College Football Review (after 3 weeks)

After only 3 weeks of college football this season, I think it's fair to ask "Are any of these teams good?"  While I've said countless times that pre-season rankings are stupid, it's still amazing how many highly ranked teams have stumbled already this season.  Consider:

• The Oklahoma Covered Wagons, who were a pre-season top 5, have already lost two games and are essentially eliminated from playoff consideration.  They lost a neutral site game to the Houston Commuter School Cougars and then got throttled at home by the Ohio State Tree Nuts.  The derisively named "Big Game Bob" has lived up to his name.
• The Florida State Tomahawk Chops, also a pre-season top 5, looked to be the class of the ACC (especially considering the early season shaky play by the Clemson Fightin' Dabos), but then they got annihilated this week by Louisville.....again, we're talking about football and not basketball.
• The Notre Dame Angry Catholics, another pre-season top 10, have already lost two games which definitely eliminates them from playoff consideration, especially given their stubborn lack of conference affiliation.  Their first loss was an upset loss to the Texas Burnt Orange Menace, who appeared to potentially be able to replace Oklahoma at the top of the Big 12-2, until they lost to Cal late on Saturday.
• The aforementioned Big 12-2 is a mess.  In addition to the aforementioned losses by Oklahoma and Texas, the Fighting Mullets from Boone Pickens University lost a home game to a directional school from Michigan on a bizarre Hail Mary Hook & Ladder play that should never have happened but, thanks to the never ending stupidity of the NCAA, cannot be reversed.  The TCU Sweaty Garys already have one loss (to the Arkansas Big Mouth Bretts), so they would have to run the table from here on out.  The Coach Handsomes from Texas Tech can seemingly score at will - what else is new? - but they also couldn't stop a Pop Warner team from hanging 50 on them - again, what else is new?  Baylor has made it through their Annual Parade of Non-Conference Cupcakes unscathed, but they don't seem to be anywhere near as dynamic as in years past.  Iowa State and Kansas are horrible. In fact, Kansas is so bad that their student body - well, the 34 students who were actually at the game - rushed the field after they beat an FCS team.
• Speaking of FCS teams, the North Dakota State Fargodomes beat an FBS team for a 6th straight season - this time knocking off a ranked Iowa Birdheads team.  How long before an FBS conference tries to add North Dakota State?

The only teams that appear to be formidable are some of the usual suspects:  The Alabama Elephants, Michigan Khakis, Ohio State Tree Nuts and the Houston Commuter College Cougars, who are trying to crash the party from outside the so-called Power 5.  The SEC and Big 10+4 appear to be the best conferences.  However, if we've learned anything from the college football season so far, it's to expect the unexpected.  We'll check in again in a few weeks to see if any of these teams can rise above the teeming sea of mediocrity that seems to permeate college football this year.

Thanks for reading!