College Football Wrap-Up - 3 More Unbeaten Teams Fall and 7 Top 25 Teams Are Upset Copyright 2010 Ed Bagley The college football globe has been turned upside down this week as 7 Best 25 teams were upset, including No. 1-ranked Ohio State, along with three in the 7 observed their unbeaten seasons 'and national championship desires - almost all yet vanish prior to his or her eyes. Throw out practically whatever you believed you knew for sure. The Actual classic boys from your south possess choked on their chewing tobacco. The Actual voters will now be embarrassed to set his or her undeserving, favorite team on best of the football polls. That will be a brand name new order associated with virtual parity in the top inside university football. The greatest realization associated with this is that it is not necessarily possible to simply pencil throughout Alabama, Florida as well as Ohio State because the No. 1 team. South Carolina knocked off then No. one Alabama last week, which week the actual Wisconsin Badgers hosted No. 1 Ohio State and gave Ohio State a new nearly all unfriendly 31-18 whipping whilst totally dominating the particular Buckeyes, which came in with their privileged popularity along together with a 6-0 record. Ohio State had been ranked 6th nationally in scoring offense, and also 6th within scoring defense. Somebody forgot to tell Wisconsin's players, whom could provide a flip in regards to the Buckeyes stats. Wisconsin would rather smash you within the mouth, plus they did. The Badgers led 21-3 in the half, as well as the Buckeyes had been questioning if they shouldn't get on the bus residence at halftime. Ohio State, favored by 4 about the road, failed to pay for through 18 points. Your defeat has been so bad that the Buckeyes dropped to end up being able to 11th inside the once a week AP Poll.
Earlier within the season, then No. 1 Alabama place any 31-6 thrashing about the Florida Gators, which won the actual national championship a couple of years ago and also four many years ago. All bets are off now - the actual national championship race will be wide open, along with apparently acquiring wider by the week. No. 5-ranked Nebraska fared absolutely no better. The Particular Cornhuskers (5-0), whom hosted Texas, tend to be sorry they will actually showed up. the Longhorns, which had formerly lost in order to UCLA and also Oklahoma, led 17-3 in the half and won, 20-13. The undeniable fact that Nebraska has been ranked 9th within scoring offense nationally, 7th throughout total offense, 4th inside scoring protection and 12th throughout total defense, didn't mean squat. Cornhusker coach Bo Pelini may obsess over those stats most he wants, it will not matter, Nebraska, favored through 10, failed to pay by 18, precisely similar to Ohio State. Nevada has been the particular third unbeaten team in order to fall. Your 19th-ranked Wolf Pack brought his or her perfect 6-0 mark for you to Hawaii, your territory associated with pineapples as well as passes. The Particular Warriors shut down Nevada's 7th-ranked scoring offense (43 points per game) although winning, 27-21, after leading 17-zip in the half. Hawaii also has a high-scoring offense, averaging 39 a new game. the Warriors (now 5-2) had more total offensive yards as well as passing yards. Hawaii leads the world throughout passing offense. The loss ended up being Nevada's 6th straight with Hawaii. There is, associated with course, simply no truth towards the rumor that Warrior players throw pineapples as well as passes, they only have a lot of really big, talented Samoan athletes around the island. Now there are simply 10 major schools that are unbeaten heading in in order to the 8th weekend involving the expanding season - TCU, Auburn, LSU along with Michigan State all are 7-0, along
with Oregon, Boise State, Oklahoma, Utah, Oklahoma State and Missouri are usually just about all 6-0. Besides Ohio State, Nebraska and Nevada, 4 various other ranked teams lost - South Carolina, Florida, Air Force as well as Oregon State. The South Carolina Gamecocks, who had just upset Alabama in order to rise to 10th in the AP Poll, led unranked Kentucky 28-10 in the half, yet had been outscored 21-zip by the Wildcats in the second half as Kentucky held onto upend the actual Gamecocks, 31-28. South Carolina just didn't play the second half, along with failed to finish off its opponent. Florida, ranked 22nd, hosted Mississippi State, rated 33rd simply by Sagarin, and located itself about the short finish of the 10-7 stick. The Actual Gators offense offers just