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Brian – With Texas out of the race and the top 5 or 6 teams behind tOSU being interchangeable, I was strangely bored by the Ohio State vs. Michigan game Saturday afternoon. If someone upsets the Buckeyes in January we could be looking at a split national title with one of the one-loss teams who didn’t make it in. The most interesting story for Texas fans to follow may be whether Boise State finishes off their schedule without any blemishes and earns a spot in the Fiest Bowl against the Longhorns.

Matt – Not really too much movement in my poll this week, with Rutgers and Wake Forest as the only real big drops. Do people really want to see a repeat of Ohio St/Michigan? I sure don’t. Hopefully Florida or USC will take care of business in their remaining games. And too bad Notre Dame got waxed by Michigan. If that game was actually close, Notre Dame would be sitting in a much better position.

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• Last week’s rankings
• BCS Standings
• AP Top 25
• USA Today Coaches Top 25
• Master Coaches Survey

Texas gets a bye week at a much needed time for them, since Colt McCoy is still recovering from the stinger he suffered against Kansas St. There is some big action this week as #1 Ohio State hosts #2 Michigan, in what should be one of the biggest games of the year. As a college football fan you have to love these match-ups, and I am sure most of you will be tuned in to ABC at 3:30 PM ET on Saturday.

Some interesting games in the Big 12 this weekend. Will A&M’s biggest rival Baylor pull the upset on OU? Will Kansas St have a letdown game against Kansas. We will see.

Here’s our picks for the games this weekend:

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• Last week’s winners
• SI.com Top 25 Scoreboard
• SI.com Big 12 Scoreboard

Our heart goes out to the Schembechler family and Michigan.

Our Thoughts

Brian – Well Longhorn fans can at least root for who they feel like this week, no more worrying about strength of schedule or who we need to lose. I can finally root for Ohio State and their classless fans to lose to Michigan this weekend. I really have no clue who should be #3 behind Michigan and Ohio State, Florida, USC, and Notre Dame all have big flaws and I think there’s a chance all three lose before the regular season’s done. If Arkansas runs the table (which they might) and makes it to the BCS Championship game it would be one of the most amazing stories in college football in a long time.

Matt – Quite a shake-up this week as many top 10 teams lose, causing a lot of mess in most people’s polls. Everything is setting up perfectly for Ohio State/Michigan since they are the clear #1 and #2. This will be Ohio State’s second #1 vs. #2 match-up this year. I can’t imagine that happens often.

Cal took the biggest hit for me, losing to a team with only 4 wins up to that point. Tennessee also fell quite a bit, mainly because it was their second straight loss (LSU & Arkansas).

Related Links

• Last week’s rankings
• BCS Standings
• AP Top 25
• USA Today Coaches Top 25
• Master Coaches Survey

It pains me to see that the team who benefited most from our loss to Kansas St is, you guessed it, USC. USC jumps from the #7 spot all the way up to #3 in the BCS. And now it looks like they will control their own destiny when it comes to playing in the BCS National Championship game.

With Texas’ loss, the Horns fall all the way down to #13 in the BCS, their National Championship hopes lost. Rutgers also makes a huge move after beating Louisville and now claims the #6 spot. They are still a long shot to make it to the title game, but with the way this season is going, who knows what can happen.

• BCS Standings

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If you watched any of the game, no doubt the imagine above is something you saw often. Texas’ secondary continually got burned and ultimately just gave up too many points.

Texas fought hard to comeback and showed a lot of heart, but it was just too little too late and now Texas will miss out on their opportunity to repeat as National Champions.

This loss is tough to take, but now we have to focus and make sure to take care of business against A&M so that we can at least play in the Big 12 Championship game. Man this sucks…

For some reason it is hard for me to imagine big Frank Okam doing pilates.

The amount of media bias towards USC can get sickening sometimes. And this time it isn’t even ESPN.

Talk about getting things off to a good start for newcomers Kevin Durant, DJ Augustin, and Damion Jones. Texas dominated (more like annihilated) Alcorn St 103-44, with 20 points coming from Freshman blue chip Kevin Durant.

This is a good sign as I was quite nervous coming into this season. Texas lost all 5 starters from last year’s squad, including Lamarcus Aldridge, PJ Tucker, and Daniel Gibson. It is tough to fill that much loss of talent, but it looks like Durant, Jones, and Augustin may be the new trio. Can you imagine how good Texas would be with Durant, Tucker, and Aldridge on the front-line. That would be sick.

One funny note about this game is that Texas was actually down 9-1 at one point in the game. That means they went on a 101-35 run. Crazy.