Winners and Losers for Week 4
The week’s top winners and losers, picking the six teams that collectively had the best and worst Saturdays.
Winners:
Oklahoma State: One half of nearly flawless football kept Ok State in the winner’s column and out of the loser’s. How often can your star player fumble a touchdown out of the endzone and you still win the game? Oh yeah, that was playing on the road against a top 10 conference rival. Bravo, Cowboys. Bravo.
LSU: Like most people I had a hard time decided between Alabama and LSU for the top team in the country this week. Hell, I had Alabama in my winners in the first draft. Alabama had a spectacular game at home against a conference rival that we really didn’t know much about. LSU went on the road against a hungry team that desperately wants to be future conference rival in primetime. LSU smoked them in every way possible. LSU vs. Bama is going to be fun.
Arizona State: Meet the new leader in the Pac-12 South. It just feels good to type that so I can only imagine how great the ASU team and fans are feeling. After dropping the ball against Illinois, ASU is on top of the Pac-12 South and have just cleared a path for themselves to the first Pac-12 title game.
Losers:
Maryland: The ugly uniforms were cool when you beat Miami on ESPN. When you get steamrolled by Temple at home… well ugly refers to more than the uniforms. I’m sure Ralph Friedgen is laughing somewhere.
Florida State: Maybe Clemson is much better than people think but this has to be a huge let down for FSU. Top 5 to barely top 25 in two weeks is rough. Guess we’ll be subjected to more “Is FSU finally back?” stories next preseason too. (3 years in a row now or has it been more?)
Toledo: Toledo fans meet Cubs fans. I have a feeling you’ll get along. If Toledo misses a bowl game this year they might lay seige to Syracuse and the Big East officials.
