Hlist Week 13: Brains, brrrr, and Andre the Giant

The Hlist has a rule about sitting in the stands at sporting events. Namely, it can't be 18 degrees Fahrenheit or colder.

1. Baby, It's Cold Outside: Here are some of the temperatures at kickoff for Week 13's games:

8 - Kansas at Iowa State

11 - UNLV at Air Force

18 - Wisconsin at Minnesota

18 - Michigan at Iowa

23 - Michigan State at Northwestern

25 - Oklahoma at Kansas State

26 - BYU at Notre Dame

29 - USC at Colorado

2. Brains Reign: Elite universities can have elite football teams.

Stanford (9-2) clinched the Pac-12 North title Saturday.The Cardinal buried California in The Game Saturday, 63-13.

Duke improved to 9-2 and clinched a share of the ACC Coastal Division title Saturday with a 28-21 win at Wake Forest.

Vanderbilt (7-4) beat state-rival Tennessee Saturday, 14-10. The Commodores won the game with a 14-play, 92-yard drive. The winning score came when backup quarterback Patton Robinette scored on a 5-yard run with 16 seconds left after faking a jump pass. That didn't sit well with most of the Tennessee crowd of 97,233. It's the first time Vandy has won back-to-back games over UT since 1925-26.

And Harvard secured a share of the Ivy League title with a 34-7 rout of Yale. That's seven straight wins in the series for Harvard.

We won't dwell on Northwestern's season.

3. November Nonsense: What the H, ACC and SEC? While the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 are slugging it out with each other in late November like respectable football conferences are supposed to do, here are some of the games the ACC and SEC gave us on Saturday:

Chattanooga at Alabama. The Citadel at Clemson. Old Dominion at North Carolina. Alabama A&M at Georgia Tech. Idaho at Florida State. Coastal Carolina at South Carolina.

Florida State prevailed in its game, 80-14. South beat Coastal in the Battle of the Carolinas, 70-10. Georgia Tech escaped with a 66-7 triumph. North Carolina held off Old Dominion, 80-20.

Farce, farce, farce, farce.

But FCS Georgia Southern did get a 26-20 win at Florida. The Eagles got paid $550,000 to come to Gainesville and humiliate the Gators.

Using the triple-option, Georgia Southern attempted just three passes and completed none. But it amassed 429 rushing yards. Eight Eagles had at least one run of 10 yards or longer, and the team averaged 7.9 yards per carry. That's awesome.

Florida fell to 4-7 and won't be bowl-eligible for the first time since 1979.

"The morale on this team is at an all-time low," Gators guard Jon Halapio said. "We have a lack of leadership. We just really need to tighten up as a team."

Georgia Southern is 7-4. It lost to Wofford, Samford, Appalachian State and Furman.

4. It's a Big Week: OK, here's the rundown for this week:

Alabama at Auburn. The winner goes to the SEC title game.

Clemson at South Carolina. The winner gloats for a year in South Cackalacky and is in BCS bowl discussion.

Texas A&M at Missouri. If the Tigers win, they go to the SEC championship game.

Duke at North Carolina. If Duke wins, it plays Florida State for the ACC title.

Who'd a thunk it? A Duke-Carolina football game matters. The Tar Heels have a 5-game winning streak. Duke has won seven straight.

Duke was 4-42 in the four seasons prior to David Cutcliffe's arrival as the head coach in 2008. If the Blue Devils win Saturday, give Cutcliffe the national Coach of the Year award and don't think twice.

Maybe the Big Ten should have brought in Duke instead of Maryland.

5. Andre the Giant: Andre Williams of Boston College has had a three-game run for the ages.

Williams has rushed for 295 yards against New Mexico State, 339 vs. North Carolina State, and 263 Saturday against Maryland. That's 795 of his 2,073 yards in 11 games. Saturday, his BC (7-4) team plays at Syracuse. He set the ACC single-season rushing record last week.

This guy is 6-foot, 227 pounds. The Hlist is guessing he's no fun to tackle.

Williams is from Schnecksville, Pa. That sounds like a rough-and-tumble football town, don't you think? Well, it isn't. It's a town of about 3,000 people, a suburb of Allentown. Forty-three percent of its adults have college degrees.

Williams is on track to graduate next month, a semester early. He is a fourth-year senior.

He needs 555 in his final two games (Syracuse and the bowl game) to tie Barry Sanders' 25-year-old single-season record of 2,628 yards.

Boston College was 2-10 last year. Hey Heisman-voting dweebs, find a spot on your ballot for this guy.

6. Tuesday MACtion: Iowa fans got see both Northern Illinois and Western Michigan at Kinnick Stadium this season. The Hawkeyes lost to NIU, 30-27, but trimmed WMU, 59-3.

Well, the Huskies are 11-0 and the Broncos are 1-10. Tuesday in DeKalb, Ill., Western comes to Northern for some ESPN2 MACtion, such as it is.

Jerry Palm of CBSSports.com projects Northern Illinois to play 7-4 Western Kentucky in the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

If NIU wins the MAC's title game and is 13-0, a GoDaddy.com Bowl appearance for the Huskies would be insanity, injustice. It would be lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

Oh by the way, the Huskies are 14th in the latest BCS standings, two sports ahead of fellow unbeaten Fresno State. If the season ended today, Northern Illinois would have its second-straight BCS bowl bid.