Have to make up for lost time. I spent yesterday on a marathon college football liveblog session. Today it was an attempt to make it up to the wife for letting me sit on the couch watching football, drinking beer and blogging. All while she had to deal with the kids with no help from me — heck, I even sent her out to pick up dinner. She is a saint.

Worth noting that the Mountain West went 4-0 versus the Pac-10 in one day. Oregon lost its starting QB — probably for the season. Washington St. and Washington look like they could give Syracuse a challenge for worst BCS conference programs.

The Big 10, well Ohio State’s shellacking along with Michigan and Purdue losing really overshadows anything else in the conference.

The ACC acquitted itself rather well with Maryland, UNC and Duke getting wins with some worthiness of respect.

Heck if you watched the SEC conference games between Georgia and South Carolina (14-7) and Auburn and Miss. St. (3-2) you came away disgusted. Remember a few years back when Big 11 partisans would rationalize that the conference just beat each other up.

The thing that I’m seeing in terms of conferences, is it is all about the QB. It has something to do with the spread offense to be sure. It just makes the QB that much more important and even more than ever, the key to a team. The Big 12 is actually standing out, and there is no conference that has more really, really good college QBs. Bradford, Daniel, McCoy, Reesing, Ganz and Harrell are all excellent QBs. 50% of the conference. Now take a look at every other conference. The SEC is second with Tebow, Stafford, Snead and a few functional QBs at LSU, Alabama and Arkansas –but no one you want to count on in a crunch time.

Yeah, overall, I’m thinking this is not a good year for college football in terms of overall quality.