Here we go again. #2 USF lost to unranked Lousville. Am I surprised by this?
In a season when upsets strike on weekly basis, it is unsurprising that any undefeated team will lose sometime against unranked teams. Actually, let me rephrase that. It is EXPECTED that any undefeated team will fall sometime this season. It's no longer an upset, it's an expectancy. I remember when OU lost to Kansas State in 2003, it was a stunner. No one expected that. No one even thought about Sooners possibly losing to Wildcats. It's just an unthinkable, impossible, out-of-ordinary thing to happen. Yet, it did occur and we were baffled, scrambling for reasons on why it happened.
Compared that to this year. When OU lost to Colorado, it was on the same week that the other five (or four) top ten teams lost to unranked teams. Notre Dame went bottom from the preseason top-ten poll. USC and Cal lost on the same week by some unranked teams on the same week. Boston College, USF, Kansas and Missouri become season powerhouses. Who would have thunk it?
IMO, this is the theme of this year college football: rankings doesn't give a team automatic win any given Saturday. It's whoever plays better on the field that win the game.
So that being said, let's win out the remainder of the season. BOOMER SOONER!
Hm... it's not happening this week. You should have written this AFTER the BCS is out :/
USF didn't play Lousville. They played Rutgers.