While unbeaten teams fall all over the country the Shortlist is merely sweetly reduced to an exact 16 teams remaining in contention for the two top spots in 2010 and the programs rate by order of worthiness as follows:
Auburn, TCU, Boise State, Utah, Oregon, Alabama, LSU, Stanford, Nebraska, Arizona, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Michigan State.
The only team I called for to fall off the Shortlist last week survived as Nebraska locks down Missouri as always to the accustomed octaves of the usual applauding attendees in the stands. Up next in the split proceedings is a road trip to Iowa State and no applause for Miami's favorite bowl game target as they hone in on one last division crown if not national title game upset loss if things break just right for the Huskers.
Balancing that fact out for this week is the precious counterpoint that Florida State started a retched weekend for the ACC third of the in state big three-teams by serving up the usual under a different sideline bumpkin's watch in Raleigh by losing to NC State 28-24.
Gosh it would be just awful if Jimbo drops his homecoming game this week to North Carolina that someone put you on alert for a month ago to follow up wouldn't it now?
I say good riddance to the ACC's favorite fallen addition in 2010 on the Shortlist, now I can just focus on Boise State-TCU III, "THIS TIME IT'S FOR THE OBLONG CRYSTAL MARBLE," with special-guest replay-supervisor official Terry Porter, as my last remaining nightmare for the rest of the year on the Shortlist.
No less than a trio of Shortlist Elimination games in the SEC and the Pac-10 between one-loss teams sandwiched around the Mountain West's day of on field reckoning amongst its two premier programs this Saturday will guarantee less competition in next weeks Shortlist. I also expect the three surefire eliminations to be joined by a pair of unexpected Big 12 fallen that will all combine to read as follows when the weekend in done:
LSU, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona and Utah.
As the tried and true saying about the final regular season month goes in the college football, November should provide several more memorable collisions between the survivors of this week's games down the final closing stretch here on the Shortlist to the Site of the Shainghaied 'Ship as the final sixteen contenders are spared down to only the truly worthy next week.
Copyright 2010 by Christopher Whelpton for Canespace.com
Morris' arm rockets one to Benji.
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