Hlists, Week 10: Crumpled legs, crumbling eras

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THREE GAMES I WISH I'D ATTENDED

1. Auburn 35, Mississippi 31

2. TCU 31, West Virginia 30

3. Ferris State 66, Lake Erie 56

THREE GAMES I'M GLAD I MISSED

1. Wisconsin 37, Rutgers 0

2. Ohio State 55, Illinois 14

3. Oklahoma 59, Iowa State 14

BROKEN LEGS OF SIGNIFICANCE

1. Mississippi wide receiver Laquon Treadwell vs. Auburn

2. Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday vs. USC

STREAKS

1. Arkansas has lost 17 straight SEC games

2. Wyoming got its first interception of the season in its ninth game

3. UCF had its 11-game American Athletic Conference winning streak snapped with a 37-29 loss at Connecticut

4. Duke has won 15 of its last 16 regular-season games

5. Utah lost at Arizona State, and hasn't won there since 1976

6. Iowa State lost at home to Oklahoma, and hasn't beaten the Sooners in Ames since 1960

7. North Dakota State won its 33rd-straight game

TEAMS TIED FOR FIRST-PLACE IN THE AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE AT 3-1

1. East Carolina

2. Houston

3. Memphis

4. Cincinnati

5. UCF

WILDCATS RANKINGS

1. Kansas State

2. Arizona

3. Kentucky

4. Northwestern

ERAS THAT ARE CRUMBLING

1. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech. The Hokies are 1-4 in the ACC.

2. Steve Spurrier, South Carolina. The Gamecocks are 4-5 overall, 2-5 in the SEC

3. Larry Blakeney, Troy. He's been the Trojans' coach for 24 years, but his guys are 1-8. Blakeney has announced he'll retire at season's end.

4. Bill Blankenship, Tulsa. Two years ago, his team won 11 games including the Liberty Bowl over Iowa State. The record since that New Year's Eve in Memphis is 4-16.

REVIVALS

1. Air Force: From 2-10 last year to 6-2 this year

2. Western Michigan: 1-11 to 6-3

3. California: 1-11 to 5-4

4. UAB: 2-10 to 5-4

5. Memphis: 3-9 to 5-3

6. UTEP 2-10 to 5-3

7. Temple 2-10 to 5-3

HOW DID ...

1. Missouri lose at home to Indiana?

2. Ohio State lose at home to Virginia Tech?

3. Wisconsin lose at Northwestern?

4. Oklahoma find itself in fifth-place in the Big 12?

MY FOUR PLAYOFF TEAMS

1. Florida State

2. Mississippi State

3. Auburn

4. Oregon

MY SECOND FOUR

5. TCU

6. Alabama

7. Notre Dame

8. Michigan State

THIS WEEK'S WATCHABLES

1. Ohio State at Michigan State

2. Kansas State at TCU

3. Notre Dame at Arizona State

4. Alabama at LSU

5. Baylor at Oklahoma

SPORTSWRITING

1. 'Forget the announced attendance of 52,797, which, for the record, was a sellout. There were about a third of that number in the stands at kickoff, and a fifth of that by the time the second half started. ...

'Indiana isn't one of the sexier programs on the college football landscape. But when they show up here on Nov. 15 for the season's final home game, it will be an incredibly important day. It's a winnable game with Bowl eligibility hanging in the balance.

'High Point Solutions Stadium has to be rocking, regardless of the weather. Because anything less would send the wrong message as Rutgers' inaugural season in a most passionate conference winds down.” - Stephen Edelson, Asbury Park Press

2. 'The biggest realization that might have come out of the past three SEC losses was that USC appears to be a program that is reeling. Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee appear to be programs on the rise.

'Those programs might be passing USC in front of our eyes.

'Who would have imagined that before this season, back when USC unfurled an 80-foot high banner of Spurrier outside Williams-Brice Stadium? Spurrier laughed about it at the time, saying that if USC started losing, fans might begin egging his likeness.

'USC is 4-5 since then, including 2-5 in the SEC.

'Suddenly, Spurrier is no longer bigger than life. USC officials might want to begin having someone stand guard outside the stadium.” - Ron Morris, The State in Columbia, S.C., after South Carolina's 45-42 loss to Tennessee

3. 'This two decades of University of North Carolina academic fraud scandal already is being broomed away in favor of Top 25 and College Football Playoff debates, and ESPN 'College GameDay” and Heisman Trophy hype.

'As game broadcasters and coaches say following the latest arrest of a starter, it's just another ‘”distraction.”

'An alleged primary perpetrator, philosophy professor Jan Boxill, served as UNC's Chair of Faculty. Her specialty? Ethics. She has written and lectured on morality, right vs. wrong. She also was an athletic department academic advisor.

'And instead of game-fixing, UNC's own investigator has accused her of grades-fixing. Which is worse?

'But understand: UNC operated mere inches beyond the sustained norm of many-to-most Division I colleges. On the day a full-scholarship basketball or football recruit enters school, his time, focus and fanny belong to the athletic department, not the school part of the school. A legit education is optional, a matter of accident.” - Phil Mushnick, New York Post