Some thoughts on week 8

• Defence is beginning to take over in the national title race. All the current top 5 have good defences.
• The Kansas State win at West Virginia illustrates this perfectly. West Virginia have been exposed by their lack of a defence for the second week running. Kansas State are much more balanced and have one of the best quarterbacks in college football.
• Florida were impressive in their win over South Carolina except on offence. Their defence and special teams won the game for them, with punter Kyle Christy having the sort of day Brad Wing did for LSU most weeks last season.
• Notre Dame won another close one. They are in contention but they are not dominating games which is possibly hurting them in the rankings.
• Alabama had another comfortable win but are yet to be tested.
• Oregon were favoured to win but had the game at Arizona State won by half time. First tricky test and they looked impressive.
• Based on the season so far my current top 5 would be Florida, Kansas State, Alabama, Oregon, Notre Dame in that order.
• There are still a lot of 1-loss teams that are in contention because of the games still to be played. For example - LSU play Alabama, USC play Oregon and Notre Dame, Oklahoma play Notre Dame, Georgia plays Florida and Florida State plays Florida. While we'll probably have at least 2 unbeaten teams at the end of the season, I think it could be anywhere from 0 to 5.
• Congratulations to Duke on going bowling again.
• And the dangers of being a celebrity guest on live TV....