The Arrow's Path

Week 3 of the NCAA College Football season yielded surprises, though probably not patently obvious when looked at from the sheer angle of wins and losses. True, USC lost, but that wasn't totally unexpected. Pete Carroll finds ways of losing to underdogs early in the season. Usually it is to the likes of an Oregon/Oregon State, but this time it was to the Washington Huskies. The Huskies were on my preseason Team to Watch list for this very reason. I thought Steve Sarkisian was going to have a rather quick turnaround of the Huskies. I did not think they would upend the likes of USC this soon, but I think Washington might be an up and coming team in the next few years when Sarkisian gets some recruiting going, and with a win against USC, that will start happening. BYU got blown out by Florida State. Again, not a huge shocker there. BYU was in the top ten, but that was after beating Oklahoma when their top QB went down. I knew BYU was overrated, and it was simply a matter of time until...

Being that it is already nearly the 2nd week of August, I am fascinated that none of the major sports websites have really released any of their preseason predictions yet. At least if they have, I can't find them anywhere on the CNNSI/ESPN, etc. websites. If memory serves, they are usually up by this point, so I am curious why they have not posted all that stuff yet. But, that's just as well. I can give my prognostications without being influenced by other media bias. Let's take a look at how I perceive the Top Ten for the season. For that, we have to start with Florida, which has won 2 of the last 3 National Championships, much to the horror of Tennessee and Florida State fans everywhere. Unfortunately, there is just no getting around the fact that Florida is the defending champ and has All-Universe College QB Tim "I walk on water" Tebow coming back for his senior season. (As an interesting side note to consider, Florida did not have a top ten recruiting season. ...