Well, the first week of college football has come and gone, and the ACC has yet to find an identity for it's newly finished conference. While underrated teams like Clemson and Georgia Tech showed strength, teams like Duke and Wake Forest could not manage wins against weaker out of conference opponents. To top it all off, Sunday and Monday, on the national stage, Virginia Tech, Florida State, and Miami, in particular Devin Hester and Marcus Vick, showed just how overrated they are this year.

If this past weekend's games were a symbol of things to come, expect Boston College to run away with the Coastal Division, and a fight between Clemson and Georgia Tech in the Atlantic Division. A lot of questions that were formed at the beginning of the season still remain to be answered.

Legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno made headlines this week by saying "he doesn't like the media."

``I can't trust you guys anymore," the 78-year-old coach said Tuesday during his weekly news conference. "I am just being honest with you. It is no fun.''

``Coaching to me has always been a fun job. I love coaching and I love working with kids,'' he added. ``I don't like you guys anymore. I don't know how else to say it. An element of the job that I loved has been taken away from me.''

While Major League baseball and its Commissioner Bud Selig remain in the crosshairs of the public and Congress over their continued steroid problems, America's real national pastime, football, is getting a free pass.

Why?

While both entities are monopolistic giants generating billions every year, the NCAA has realized the importance of a good public relations arm while baseball continues to struggle with that seemingly, innocuous notion.

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to this year's Southeastern Conference 2005 preseason predictions. Now, you may be thinking "not another predictable, boring, stats filled run down of the same ol, same ol". If you are looking for that, there are literally hundreds of other sources feeding you the same, safe, and in the last two years anyway, wrong outlook for SEC football. I am in my third season of doing this and, trying to sound as modest as possible, have correctly predicted both LSU in 2003 and Auburn in 2004 as SEC champions. Does it make my predictions better than all the rest? No. But it does help fortify my position for when the cavalry charge of protest begins.  Because, you see, SEC football fans are like no other. They are the most serious, passionate, and supportive fans in all of sports and if you have ever been a part of this scene you probably concur.