Thoughts for the week:
* USC is clearly the team to beat. Considering the poor Pac-10 showing on the day, the Trojans may need these two early wins to convince the SEC-biased world that they deserve a BCS title game slot, or else we're going to end up with an All-SEC BCS title game;
* Will LSU schedule some decent opponents, please?;
* Oklahoma and Missouri look very good.
* Quick look at the Big Ten standings tell us that Michigan is the only Big Ten team under .500 right now. Weird ...
That is all for now. Without further adieu, your McTop 24 for the week:
1. USC (2-0): The Trojans have beaten Virginia and Ohio State by a combined score of 87-10. Hmmm. Not sure what else can be stated here. The Trojans made mistakes and still throttled the Buckeyes. Not that the latter was a surprise, but if the Trojans stay focused, no one is beating them this season.
2. East Carolina (3-0): The Pirates have beaten Virginia Tech, West Virginia and Tulane. Still the best slate out there so far. But they need to really BEAT teams if they want a crack at the BCS title game.
3. Oklahoma (3-0): The Sooners have beaten Chattanooga, Cincinnati and Washington. At least they scheduled some BCS teams.
4. Oregon (3-0): The Ducks have beaten Washington, Utah State and Purdue. Not bad. But lose the white helmets, fellas.
5. Wake Forest (2-0): The Demon Deacons have beaten Baylor and Mississippi. Not super impressive, but they are clearly the class of the ACC at this point (insert joke here).
6. BYU (3-0): The Cougars have beaten Northern Iowa, Washington and UCLA. Mixed bag, but two BCS wins already. Not many others can say that right now.
7. Missouri (3-0): The Tigers have beaten Illinois, Southeast Missouri State and Nevada. They have scored a lot of points. They gave up too many points against their only real competition, though.
8. South Florida (3-0): The Bulls have beaten Tennessee-Martin, Central Florida and Kansas. Solid.
9. Florida (2-0): The Gators have beaten Hawaii and Miami-FL. Eh.
10. Penn State (3-0): The Nits have beaten Coastal Carolina, Oregon State and Syracuse. Looks better on paper than it is in reality.
11. Alabama (3-0): The Tide have beaten Clemson, Tulane and Western Kentucky. If Clemson wasn’t such a perennial choke artist, this might mean something.
12. Northwestern (3-0): The Wildcats have beaten Syracuse, Duke and Southern Illinois. What? Baylor and Stanford weren’t available? Vanderbilt say no?
13. Georgia (3-0): The Bulldogs have beaten Georgia Southern, Central Michigan and South Carolina. Three directionals, and only a lackluster win over the Ol’ Ball Coach is worthy of anything. Eh.
14. Vanderbilt (3-0): The Commodores have beaten Miami-OH, South Carolina (by the same margin that mighty Georgia did), and Rice. Eh.
15. Utah (3-0): The Utes have beaten Michigan, UNLV and Utah State. Whatever.
16. Notre Dame (2-0): The Irish have beaten San Diego State and Michigan. Yawn.
17. Auburn (3-0): The Tigers have beaten Louisiana-Monroe, Southern Mississippi and Mississippi State. Since the only win over a BCS team was that 3-2 shootout against the Bulldogs, well … BFD.
18. Connecticut (3-0): The Huskies have beaten Hofstra, Temple and Virginia. Whatever.
19. North Carolina (2-0): The Tar Heels have beaten McNeese State and Rutgers. But beating the Scarlet Knights isn’t meaningful anymore.
20. Kentucky (3-0): The Wildcats have beaten Louisville, Norfolk State and Middle Tennessee. This might have meant something in 2006, but everyone beats Louisville now.
21. Oklahoma State (3-0): The Cowboys have beaten Washington State, Houston and Missouri State.
22. Iowa (3-0): The Hawkeyes have beaten Maine, Florida International and Iowa State. Whatever.
23. TCU (3-0): The Horned Frogs have beaten New Mexico, Stephen F. Austin and Stanford. BFD.
24. Wisconsin (3-0): The Badgers have beaten Akron, Marshall and Fresno State. At least Fresno State had a pulse.
Also considered but later dismissed since they haven’t beaten ANY noteworthy teams yet (in no order): Florida State, Nebraska, Kansas State, Minnesota, LSU, Arkansas, Boise State, Troy, Ball State, Air Force, Tulsa, Colorado, Texas Tech, Texas, Indiana
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