collapsed; two weeks back they merely scored six upon Alabama, along with now they've just dropped out in the top 25 with a 4-3 record following consecutive losses in order to Alabama, LSU and Mississippi State. The Mississippi State loss meant which Florida coach Urban Meyer suffered three consecutive losses for that first time within his coaching career. Apparently, when there is zero Tim Tebow, there is suddenly absolutely no Florida. That's difficult luck, regarding Florida, not necessarily Mississippi State. Air Force, which in turn debuted within the top 25 last week at 23rd, took a new flying leap again out with the poll this week following being beaten by simply unranked North Park State, 27-25. The Actual Aztecs, whom led 10-6 at the half, made it official with the final score. the Air Force Falcons will have to regroup with regard to a few strategy. The seventh team to become able to miss victory this week ended up being the actual 24th-ranked Oregon State Beavers, who have got been starting to check regarding real. The Particular Beavers compensated any visit for the up-again, down-again Washington Huskies. That They had won 6 inside a row against Washington, and had won 7 associated with their particular past 9 Pac-10 street games. That said, the actual Huskies use a real headliner inside Jake Locker, who'd always be winning a lot more video games if his receivers would stop dropping passes, and his defensive teammates would commence playing defense. Locker threw any career-high 5 touchdown passes, such as 2 to Jermaine Kearse in a doubleovertime game, and Oregon State's 2-point conversion try to get a win within the 2nd overtime period associated with time fell incomplete because the Huskies beat your Beavers 35-34. Washington required a new defensive stop at a critical moment and lastly got 1 when the conversion pass for you to Joe Halahuni went by means of his hands as he ended up being hit by linebacker Cort Dennison. Locker ended up being 21-of-35 passing (60%) regarding 286 yards and in addition the 5 TD strikes. Locker also found 60 yards about 12 carries (5.0 ypc), as well as Chris Polk additional an additional 105 yards. Kearse had 9 catches for 146 yards and the school-record 4 touchdowns came on 16, 45, 17 and also 21-yard passes. Both Oregon State and also Washington have become 3-3 around the season.
Eight other Leading 25 teams had excellent wins to maintain moving onward and upward. They included really good street wins by simply 3rd-ranked Boise State more than San Jose State 48zip, 11th-ranked Utah over Wyoming 30-6, 20th-ranked Oklahoma State more than Texas Tech search engines 34-17, and 21st-ranked Missouri over Texas A&M 30-9. Great house victories included 7th-ranked Auburn outlasting 12th-ranked Arkansas, 65-43, inside the game with the week in which featured offense no defense, 4th-ranked TCU over BYU 31-3, 6thranked Oklahoma more than Iowa State 52-zip, as well as 13th-ranked Michigan State more than Illinois 26-6. In a side note, Auburn barely led Arkansas 37-35 following your 3rd quarter, nevertheless the Tigers outscored the particular Razorbacks 28-8 about a number of miscues in the final quarter in order to carry on and earn 65-43. Picture for a moment a new SEC game with 108 total points scored. Whatever happened to that thing called defense? Six some other top-ranked teams had much less impressive victories. They Will included 8th-ranked Alabama's really lame get in your home more than 79th-ranked Mississippi 23-10, 9th-ranked LSU's pathetic triumph over 149th-ranked, AA McNeese State 32-10, and also 15th-ranked Iowa's 38-28 victory over Michigan. Also, 16th-ranked Florida State's narrow 24-19 effort hosting 110th-ranked Boston College, 17thranked Arizona's weak 24-7 acquire from Washington State, along with 25th-ranked West Virginia's 20-6 escape against 100th-ranked South Florida. No. 2-ranked Oregon along with No. 15-ranked Stanford were idle this week. Seven other unranked teams deserve a new mention. Here are usually 3 thumpings - Georgia shutting out search engines Vanderbilt 43-zip, USC taking it to be able to California 48-14, and Kansas State ripping Kansas 59-7 following leading 52-zip right after 3 quarters. Here tend to be 4 upsets - East Carolina, ranked 71st, knocking off North Carolina State 33-27 within overtime, 189th-ranked Eastern Michigan beating 124th-ranked Ball State 41-38 within overtime, 161st-ranked Rice nipping 77th-ranked Houston 34-31, and also 159th-ranked UAB (Alabama-Birmingham) upsetting 112th-ranked UTEP (Texas-El Paso), 21-6.