If you follow college football, then you know exactly how special of a weekend this has been. Heading into this weekend, there really weren't a lot of games that jumped out as potential thrillers but we had plenty. Four top 10 teams were toppled while two more narrowly escaped disaster.
#2 Oklahoma State 31 #7 Clemson 13
Iowa State 37 Final/2OT North Carolina State 37 Final
#4 Oregon 35 #8 Virginia Tech 24
USC 38 Final North Carolina 21 Final
#5 Oklahoma 38 #9 Stanford 31
#22 Baylor 45 Final California 28 Final
So what does this madness mean? It means that the landscape of the college football season is definitely going to be shaken up a great deal. Oklahoma State will almost certainly be out of the national championship conversation, as will Oregon, Oklahoma, and Clemson. What it also means is the SEC, the SEC's Western Division to be more precise, will likely have a stranglehold on the new BCS polls. LSU has been #1 for several weeks now. Alabama was #3 and figures to move into the #2 slot with OSU's loss. Arkansas, the biggest winner from all of the craziness, will most likely jump from #6 all the way to #3 with all of the teams falling down in front of them. This would mark the first time in the history of the BCS poll that its top 3 spots were occupied by teams from the same conference. This also means that regardless of what happens from here on out, there is no foreseeable scenario in which no SEC team will make the national championship game. In fact, it is likely that two SEC teams will meet for the title.
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