by Michelle Richardson

USC (5-2) 56 Colorado (2-5) 28: The Colorado Buffaloes were not the cream of the crop in the Big 12 when they played in the Big 12. In the Big 12 you just can’t walk in the door you have to earn your stripes, that your going to go rough shod over people. Even though USC is really falling on hard times compared to the way they were in the earlier parts of the 2000s under former head coach Pete Carroll.

The Trojans still have heart, they still have talent and they have that will to win. USC quarterback Cody Kessler is well coached by head coach Steve Sarkasian. Kessler is coming into his own he was 19-26 on Saturday with 319 yards, seven touchdowns, and no interceptions. It was more of a balance you had USC running back with Javorious Allen who had 128 yards on 15 carries and Justin Davis had 97 yards on 11 carrries.

It was a very much a balanced attack it was flight of foot for USC and Colorado couldn’t keep anything and this is a game that they couldn’t touch. There was nothing that the Buffaloes could do, the Buffaloes receiving leaders Nelson Spruce had 69 yards in nine receptions and Tyler McCullouch had four receptions on 44 yards. If your just looking at numbers alone USC definitely handled Colorado besides looking at the score.

TCU (5-1) 42 vs. Oklahoma State (5-2) 9: The TCU Horned Frogs they got the job done at Carter Stadium in Fort Worth Texas. That was a really significant win. TCU was letting them know that they should have been in the Big 12 before. TCU should have been in the Big 12 when it was starting out. TCU had a lot of people on their list.

The Horned Frogs want to knock off all the guys in the Big 12 and their saying they should have been there. However many years has the Big 12 have been in existence. The Horned Frogs in Saturday’s game jumped out to a 21 point lead in the first quarter and TCU outscored Oklahoma State 21-3. TCU had 26 first downs ,76 total yards, Trevone Boykin the TCU quarterback 26-49 for 410 yards, with three touchdowns and one interception for Boykin on Saturday that’s what you call quarterbacking.

Quarterback Daxx Garman for Oklahoma State 10-25, 132 yards, threw two picks and no touchdown throws. That’s not a good zero, as a quarterback if you don’t have a 40 yard passing game your below mediocre. On third and fourth down conversions TCU did much better than Oklahoma State could only converting three third down conversions. It was the Horned Frogs right out of the gate.

Florida State 31 (5-1) vs. Notre Dame 27 (6-1): The Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston displayed every reason why he’s headed to the NFL after this season and on Saturday I believe you saw the reasons. First of it was the play calling. Winston did a lot of game trickeration stuff whereas FSU was a little conservative sometimes in their play calling they played more of a pro style offense than Notre Dame.

For Notre Dame there was too much time to trick and deceive them Everett Golson the Fighting Irish quarterback is not an accurate passer. 31-52 for 313 yards, sacked three times, threw for three touchdowns, and two interceptions. Golson is not as accurate as Winston but Golson is very much the athlete right now he has some growing to do as a quarterback.

Winston was 23-31 for 272 yards, sacked once, threw for two touchdowns and one pick. The difference was the FSU running game was more balanced even though they didn’t get a lot of big runs they got those nice small one that they needed. Running back Karlos Williams from FSU carried eight times for 25 yards and scored two touchdowns. That means that FSU was converting in the red zone consistently.

Michelle Richardson does commentary on the NCAA weekly for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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