Ohio State is the best of the at-large teams by far. I'd love to see them play Notre Dame over Penn State, to be honest.
Alabama against Texas Tech will be like a Ferrari hitting a brick wall.
As much as I think USC is invincible and all, they're still human of course. The game with UCLA hasn't been given all that much attention since the fireworks against Fresno State last week. UCLA's still only a one-loss team, and they've got the firepower to hang for most of the game at least.
And about Fresno State, that had to be the most riveting 4th quarter I've ever seen, taking everything into account. No functioning game clock, funky special teams bounces, a one-in-a-million ball control play, players with diseases scoring touchdowns, and Nevada- friggin NEVADA! goes to the Hawaii bowl with a share of the WAC title and looking like stars on national TV. And how about that offense of theirs. Calling any other team a gimmick team is an insult to Nevada. Perhaps I've been sheltered by fairly mainstream football, but the "pistol formation," as the announcers called it, was bizarre to watch. Looks like it works pretty well, I guess. I expect the WAC to do what everyone said the MAC was going to do a couple of years ago, break out and be the mid-major that becomes nationally regarded and respected.
I actually said "Uh oh" when I saw how AD was running against Oklahoma State.
And all of the conferences suck this year. Stuff's busy reshuffling. We all expected this at the end of last year. Next season's when we'll get some incredible stuff happening and less embarassing conference title games, etc.