It's early but how do you rate the north?
1. Kansas State - Honestly, this looks like the best team in the north to me right now. It pisses me off something terrible, but from the start of the season, they have been consistently the best team in the north. Go back to the Auburn game. They should've won that game. They shut Auburn down. Auburn got real lucky to win that game. Now they go down to Austin and thump UT. I am not looking forward to this game right now.
2. Mizzou - Their defense is obviously their big question mark. But so far their defense has been better than I expected. Certainly not great, but not completely porous.
3. Nebraska - There is a lot of talent on this team. Unfortunately, they're not playing up to their potential right now. They easily have the horses on this team to be #1 in the north, but NU needs to get their act together or else they are in for some surprises against, KSHS, MU, CU, and KU.
4. Colorado - I thought about perhaps putting CU and KU tied for the 4 spot but Colorado beat the #3 team in the country, they get it. I think this team is tough to gauge right now. Obviously putting up a huge win against OU gives CU a ton of creedence but looking at the season as a whole so far, you have to take into account how poorly your defense looked against CSU and ASU. Since then, the defense has done much better, and maybe the necessary adjustments have been made, but i guess I just have too many memories from the ASU game in my head to have a ton of faith in the CU defense right now. Keep it up though and you'll be right at the top in no time.
5. Kansas - They're killing the teams they're supposed to beat. That's about all we know about this team right now. how good are they? It's tough to tell right now. We'll see in the next couple of weeks how good these guys are.
6. Iowa State - these guys are pretty rough right now.
***Note***
Teams 1 through 5 are all really close in my mind. Just because I have Colorado and Kansas at 4 and 5 doesn't mean I think they suck by any stretch of the imagination. I think either of those teams could win this north division. The gap from those first 5 teams is really small and I think the north is really up for grabs at this point. It's gonna be a fun season to watch.
~Dusty