The Sunday Morning BCS Report: Week 13

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13 weeks in and there are still six undefeated teams.

Texas won a shootout over their rival, Texas A&M, on Thanksgiving night as Colt McCoy made a strong bid for the Heisman and will be taking on Nebraska, led by Ndamukong Suh.

Cincinnati beat Illinois in a Big East/Big 10 match-up on Friday and Tony Pike showed the nation that his left forearm injury cost him a run at the Heisman.

Alabama also had an epic comeback win over Auburn on Friday. The Auburn defense ended Mark Ingram's Heisman run, it seems, unless he dominates the Florida Gators next week's National Semi-Final, er, SEC Championship Game.

Tim Tebow played great in his final home game in a lopsided win over Florida State. He also has another chance to come up big against Alabama and solidify his Heisman run.

A new contender has also risen for the pose as Toby Gerhart led Stanford to a huge win over Notre Dame.

He ran for three touchdowns, including a late one where the Notre Dame defense "let him score" but the Notre Dame defense also let him run for over 200 yards over the course of the game, too.

Coach Charlie Weis is returning to South Bend to meet with his boss while coach Jim Harbaugh has the Cardinal looking like the bullies of the Pac-10 with their bruising running game and the game management of Andrew Luck.

Jimmy Claussen threw for five touchdowns, but his last pass fell into the end zone as the Irish needed him to throw one more to tie the game.

Matt Barkley's last pass for USC was a touchdown after UCLA called a timeout down by 14 in the final seconds of their game with USC. USC downed the ball, Rick Neuheisel called a timeout, Pete Carroll called a passing play, and a riot almost ensued.

Pittsburgh lost the Backyard Brawl to West Virginia. They can still play for the Big East Title next week against Cincinnati, but now a Pitt victory might nudge Cincinnati out of the BCS in favor of Boise State, who pounded Nevada into the blue turf. A Pitt loss will definitely help Boise State's cause as a BCS Buster.

TCU finished off a 12-0 season. Two middle of the pack SEC teams (Georgia and South Carolina) beat the two teams playing in the ACC title game next week (Georgia Tech and Clemson).

Arizona beat Arizona State, so I really enjoyed that one. Oklahoma shut out the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Bedlam.

There is going to be a change in my top two teams this week. I started the season with USC number one and Florida number two, calling for them to both go undefeated and USC win the BCS Championship Game.

And that is why pencils have erasers.

I have had Florida number one ever since USC lost to Washington, and Texas was my number two team. I am moving Alabama to number one this week and leaving Texas at number two.

The winner of the SEC Title Game will be favored in the BCS Title Game, and I think Alabama is going to win the SEC this year. They were supposedly a year early last year, and I like what I have seen from them this year.

My Top Two

1. Alabama

2. Texas

My Heisman Finalists

1. Colt McCoy

2. Tim Tebow

3. Toby Gerhart

Conference Power Rankings (number of top 25 teams)

1. SEC (4)

2. Big 10 (3)

3. Pac-10 (4)

4. Mountain West (3)

5. Big XII (2)

6. ACC (4)

Week 14 Championship Games

1. Florida Vs. Alabama

2. Texas vs. Nebraska

3. Oregon State at Oregon

4. Clemson vs. Georgia Tech

5. Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh

One last thought

Bobby Bowden wants to coach for one more season. Florida State struggled this year to a 6-6 record and that is why this is even an issue. For as good as Bowden has been for as long as he has been, it is amazing that there is even a notion to force him out. Only one team can win the national championship and is the price for not being that team so great that icons like Bobby Bowden cannot choose when to coach their last game?

I hope that common sense will emerge in Tallahassee. The only thing the board of directors need to know is when Bobby Bowden wants to coach his last game and he should be welcomed back until the day of that game arrives.

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