The Imminent Approach of Basketball, Football Stuck in Twilight Zone

This isn't going to be about our game against South Carolina. I'll get to that tomorrow.....which means I'll probably actually get to it Wednesday. Mississippi State lost 38-21 by the way, in case you didn't know. How you wouldn't know by now I have no idea, but maybe it could happen.

-So first up, the wacky wacky weekend has really shaken up the college football world. Heck, the whole season has really shaken up the college football world. Lets take a look at the AP poll for this week: (Note: bold is my own addition)

1. LSU
2. USC
3. California
4. Ohio State
5. Wisconsin
6. South Florida
7. Boston College
8. Kentucky
9. Florida
10. Oklahoma
11. South Carolina
12. Georgia
13. West Virginia
14. Oregon
15. Virginia Tech
16. Hawaii
17. Missouri
18. Arizona State
19. Texas
20. Cincinnati
21. Rutgers
22. Clemson
23. Purdue
24. Kansas State
25. Nebraska


Lets look at that top 10 first. South Florida, Boston College, and Kentucky all in the top 10, all at the same time. In football. When am I going to wake up. Honestly did you ever think you'd see the day? Combine that with some of the other interesting characters in the top 25 and you see how insane this year is so far. Cincinnati, Rutgers, Kansas State, and Hawaii all residing in the top 25 on top of USF, BC, and UK in the top 10? I never thought I would see an AP poll resembling anything like this. My , how things have changed. This poll really should bring hope to MSU. You're telling me these guys can turn it all around and MSU can't? I don't think so. If we can see an AP poll like this, then I'm convinced MSU will get back in it one day.

-Switching gears to basketball, I have a couple of goodies from Rivals. First, they are counting down their top 64 for the upcoming year. They're putting MSU at #17. I was somewhat surprised. Personally I think that is a little too high. They certainly have talent and could have quite a bit of potential. There are just a few too many ? for my liking. How will Brian Johnson turn out? They'll need big contributions from him. He was highly rated out of high school but didn't get to show a whole lot at UL before getting injured. How will that knee hold up? How about the redshirt freshman Phil Turner? He'll have to be able to contribute coming off the bench. Will he? Maybe, maybe not. Lastly one of the 4 freshman will have to be able to give significant help to the team come gametime. I don't care which one, but at least one will have to be able make an impact this year. We'll see what happens.

-Secondly, they have two predictions for breakout player of the year. One of them likes our own Barry Stewart. A comparison is made to Timmy Bowers, you may remember him. Don't tease me McClellan.