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Each Sunday, our bloggers review what happened over the past weekend. What did they learn in Week 6?

ACC

Wake Forest is the team to beat in the Atlantic Division. The Deacs are the only ones with a winning record in the division. The only other team in the division that has won four overall games is Boston College, and two of those wins were against Kent State and Northeastern. It's not that Boston College is inconsistent; it's that it's too young and inexperienced to repeat the success it had grown accustomed to in the past few years, and good defenses will expose that. Yes, the Deacs lost to BC in overtime, but no other team in the Atlantic Division has shown the poise and consistency at quarterback that Wake Forest has, and that will be the difference against a division in transition.

Big 12

It's a season of firsts for Mike Leach. Before Saturday night, the Texas Tech coach had never had a backup quarterback start a game. And after Steven Sheffield singed Kansas State for 490 yards and seven touchdowns, Leach has something else new on his hands -- a quarterback controversy. Leach had reasons for installing Taylor Potts as his new starter earlier this summer. Potts' performance had been that much better. But Leach might have to at least consider revisiting that choice after Sheffield blistered rival defenses for 10 touchdown passes since Potts sustained a concussion last week. Sheffield said after directing a 66-24 beatdown of Kansas State that he feels he has won the starting job. But he won't be the one making the decision.

Big East

West Virginia isn't going away quietly. The Mountaineers had issues in their first four games, mostly turnovers. But once Big East play started, they had a familiar look about them: dominating. West Virginia rolled past Syracuse as it played a mostly clean game. Assuming Bill Stewart's club can keep up that kind of discipline, the Mountaineers will challenge the winner of the South Florida-Cincinnati game for the Big East title.

Big Ten

Iowa is foolproof in the clutch. After a long stretch of heartbreaking losses from 2006 to 2008, Iowa has won its last five games decided by five points or fewer. The Hawkeyes have fallen behind in both of their Big Ten games and rallied behind tremendous special-teams play, opportunistic defense and a resilient quarterback in Ricky Stanzi. Since upsetting Penn State last November, Iowa has displayed a team-wide confidence when things get close. The Hawkeyes might not be able to live on the edge much longer given their schedule, but they're a good bet when the score gets close late in games.

Pac-10

Stanford has not yet arrived. The talk of national rankings and potentially challenging for a top spot in the conference disappeared for Stanford when the Cardinal found itself staring at a scoreboard that had them trailing Oregon State 31-7 in the first half Saturday. Stanford was out of sync from the first play, when wide-open receiver Chris Owusu dropped a sure touchdown pass. The defense was on its heels trying to stop Rodgers, and the offense didn't find its rhythm until the score was out of hand. Stanford has improved, but it still has a way to go.

SEC

Superman without his cape. Florida can win against a tough, physical defense and at a place that chews up and spits out most teams even when Tim Tebow isn't really Tim Tebow. Don't get me wrong: Tebow was good enough in the 13-3 win over LSU in Tiger Stadium and made several key plays, but he sort of felt his way into the game in the first half coming off that concussion and didn't run the ball much to start the game. He also didn't take over the game, as we've seen him do on so many occasions, and part of that was a credit to LSU's defense. But for the Gators to win a game of this magnitude when Tebow averages just 2.2 yards per carry and is held to 134 yards passing tells you that there's a lot more to this team than just the Man of Steel.

Non-AQ

C-USA East up for grabs. East Carolina coach Skip Holtz warned this week that his Pirates would get everyone's best shot, and on Saturday, they got SMU's and came away with their first conference loss. Now, the East has three teams tied at 2-1 -- ECU, UAB and Marshall. While Marshall lost to ECU, it seems like the most consistent team to pull out the division title. But in this league, it's difficult to count any team out, including Southern Miss, which is lurking at 1-1.