While USF lost a lot on defense they still benefit from having George Selvie on D, ex-mohawk wearing Matt Grothe at QB, and a schedule consisting of Tennessee Martin, Florida International, and Syracuse.

Kansas meanwhile gets one more season of Todd Reesing, another blubber filled season of Mark Mangiano, and in the unfortunate department, have to play at Oklahoma, and home against Texas and Texas Tech this season. Once again, another who's in and who's out game.

Oklahoma at Washington: Oklahoma gets back to back sneaky games. I just want to point out real quick that 1) Washington would be my true sleeper pick in the PAC 10 if they didn't play BYU, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame nonconference as well as at Oregon, at USC, and at Cal in conference.

And 2) Washington was 4-9 last season, but hung around with Ohio State (11-2), almost knocked off USC (11-2), led at halftime against Arizona State (10-3), were tied at the end of the third against Oregon (6-1 with Dennis Dixon at the time), led by two touchdowns in the fourth before collapsing against Arizona, battled in a brawl against Oregon State (9-4) without Jake Locker, and came within 44 seconds of taking Hawaii (12-1) to OT.

I'm just saying they were better than 4-9 last year.

North Carolina at Rutgers: Year two of the Butch Davis experience begins, and this could be a turning point for the Heels. If T.J Yates is healthy, they'll upset a few teams. Now if they just had a defense to speak of.

Rutgers, now without both Ray Rice and Brian Leonard, will become more pass oriented this season with Mike Teel and his two 1,000 yard WRs. The Scarlets (rough way to screw up a nickname) are supposed to start their slow decline back to mediocrity, but I see this as a huge game for their season.

I think they can get back to contending for the Big East championship (see exhibit A, B and C rankings of pass defenses in the Big East last season A—Cincy No. 89, B—Louisville No. 87, C—West Virginia No. 17 but lost all but one starter in secondary).

GAME OF THE WEEK:

Ohio State at USC: More like game of the season. OSU did it again and went out and got themselves into a de facto play-in game for the BCS Championship. Their battles with Texas proved to be as much both years and now we get two seasons of Buckeyes vs. Trojans.

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