College Football Week 6

Welcome to the blog that will give you everything you need to about the past week in college football. I'm Rick Johnston, and I'm the host of Cardinal College Gameday presented by Bygone's Bar and Grill and the Locker Room. I'm joined by Ryan Camden and Nick Yeoman (fellow bloggers). But enough with the shameless self promotion, let's jump into what we called "Statement Saturday"

Let's start with the upsets of the week, and there was none bigger than Stanford going into the Coliseum and upsetting #2 USC. The Cardinal comes in, led by captain comeback Jim Harbaugh no less, and beats the Trojans 24-23. Cardinal QB Tavita Pritchard throws a 10-yard touchdown pass to Mark Bradford on fourth-and-goal with 49 seconds to put the Cardinal ahead. This was no easy catch, the USC corner played the ball perfectly bu Bradford just out jumped him. This just goes with the theme of the season so far. It seems if a team has a single digit ranking they are on upset alert each week. Gotta love the parity.
My second example are the Wisconsin Badgers. The #5 Badgers went to Illinois and lost 31-26. Now we at CCG (Cardinal College Gameday) were not impressed by Wisconsin at the beginning of the year, and thought very highly of the Fighting Illini' (I mean come on how can you not like a QB with the name Juice Williams". The Illini' are the sleeper of the Big Ten and could be the only team to give Ohio State a run for the Big Ten title. Illinois travels the Horseshoe to take on the Buckeyes on November 10.

My favorite game from this past week had to be down in the Bayou between LSU and Florida. Again the Gators were smelling upset but the Tigers of LSU battled back with some gutsy play calls by coach Les Miles to win 28-24. The one thing I kept noticing was how posed Gator QB Tim Tebow was. Playing in Tiger Stadium at night is one of the toughest, if not the toughest thing to do in college football, but here's this sophomore making it look like he is in a 7 on 7 drill. Three times Tebow gave the Gators a 10 point lead. Tebow accounted for 3 TD's (2 passing, 1 rushing). Trailing 24-14, I thought the Tigers were done! (and I thought great another team with a #1 team that can't handle the pressure) Thankfully the Tigers proved me wrong. The Tigers scored two touchdowns on fourth-down plays and another after off a fake field goal. Then it Jacob Hester, rumbled his way to the end zone for the go ahead score. All of the fourth down conversions show these Tigers aren't afraid of anyone.

And if your a fan of CCG, you know all about the love we have for the Kansas Jayhawks. Nick picked them to be a team to look out for on the first show, and we have followed them the whole year even giving them their own segment. The Jayhawks upset #24 Kansas State 30-24 and improve to 5-0. So expect lots of love for Kansas in the near future.

Quickly a look at the new AP rankings and the Heisman Hunt.
Obviously LSU back at #1 (all 65 first place votes) followed by Cal, Ohio State, Boston College, and this season's darlings South Florida. I see all of these teams staying in these top 5 slots until Cal welcomes USC on November 10th. And a special welcome to the Kansas Jayhawks at #20.

Heisman is up in the air. My boy DeSean "the human highlight reel" Jackson of Cal seems to have gotten over his thumb injury and is looking like he did last year. Kentucky's signal caller Andre' Woodson is in the driver seat right now but his next three games are against LSU and Florida after losing to South Carolina last week. I see his stock falling in the next two weeks because the Tigers and Gators just have too much speed. Speaking of the Gators how about Tim Tebow. Right now he should be heading to New York, but I think the Gators have to the SEC for him to have a legitimate shot. Also Run-DMC, Darren McFadden of Arkansas is another guy to look out for. But like Tebow his team two games, which is never a plus with voters. Here's the thing, I HAVE NO IDEA WHO IS GOING TO WIN!!!!! That's right I have no idea (don't freak out it's OK). So many headliners have fallen (i.e. West Virginia's Pat White and Steve Slaton). Stay tuned...

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