by Michelle Richardson

Alabama 41 Florida Atlantic 0: As I keep telling people this is going to be a real different year for Alabama. It’s going to be harder because their going to be fighting for those four top spots to get into the playoffs. Alabama is fighting just as hard with the other schools to get into the top four spots that’s how hard Georgia and LSU are fighting to be there.

Alabama has been on top a good five years and they’ve won five consecutive ACC Championships. With schools like that they stop getting the top recruits because they have so much fire power and that student athlete will think “if I go to some other school I’ll be the third or second in line” the thought here is the rich keep getting richer and that the way it is getting that top spot in college football.

I’m not really worried about Alabama just yet because their not into conference play, if this continues into conference play and if they beat Florida like what their suppose to do these games won’t be over for another three years and most of these games will be scheduled at least four years in advance. In about three or four years all of these money games will come to an end and Alabama knows they’ll have to make up time and points the next week.

Oregon 46-Michigan State 27: I’ll be honest I was very surprised, I had Michigan State winning this game, this was going to be the turnaround season where Michigan State really was going to stand up and take over the Big Ten. They still are likely able to take over the Big Ten but they couldn’t get past Oregon last Saturday.

Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota threw for 17 completions, 318 yards, for three touchdowns inspite of getting sacked three times. Michigan State was behind at the half 24-18, Oregon came back with four unanswered touchdowns after Michigan State scored four straight times unanswered. Oregon knows how to win and they’ve been doing it well for the past ten years, even with the change of coaching they still manage to be on top.

This is very interesting as Oregon is on top in the Pac 12 and number two in the AP Poll, it’s going to be Oregon and UCLA in the Pac 12 Championship, one of those teams will end up in one of the top four slots.

Florida State is number one in the AP Poll: The Florida State Seminoles are number one because they haven’t lost and they won’t stop winning until you tell them their not the champions. They haven’t lost a game they beat Citadel and Oklahoma State and are 2-0 and they beat both of them soundly. Even Oklahoma State by six points.

Everybody says they didn’t win so big and for Oklahoma State it’s not like dropping off the bridge it’s the first game nobody didn’t play football since last January and Oklahoma State hadn’t played since last December. So let’s just quit the panic over one game. Florida State will be number one but they’ll drop into the polls because they go into a bye week this weeek.

Though the Seminoles will go and play Clemson, and Clemson is coming to Doak Campbell Stadium on September 20th, beating Clemson at home at Doak Campbell really means something. Clemson is going to be out for blood simply because Florida State went to Death Valley last year and handed Clemson one heck of a beat down on their way to the Natonal Championship.

Michelle Richardson does commentary on the NCAA each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com and hear the rest of her interview by clicking on the soundcloud below