Week 7 Impressions

I am reluctant to get overly excited about South Carolina or West Virginia.  As impressive as they've looked, someone is always left without a place to sit in musical chairs.

Prophetic words from Week 6 Impressions.  A week after looking entirely incompetent (offensively) against Florida, LSU grinds out a win against South Carolina, themselves a week removed from looking entirely competent, offensively and defensively, against Georgia.  The only way this can end is for South Carolina to beat Florida next week, completing the iron triangle.

West Virginia's loss was entirely expected.  If not in Lubbock, it would've been in Stillwater, or Ames, or at home against OU or K-State.  WVU's offense is like spinning plates.

So I'm back to my conclusion from the previous few weeks, which is that the only teams I have the utmost confidence in are Alabama, Oregon, and Kansas State.  Now watch them all lose.

Other impressions:

• I was genuinely surprised that Texas came out so flat.  I think Mack Brown might be convinced to "retire" sooner than later.
• Speaking of "retiring," Gene Chizik.  That is all.
• Northwestern is bowl-eligible for the ninth time in ten years.  Which means there's probably a generation of kids who think Northwestern is a perennial 7-win team and not a team that went 23 years without winning more than four games.
• Of course Iowa beats Michigan State in double overtime.  This is what these teams do.
• Dammit, Duke... right when I start to believe in you.
• Maryland is 4-2.  ACC.
• In-and-Out Burger will propel Oregon State to an undefeated season... or global domination.
• It's a shame Kentucky isn't playing Auburn this year.  Maybe they can trade coaches?
• Notre Dame: tire-fire offense, lights-out defense.  They're officially an SEC team.