I realize that most of my readers are my computer science buddies. Most of you could care less about sports. You might have been hopeful that I wouldn’t post anything about football this week because Ole Miss didn’t play. In general, you’d be right, but too much happened this weekend to not say anything about it.
For the second time this year, three of the top four teams in the country lost. No. 5 Texas beat No. 1 Oklahoma by 10 points, No. 3 Missouri was beaten by No. 17 Oklahoma State, and No. 4 LSU got spanked by No. 11 Florida. Also of interest is unranked Mississippi State beating No. 13 Vanderbilt. It was bound to happen eventually.
In the new poll, Texas moves to No. 1, Alabama stays at No. 2 after an off week, Penn State moves into No. 3, and Oklahoma drops to No. 4, and Florida moves up to No. 5.
The remainder of Texas’ schedule is pretty rough. They play four teams currently in the top 16. The only currently ranked team Alabama has left to play is LSU. However, assuming they continue to win, they’ll end up in the SEC championship game where they are likely to face Florida or Georgia. The SEC championship game could easily decide who goes to the BCS championship game.
This year there are several really good one loss teams out there. Could this finally be the year college football gets talked into some sort of playoff system? Probably not, but it’s fun to dream.