The Hlist: From published sources nationwide and Midwest major-league baseball teams that suddenly have lots of spare time.

OPENING KICKOFF

“I hate losing to those guys. It's something I can't stand, for whatever reason.” - Wisconsin Coach Bret Bielema after the Badgers' 31-13 loss at Ohio State. Bielema is 0-3 against the Buckeyes.

FIRST DOWNS

1. Preordained: Florida is waltzing unbeaten to the Southeastern Conference title game.

So says Dave Curtis of Sportingnews.com after the Gators' 13-3 win at LSU.

“LSU was the lone team on the Gators' schedule with the running game, the defensive playmakers and the home-field advantage to beat them in the regular-season,” Curtis wrote.

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, as you may have heard a thousand times, had a concussion two weeks earlier. He was questionable for the LSU game. He played, and was competent enough to win.

Gregg Doyel of CBSsports.com found it reprehensible that Florida Coach Urban Meyer used Tebow.

“This wasn't about football,” Doyel wrote. “This was about right and wrong, and playing Tebow was wrong. Only in the most limited viewpoint imaginable did Meyer win the battle Saturday night. Tebow didn't get hurt, Florida didn't get beat, so it's great, to be, a Florida Gator ...

“No - it's not. It's embarrassing to be a Florida Gator. It'll take a while for the sting of Meyer's stupid gamble to fade. He's the guy who hid behind team doctors after they made a guess - an informed guess, an educated guess, but a guess nonetheless - and cleared Tebow to play roughly eight hours before kickoff.”

2. Seven Deadly: Texas Tech's Steven Sheffield passed for seven touchdowns and 490 yards in his team's 66-24 beatdown of Kansas State.

Sheffield is a former walk-on from Pflugerville, Texas. He played Saturday because starter Taylor Potts suffered a concussion in the previous game. Potts had seven TD passes in a 55-10 win over Rice last month.

Which quarterback will Tech Coach Mike Leach play once Potts is cleared to play again?

“We'll see,'' he said. “Stay tuned, I supposed. That's what makes sports exciting is it always changes.”

True. Kansas State used to beat weaker teams by that kind of score when Bill Snyder was coach. Snyder came out of retirement late last year to coach the Wildcats again for this?

“I don't know that I've ever experienced a game like this,” Snyder said. “I'm awful disappointed.”

FUMBLES

1. ZZZZZ is for Zook: A grotesque football season continues at Illinois.

The Illini fell to 0-3 in the Big Ten and 1-4 overall with their 24-14 home loss to Michigan State.

Quarterback Juice Williams was benched last week. Saturday, the offensive line caught the blame after allowing six sacks and six hurries of new starting QB Eddie McGee and Williams.

“I don't think any of (the linemen) played well enough for us to win,” Coach Ron Zook said.

So who plays quarterback at Indiana Saturday?

“I'm not even going to get into that,” Zook said. “It's not as easy as everyone thinks. It's not musical chairs.”

The Hlist agrees. Musical chairs can be entertaining, and is somewhat organized.

2. Snow Daze: New Mexico's football team needed two snow plows and a police escort to go the 50 miles from Cheyenne to Laramie Saturday morning, traversing an Interstate 80 that was otherwise closed because of nearly a foot of snow.

In 15-degree weather, the Lobos lost to Wyoming, 37-13, to fall to 0-6.

“They were coming up from New Mexico, 80 degrees, 85 degrees,” Wyoming defensive end Mitch Unrein said.

“I heard them complaining on the field a little bit, saying, ‘Oh, how do you guys live in this stuff?' You've gotta love it.”

POSTGAME

“They knocked me colder than a cucumber. I was down and out.

“A lot of people here would like to hit me, They didn't have to put a hit out on me.” - Arizona State Coach Dennis Erickson, who out cold briefly after ASU receiver Gerell Robinson was shoved out-of-bounds into him in ASU's 27-14 win at Washington State.