NCAA Week 5 - Craziness...

Give me an inch, I'll take a Les Miles
I'm going to start this week with the worst coach quote I heard from the weekend...

Les Miles (immediately after his Tigers were gifted the win over the lowly, and math-challenged, Tennessee Vols) "That's SEC football for you!". Ummm, no coach, that's Les Miles football. That this man actually owns a national title can only mean two things: 1) coaches that have actually earned one feel it taints the hardware a bit and 2) coaches that want one think...if HE has one, surely I can!

NCAA Hounds! Get thee to Evanston!
Northwestern iced their one point victory over the scrappy, but sucky, Minnesota Golden Gophers when a Wildcat linebacker intercepted a pass with but a few ticks on the clock. Interesting to note the Cats were giving up 4 in the spread - Gopher cover. Anyone watching the game, and betting on the Gophers may not have thought much of it, but those of us who picked the 'Cats to cover might be a tad suspicious knowing said linebacker, with nothing but a lot of green in front of him, slid like a QB avoiding contact. A LINEBACKER!?!? Something smells fishy

Bama
I've said it all year long. Florida is sloppy. Bama is not. Difference last night, Bama has the same, if not better, talent. Brantley is no Tebow. Not even close. Meyer continues to look over bad penalties and sloppy play, week after week. Saban seems to scare the living daylights out of his kids. End result...a butt whuppin' of epic proportions. Not even close. Oh yeah, Gator staff, PLEASE PLEASE dump the jump pass.

ACC
Little love to my Hokies who still have legit ACC title aspirations.

"Poll"iticking
So the new poll came out today and people in Boise are in a snit because Oregon jumped the Broncos to take third. I agree, it is indeed a travesty. The Ducks should be #2. No way Ohio State, that eeked by Illinois, deserves the second spot. Oregon's offense is scary - prison scary. BUT BOISE WON BY 59 POINTS!!! (ahem, over 0-4 New Mexico State). In the meantime, Oregon hung 52 on a very good Stanford squad. Some numbers for you...72, 48, 69, 42, and 52. That's the number of points the Ducks scored in their first five games. That offense is humming. If the season ended today and we didn't get to see Bama and Oregon go toe to toe, and instead got Bama and the just-barely-better-than-Jacory-Harris-Terrell-Pryor led Buckeyes, I'd be ticked. Boise...meh.

Toto, we aren't in Kansas anymore
No sir, you are in Baylor's prison cell, and you are Mr. Baylor's "girlfriend". Now Baylor will sell you to Nebraska for two packs of cigs.

They lost to Tulane? No Schiano? Really? Nah, you're Schianoing me aren't you?
No, seriously, you mean Norfolk State and Florida International didn't prepare the Scarlet Nights for the rest of the season? Stunning. Greg Schiano continues to look with great mystification at the year that was for him 2007, and wonder why he didn't move onto to greener pastures.

Ok SEC people, dial it down a notch...
Yes, the SEC West is brutal. But let's face it, the east is just not that good. It is not all that clear that the SEC is far superior than all the other leagues. I'm gonna have to say the Pac10 would give the old SEC a run top to bottom.

Terptitude
This is a hot seat year for the Fridge. His Terps are 4-1. Awesome for him right? Well... Not exactly. Two wins were Morgan State and the previously mentioned FIU. A third was Navy...last second type of deal.  West Virginia rather easily handled them and here we have them just getting past Duke this weekend. Something tells me the meat of the schedule won't be too favorable for the turtles.