Another Big Week for the Non-AQ teams?

• Little Danny

  

  Could be a banner week for the Non-AQ teams. Looking at the schedule, I see a number of potential losses from the guys from the "real" conferences:
  
  Southern Miss v. Kansas
  TCU v. Baylor
  Cal @ Nevada (The Wolfpack average 50 pts a game so far)
  SMU vs. Washinton State (WSU blows and should be kicked out of the P10)
  Houston v. UCLA (Case Keenum is questionable with a concussion, but if he plays lookout)
  N. Illinois v. Illinois (tick tock Ron Zook)
  Northwestern @ Rice (Rice played Texas tough for a while)
  Hawaii v. Colorado
  Florida State v. BYU (Which FSU squad is the real deal, the one in Week 1 or the one who got destroyed by Oklahoma?)
• jordo212000

  

  Northwestern should not have any problems with Rice. And other than the Illinois v. No. Illinois /Cal v. Nevada games, I actually expect all of those non-AQ teams to win
• Little Danny

  

  We'll see. Another matchup this week will be Virginia Tech v. East Carolina. Could the Hokies start out 0-3 without even playing a team from the Big Six Conferences? The Pirates are tough. I think Tech could possibly roll but you never know.
• FairwoodKing

  You forgot to mention that Kent State is going to beat Penn State (tongue in cheek).
• Heretic

  

  Any game with an ACC team taking on a non BCS team should be looked at as a potential win for Non-AQ teams.
• jordo212000

  

  FairwoodKing;486274 wrote:You forgot to mention that Kent State is going to beat Penn State (tongue in cheek).

  
  Penn State won't lose that one. They're back inside of their comfort zone. Like I said last week, there is a reason Penn State avoids playing marquee out of conference games.
• darbypitcher22

  

  could be an interesting weekend
• trep14

  I think Air Force-Oklahoma will be a good game too. I wouldn't be surprised if Air Force takes it actually. They look pretty good, coming off of a pounding of BYU. Also, Oklahoma has kind of a made a habit of falling on their faces in these kind of games.
• Iliketurtles

  

  Yep I heard the same thing that BYU was going to destroy FSU in Provo last year. Last week was just a terrible game for FSU and I look for them to bounce back at home and beat BYU by 21+.
  
  I agree with trep though that Air Force-Oklahoma game is gonna be a good its the game Im most excited for besides the FSU one.
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  I don't think there's any questions that the top 25% of the non-AQ teams are simply better that the bottom 25% of the team in conferences with the automatic bids - and it's not an upset when they win.
  
  I would even venture to say that the top five 1-AA teams could and should beat the bottom ten percent of the 1-A teams. As the parent of a Western Kentucky student, it's painful to admit - but true.
• Little Danny

  

  Southern Miss is kicking Kansas' teeth in right now.
• Little Danny

  

  Southern Miss won, and Nevada beat the crap out out of Cal 52-31.
  
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• fan_from_texas

  jordo212000;485955 wrote:Northwestern should not have any problems with Rice. And other than the Illinois v. No. Illinois /Cal v. Nevada games, I actually expect all of those non-AQ teams to win

  
  I tend to agree. But Rice played Texas tough, and has some serious offensive talent (McGuffie transferred from UM, Fanuzzi transferred from Alabama), so they could make it interesting.