Oregon Flexes Some Muscle..Florida Continues to Roll

I held off on this review of the past weekend because I wanted to see the rankings before making any comments on the games played on Saturday.

#7 Oregon made a huge statement by wiping the field clean of #12 USC 47-20. It was the worst loss for USC under head coach Pete Carroll. Oregon owned the Trojans in second half, outscoring them 23-7, in the final two quarters. Oregon quarterback Jerimiah Masoli came out and had a huge day for the Ducks throwing for 222 yards and 1 td and rushing for 164 more yards. Oregon has now put itself in the drivers seat for the PAC-10 championship.

The number one ranked Florida Gators did exactly what they had to do in thrashing the Georgia Bulldogs Saturday afternoon in Jacksonville, FL 41-17. Florida coach Urban Meyer came out with a game plan to spread the ball around and gave the Gators a different offensive look that was more reminiscent of 2008 than what have seen so far this season. The Gators won for the 18th time in a row and Georgia fell to 4-4 for the first time since 1996. Tim Tebow had an efficient day throwing for 164 yards and two td's and rushed for 85 yards and and two td's. Tebow set the new SEC rushing record for touchdowns in a career at 51, passing Georgia great Herchel Walker. It was very fitting that Tebow broke the record against the Dawgs.

Look out world the #2 Texas Longhorns have put themselves into a position to play for the National Championship by dismantling the Oklahoma State Cowboys 41-14 in a stout defensive effort. The Longhorns intercepted Cowboy quarterback Zac Robinson four times and turned each one of those turnovers into touchdowns, two were returned for td's and the Texas offense converted the other two into touchdowns. The Longhorns leapfrogged Alabama to grab the #2 spot in the most recent AP poll. Longhorn quarterback Colt McCoy had a fairly quiet day accounting for 176 yards through the air and 34 on the ground. The Longhorns were held to under 300 yards of total defense.

They needed 28 fourth quarter points for their fourth comeback of the season but the #4 Iowa Hawkeyes keep finding a way to win beating Indiana 42-24. Iowa quarterback Ricky Stanzi threw a career high five interceptions, on a windy day at Kinnick Stadium, but still found it in himself to lead the Hawkeyes to 28 unanswered fourth quarter points to give Iowa the win. Stanzi finished the day throwing for 336 yards and 2 td's, to go along with his five picks.

Both BCS buster teams #6 TCU and #7 Boise State continued to roll. TCU throttled UNLV 41-0 and the Bronocs blasted Fresno State 45-7.

The loudest call for hand me the Heisman, came from Houston's Case Keenan. Keenan threw for 559 yards and five touchdowns as the #18 Cougars avoided the upset by squeaking by Southern Miss 50-43 with a last minute touchdown pass from Keenan.

Wasn't a good week to be ranked in the top 25 as #13 Virginia Tech got dropped by North Carolina, #19 West Virginia couldn't handle South Florida, Tennessee is finding some life dropping #22 South Carolina and over-rated #25 Ole Miss took it on the chin from Auburn.