indiana. Recorded a 24-21 win over Indiana and control their own destiny for a BCS bowl appearance. Even though ohio state & Penn state are the two best teams in the Big 10 conference, and both school's are in Indiana's division, both of them are ineligible for the conference championship. If Indiana can win their next 4 games, even though they'd only be 8-5, they'd be playing in a BCS bowl.
Losers:
Les Miles (LSU coach). LSU suffered a 24-21 loss to Alabama and some of Miles' calls had a lot to do with it. In the 2nd quarter of a 7-3 game, he went for a fake field goal on 4th down and 12 which Alabama snuffed out. After scoring a touchdown to make the score 14-10, Miles attempted an on-sides kick on the insuing kick off which was recovered by Alabama. In the 4th quarter, after LSU took the lead, Miles attempted to go for it on a 4th and 1 instead of attempting a 41 yard field goal with one of the best kickers in the SEC; Spencer Ware got stuffed for no gain for a turnover on downs. The biggest downfall for Miles occured after Drew Alleman missed his second field goal of the game to keep it a 17-14 game. After holding Alabama in check for most of the second half (up until that possession, Alabama had 5 possessions; 4 resulted in a 3 and out and the 5th [off of the LSU onsides kick attempt] resulted in a fumble) Miles decides to play a prevent defense which lead Alabama to drive down the field for the winning touchdown.
USC defense. They have given up over 1300 yards the last 2 games, including getting gashed for 426 yards on the ground by the spread offense of Oregon. Kenjon Barner for Oregon had an exceptionally good day; 38 attempts for 321 yards and 5 touchdowns.
Colorado rushing game. The Buffalo's are one of the most hapless teams in football. As if getting outscored 168-20 over their last 3 games isn't bad enough, yesterday against Stanford their 3 quarterbacks got sacked 8 times for a loss of 42 yards which resulted in the Buffalos as a team having 21 rushing attempts which went for negative 21 yards, meaning you had 21 more rushing yards watching this game then the whole team did.
Kentucky. The Wildcats have lost 9 games this year, 7 of which were by 13 or more points. The latest casualty a 40-0 pounding at the hands of the Vanderbilt Commodores resulted in the firing of Kentucky coach Joker Phillips.
Arizona. After beating USC last week, they had no such luck against LA's other school, losing 66-10 in the Rose Bowl to UCLA. UCLA started the game up 28-0 and the score was 42-3 at halftime. They got outgained 611-257 in the game.
Projected BCS standings:
1) Alabama
2) Kansas state
3) Notre Dame
4) Oregon
5) Georgia.
Top 4 remain unchanged. Notre Dame was pushed to overtime against a not good Pitt team, but Oregon gave up 51 points to USC and only win because they scored 62. And unlike in the polls, here at Max's Sports Blog we don't move down teams if they win, even if they win on a defensive safety getting 0 offensive yards, so since the top 4 won, they remain the same as last week. Georgia, who was #6 last week takes last week's #5 spot (LSU) in my rankings.
#6 Florida
#7 South Carolina
#8 Florida state
#9 Louisville
#10 Oregon state.
Florida, South Carolina, Florida state & Louisville all move up 1 spot. I moved Oregon state to #10 because to me they've been more impressive then LSU.
How I think they'll play out: Oregon jumps Notre Dame for 3rd, and LSU ends up somewhere around 7th or 8th in the rankings.
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