LARGETONY Blog

College football heads onto the final four weeks of regular season play next weekend and things are just starting to really get interesting as high-ranked teams start to stumble and/or play against each other.

A major upset occurred Saturday when #3 USC (Southern Cal) fell to unranked Oregon State, when the Beavers prevented the Trojans from making a 2-point conversion in the last minute of the game. Had USC made it, they would have tied the score and the game would have gone into overtime. Just goes to show you Beavers can break Trojans.

While I’m on the topic of sexual and genital euphemisms, I may as well throw out another one. Tennessee took on the other USC (South Carolina) Saturday and rejuvenated a long-standing tradition (last year excluded) of beating Cocks. (South Carolina’s mascot is the Game Cock. They actually have bumper stickers that read “Luv them Cocks.”)

I predicted at the beginning of the season that it would be a close game and that Tennessee would probably lose again. And it was sort of close. 31-24. Basically a one touchdown difference. But it seems like Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer isn’t automatically Steve Spurrier’s butt boy anymore. Tennessee took off with an early lead (14-0) then fell behind 17-14, but stuck it to them and pulled it off in the end. And we all know how sticking it and pulling it off can be a blast.

I’m glad I’m pretty bad about predicting the outcome of games. If I had been right, Tennessee would be 5-3 right now instead of 7-1 (and boy does it hurt that one point has kept us from being 8-0). Hopefully, I’m wrong about LSU, too. By this time next week we’ll know for sure and either Brett Cajun will be painting his little nuts Big Orange or I will MIA from the blog for a few days.

Despite the loss of a team above us, Tennessee pretty much stayed in the same place in the polls at #8. Except in the BCS where we are all the way down at #11.

But a big BCS shake up is coming. #1 Ohio State and #2 Michigan have to play each other, so one of them will fall. The same goes for #3 West Virginia and #5 Louisville.

If #4 Florida, just sits tight and wins the rest of it’s games (which may be very likely since they don’t have anymore really tough games) they might just slip into #2 after the fallout because they have a tougher schedule than both West Virginia and Louisville (but then who doesn’t have a tougher schedule than West Virginia and Louisville).

It would be great to see an SEC team play either Ohio State or Michigan in the National Championship. But in this case it would suck too. One, because it’s Florida. Why couldn’t it be any SEC team but Florida? And two, because if it weren’t for that one-point loss to Florida, it might have been us sitting pretty.

But if a Beaver can beat a Trojan, there’s no doubt a Wolverine can skin a Gator. Skinning a Gator is even better than beating a Cock.

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