Pac-10 isn't that overrated....at least not yet.

Alright, all this Pac-10 sucks talk is getting to me. Lets wait just a little bit, because teams have bad games.

Sure USC choked on a national stage last night. So they aren't the best team ever...most people could have guessed that long ago. But this doesn't mean the Trojans are horrible or overrated. Let things play out the entire season. If USC suffers 1 or 2 more losses, then they are overrated. But an early season loss doesn't necessarily equal a disaster of a season.

There may be a little more substance behind calling ASU overrated. But its hard. They were upset at home by UNLV (bad bad lose) but then lost to a well rounded and very good Georgia team. I guess it just stinks that the Sun Devils decided to play the Bulldogs this season.

Oregon lost bad at home to Boise State. Sure the Broncos are from a smaller conference, but as we saw a few years back against the Sooners, the Broncos play bigger than a mid-level conference team.

Cal has one lost and as of right now, they probably have the best lose of ANY Pac-10 team. They traveled across country and played Maryland (who are 3-1) at 9 a.m. Eastern time (that is 6 a.m. Pacific). The Bears aren't out of it and could have a successful season if they don't implode like last season after a loss.

Overall the point is this. The Pac-10 isn't the dominate conference they were last year. But to write them off just because every team has a loss on their record is absurd. They have struggled against non-BCS conference teams this year. But 2 of those losses were to BYU who is nationally ranked and Boise State who is also nationally ranked. The Pac-10 also has some impressive non-conference wins that people are forgetting. They have beaten Ohio State, Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan State, and Purdue...thats not a bad grouping of victories.

What A CATCH!!! Edwin Baptiste Amazes Me

Morgan State's wide receiver Edwin Baptiste made an amazing catch a few days ago. Watch it and enjoy, nothing else needs to be said.

WHAT WEEK WILL THE TOP 25 RANKINGS BECOME LEGIT?

I am trying to figure out at what week the Top 25 becomes a measuring stick to know how good a team is and if a game is really an upset, because so far, the rankings appear to be a madman's compilation of his favorite mascots instead of a legitimate collection of the best teams in the country.

How was UCLA ever in the Top 25 and how are they still the in the top 2 "others receiving votes" category? The Bruins have played one game, on national TV (mind you no other games were even on, so the audience had to be huge), at home, and they won in overtime. Sure they played a big time SEC program in Tennessee who was ranked #18 entering the game, but I think every person who saw that game quickly realized that a Top 20 spot for the Volunteers was as ludicrous as Venus William's hair at the U.S. Open Finals last week. The Bruins had 4 first half interceptions, horrendous QB play (mainly in the 1st half), 29 total rushing yards and Tennessee still couldn't win. I don't think that Rocky Mountain choking means UCLA is for real. Lets wait a few more weeks, because despite the fact that on paper they are playing another Top 20 team this week, I don't how legitimate the Cougars are yet.


Using that transition, how is a mid-major team like BYU Top 20 2 weeks into the season with the wins they have thus far? Sure BYU has a gunner behind center in Max Hall and a beast running back who probably should be playing linebacker, but the Cougars have beaten Northern Iowa (I don't even know their mascot and it takes more than three computer clicks to figure it out). Couple that with last week, where with the help of the zebras, the Cougars eked out a win against a bottom tier Pac-10 team. In my book, that doesn't make you the #18 (or #15 depending on the poll) team in the country.

Not to toot the horn of the train I ride, but the Cal Golden Bears beat a mid to top level major conference team (Michigan State) and went on the rode a destroyed a poor Pac-10 team. That resume alone (lined up simply against the Cougar's list of wins) should mean that Cal is a lock in the Top 25 poll, however, they just crawled in last week and currently are sitting on the doorstep of not being ranked (#23 and #25).

The rankings this year are more premature than in recent years. Obviously this weekend will tell us a lot, but I am not even certain the Buckeyes are a Top 10 tam, let alone a Top 5. Their resume looks like a joke...beating Youngstown state (once again, what is their mascot and by the way, their is no State named Youngstown, so a name change might be in order) and barley sneaking out of the horseshoe with a win over the mid-major Ohio Bobcats. That's about as impressive as Tyson Gay's performance in Beijing.

So lets erase the Top 25 rankings for another week or two and then begin to build them from scratch, based on THIS SEASONS performances and resumes.

RICH RODRIGUEZ DOESN'T FALL FOR THE GAMES THAT GREG SCHIANO DOES

Greg Schiano, the head football coach at Rutgers, has had two years of Cinderella runs where his program has burst onto the national scene after being an NCAA Division 1 doormat for most of the last few decades.

Well, those jobs that Schiano has passed up over the last 2 years at his alma mater, Miami, at Michigan and at other big name programs seems to be a horrible decision. I know Rutgers had something good, but it now appears it wasn't so much the program that was doing well, but a player (Ray Rice)...and now that Rice is making the gouda (E-40 word of the week) in the NFL, Rutgers has face-planted.

The Scarlett Knights are 0-2 after losing two home games to a smaller conference team (Fresno State) and a weak team from a very weak conference (UNC). Not the start that an up and coming program needs. I know Rich Rodriguez got alot of flack for packing his U-haul and heading up to Ann Arbor, but maybe he saw what Schiano didn't. That West Virginia and Rutgers are two teams that had a short BCS runs, but in the end the program itself hasn't changed. Instead, it was just a result of a few years with some great players (Steve Slaton, the old Pat White, Ray Rice) in the weakest conference (Big East).

College Football Always Draws Me Back

Its been awhile, but the blogging has returned partly because the college football season has started, but also because the weather is turning and so there are more hours to pound away at the computer.

Here is the plan (things don't always go according to plan)!

I will make posts about the sports world when there is something that interests me and I feel it may be fun to write about, but in addition, I will make a weekly College Football Review where I discuss different things going on around the NCAA, certain teams progress, amazing individual performances, etc.

Maybe I will even take the time to sit down and go over my version of the Top 25...but there are no guarantees.