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Ethan: Sorry, Georgia…you can’t let Georgia Southern score 21 points and expect to keep the top spot. See you boys in the Capital One Bowl, although I’ll really just be watching for the mascot contest. You want to be a big USC homer now?

That’s Knowshown Moreno under there. (Edit: That’s no Shown Moreno under there.)

Amir: You already made fun of me last week for being a USC homer. Now that MY BOYS jumped up to number one, you’re accusing me of being a bandwagon fan? Me and all sixteen Trojan running backs are offended.

Ethan: We’ll see if they’re still at the top spot in two weeks after they play Ohio State. I did like USC’s scheduling strategy, though. Instead of playing some little cupcake school, they did something only marginally ballsier and played a bad BCS conference school on the road. For some reason beating UVA sounds much more impressive than beating a school with a compass direction in the name. Since it never gets less fun: remember when Michigan was good at football?

Amir: No, not really. Is it weird that I still blame Lloyd Carr?

Ethan: Not at all. Next year they’ll probably just schedule some Pop Warner team from Flint, then lose by 23. On the topic of perennial disappointments, when is Clemson going to stop being so highly regarded in the preseason? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me fifteen consecutive seasons, shame on the person who gave me an AP poll ballot.

Amir: I saw a piece on their thunder and lightning, Spiller and Davis, and was convinced! Then I saw they were downgraded to a tropical depression by Alabama. Not unlike Gustav.

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