- West Virginia has turned to its passing game this year, writes Tom Dobies of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
- Here's another story about WVU's evolving offense, by Dave Hickman of the Charleston Gazette.
- The Mountaineers debuted their Pistol formation against East Carolina, with mixed success, writes Mike Casazza of the Charleston Daily Mail.
- Jerry Hinnen over at the War Eagle Reader is doing a weekly schedule stock watch, just so Auburn fans can know how worried to get about future opponents. I wish I had thought of this idea. Instead I'll just link to it.
- Paul Finebaum of the Mobile Press-Register says Auburn fans shouldn't quite buy those SEC Championship game tickets quite yet.
- Ray Melick of the Birmingham News counters by saying that Auburn is back.
- Uh-oh. Lane Kiffin's offseason remarks have upset Tim Tebow. This is not going to make the Vols' day any easier this Saturday in Gainesville.
- Nick Saban's not happy with Alabama's kickoff coverage, writes Michael Casagrande of the Decatur Daily.
- It cost Georgia $6,000 to fly quarterback Joe Cox to Oklahoma State separately from the team for the season opener when the senior had the flu, writes Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald. I wonder if he had to pay extra to check his bags?
- Mike Sorenson of the Deseret News has some ideas to improve college football. I like the one where teams must win seven games to make a bowl game. A 6-6 record isn't good enough for the postseason.
- Cleveland Plain Dealer AP voter Doug Lesmerises' ballot continues to gain a lot of interest for his bizarre way of ranking teams (for instance, BYU No. 3 and Houston No. 4). Hey, at least he has a system for doing his rankings, going by how teams have fared in actual games this year, instead of taking some pre-determined order and moving teams up and down based on whether other teams around them win or lose. Hey, BYU or Houston might run the table and make Lesmerises look very smart by the end of the year. As for Michigan being No 6, though ... eesh.
- So far computer whiz Jeff Sagarin has the SEC ranked as the No. 2 conference in the country, right behind the Pac-10. And Auburn? Sagarin's computer rankings have the Tigers at No. 39.
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Last week the Saragin rankings had Auburn at 24. Not sure how his (PAC-10 biased) computer program dropped Auburn 15 spots after beating a conference foe by 25 points...
I don't think computers can have biases. I would say there's not enough data to have a ranking solidified by the second week of the season.
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