Here are our 10 Burning Questions as we close out the month of October:

1. Florida looks beatable, but is Georgia good enough to do anything about it? The Gators may be No. 1 in the nation, but to me they look like a frustrated football team right now. Two weeks ago against Arkansas, quarterback Tim Tebow was sacked six times and Florida was fortunate to win 23-20. Last week against Mississippi State, Tebow threw a pair of pick-sixes and Florida had to work to get a 29-19 victory in Starkville.

To all of this second-guessing, the Gators have only one response: "We're 7 and 0, baby!"

"The most important thing to remember is we're 7-0 and still have everything in front of us," Tebow told reporters this week. "All our goals are right there."

The Gators will be 8-0 Saturday night after their annual beat-down of Georgia in Jacksonville. Georgia has had a week off and the last time the Bulldogs beat the Gators (2007), they were off the previous week. But that Georgia team had Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno, this one does not.

If you're keeping score at home, Florida has won 16 of its last 19 games against Georgia.

2. Do we think Dexter McCluster will touch the ball early and often against Auburn? Yes. Yes we do.

Sometimes coaches make football a lot more complicated than it really is. Exhibit A is Ole Miss. The Rebels, a consensus preseason top 10 and pick by many to win the SEC West, got shut down (16-10) at South Carolina on Sept. 24 and again at home against No. 2 Alabama (22-3) on Oct. 10. Then head coach Houston Nutt raised an important question: Who is our best offensive player? Why, that would be McCluster, who barely touched the ball in those two losses.

Last week against Arkansas, McCluster ran the ball 22 times for 123 yards. He caught seven passes for 137 yards. That's 260 yards on 29 touches while Ole Miss beat Arkansas 30-17.

Duh.

Expect Auburn, which started 5-0, to drop its fourth straight game. Quarterback Chris Todd has thrown for less than 100 yards in each of his past two games.

3. Can Steve Spurrier make some history? The Head Ball Coach doesn't like to talk much about records unless you want to talk about championships. He likes to talk about championships. But Spurrier has a chance to set quite a mark in Saturday's game with Tennessee.

A win in Knoxville would give Spurrier 106 career SEC victories. That would tie him with Ole Miss legend John Vaught for the second-most conference victories ever. Another win after that and Spurrier would trail only the legendary Bear Bryant, who won 159 SEC games.

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Last week's 14-10 win over Vanderbilt gave Spurrier his 105th SEC victory, which tied him on the all-time list with Georgia's Vince Dooley. Spurrier, however, wanted to talk about the fact that his team has won five straight SEC games at home.

"That's a [school] record, right?" Spurrier asked. "I like that one a lot better."

4. Do you think Coach Cut would like to have that Richmond game back? The last time Duke went to a bowl (1994), William Jefferson Clinton was president. That season the Blue Devils, coached by Fred Goldsmith, started 7-0 before losing three of their last four. Still, Duke went to the Outback Bowl.

There has been a lot of bad Duke football since then, as four times in that span the Blue Devils have lost 11 games in a season. But things are starting to change in Durham under David Cutcliffe, the longtime offensive coordinator at Tennessee and former head coach at Ole Miss.

After wins over N.C. State and Maryland, Duke is 4-3 as it travels to Virginia on Saturday. One of those losses was to Division I-AA Richmond (24-16) in the season opener. So Duke has to find two wins in its final five games with Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Miami, and Wake Forest. The Blue Devils have a shot because of quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, the ACC's leading passer who threw for 371 yards last week against Maryland.

5. Can we get a little love for C.J. Spiller? We don't expect to see the Clemson speedster for very long against Coastal Carolina on Saturday. But people are starting to notice that he just might be the most explosive player in college football.

Last week Spiller had a 90-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against Miami. He also caught a 56-yard pass for a touchdown. In each of Clemson's seven games this season, Spiller has at least one play of 60 yards or more. And here's the big one: Over his career, Spiller has 19 scoring plays of 50 yards or more. That's more than Reggie Bush or Tim Brown, who both won the Heisman Trophy.

