Cal looked pretty good last night. I'll see how USC and Oregon State fare before making any final judgments.
"It was just an observation."
Yeah, but where is your 'observation' regarding other conferences? As I mentioned in an above post, last night Kansas State, a 4-4/7-5 Big 12 team that beat Texas got routed by Rutgers, who finished the year 11-2. Nobody's hammering on Kansas State, and rightfully so, because they were basically a .500 team and they got hooked up with a strong team having a great year. But if Oregon, who went 4-5 in the Pac-10 and finished the season losing 4 of 5 games gets routed by an 11-2 BYU, a team that won its last ten games this year, then that's evidence of the Pac-10 being a weak conference. If Arizona State, another 4-5 Pac-10 team, and being coached by a guy who was just fired, loses to an 11-3 Hawaii team, at Hawaii, you feel that's a defining game for the Pac-10. Again, last night, two 9-3 teams ranked 20th and 21st play and Cal routs Texas A&M, again, the Big 12. At least that game was somewhat of an even match on paper and in the rankings. But again, you have no 'observation' on the Big 12.
We'll see how the rest of the games go. I'm really looking forward to a few of them that might end up being a lot more interesting than people think, such as Boise State-Oklahoma, and Notre Dame-LSU.