Again, Coach Petersen's Broncos were 92-12. Included in that record are significant and milestone victories over Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Oregon (twice!), Oregon State, UCLA, Arizona State, Arizona, BYU, Utah, and TCU. And need I also point out to you that all but one of those games (Oregon in 2009) were away from Boise?

Further, when you talk about the WAC / Mountain West being minor conferences, it should be noted that eight of his twelve losses were in conference. During the four-year period when Kellen Moore was QB, the Broncos were 50-3 and did not lose a non-conference game.

On the other hand, while former UW coach Ty Willingham may have been a mediocre coach on the sidelines, he clearly had an eye for talent and could recruit. Steve Sarkisian was hardly left with an empty cupboard when he arrived in Seattle in 1009.

He inherited a bunch of future NFL players, including Chris Polk, Mason Foster, Donald Butler, Alameda Ta'amu, Daniel Te'o Nesheim, Senio Kelemete, Devin Aguilar, Everrette Thompson, Cort Dennison, Victor Aiyewa. QB Jake Locker was the eighth pick in the 2011 NFL draft. And even with that talent, the Huakiea went 5-7.

In five years at Washington, Sarkisian averaged 6.8 wins per season, and never won more than five Pac-12 games in any one year. He was 0-5 against Oregon, 1-4 against Stanford, 0-3 against Arizona State and 1-2 against UCLA.

In this, his best (8-4) and fifth year, Sarkisian lost to Stanford, Oregon, Arizona State and UCLA. In 2010, his Huskies lost 44-14 to Arizona, 53-16 to Oregon, 56-21 to Nebraska, and 41-0 to Stanford. In 2011, they lost 65-21 to Stanford, and 67-56 to Baylor. In 2012, they lost 41-3 to LSU and 52-17 to Arizona.

A year ago, the Huskies were 7-4 with the Apple Cup and a bowl game between them and a nine-win season, only to blow an 18-point, fourth-quarter lead to lose to arch-rival Washington State, committing eight penalties in the last 16 minutes. Then they got beat by Coach Petersen's Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl to finish 7-6 -- for the third straight time.

Look, my alma mater has enough going for it in football -- tradition, pedigree, great city, great school, and a very significant recruiting base -- that you really have to be a total screw-up to not win at Washington, at least in a middling manner.

And that's exactly what Steve Sarkisian did in five years in Seattle. He won middlingly. Call him "Coach Moderste." This year, the Pac-12 record is 5-4, just as it was last year, as it was the year before that, and the year before that. That's the reality. The Huskies blew away the two conference doormats, California and Colorado, and went 3-4 against the average, good and very good teams in the league.

So, Coach Sark's grade at the helm of the Huskies is a resounding B for the first two years, and a C for the last three. For every great win during the Sarkisian regime, there were always two or three pus-ugly losses. Is the program better than when Sarkisian first came to it? Absolutely. But did he author some sort of stunning turnaround at UW? Hardly.

But I'm with you.  FSU is the best team in the country, on both offense and defense.  The only weakness on this team is punting, but in case anyone noticed, FSU doesn't punt the ball very often.  Jameis Winston isn't just the best FSU QB I've ever seen, but one of the best college QB I've ever seen period.