Speaking of things that aren't supposed to happen, when's the last time Tennessee lost three at home?

Yeah Syracuse is lousy. Yeah the only Big East team that they've beaten is Rutgers. Yeah yeah, I don't care. It's Syracuse, and it's that darn Jiffy Pop Dome. Too many bad things have happened to us up there, and they did to us last year what Pitt did to us last week. In fact the parallels between the two games really bother me. But enough of that. It's time to get back on the horse. There's plenty of good football left to be played, and there are plenty of great bowl games still to play for.  If we're any good at all, then the Cuse is due for a serious trashing.

IT'S CLOBBERIN TIME!

Georgia is owned by Florida like no other. How you can be this talented, and face the same opponent every year and still lose this often is beyond me.

On the other hand, it made for an easy pick last week.

Well maybe not.  Unless they can upset Ohio State to close the season, Michigan could end up in the top-10 and have no hope of a BCS bid.  Not that there's anything wrong with the Citrus Bowl, but that's like us and the Gator.  It gets old, and fast.

Two weeks they've had to lick their wounds, now with any luck the Bayou Bengals have had a chance to right their ship. Michigan State has totally blown - pardon the pun - past them for the title of "Most Fouled Up Locker Room", so now LSU can concentrate on trying to win the SEC.

The thing is though, Kentucky is alright. No defense sure, but not bad. And at home. In fact, this could very easily go the Wildcats' way...

NIU is pretty good. I mean that in a MAC sorta way. Not to say that they're all that good really, but they did take Wisconsin the distance. For those of you who don't follow the MAC, I'll tell you that NIU is 5-0 in the conference and tied with BGSU for the lead of the MAC-West. So this game counts. A lot. And it's tough-tough-tough to go undefeated. This could be another upset.

Georgia Tech might actually be the better team here. It's awfully hard to win games with a #2 QB and a #2 RB both making their first starts of the season.

So what's going on in Tallahassee? Is Saint Bobby just getting too old? Was it too many years of losing top assistants to head coaching jobs at other schools? Is too much Florida talent heading out of state?  Have (Heaven forbid) Central and South Florida (9-7 combined) been stealing away too many 2nd and 3rd teamers?

Free from the ravages of a BCS/SOS induced need to cheer the Wahoos onto victory, I can once again root against France with impunity.

Ahhhhhh ... it just feels so right!

So you know who lives in Western Pennsylvania besides the Nits? The Quakers. You know where the Quakers are from? Germany.

Yup. This one was over decades ago.

OK, well it's done.

So for my money I'm pulling for Pittsburgh the rest of the way. I don't really care if Miami repeats or not. Scratch that, reverse it. I'd rather they didn't. Too insufferable. And I want that loss to be in conference. Besides, it would look pretty nice to see the Panthers in the Orange Bowl.

Go Pitt!

So if we can't stop Pitt's ground game, how are we going to stop West Virginia? These are the things that keep me up at night. That, and the crack.