End of the College Football Regular Season

          One of the greatest regular seasons of college football has just ended.  Alabama has won the SEC and claimed their spot in the national championship.  Notre Dame and Ohio State are the only undefeated teams, but Ohio State is on probation and therefore ineligible for the post-season.  Notre Dame will play Alabama in the national championship on January 7th.  The SEC was by far the best conference this season like always, finishing with 6 teams in the top 10.  Also, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida were in the top 5 at the end of the regular season from the SEC.  Others memorable SEC teams this season were No. 7 LSU (10-2), No. 9 Texas A&M (10-2), and No. 10 South Carolina (10-2).  During the last week of the regular season, the SEC showed their dominance over the ACC by going 4 for 4 against them.  Florida over Florida State (37-26), Georgia over Georgia Tech (42-10), and South Carolina over Clemson (27-17) were the instate rivalries the SEC had over the ACC.  Also, Vanderbilt defeated Wake Forest that week 55-24.  The PAC-12 finished as the second most powerful conference with 2 teams in the top 10, No. 5 Oregon and No. 8 Stanford. These two teams played each other in the second to last game, and Stanford defeated Oregon 17-14.  Stanford just won the PAC-12 championship against UCLA yesterday.  Alabama's only loss this season came to Texas A&M, whose Heisman candidate freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel led them to a 29-24 win over the Crimson Tide.  

          The Big 12 conference this season was led by Kansas State and Oklahoma.  Kansas State won their first 10 games but suffered a terrible loss to a struggling Baylor team 52-24.  This loss took Kansas State's quarterback Collin Klein out of the leading spot in the Heisman race.  Kansas State had defeated Oklahoma earlier in the season 24-19.  West Virginia was thought to be the leading Big 12 team this season with quarterback Geno Smith.  They started out the season 5-0, and Geno Smith was expected to be a Heisman front runner, but they lost 5 games in a row, and have finished off the season 7-5.  The ACC and Big Ten struggled this season.  The ACC had 3 ranked teams at the beginning of the season all in the Top 15, Clemson, Florida State, and Virginia Tech.  Virginia Tech has proven to be an overrated team,CSS they finished the season 6-6.  Clemson and Floria State both finished with 2 losses but remained in the Top 15.  The Big Ten only had two 10 or more win teams, Nebraska and Ohio State.  Because Ohio State is ineligible for the post season, Nebraska had to play Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship.  No. 12 Nebraska (10-2) was absolutely destroyed by unranked Wisconsin 70-33.  Wisconsin will go to the Rose Bowl for the 3rd year in a row.  Lastly, the Big East had an above average year.  Although they lost their best team, West Virginia, the big East had several team to keep them up this year.  Halfway through the season, the Big East had 3 undefeated and ranked teams: Cincinnati, Louisville, and Rutgers.  Now the Big East does not have any ranked teams, and one 10 win team which is Louisville (10-2) who won the Big East by defeated Rutgers (9-3) 20-17.  Also, Cincinnati finished 9-3.  This was a great football season, and I can't wait for bowl season.