1.\u00a0 Alabama \u2013 \u00a0 Did what they needed to do and man handled Arkansas 35-7.\u00a0 Get a 2-1 Kentucky team that lost to Florida this week and will stay here unless lightning strikes.<\/p>\n
\u00a02.\u00a0 Texas – \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Took care of business against UTEP.\u00a0 Yeah it was UTEP but it was 64-7 as well.\u00a0 The Longhorns should hold on to the two spot with Colorado coming to town this Saturday.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Florida – \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beat a 2-0 Kentucky team 41-7 and\u00a0 Next to Tennessee it was their \u00a0toughest test yet.\u00a0 Finally play a top 25 team this week\u2026LSU<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Cincy – \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 28-20 win over Fresno St. and combined with the three teams above them losing, the Bearcats are in at number four!\u00a0 Armon Binns (Pasadena) gets two catches for 17-yards.<\/p>\n
\u00a05.\u00a0 LSU- \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Escaped with a 30-26 win over Mississippi St.\u00a0 Benefit as well from the losses if front of them.\u00a0 A win this Saturday over Florida could shake things up in the top three.<\/p>\n
\u00a06.\u00a0 USC – \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trojans get Barkley back and get back into the \u201cW\u201d column.\u00a0 It would have been nicer to see more than 27 on the board but they did give a taste of their superiority.<\/p>\n
\u00a07.\u00a0 Boise St – \u00a0\u00a0 4-0 with a wins including Oregon, Fresno St. and Bowling Green.\u00a0 Bowling Green however doesn\u2019t have many teams shaking in their shoes about playing them.\u00a0 Playing UC Davis this week won\u2019t turn any heads either.<\/p>\n
\u00a08.\u00a0 VA Tech – \u00a0 Knocked off\u00a0 Miami with an impressive 31-7 win to break into the top ten.\u00a0 Should handle Duke with ease and will stand tough at the eight spot.<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0 Ole Miss – \u00a0 Took one on the chin\u00a0 with a 16-10 loss at the hands of the \u201cOld Ball Coach\u201d and South Carolina.<\/p>\n
10. Houston – \u00a0 Back to back wins over Oklahoma St. and Texas Tech have people taking notice of Case Keenum and the Cougars.\u00a0 Phi Slama Jama their not but watching Keenum throw for 453 is a blast!<\/p>\n
Plus<\/span><\/strong> others in the top 25 recognized for local talent:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n BYU \u2013 Cougars get a solid conference win 42-23 over Colorado State. Lee Aguirre (South El Monte) did see some time on the field, just not enough for us!<\/p>\n Oregon \u2013 Broke into top 25 with a pasting of Cal 42-3.\u00a0 Lost Walter Thurmond III (West Covina) for the rest of the season with knee injury.<\/p>\n Oregon State- No longer in the top 25 after a loss to Pac 10 opponent Arizona 37-32.\u00a0 Lance Mitchell (Muir) had six tackles and two pass break-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1.\u00a0 Alabama \u2013 \u00a0 Did what they needed to do and man handled Arkansas 35-7.\u00a0 Get a 2-1 Kentucky team that lost to Florida this week and will stay here unless lightning strikes. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[762,1017,933,122,538],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-alabama","tag-cincinatti","tag-florida","tag-texas","tag-usc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}