Lowlights Week 13

10. It wasn't bad, but another failure nonetheless – Of course I am talking about New Mexico and its weekly failure though the Lobos actually put a good effort in against TCU staying within two touchdowns at halftime. That said, it finished 66-17, another score indicative of how Mike Locksley's entire coaching tenure has gone.

9. What the heck was that Florida? - The Gators were terrible against rival Florida St. While I said in my preview that Florida St. was better, I thought it was a small gap. The gap that was there Saturday says this is going to be a multi-year process, at least on offense, for Florida to be anywhere Florida St.

8. First to 14 wins – The Big East had more games. As usual, there was no offense involved (with the exception of West Virginia who has seemingly found its offense late in the season and opponents of defenseless Rutgers and Cincinnati). Loser Pitt scored 10. Loser Rutgers got 13. Loser Syracuse didn't get 25 points in its last three games combined. How did all of these inept offenses end up in the same league? Even winners generally don't score any points in this league this season (23 in overtime win for South Florida is a good example).

7. NC State's defensive collapse – Maryland has won a bunch of games by not really doing anything at an outstanding level until Saturday when the NC State defense collapsed allowing the Terps to throw for over 400 yards. The result is a blown division title for NC State.

6. Will any of us be alive when Kentucky figures out how to beat Tennessee – Death, taxes and Kentucky losing to Tennessee. If the Wildcats couldn't manage it in 2005 when Tennessee was awful, 2006-7 when Kentucky had its best teams in recent memory or 2008-10 when Tennessee was as awful as they were in 2005 and Kentucky was decent, when is it going to happen. It has been since 1984 and with true freshman quarterback Tyler Bray carving up the Wildcat defense for over 300 yards, it appears Tennessee will continue its dominance for a few more years.

5. An effort would have been nice guys – UNLV and Eastern Michigan just played like they had already checked out. UNLV didn't show up in losing 48-14 to San Diego St., but that performance was grand compared to Eastern Michigan who lost 71-3 to Northern Illinois at home. I know these teams have had rough seasons, but they could have at least tried in their final games under young coaches trying to get the ship turned around at these perennial losers.

4. Losing to awful teams with everything on the line – All Ohio had to do to win the MAC East was beat a 4-7 Kent St. team. Instead they were blown out 28-6. Considering how bad the Kent St. offense has been (97^th nationally out of 120 in points per game), giving up 28 points to them with everything on the line is just terrible.

3. Leaving points on the field – Alabama had Auburn beat, easily. With a 21-0 lead, the Tide should have been able to cruise home, but everything went wrong in the second quarter. In that fateful quarter, the Tide had two redzone turnovers and a drop that led to a field goal instead of a touchdown. That's 18 points right there. Get those three plays right and Alabama leads Auburn 42-7 at the half and the game is over. Not even Auburn and Cam Newton could come back from that.

2. The Boise St. collapse – Yes, the kicker missed. Yes Boise should have won on the kick. That said, what happened to the Broncos in the second half? They couldn't get off the field against the Nevada running game and except for two big plays (Doug Martin's long touchdown on a screen and the bomb from Kellen Moore to Titus Young), the offense that had been incredible all season was ground to a halt. Where was the dominant team from every other game this season.

1. ESPN's attempted hatchet job on TCU – The BCS Countdown show has been a good show for much of the season. Rece Davis is a strong host and the analysts have been good (with the exception of Craig James who should be fired for a multitude of things). This week, except for Davis and Chris Fowler, everything went off the rails in a hatchet job on TCU. All of sudden, TCU is no longer worthy of anything? Where was this all season? For that matter, where were pro-TCU analysts Jesse Palmer and Robert Smith, regular contributors to the show all season, but nowhere to be found this week, replaced by Rod Gilmore (who ridiculously has TCU ranked six) and Chris Spielman. I can't believe the conflict of interest here. ESPN is televising the title game, but this seemed to be an attempt to either create more controversy to drive ratings or keep TCU out of the title game, something that will help ratings.