College football recap, Week 1

Hey gang,

Short of QB Tim Tebow getting hurt during Florida's glorified scrimmage against Charleston Southern (the Gators beat their FCS opponent by a 62-3 count), nothing could have been more surprising in Week 1 than defending Heisman Trophy champ Sam Bradford wrecking his shoulder in Oklahoma season-opening loss to BYU.

That throws a wrench into the national-championship picture, though there's still time for the Sooners to get back into the race.

Anyway, we're not going to spend a lot of time reminding you of stuff you can see done to death on SportsCenter. This is the spot where we're going to put the True Standings each week.

What do I mean by True Standings? It's one thing for Florida to whip an FCS opponent. It's another for Oklahoma State to knock off Georgia in one of the few games between BCS foes on the opening weekend.

We're going to rank the conferences in four categories:
1) Overall non-conference record. It's silly to include the league games because, well, it's automatically a 1-1 mark for the league.
2) Record against BCS opponents. I consider the 66 BCS teams to be all of the teams from the six BCS leagues along with mighty Notre Dame.
3) Record against Coalition opponents. These are the other 54 Football Bowl Subdivision teams.
4) Record against FCS opponents (and worse). Would you believe that a whopping 38 of the 106 teams who opened their season with a non-conference game opted to start with an FCS team?

And shame on Virginia for committing 7 turnovers and losing at home to William and Mary. Duke also took it on the chin at home against Richmond, but at least the Spiders are the defending FCS champs. Temple was the other FBS team to lose to an FCS school. The Owls lost a Philadelphia battle to Villanova when the Wildcats booted a 32-yard field goal on the game's final play.

The "Indys" referenced below are the three FBS independents: Army, Navy and Notre Dame.

Oh, and one guess as to the identity of the Big Ten team that blew the conference's perfect weekend...at least from a W-L standpoint.

Finally, I apologize in advance for the lack of formatting. Despite my best efforts, I can't figure out how to put tabs in here and make this readable.

Standings through Sunday:

All non-conference games
Big Ten 10-1 .909
Big 12 10-2 .833
SEC 10-2 .833
Big East 5-1 .833
C-USA 6-2 .750
MWC 6-2 .714
Pac-10 6-2 .750
Indys 2-1 .667
WAC 3-4 .429
ACC 4-6 .400
Sun Belt 3-5 .375
MAC 3-10 .231
TOTAL 68-38 .642

All games vs. BCS foes
Big 12 3-0 1.000
SEC 3-1 .750
Big Ten 1-1 .500
MWC 2-2 .500
Pac-10 1-1 .500
WAC 1-3 .250
Big East 0-1 .000
C-USA 0-1 .000
Indys 0-1 .000
ACC 0-4 .000
Sun Belt 0-4 .000
MAC 0-7 .000
TOTAL 11-26 .297

All games vs. Coalition foes
Big Ten 5-0 1.000
Indys 2-0 1.000
ACC 1-0 1.000
Big East 1-0 1.000
MWC 1-0 1.000
Pac-10 3-1 .750
SEC 3-1 .750
Big 12 3-2 .600
MAC 2-2 .500
Sun Belt 1-1 .500
C-USA 0-1 .000
WAC 0-1 .000
TOTAL 22-9 .710

All games vs. FCS foes (and lower)
C-USA 6-0 1.000
Big 12 4-0 1.000
Big East 4-0 1.000
Big Ten 4-0 1.000
SEC 4-0 1.000
MWC 3-0 1.000
Pac-10 2-0 1.000
Sun Belt 2-0 1.000
WAC 2-0 1.000
ACC 3-2 .600
MAC 1-1 .500
Indys 0-0 .000
TOTAL 35-3 .921