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The Fox Sports guys discuss the three main Heisman candidates.

Austin easily #1. The conference has some good campuses, but most of the cities suck.

Texas’ six signees give them the fifth overall ranked class.

Orangebloods.com is reporting that 4-star Stephenville quarterback Jevan Snead will be in Austin on an official visit Saturday during the Kansas game. Snead is currently a Florida commitment, but with Josh Portis already on campus and the Gators still going hard after Tim Tebow and former Vol Brent Schaeffer reportedly a silent commit, he’s decided to open things back up a little. Texas definitely has a more attractive depth chart.

With good size (6’3″ and 205 pounds) and speed (4.6 forty yard dash), he would fit into the Longhorn’s current offensive scheme nicely. Snead plans on being a Spring enrollee, so expect more news and a final decision soon.

Our Thoughts

Brian – Unfortunately my list looks almost like ESPN’s. That’s disappointing, I hate agreeing with them. Of course, this is pretty much the order I’ve had all season long and they’re just now realizing that Vince Young is the best player in the country. I’m slowly getting on the Brady Quinn bandwagon, his numbers are just too big to ignore. Though if I’m an NFL team I’d be a little worried about his performance at the next level without Charlie Weis.

Matt – We look like clones. Vince is obviously the best player in college football, and it is about time other people are noticing. It is amazing to see how far Vick fell off the map. My main hope is that Leinart and Bush split votes so that Vince has a better shot in NY.

Related Links

• Last week’s Heisman poll
• ESPN Experts Poll

Bill Little puts a little perspective on this weekend and Texas Memorial Stadium.

“Keep your feet,” Young told Reid. “That’s the Texas two-step.”

Maybe he’s worried Mark Mangino will try to eat him.

Our Thoughts

Brian – Well Virginia Tech did the BCS and Longhorn fans a favor Saturday and didn’t bother showing up. Marcus Vick fumbled away their national title hopes while the Miami offense (with several starters on the sideline) ran it right down their throats. UCLA also went down in a fiery blaze (as expected) to a below average Arizona team. I guess if you’re going to blow an undefeated season, you might as well do it in style. Those losses combined with Ohio State, Texas Tech, and wins Colorado solidified Texas’ ranking in the BCS and in my poll.

Alabama may be the worst #4 ranked, 9 and 0 SEC team in history. Their offense is embarassing, they haven’t scored an offensive touchdown in the last sixteen quarters of SEC play. I was tempted to drop them to fifth behind LSU, but that will settle itself on the field this weekend.

Matt – Like I have been saying, everything will work itself out in the end, and this weekend went a long way to prove that you shouldn’t be so concerned about the BCS in October. If more of the voters had actually seen Virginia Tech’s (unimpressive) play, this wouldn’t have been as much of an issue.

Now I have Texas Tech all the way up to #7, and I still truly believe that they are better than all the 1 loss teams below them. Texas looked as dominant as ever, and the game actually ended up pretty boring to watch. Southern Cal’s offense looked impressive in the first half, and luckily their subs gave up a couple of touchdowns so that Stanford covered the spread and gave me the win. And like they were saying on TV about UCLA, if you are going to go down, why not go down in flames.

This weekend will probably be the weekend for Alabama to lose, so then we can stop all that crazy talk about the SEC being screwed out of another BCS title game. Bottomline, the SEC isn’t as good as everyone thinks they are. They play most of their games in conference, and whenever they venture out against other good teams, they get spanked like Tennessee did.

Related Links

• Last week’s rankings
• Harris Interactive Poll (PDF, 28 KB)
• Master Coaches Survey

A few more details and screens of EA’s new college baseball game.