5 Weeks of College Football are in the books!

It's October, and Jock Talk is pretty certain the past weekend was the best weekend of football thus far.  Conference match ups hit the ground running strong and pretenders were separated from contenders.  Lets review the week that was beginning with the three marquee games from Saturday:

• Alabama embarrassed Florida in Bryant-Denny Stadium Saturday night.  I am convinced Florida is still a top-15 team, and that Alabama is an unstoppable juggernaut that is bound to make a lot of good SEC teams look far worse than they are.  Greg McElroy was able to avoid turning the ball over and let his defense and running game do most of the work as Alabama rushed for 170 yards and forced 4 turnovers.  Jock Talk is pretty sure that anytime a team on the road has a -4 turnover margin and averages half as many yards-per-rush as their opponent they will get blown out. After scoring 30+ in every game and 48 against Kentucky, Florida managed two field goals.  The Gators are still in the drivers seat in the East Division, but South Carolina will add some drama to the SEC divisional races that has been lacking in recent years.  Alabama, on the other hand, has to be a clear cut No. 1 at this point.  Boise State is still receiving a first place vote in the AP poll.  How can an informed football fan really believe Boise is better than Alabama after their victories in Fayetteville and over Florida.  Alabama is so good its scary.  Mark Ingram was held to 47 yards rushing, but two Touchdowns in a blowout win won't hurt his Heisman Campaign.  Is there any other team in the country who could beat a top-10 team by 25 if their best player didn't even get 50 yards?
• The most exciting game of the weekend went down in Eugene, where two top-15 offenses and defenses faced off.  The offenses had the edge as both teams gained over 500 yards.  After watching the game, Oregon seems to be the only serious competition for Alabama.  The Ducks have a tremendous running game and have been nearly impossible to score against in the second half this season.  In their three closest games this season, Oregon finished the game on 45-0, 28-7, and 49-10 runs.  Stanford was up 18 after the first, had 518 yards, and still lost by 3 TOUCHDOWNS.  Stanford has a very good quarterback and a very good team, but Oregon obliterated them in the final three quarters.  LaMichael James solidified his place next to Denard Robinson on just about every Heisman list.  If Alabama is in a class of their, own, Oregon is forming their own class right beneath them.  As with Florida, Stanford is still a top-15 team in my opinion, they were just embarrassed by a far superior team.  
• Despite efforts to blow a 21-7 halftime lead, OU held on to beat Texas at the Cotton Bowl 28-20 on Saturday.  Other than the clinic the Sooners gave to Florida State, OU has struggled to put teams away this season.  Texas is now nursing a two game losing streak and will face a top-10 Nebraska coming off a bye week.  Nebraska is destroying Kansas St. at the moment and will also have a few extra days rest by playing on Thursday.  Say hello to 3-3, Longhorns fans.  While OU is now in the drivers seat in the South, unless they find a way to close the door in the 4th, a surprise team may come of the South this season.  Landry Jones and DeMarco Murray were both effective against UT, but still only managed 28 points, just 7 coming after intermission.  
• There were several enjoyable games in the Big 10 this week.  Ohio State won an ugly game in which Terrelle Pryor needed 16 passes to gain 76 yards.  Someone give him the Heisman, this race is over!!!  Pryor is still a very over hyped and unpolished passer and the lack of a dependable passing game will likely come back to haunt the Buckeyes at some point this season.  The only true Heisman contender in the Big 10 kept his bus rolling:  Denard Robinson went for 277 in the air, 217 on the ground, 5 TDs and no INTs.  The Michigan team continued its disturbing trend of struggling to escape with a win despite D-Rob's unmatched performance.  If he continues to play at his current level, the Heisman is his regardless of the Wolverines record.  He is going to go 2000-2000.  Unbelievable.  Michigan State defeated Wisconsin and looks legit.  The winner of the upcoming UM-MSU game will have an outside shot at the Championship game if they can also get by Ohio State.  In the "battle of overrated Big 10 teams" Iowa demolished Penn State; not much to see here folks. 
• Its "Les Miles sucks at clock management time" kids!  There appears to be no available video of what Les Miles was doing during the 30 seconds his team was stumbling unorganized and disorderly on and off the field in a effort to run a play before snapping the ball 25 yards in the wrong direction but I'm guessing he just stood there like this.  Les has a well chronicled history of clock management woes and eventually it will have to catch up to him, right?  Either way he is the least worthy undefeated coach in college football.  How he won a National Title I will never know.  He is also responsible for this.  <-- The Oil talk is BACK!