We lost 16 of our 67 tournament teams this week, taking us to 51 remaining.
The team with the most preseason hype that bit the dust was Arizona St. The Sun Devils got caught in a trap game before their big showdown with Georgia, falling to UNLV in a big upset. They then went out and lost the nationally televised Georgia game, then fell again to a very good Cal team on Saturday.
Big powers like Miami and Michigan also suffered loss No. 3 on Saturday, but not much was expected from those two this year.
Mississippi and Oregon St. had probably the two biggest upsets of the year with wins over Florida and USC, respectively, and they both proved how big those upset were by losing their third game of the year Saturday.
Fresno St. is always a "BCS buster" candidate, but after losing to Wisconsin a few weeks ago, the Bulldogs lost again to Hawaii on Saturday for loss No. 2 and an exit from the tournament. The only non-BCS teams anywhere near a championship opportunity are undefeated BYU, Boise St., Utah, Ball St. and Tulsa, and one-loss TCU and Western Michigan. Everyone besides this Super 7 has lost at least two games.
Three teams lost their Perfect Health status this week. South Florida and UCONN from the Big East, along with Kentucky from the SEC all suffered loss No. 1 in '08. The 1o remaining teams in the bracket hail from just three conference - the Big 12, SEC and Big Ten. Because of championship games, only one can emerge from the Big 12 and SEC, but Penn St. and Northwestern don't play this year, and since the Big 10 doesn't have a championship game, both could emerge unbeaten. That means only through the first week of October, we know there could be a maximum of four undefeated teams from the BCS come the end of the season. The Mountain West, WAC, MAC and Conference USA could also produce one.
New brackets for our 51 remaining teams:
PERFECT HEALTH (10)
Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma St., Alabama, LSU, Vanderbilt, Penn St., Northwestern.
ALIVE AND KICKING (26)
BYU, Utah, Boise St., Ball St., Tulsa, USC, Arizona, California, Georgia Tech, Florida St., Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Boston College, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio St., Michigan St., Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, South Florida, UCONN, Cincinnati, Kansas.
LIFE SUPPORT (15)
TCU, Western Michigan, Oregon, Clemson, Duke, Maryland, West Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Louisville, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas St., Auburn, South Carolina.
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