What's the Fuss?

A lot has been made out of Tim Tebow’s humanity, Oklahoma’s no-huddle offense and Florida’s speed during this week’s lead up to the FedEx BCS National Championship Game in Miami.

But I think it’s the Sooners secondary that will be the difference between an Oklahoma win or a Florida win.

If Oklahoma’s secondary can play like it did against Texas Tech late in the season, I don’t think Florida’s speed will have a chance to win it the game. But that won’t be the case. The Gators will get to the outside and break through the tackles, and through the Sooners secondary en route to a second national championship in three years.

Final score: Florida 45, Oklahoma 38.

I was listening to ESPN Radio last week and a clip was played of Bob Stoops announcing that the Oklahoma Sooners played five ranked teams this season, more than any other team in the country.

Well, Bob, you’re wrong.

First, the Sooners played six: No. 24 TCU (Sept. 21), No. 5 Texas (Oct. 5), No. 16 Kansas (Oct. 12), No. 2 Texas Tech (Nov. 22), No. 11 Oklahoma State (Nov. 29) and No. 19 Missouri (Dec. 6).

That’s one more than the Gators played.

They’ll both up their totals tonight. Florida is ranked No. 1 in the country according to The Associated Press and Oklahoma is No. 2.

Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has a standing offer to become the next coach at Auburn but is leaning toward staying in Lubbock, a source close to the situation told The News Herald.

Leach won’t have to interview for the position, which was offered to him last week. Auburn has not given him a timetable but said it will start interviewing other candidates soon.

Leach has researched the position and one point of contention for him is Auburn super-booster Bobby Lowder. Lowder’s disdain for former coach Tommy Tuberville was no secret as were Lowder’s attempts to unseat the former Tigers coach.

Another snag in the process has come from the administration. Some Auburn officials weren’t sold on the idea of Leach coming to the plains and slowed the hiring procedure.

Leach is expected to sign the five-year, $12.1 million extension offered by Texas Tech. The buyout on his contract is reported to be $500,000.

The fun has just begun.

If last season was considered topsy-turvy because of all the upheaval at the top of the polls, the way the first seven weeks of this season have gone, last year was nothing.

There have already been four teams ranked No. 1 since Aug. 30. There were four all of last season.

Teams are jumping teams who win or don’t play. And Texas, after upsetting No. 1 Oklahoma, returns to jumps five four spots from No. 5 to No. 1 for the first time since 1984.

This week had three top four teams lose for the second straight week and had more teams move five or more spots (5) than any other week this season. Two teams moved four places and one team three.

Finally after weeks of the Top 5 getting dominated by the Southeastern Conference and the Big 12, there’s a little diversity.

Texas is No. 1 and Alabama remains No. 2 during its bye week. But Penn State returns to No. 3 for the first time since 2005. Oklahoma is No. 4 and Florida jumped to No. 5.

OK, so four out of five teams from the SEC and Big 12 in the Top 5 isn’t bad.

The cream has settled: Conference play must have started in the SEC. Only five SEC teams are ranked this week and there isn’t the bunch up in Top 15 there was last week.

Georgia remained at No. 10 after defeating Tennessee. LSU dropped nine spots to No. 13 after getting crushed by Florida and Vanderbilt fell to No. 22 after losing to Mississippi State.

Auburn dropped out of the rankings after losing to Arkansas.

What gives?: Before Saturday’s loss to North Carolina and for the first time in the history of the rank-ings, Notre Dame was 4-1 and unranked. Now the Irish are 4-2 and unranked.

The pollsters must have something against the church because Notre Dame went from 91 votes a week ago to 1 this week, just as many as Cincinnati.

Slow but steady: That’s how Ball State’s rise in the rankings has been. The Cardinals improved to 7-0 with a 24-7 win over Western Kentucky but only improved on spot in this week’s poll. They went from 25th to 24th.

The tall and short of it: When college football expanded its season to 12 games, the number of weeks involved was also stretched. Now the season ends the first weekend of December for most conferences, with the exception of the Big Ten.

That means during the season there are plenty of bye weeks to go around — or just two. But some teams have had one or two already. And some haven’t. Three teams in the Top 25, Penn State, Utah and Ball State, are 7-0. Five teams, including USC, are 4-1.

No team has two losses.

Movers and Shakers: The largest jump this week was equaled by the largest drop. Oklahoma State’s up-set of Missouri moved from No. 17 to No. 8.

Two teams, No. 13 LSU and No. 22 Vanderbilt, dropped slipped nine places in the polls after losing. No. 11 Missouri fell from the cusp of BCS stardom, falling eight spots. No. 5 Florida’s win over LSU propelled them from 11th.

Now No. 1 Texas’ upset of then-No. 1 Oklahoma gave it the top spot, a reprieve from No. 5. No. 18 North Carolina’s win over Notre Dame allowed it to jump four spots.

Eleven teams stayed where they were last week.

Enrique Davis came home to the state of Florida, in the stadium that his father once played in, last week and helped Ole Miss upset the Florida Gators.

Davis had just 1 yard on two carries for a .5 yards average.

For the season, Davis remains fourth on the Rebels in rushing with 87 yards on 27 carries and two touchdowns.

Ole Miss hosts South Carolina Saturday at 1 p.m.