Non-BCS tracker, week 3

Not a good week for the Mountain West: losses by BYU and Utah against BCS opponents. BYU's defense looked horrid, not stopping Florida State from converting on third down until the fourth quarter, when the outcome was already decided. Utah's O didn't generate ANYTHING by itself, scoring nearly all of their points off of Oregon turnovers or special teams miscues. SDSU lost to one of the 10 worst teams in the country, Idaho (at least it was on the road). Wyoming got blasted by previous non-BCS whipping boy Colorado, 24-0 (at least that was on the road as well). UNLV did beat Hawaii, CSU had their way against Nevada, and TCU scored 56 against their I-AA opponent. 3-4 out of conference was not what the MWC ordered.

Moral victories:
East Carolina on the road making North Carolina score late to seal the win.
Eastern Michigan only trailing Michigan by 7 at the half.
Akron making Indiana work to beat them.
Florida International making their game against Rutgers look respectable by scoring 15 in the 4th quarter.
SMU taking Washington State to OT on the road (ignoring the fact that they blew several double-digit leads during the game).
Navy playing Pitt down to the wire.
Utah State playing at Texas A&M very competitively.
Rice putting up 24 at OK State (much better than the 10 at Texas Tech last week).
Florida Atlantic only down 1 at South Carolina at halftime.
Utah having the ball with a chance to tie late in the 4th at Oregon, despite getting no offensive production all day.
Miami (OH) actually scoring. It was in a game against another non-BCS school, but still. Congrats!

Actual victories:
Northern Illinois winning at Purdue.
Middle Tennessee State winning at Maryland (second straight year they beat them too).
Southern Mississippi rallying from behind to beat Virginia.
Yeah, short list this week.

You can't do thats:
Toledo getting shut out at home after putting up 50+ against CU last week.
Wyoming getting blanked by that same CU team.
The high-flying Tulsa offense getting shut out at Oklahoma.
Kent State giving Iowa State its first road win since Army went to a bowl game. OK, maybe it wasn't that long ago Iowa State won a road game.
BYU giving up 54 points and 500+ yards at home to a Florida State team that managed TWO offensive TDs at home against a I-AA opponent last week.
Western Kentucky losing by 21 points to a I-AA team. Maybe I should leave the Hilltoppers out of this section: they are bad enough that they can do that...