Chaos in The BCS: A New Number One

The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame are the new number 1

Last Saturday the college football world was turned completely upside down as the number one and two teams in the nation suffered their first losses. Kansas State was completely embarrassed by Baylor, losing to the Bears 52-24. Oregon fell to Stanford, 17-14 in overtime. This catapulted the third ranked Irish to the top in this weeks rankings. Notre Dame has never been ranked first in the BCS standings, and hasn't been number one since it was ranked first in the AP Poll in 1993. The top 10 looks like this:

1. Notre Dame

2. Alabama

3. Georgia
4. Florida
5. Oregon
6. Kansas State
7. LSU
8. Stanford
9. Texas A&M
10. Florida State

The major issues with this poll is how far Oregon and Kansas State fell. Kansas State is better than Florida. Florida will have its hands full with Florida State this weekend. Florida will have to shut down the high powered offense of Senior quarterback EJ Manuel. Manuel has completed 68.8% of his passes, while also throwing for 21 touchdowns. The Seminoles have averaged 42.9 points per game while giving up just 13.1. The Gators average 25.8 points per game, while giving up 11.7. This game will probably be a low twenties to mid thirties game. Look for The Seminoles to have to find a running game to open up passing lanes. The Gators are 3-1 against the Top 25 this season.

Oregon lost to a tough Stanford team to get their first loss. Oregon fell much further than necessary as well, as they should be sitting at number four instead of the Gators. Notre Dame has gotten very lucky in two games this season that it should have lost. The Fighting Irish were a blown call away from a loss to Stanford, and the luck of the Irish continued against Pittsburgh as they pulled out a 29-26 victory in triple overtime.USC is looking less likely to upset the Irish this weekend without quarterback Matt Barkley who suffered an injury last weekend against UCLA, but with the receivers that the Trojans have I can see them giving Notre Dame a run for their money. The Top 10 in the polls should be like this:

1. Notre Dame
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Oregon
5. Kansas State
6. Florida
7. Stanford
8. LSU
9. Texas A&M
10. Florida State

Games of the Week:

(1) Notre Dame vs USC

(4) Florida vs (10) Florida State

Teams On Upset Alert:

(4) Florida vs (10) Florida State

(1) Notre Dame vs USC

(18) Rutgers vs Pittsburgh






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Everett Golson Photo:
http://news.yahoo.com/golson-leads-no-4-nd-29-26-3ot-000453374--spt.html

Information and Stats from:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/



 

Mark Sanchez Should Be Sitting

Jets Quarterback Mark Sanchez

Here we go again with the Jets soap opera every year. This time instead of the focus being on Rex Ryan and his ridiculous predictions for his football team, the focus is on who should be starting at quarterback for the struggling Jets team. Everybody knows that the Jets went out in the off season and brought in Tim Tebow from the Denver Broncos after the Broncos signed Peyton Manning, and this quarterback controversy has been going on ever since training camp. 

Let's start out by saying that neither quarterback is going to save this team. Tim Tebow isn’t going to save a struggling Jets team without any talent whatsoever at a wide receiver position. This team needs a wide receiver, not a new quarterback, Though a quarterback wouldn’t hurt either.

Dustin Keller is this team’s biggest weapon on offense. Every defense should be so afraid to face this team. What a joke. Without Santonio Holmes, this team has no legitimate wide out and has done absolutely nothing about trying to get one. They just talk about Tim Tebow and Rex Ryan watches Mark Sanchez play absolutely awful football and just backs him up and sticks up for Sanchez and continues to play him. Why? You want to win don't you? 

Sanchez has completed only 51.9 percent of his passes this year, while turning the ball over 15 times. Completely unacceptable. He has thrown only 10 touchdown passes this season through eight games. He is just awful. Tim Tebow isn't the answer for this team. Tebow isn't really a great passer either, but at least he isn’t nearly as turnover prone as Mark Sanchez. You have him, so why not give him a chance? You have nothing to lose at this point. The Jets won't be able to save the season after getting embarrassed 30-9 by the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.  Put in Tebow, trade for a receiver, or sign somebody who wants to play, and see what happens. This team needs to get a new quarterback or receiver in the draft, and might want to look for a coach who worries about winning and not being the main headline in New York.

Picture From:
http://1045theteam.com/who-sucks-less-mark-sanchez-or-tim-tebow/

Stats From: 
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/12482/mark-sanchez

Bears 13, Lions 7





Bears Quarterback Jay Cutler being taken down by #90 Ndamukong Suh

Monday Night Football this week was a strong defensive effort by both teams. The 2-3 Detroit Lions were over matched by the 4-1 Chicago Bears defense. The Lions mustered only a touchdown against the strong Chicago defense. Every time the Lions were putting together a good drive, It was quickly ended by a turnover. Twice the Lions had 12 play drives that both times ended up in turnovers. The first drive ended on a fumble, and the second was an interception that ended an 85 yard drive. The Bears offense wasn't elite in this game but the defense was, and that was all the Bears needed to win this game 13-7.

There was some controversy on the hit that Jay Cutler took from Ndamukong Suh in this game as he was slammed hard into the turf after being sacked by the Lions defensive lineman. It was a legal hit, but some people feel that Cutler was hit harder than what was necessary. Jay Cutler is a tough player and played the rest of this game after the hit, and he will be undergoing tests during the week to make sure he can play next week but he expects to play. The Lions fell to 2-4 on the loss, the Bears improved to 5-1 on the win.

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Picture and Info:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2012/10/23/jay-cutler-shakes-off-ndamukong-suhs-hit-as-brandon-marshall-lawrence-jackson-take-to-twitter/

Stats and Info:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=321022003