Matt McCluskey’s paying gig is hosting his own sports talk show “Matt Mc’s Sports Fix” on New York’s WNER 1410 ESPN Sports Radio, and somehow he fits in time to perform as our Big East correspondent.

Monday we caught up on the big college football topics of the day like Cam Newton‘s awesomeness, the BCS Ranking debuts and how in the world the Syracuse defense made Pitt QB Tino Sunseri look like the resurrection of Dan Marino.

Pick up our conversation at the 2:00 mark in Windows media format.

With the debut of the official BCS rankings on Sunday, I was shocked at how the collective HAL-2000 attributed human error to everyone under-appreciating Missouri and Oklahoma State. And I just do not understand the Utah love despite the lack of strength of schedule – I think West Virginia would beat them head to head but I have to rank on resume. And the computers put Oklahoma on top despite only one impressive win IMO. I find fault with the Coaches Poll as always, since that is the group that sees the fewest games out of any group. Here is my ballot, please discuss:

Fantasy College Blitz Ballot – Week 8

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Oregon Ducks	–
2	Boise St. Broncos	1
3	TCU Horned Frogs	1
4	Auburn Tigers	4
5	Oklahoma Sooners	6
6	Alabama Crimson Tide	–
7	Michigan St. Spartans	5
8	LSU Tigers	2
9	Ohio St. Buckeyes	-7
10	Nebraska Cornhuskers	-5
11	Arizona Wildcats	2
12	Stanford Cardinal	2
13	South Carolina Gamecocks	-6
14	Utah Utes	4
15	Iowa Hawkeyes	–
16	Wisconsin Badgers	–
17	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	7
18	Florida St. Seminoles	-2
19	West Virginia Mountaineers	4
20	Missouri Tigers	–
21	Miami Hurricanes	–
22	Arkansas Razorbacks	-13
23	Texas Longhorns	–
24	Kansas St. Wildcats	–
25	Mississippi St. Bulldogs	–
Dropouts: Florida Gators, Nevada Wolf Pack, Oregon St. Beavers, N.C. State Wolfpack, Air Force Falcons

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Just as the South Carolina victory over Alabama gave way for a new #1 in the mid-season college football polls, so too did last week give birth to my new #1 Baby Girl Mullins! As expected, she already knows how to celebrate a touchdown:

After the jump, why I position the Oregon Ducks ahead of The Ohio State Buckeyes and also there is a new #1 in the state of Florida in the SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25.

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The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon’s got plans. You know, they’re schemers. Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I’m not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. – Joker in The Dark Knight

"I'm a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one." said Les Miles, er, Joker

As I sit in the hospital on my baby’s due date with little forward progress from nature, I am reminded of the above quote – I planned to be away from the site but I got the chance to spend more time than normal on my Top 25 ballot for the SB Nation Blogpoll.

I suppose the biggest “scandal” is Oregon above Ohio State, but I can easily defend it especially after the weak showing against Illinois this weekend, and the Duck’s win over the Cardinal standing more impressive than the Buckeye victory over Miami.
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Not much to change in the Top 8, I still think Oklahoma is the sleeping giant amongst them all – we will certainly learn if they can put their boots on the ailing Texas Longhorns at the Red River Rivalry on Saturday.

Fantasy College Blitz Ballot – Week 5

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama Crimson Tide	–
2	Ohio St. Buckeyes	–
3	Oregon Ducks	–
4	Boise St. Broncos	–
5	TCU Horned Frogs	–
6	Nebraska Cornhuskers	–
7	Florida Gators	2
8	Stanford Cardinal	7
9	Oklahoma Sooners	-2
10	Auburn Tigers	6
11	Utah Utes	1
12	Arizona Wildcats	1
13	LSU Tigers	1
14	Miami Hurricanes	3
15	Arkansas Razorbacks	-5
16	Michigan Wolverines	2
17	Texas Longhorns	-9
18	Iowa Hawkeyes	1
19	South Carolina Gamecocks	-8
20	Wisconsin Badgers	3
21	Penn St. Nittany Lions	–
22	Michigan St. Spartans	–
23	N.C. State Wolfpack	1
24	Nevada Wolf Pack	–
25	West Virginia Mountaineers	-5
Dropouts: Temple Owls Just Missing: Missouri, Oklahoma State, Air Force, Cal, UCLA.

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