Week 10 BCS Standing (Top 15)

1. Alabama
2. Kansas State
3. Notre Dame
4. Oregon
5. LSU
6. Georgia
7. Florida
8. South Carolina
9. Florida State
10. Louisville

Justin Thomas
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Which One Will It Be Cam?

Cam Newton has put himself in a situation that he shouldn’t even be in with his comments made following the 19-14 defeat by the hands of the Dallas Cowboys Sunday in Bank of America Stadium.

"I'm going to bring in a suggestion box. And I want your suggestions in that suggestion box, because I sure don't know. I really don't," said Newton.

Newton, is going through what many foresaw would happen, that he’d hit a “Sophomore Slump”, and he’s not handling it well. Last season, Newton took the world by storm arguably having one of the best if not the best rookie season statistics wise. Now have the tables turned dramatically.

The Panthers struggles all aren’t on Newton, Coach Rivera and the rest of the coaching staff definitely are taking some heat as well. What the question now is how will Newton respond? The Panthers have lost seven straight games by seven points or fewer, and the frustration has been more than evident. Even Deangelo Williams is feeling it, he went to Twitter to vent retweeting tweets sent by fans questioning the play calling and lack of touches.

What Cam needs to do is shake this off and find a way to win games, it’s that simple. As the leader of a franchise you can’t have this “Woe is me attitude” after you throw an interception or take a bad loss. He needs to get that swagger back that he had last season, tune out the media and play football.

What I do know is this, Cam will either be the player people saw at Auburn and respond well to the adversity or he’ll succumb to the pressure. Which one will it be Cam?

Justin Thomas

ESPN 730 Blogger

Twitter: @JTyree704

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Week 9 BCS Rankings (Top 15)

1. Alabama

2. Florida

3. Kansas State

4. Oregon

5 .Notre Dame

6. LSU

7. Oregon State

8. Oklahoma

9. USC

10. Georgia

11.Texas Tech

12. Florida State

13. South Carolina

14. Texas Tech 

15. Rutgers

Justin Thomas

ESPN 730 Blogger

Twitter: @JTyree704

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/SportsFromMyEyes

Week 8 BCS Standings (Top 15)

1. Alabama
2. Florida
3. Oregon
4. Kansas State
5. Notre Dame
6. LSU
7. South Carolina
8. Oregon State
9. Oklahoma
10. USC
11. Georgia
12. Mississippi State
13. West Virginia
14. Florida State
15. Rutgers
Justin Thomas
ESPN 730 Blogger
Twitter: @JTyree704
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/SportsFromMyEyes

A Wild Weekend In College Football

When you have the third, fourth and fifth ranked teams in the country all fall in the same weekend that’s when you know the saying is true “Anybody can be beat”.
    LSU, Florida State and Georgia all lost this weekend while being on the road. LSU has struggled more than what people imagined barely beating Auburn 12-10 two weekends ago, to now falling to the Florida Gators 14-6. It only gets tougher as the third ranked South Carolina Gamecocks, who are on a roll come to visit Baton Rouge for the biggest game of this upcoming weekend. Death Valley is known to be the toughest place to play in the country for a night game, will that be enough for LSU? Who knows, but that’s why we play the game.
    Florida State was the biggest shocker of the weekend losing 17-16 on the road to NC State. Florida State its still the same ole song, highly ranked, great expectations but failing to take care of the games they need to win. The hope for the Seminoles to make it to the national championship isn’t  over, but the difference now is that they don’t control their own destiny they have to hope for other top teams to start falling off which is likely to happen.
    The Georgia Bulldogs still a top team as LSU and Florida State, did not look good on Saturday night failing to the South Carolina Gamecocks 35-7. South Carolina just has Georgia’s number beating them the past three times they’ve played. Georgia is in a tricky spot, hopefully they don’t over look Kentucky when they travel to play them Saturday jumping ahead to a highly anticipated matchup when they face their biggest rival the Florida Gators.
    If you’re a fan of LSU, Florida State and Georgia all hope isn’t lost for a spot in the national championship game, it just means they need to win and hope for other to lose.

Justin Thomas
ESPN 730 Blogger
Twitter: @JTyree704
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Are The Florida State Seminoles Back?

Are the Florida State Seminoles back? It’s too early to tell as of now, but if you want to ask are they getting back into the swing of things? I would definitely say yes.

Last year, everybody was clamoring about the Seminoles being back after being ranked sixth in the AP poll at the start of the year. If you ask me that, the hype came one year to soon. I say that because, you need to develop your talent and the Seminoles have done just that. The Seminoles have done very well on the recruiting trail landing the number one recruiting class in 2011, as well as being in the top six since 2009. The Seminoles finally put it together some solid seasons winning 10 games in the 2010-2011 season and winning nine games in the 2011-2012 season.

With that being said the Seminoles are off to a good start being ranked fourth in the country, coming off a big time win at home against the 10^th ranked Clemson Tigers this past Saturday. The Seminoles have the talent to run the table and possibly play in the BCS National Championship Game. The Seminoles struggle with consistency, the first real test for the Seminoles will be this Saturday when they travel to Tampa to face South Florida. The Seminoles need to avoid the letdown that most teams face after coming off an emotional win. If the Seminoles handle South Florida then I will say they are on the road to being officially back.

If you’re a Seminoles fan, there are plenty of reasons to be excited, if the Seminoles take care of business there is no reason they shouldn’t place in the BCS National Championship Game.

Justin Thomas

ESPN 730 Blogger

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Spurrier Struggles - Bryce Hatley

The Vanderbilt Commodores hosted the No. 9 South Carolina Gamecocks last night in a Thursday night SEC showdown.  

With the return of Heisman hopeful Marcus Lattimore and the reigning SEC Freshman of the Year Jadeveon Clowney at Defensive End South Carolina was sure to steamroll the Commodores for the easy victory.  Marcus Lattimore was back on the field to carry the Gamecocks to victory scoring South Carolinas only two touchdowns for the night. Lattimore rushed for 110 yards on 23 carries for 2 TDs averaging 4.8 yards a carry; he also had three receptions for 21 yards accounting for almost half of Carolina’s total yards. Lattimore showed promising signs of what is yet to come if he can stay healthy. South Carolinas quarterback struggles continued as Connor Shaw completed 7 of 11 passes totaling only 67 yards and throwing one interception and racked up 92 yards rushing.  Shaw’s Thursday night’s performance did not show the likes of a SEC caliber quarterback. Granted Shaw went down in the first half with shoulder injury that doesn’t excuse his 67 yard 1 interception passing performance against a decent Vanderbilt defense. With nonexistent a pass game the Gamecocks looked offensively stagnant giving most of the load to Lattimore. The Gamecock front seven on defense had a good outing while the Gamecock secondary remains in question in a controversial pass interference no call late in the fourth quarter. Conversely Vanderbilt showed signs of improvement holding the Gamecocks to only 17 points.  The Commodores rallied behind Quarterback Jordan Rodgers who threw for more than 200 yards and 1 touchdown and 1 pick to keep the game competitive all the way down to the wire.

The season opener is in the books for the Gamecocks but an overall progression is needed to compete for an SEC title let alone National Championship.