re: Colorado State is a solid football team. This week will be a nice step up.

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Based on??

They haven't played anyone.. Not saying they aren't a threat in the East, but they haven't proven it yet to jump to the conclusion they are slept on

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By 'slept on' I mean as an east contender, not in a national sense. With that caveat in place, here are the three reasons:

1) They've bludgeoned the two teams they've played, which is something pretty much no other team in the east can say.

2) Middle Tennessee looks like they might be better than their reputation suggests.

3) Vandy seems to be playing really good defense, and they've got both a good QB and solid SEC-quality RB. The east is a shaitshow and a team with those three things is already ahead of most of the competition.

K-State will tell a lot. IF Vandy is good enough to beat them, a trip to Atlanta isn't an unreachable goal.