Chris Dufresne

LOS ANGELES -- College football is a billion-dollar business ... here are my two cents:

Super conferences appear on the way, so let's get on with it. Rearrange the deck chairs, cut the checks, board up office windows, consolidate and reconfigure.

"Things change," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said this week as his school contemplated a move from the Big 12 Conference to the Pac-12.

LOS ANGELES -- The top four teams in last week's Associated Press poll all lost, yet none dropped below No. 6 San Diego State or No. 7 Brigham Young, which didn't.

With scrambled eggs to pick from in their weekly assessments of the largely underwhelming regular season, poll voters did what comes naturally: They ushered Duke back to No. 1 with a police escort.

It mattered not that Duke lost to Florida State or got blown out at St. John's or plays in the shockingly (this year) unspectacular Atlantic Coast Conference, or most recently cleaned up against unranked Georgia Tech.

LOS ANGELES -- Boise State dominated Friday, ended up winning the weekend and still has a chance to ransack the entire season.

LOS ANGELES -- Enough with the two-a-days, coach-speak, NCAA committee of distractions, poll posturing and depth charts -- it's time for Hawaii and USC to strike up the sand.

LOS ANGELES -- You can never be sure how a schedule is going to turn out because they usually are made years in advance, but catching the right or wrong breaks in a given season can mean the difference in a coach raising a trophy or a goodbye toast.

LOS ANGELES -- Pacific 10 Commissioner Larry Scott was back in his Walnut Creek, Calif., office Tuesday, plotting his next move after almost moving a mountain.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Exit thoughts from the Bowl Championship Series spring meetings, where very little officially got done but, unofficially, a lot did.