NCAA College Football Scores, week 13

NCAA College Football Scores, week 13

I think I've mentioned before that Arkansas is probably the nation's most underrated team. I get the feeling that people will start to notice them now, after they whomped #8 Ole Miss 30-0, on the heels of having crushed #17 LSU 17-0. As indicated by those two shutouts, their defense is spectacular. Earlier in the year, they held Alabama and Mississippi State, currently #1 and #4 in the country, to 14 and 17 respectively. The Arkansas Razorbacks are currently rated #23 by Sagarin, and will improve after his computer takes the Ole Miss game into account, but they are not going to get into a major bowl with five losses. I expect them to destroy somebody in a minor bowl.

I don't see any other great surprises in there. The biggest powers took on patsies, and most of them produced appropriately enormous margins of victory. An exception was Florida State, which once again eked out a squeaker against a mediocre team. Although the Seminoles are ranked #1 in the polls, they are merely #15 in the estimation of Sagarin's computer.

You will recall that Melvin Gordon of Wisconsin broke the ten-year-old single-game rushing record last week in the first three quarters of the game, then sat out the fourth. He'd love to have that fourth quarter back now, because Gordon's name is already gone from the record books! Oklahoma's Samaje Perine, who is just a freshman, rushed for 427 yards in a win over Kansas, scoring 5 TDs along the way.