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Copyright © 2010 Ed BagleyFor the third ti in three weeks nike air max 90 essential grigio , the No. 1-ranked Top 25 team has been upset on the road, underscoring the new parity in major college football and frustrating the nation's most prestigious brand-na programs.Three weeks ago No. 1 Alabama traveled to South Carolina and was upset by the Ga****s, 35-21. Two weeks ago No. 1 Ohio State traveled to Wisconsin and was upset by the Badgers, 31-18. And this week the No. 1 BCS team, Oklahoma, traveled to Missouri and was upset by the Tigers, 36-27.The Oklahoma Sooners, who were ranked 3rd in the AP Poll, saw their perfect record vani with o others - the 6th-ranked LSU Tigers traveled to 5th-ranked Auburn and lost nike air max 90 essential bianche , 24-17, and the 17th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys hosted 14th-ranked Nebraska and fell to the Cornhuskers 51-41. Now Oklahoma (6-1), LSU (7-1) and Oklahoma State (6-1) are all one-loss teams and will be dropping in the weekly rankings.Missouri's victory over Oklahoma was also adding salt to the wound because it was a legitimate upset as the visiting Sooners were favored by 3 points. The 18th-ranked Tigers were not hurt a lick by Gahn McGaffie's 86-yard touchdown return on the opening kickoff. Missouri fans, who had suffered for years, were more than happy to start screaming since Oklahoma had won 19 tis during the past 20 years.The sea of moving gold created by the waving fans seed endless, and was followed, at ga's end, by one of the great monts in college football celebration - rabid gold-clad fans running to the field in such numbers that officials could not remove them to really fini the contest that was at that point moot. A penalty was called on the last play and officially the ga cannot end on a penalty, but it did because the entire field was covered with the wild nike air max 90 hyperfuse independence day , delirious Missouri faithful who would not be denied in their mont of glory.And then one of the treasured monts in Missouri football history happened as fans ripped down the goalposts and carried them to a local watering hole to drink the night away. It could be that a few college administrators were carping over the cost to reple the goalposts, but they would have been stupid to stop it because of the millions of dollars in donations to coh Gary Pinkel's Missouri's football program that will follow the great victory.This was an example of a college football fan base when it is rowdy and at its best. We keep score during the ga because winning matters. You could write an entire psychology textbook about the sublimation of Missouri fans on THEIR victory over the mighty Oklahoma Sooners.And the tual ga? That's the easy part. Oklahoma led 21-20 after the 3rd quarter, but Jerrell Jkson eluded a tkler and sped to pay dirt on a 38-yard touchdown that sparked a 16-point last quarter over the error-prone Sooners, and put a sellout crowd of 70,000+ in a mood to party down big ti.Oklahoma had three costly turnovers that led to 10 Missouri points and killed a promising Sooner drive. "We worked hard for this," said Tiger quarterbk Blaine Gabbert, "all we had to do was believe." An. Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can hieve.Missouri is now 7-0 for the first ti since 1960 when the Tigers finied 11-0 and beat Navy in the Orange Bowl. For Missouri fans, happy days are here again. Now the Tigers must keep that winning streak to move on.The most hyped ga of the week was all about Auburn quarterbk Cam Newton. Against LSU's 3rd-ranked defense nike air max 90 hyperfuse shop , Newton ran 28 tis for 217 yards (7.75 yards per carry) and scored on 1 and 49-yard runs. His teammate, Onterio McCalebb, daed 70 yards for the go-ahead score in the final quarter as Auburn won, 24-17, to bee the only undefeated team left in the SEC.Newton, a 6-foot-6, 250-pound junior, reminds of arguably the greatest running bk in college football history - Jim Brown of Syruse. Jim Brown was big, strong nike air max 90 donna , fast, ifty and too tough to handle for the majority of pro athletes who ever tried to tkle him.Newton broke the SEC's single-season record for ruing yards by a quarterbk (1,006) set by Auburn's Jimmy Sidle in 1963. Newton also topped Heisman winner Pat Sullivan's 40-year school mark of 26 touchdowns ruing and passing in a season. Auburn is, of course, not all about Cam Newton, it is just mostly about Newton.Onterio McCalebb did gain 84 yards on 4 carries (21 ypc) and freman Mike Dyer ran 100 yards on 15 carries (6.67 ypc). Add it all up and Auburn gained 440 yards on the ground against the nation's 3rd-best defense. That's what you call a running ga, and marked the 4th straight ti the Tigers had gained 300+ yards on the ground against SEC teams - that IS impressive.Sothing had to give in the week's third biggest eting beeen visiting 10th-ranked Wisconsin and 13th-ranked Iowa. The Badgers were 12th nationally in ruing offense and 16th in scoring offense. The Hawkeyes were 6th in scoring defense, 7th in ruing defense and 13th in total defense.After trading touchdowns most of the ga, Wisconsin coh Bret Bielema nike air max 90 outlet , who played his college ball at Iowa and also served as an assistant coh at his alma mater, used a fake punt midway through the last quarter that led to an 8-yard touchdown run with 1:06 left to seal the 31-30 upset victory as Iowa was favored by 6 at ho.Iowa's great defense had given up just 17 points in its first 4 gas at ho but, in the end, it was Wisconsin's offense that bettered the Hawkeye defense.The third unbeaten team to fall - Oklahoma State - was known for its high-powered offense, ranking 2nd nationally in both scoring offense and total offense, and 3rd in passing offense.Nebraska was 9th in both scoring defense and total defense, but it was the Cornhuskers who turned the table upside down on the Cowboys, piling up more ruing yards (217 to 212), passing yards (323 to 283) and total yards (540 to 495) to win in a ootout nike air max 2015 uomo , 51-41, dropping Oklahoma State's record to 6-1.In essence, Nebraska's freman quarterbk - Taylor Martinez - had another career day like he did against the W