Top 25, Heisman favorites, and links: Week 9

Ding dong, the golden boys are gone. If there is anyone reading this blog who didn't want USC to lose, thank you for searching me out through the interweb from what ever non-Southeastern city you may live in.

Oregon's detonation of USC's season, which took way to look to happen for how bad USC was this year, has finally brought what is right back into view: USC is not a one-loss team that can make the title game. The computers knew this, but it took another loss for the coaches and AP voters to realize this.

Besides that, both Texas and Iowa remained unbeaten after officials blew calls that would have changed the momentum in both of their games.

Iowa is lucky their endzones are painted black on their AstroPlay turf. Terrance Turner of Indiana had the ball in his grasp and dragged in his foot for a touchdown, but the black beads that pop out of AstroPlay turf could not be seen to confirm this against the black painted endzones, and Iowa then got a missed field goal to keep momentum after returning a fluke interception for an 86-yard touchdown.

Texas was just as lucky as Iowa. The Longhorns had the ball up 17-7 with just under two minutes until halftime. Texas was at their own 20, and on second down, Colt McCoy completed a pass to James Kirkendoll for four yards before he was stripped by Oklahoma State. Officials would not review the play themselves, so Coach Gundy took a timeout, in which he was told forward progress was awarded to Texas, thus they kept the ball. The 'Horns would then score before halftime, score a FG right after halftime, and then intercept Zac Robinson for six. In seven minutes, a game that could have been 17-14 at half, was 34-7 five minutes into the third. Huge game-changing missed call by the Big XII.

Enough of me going on about things I will repeat numerous times this week and on to the Top 25.

Top 25

1. Florida
2. Alabama
3. Texas
4. Cincinnati
5. TCU
6. Boise State
7. Oregon
8. LSU
9. Iowa
10. Penn State
11. Georgia Tech
12. Houston
13. Pittsburgh
14. Miami
15. Utah
16. USC
17. Ohio State
18. Oklahoma
19. Notre Dame
20. Arizona
21. Oklahoma State
22. Virginia Tech
23. South Florida
24. Wisconsin
25. BYU

Heisman Favorites

• Mark Ingram, RB, Alabama
• Tim Tebow, QB, Florida
• Colt McCoy, QB, Texas
• Jeremiah Masoli, QB, Oregon
• Golden Tate, WR, Notre Dame

Links

• College GameDay Final
• College Football Overtime
• Dennis Dodd explores whether or no Chip Kelly should bring back LeGarrett Blount.