Snap Judgements: In Cam We Trust, No. 1s Go Down in 3s and Sparty Takes Control

When you play NCAA football on any video game console there comes a moment before the season starts where you are asked if you'd like to create a player to recruit. You pick the position, where they are from, and how good they are. If you're like me, you push every skill set up to 99 out of 100. It seems as though someone may have done that with Cam Newton.

Every Auburn fan should seek out the individual who stole that infamous laptop and thank him for doing so. Yes, one should never condone theft, but if that didn't happen would Cam be putting up insane numbers on the plains?

Through eight games Cam has rushed for 1,077 yards, breaking the single season QB rushing record by an SEC QB...with four games to go!

But, despite the wild numbers by the Auburn offense the most impressive performance may have been by the Auburn D. Nick Fairley laid down an epic performance while blowing up the LSU offensive front. He proved unblockable and the Tiger defense that looked so silly against Arkansas asserted itself and held LSU to 243 yards.

Time and time again LSU had great field position in this game and could do nothing with it. The Bayou Bengals do indeed have a talented corp of wide receivers, but if they can't get them the ball on a consistent basis, does it matter?

The win leaves Auburn as the final unbeaten in the SEC and probably the new No. 1 in the BCS rankings. Who would have thought that heading back to before the season? Can we just play the Iron Bowl already? Of course, just as we seem to anoint a team as "unstoppable" they get stopped.

Just ask the first team at the top of the BCS rankings, Oklahoma. Raise your hand if you truly thought Missouri had a shot at beating the Sooners.

Anyone? I guess No. 1 teams lose in threes.

Honestly, I blew this game off. I mean, did Mizzou really ever give us a reason to think otherwise in the past? Every epic matchup with Oklahoma seemed to produce an epic beatdown by the Sooners on the Tigers, like the 62-21 destruction in the 2008 Big 12 title match, plus Oklahoma had not lost to Missouri since 1998.

For the second straight weekend a huge special teams play opened the door for the No. 1 upset and the Tigers stormed through capitalizing on three Sooner turnovers, despite the fact that Oklahoma only had five giveaways coming into the game.

Mizzou is 7-0 for the first time since 1960 and finally turned the tables on Oklahoma. Currently I can't ever see a more perfect opportunity for the Tigers to take down the Big 12 title and it would be great to do it while the league is at full tilt rather then next year when most will view it as a watered down race between Oklahoma and Texas.

On another note, will the real Texas please stand up? Honestly, Iowa State at home? Are Longhorn fans blaming this loss on the Colt McCoy injury against Alabama as well?

Moving on...

Here's to Sparty, because I am sure despite their unbeaten demeanor, many still doubt Michigan State as a serious contender.

That's ok. All they do is keep winning and teams in front of them keep falling. Once they fell behind to Nerdwestern 17-0, even I began to think that MSU's run was over.

Instead, they mounted drives, made stops and somehow pulled off a stunning fake punt despite the fact the only thing missing was a flashing neon sign reading, "HERE COMES A FAKE PUNT!" Seriously, was the Wildcat cornerback the only one on Earth unaware of what was coming?

The Spartans will get a fantastic stage to boost their standing amongst the nation's elite when they travel to Iowa City next weekend. Perhaps they should just follow the blueprint laid out by Wisconsin.

The Badgers avoided a letdown and went on the road for an impressive win over the Hawkeyes. Make no mistake, this was a tough back-and-forth affair, but it was a trick that seemed to take the wind out of Iowa's sails.

With 3:23 left in the game and facing a fourth down from their own 26, Wisconsin ran a fake punt right up the middle to keep what would be the eventual game-winning drive alive.

Iowa had a crack at it with just over a minute remaining and ALL THREE timeouts, but Kirk Ferentz must have attended the Les Miles Time Management Academy this week. The final Hawkeye drive died after Adam Robinson was stopped in bounds and the clock ticked down to zero. Iowa stupidly burned their final timeout the play before instead of just spiking the ball to stop the clock. Yeah, they probably wouldn't have won, but they would have at least had a Hail Mary shot or possibly a long field goal.

Finally, congratulations to Navy. Hey folks, can you stop calling it an upset when the Midshipmen lay the lumber to the fledgling Irish? They've beaten ND three out of the last four times. In fact, this game was never really in doubt. Navy laid a smash-mouth wood shed beating on Notre Dame and really relegated the Irish to, at best, probably a 6-6 finish? Are Irish fans still blaming Tyrone Willingham?

Also, hats off to Syracuse for snapping an eight-game losing streak against West Virginia and defeating the Mountaineers in Morgantown. Yes, the 'Cuse have wins over Colgate and Maine, but if they can get to seven wins that will probably put them in a bowl and who would have thought that a possibility? Seriously, how terrible a coach is Greg Robinson if Doug Marrone can come in and turn this program's fortunes around in one year?

See you all next week.