• First, Parrish Alford, of the NE Mississippi Daily Journal, still thinks Louisville is #13 while Kentucky is #24. (And here I could’ve sworn that I saw Kentucky score at will against the Cards D on Saturday night and beat them 40-34.)
• Second, there is Aditi Kinkhabwala, of the Bergen (NJ) Record, who has 5 Big East teams in the Top 25—including Rutgers, who hasn’t played anyone, at #9.
• Third, Wayne Phillips, of The Greeneville (TN) Sun, has Louisville #16 and Kentucky unranked; he also has UCLA and Georgia Tech still ranked after their craptacular performances on Saturday.
• Fourth and finally we give you Jon Wilner, of the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, who ranks South Carolina #4 (WTF), Alabama at #6 (again, WTF), and has Georgia Tech at #25 and Kentucky unranked.

In other news, apparently the Associated Press doesn’t really care that USC SID Tim Tessalone has asked that we not be referred to as “Southern Cal.” [page 2, bottom right]

First, maybe I was wrong about SC. For the first time in two years, we just lined up and kicked the sh*t out of someone with our OL and running game. So that was nice and made the game very boring very quickly—after 5 minutes were gone in the 3rd, in fact. The great JD Booty is still not wowing me with his throws, but he handed off very well. The secondary remains a question mark, but when you have to face 50+ throws you tend to tire out. So: it’s Oregon, Cal, and ASU, all on the road, that make me nervous.

Notre Dame has now gone 304 days without a win (page 11) and man does beating Army rock.

Lloyd Carr just needed a game against a team with less speed than his.

Tennessee looks slower than a pig in slop.

Alabama had no business beating Arkansas after blowing the 21-0 lead, but without McFadden the Razorbacks couldn’t run out the clock.

UCLA might reconsider a home and home contract with teams from Utah.

Thanks for playing this year Louisville, now take care of West Virginia so that we don’t have to hear about an undefeated Big East team getting left out of the title game.

And finally: October 6th can’t get here fast enough.

• College Gameday: live from Lincoln, Nebraska, 10:00 AM EDT (Fowler/Herbstreit and the other two)
• No. 5 Florida (2-0) vs. No. 22 Tennessee (1-1), 3:30 PM EDT, CBS (Lundquist/Danielson); Florida -8
• No. 10 Ohio State (2-0) at Washington (2-0), 3:30 PM EDT, ESPN (Franklin/Cunningham); Ohio State -4
• No. 16 Arkansas (1-0) at Alabama (2-0), 6:45 PM EDT, ESPN (Patrick/Blackledge); Alabama -3
• No. 9 Louisville (2-0) at Kentucky (2-0) 7:30 PM EDT, ESPN Classic (Collins/Curry); Louisville -6.5
• No. 21 Boston College (2-0) at No. 15 Georgia Tech (2-0), 8:00 PM EDT, ESPN2 (Jones/Davie); Georgia Tech -6.5
• No. 1 USC (1-0) at No. 14 Nebraska (2-0), 8:00 PM EDT, ABC (Musburger/Herbstreit); USC -10

Please plan your Saturday accordingly.

It looks like ranked teams will be taking on better competition this week and some people expect upsets.

Looking ahead to Week 2: Virginia Tech rolls into Baton Rouge to give LSU more than the glorified scrimmage they got from the SEC juggernaut MSU, while TCU goes down to Austin to stake a claim to being 2007′s BcS Cinderella. Last year’s undefeated team, Boise State, goes on the road to Seattle to play a Huskie team high on life after demolishing Syracuse on the road. Finally, we will see what Michigan has when Dennis Dixon (another running QB) and Oregon arrive at the Big House to make the Wolverines 0-2?

• 7:00pm EDT Tulsa at LA-Monroe (ESPN2) — Tulsa -3.5
• 7:30pm EDT Murray St at Louisville (ESPNU)
• 8:00pm EDT LSU at Mississippi St (ESPN, watch on mute for your TV’s safety because something Craig James says might make you throw your remote at your TV) — LSU -19.5

• ACC: Virgina Tech over BC in the money-grab title game.

[Agreed.]

• Big 12: Texas over Nebraska in the money-grab title game.

[I'm thinking OU instead.]

• Big Eleven: Michigan.

[Wisconsin.]

• Big East: West Virginia.

[L'ville.]

• Pac-10: USC, (12-0) and off to the BcS title game.

[Agreed, in spite of Booty.]

• SEC: LSU (13-0) over Florida in the original money-grab title game and “hosting” the BcS title game.

[Agreed, even though Les Miles needs to go back to Michigan.]

No points for originality, but let’s hope that they are as right as everybody else.

Thus, through the games of September 8th:

1. USC (1-0)
2. LSU (2-0)
3. West Virginia (2-0)
4. Wisconsin (2-0)
5. Florida (2-0)
6. Texas (2-0)
7. Oklahoma (2-0)
8. Michigan (2-0)
9. Cal (2-0)
10. Virginia Tech (1-1)

BcS Conference Picks:

Pac-10: USC (all 12 votes)
SEC: LSU (all 12 votes)
ACC: Virginia Tech (all 12 votes)
Big 11: Michigan (10 votes) and Wisconsin (2 votes)
Big East: West Virginia (8 votes) and Louisville (4 votes)
Big 12: Texas (10 votes) and Oklahoma (2 votes)

ESPN’s Preseason Top 10 (video)

1. USC
2. LSU
3. West Virginia
4. Wisconsin
5. Virginia Tech
6. Florida
7. Texas
8. Oklahoma
9. Michigan
10. Louisville

#16- Tennessee at California September 1st
#18- Florida St at Clemson September 3rd
#4-   Virginia Tech at LSU September 8th
#14- TCU at Texas September 8th
#19- Miami at Oklahoma September 8th
#20- Notre Dame at Penn State September 8th
#8-   USC at Nebraska September 15th
#9-   Tennessee at Florida September 15th
#1-   Florida at LSU October 6th
#3-   Texas vs. Oklahoma (Cotton Bowl) October 6th
#10- Nebraska at Texas October 27th
#11- West Virginia at Rutgers October 27th
#13- LSU at Alabama November 3rd
#5-   Louisville at West Virginia  November 8th
#6-   USC at California November 10th
#7-   Michigan at Wisconsin November 10th
#12- Florida St at Virginia Tech November 10th
#2-   Ohio State at Michigan  November 17th
#15- Boise St at Hawaii November 23rd
#17- UCLA at USC December 1st

And here’s a list that tells you which weekends might require a second TV next to the big screen:

• 4 Games on September 8th
• 4 Games Weekend of November 8th-10th (Big East Thursday night special)
• 2 Games September 15th
• 2 Games October 6th (1 &3)
• 2 Games October 27th

If USC isn’t 11-0, then the SC/UCLA is meaningless outside of LA—as are any of the games after October 6th really, unless all of these teams are as good as the pre-season hype.