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After another wild weekend in which four of the nation’s top-10 teams lost, it has become clear that the 2009 college football season is going to boil down to two questions: Can the sport’s true heavyweights – Florida, Texas and Alabama – stay healthy? And, if not, can pollsters get over their biases and enable a longshot like Cincinnati or Boise State to reach the national-title game?
This weekend’s primary lesson is that there are only a few truly elite teams in college football, and a massive gap divides them from the rest. The polls should run a bold dividing line beneath No. 3 Alabama to illustrate this. It’s become laughable to suggest that supposed contenders like one-time No. 4 Mississippi (which lost at South Carolina Thursday) and previously sixth-ranked California (a 42-3 loser to Oregon Saturday) deserve mentioning in the same sentence.
wsj.com
9/27/09
Magnolia Tribune
