Can someone explain to me what possible reason there is for LSU being so highly freaking regarded this season? I've got a cookie for the first person that convinces me that LSU belongs in the Top 5. GO!

the greatest team that ever played?

They should just start doing their fictional if 2007 USC played .... pieces now.

The USC fans and national media will tell themselves the whole time before the game, "Well, at least we won't have to worry about an in-Vince-able QB this time MUAHAHA! Colt can't run!"

Not so fast Trojan fans. Now you have to worry about this guy on 4th and 5.

because they think the schedule is possible.

I actually think it will be some random ACC and Big East team this year -- and everyone will tune in, like they did the Spurs/Cavs series.

This will be the year the Big East gets a title shot.
Actually, the thought of outsized W. Virginia running all over USC is kind of funny to think of.

no freaking way.........Who gets to vote on these things. 2 cookies says that vote came from a land thieve.

experts at ESPN.....that's the funniest thing I've heard all week

Everyone but Mel Kiper Jr. picked USC to win it all.  But Texas gets plenty of respect at #3.

Derek Lokey is back. Of course, if it had been up to him, the DT never would have had to leave in the first place. When the 6'2", 290-pounder broke his right leg at Nebraska on Oct. 21, he insisted on walking off the field; it was his only chance to fool the staff into letting him back in to the game. But it's hard to hide a spiral fracture and a strained knee, and harder to play on a leg held together by a plate and screws. So Lokey sat out the final four regular-season games. He did try to beg his way into practice for the Alamo Bowl, though.

"The doctors said six to eight weeks and it had been about six," Lokey says. "Turns out, they meant to be walking, not playing." Mack Brown called Lokey's injury the biggest loss of the season, worse than any of the Horns' three on-field defeats. So no one is happier that a scar is now the only way Lokey knows which leg he busted. (His 515-pound bench press and 380-pound power clean are team bests.) Last year, UT had the nation's third-best run D (61.2 ypg), but with the big man in a cast, the Horns lost two straight, to K-State and A&M. Those games had Lokey jumping off his couch to yell at the TV. You can't keep a good man down. -- Mike Ogle

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