The 2010 season is in the books and most people are already looking ahead to 2011.  We're hot on the recruiting trail with National Signing Day just a couple weeks away.  Call me sentimental, but I like to take a look back before I close the book and start looking ahead.

It's really not that 2010 was such a horrible year on the grid iron.  Hey, any year that there's college football is a good year.  We had a national championship game that lacked the usual conspiracy theories.  We had some truly special players dazzling us with unimaginable talent.  We had some underdogs step up (Baylor) and some power houses crumble (Texas).

So, why do I have such a sour taste in my mouth and a real sense of "blah" when I think about the 2010 season?

The 2010 season is half over already.  There have been a few surprises along this short road.

Last weekend, the nation saw No. 1 Alabama fall to No. 20 South Carolina.  We watched undefeated Michigan fall to undefeated Michigan State and undefeated Northwestern drop to Purdue.

With more big games on the schedule, what will happen this week?  Could the new no. 1 fall?  Will other unbeaten teams fall by the wayside?

Big Ten play got under way last weekend and already there are some big developments.  Wisconsin may not be who we thought they were, Michigan's defense was exposed, and Iowa handled Penn State with relative ease.

We finally got to catch a glimpse of what the Big Ten picture might look like come November.

Now, we continue the journey, and suddenly, some of the match-ups set for week 6 look a little more interesting than they did just a week ago.

Let's run 'em down.