6. Can Cincinnati keep winning without Tony Pike? Yes it can. When the Cincinnati quarterback needed surgery to fix a plate that shifted in his arm, the skeptics figured it was just a matter of time before the Bearcats' undefeated run would come to an end. But last Friday night, Pike sat with backup quarterback Zach Collaros and watched three hours of film. The result? Collaros completed 15 of 17 passes for 253 yards and also ran for another 52 yards as the Bearcats beat Louisville 41-10.

Since taking over for Pike in the South Florida game on Oct. 15, Collaros has completed 19 of 24 passes for 324 yards and has run for 184 yards. But make no mistake: Pike is the man. As soon as he's healthy, he'll be the starting quarterback again, coach Brian Kelly said. Don't expect to see Pike on Saturday against Syracuse, but the Bearcats do need him back for the stretch run, which includes games with West Virginia and Pittsburgh.

7. Did you know that Kansas State was leading the Big 12 North? When Kansas State lost 17-15 to Louisiana Lafayette on Sept. 12 and to Texas Tech (66-14) on Oct. 10, there were those who wondered if bringing back Bill Snyder, 70, as coach was a good idea.

They're not asking that question any more.

The Wildcats (5-3) defeated Texas A&M and Colorado the past two weeks and sits atop the Big 12 North as they travel to Oklahoma on Saturday. You would think that Snyder, who spent 17 years at Kansas State in his first stint as head coach, would be pretty pleased with things. You'd be wrong. There is not a better detail guy in coaching and, after the win over Colorado, he was not happy with the details.

"I'm proud of wherever we are in the conference and if that was our only goal, I would be a happy camper and all smiles," Snyder told reporters. "But that's not what we're trying to be about. I don't want to feel good about playing poorly or coaching poorly."

8. Is this where Texas trips up? I've spoken to some Longhorns this week and they are worried about Saturday's trip to Stillwater. That's because they remember the last visit, when Texas trailed 35-14 entering the fourth quarter and needed a furious rally, led by quarterback Colt McCoy, to win 38-35.

In fact, four times in this decade Texas has faced a halftime deficit to Oklahoma State only to come back and win. Specifically:

Texas fans are also nervous because the Longhorns have won 11 straight games over Oklahoma State and so the Cowboys, to put it bluntly, are due. Oklahoma State has shown great resiliency since losing wide receiver Dez Bryant (NCAA suspension) and dealing with the various injuries to running back Kendall Hunter. The Cowboys are 6-1 and looking like the team that was pretty much a unanimous top 10 pick in the preseason.

9. Can the Ducks end USC's string of Pac-10 championships? Unlike the rest of the Pac-10, which seems to go into a shell when they play USC, Oregon simply has no fear of the Trojans.

Oregon has been playing inspired football with a six-game winning streak since the opening disaster against Boise State. Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli is still not full speed, but he's getting close -- and that's not good for a USC defense that is suddenly giving up a bunch of yards. In the last two wins over Notre Dame and Oregon State, the Trojans have allowed 795 yards and 63 points. In both games, USC built an early lead and let the opponent pass their way back into the game.

"We've got the potential to be the best," USC safety Taylor Mays told the Oregonian newspaper. "We've got to bring it every time we step on the field, bring it for four quarters every game."

Auzten Stadium will be especially lively on Halloween, as there are rumors that Oregon will wear all black. But remember this: Pete Carroll is a good big-game coach -- it's the little games where his teams tend to trip up.

10. Is Georgia Tech-Vanderbilt that bad of a mismatch? Well, consider this: Georgia Tech (7-1) has won five straight games the old-fashioned way. The Yellow Jackets just won't let you have the ball. Georgia Tech leads the nation in time of possession, averaging 34:50 per game. Vanderbilt has been struggling on offense and is 117th (out of 120) nationally, holding the ball for only 26:42 per game. When Vanderbilt does have the ball, the Commodores aren't doing a whole lot with it as they average only 16.67 points per game (110th nationally).

Georgia Tech has only two ACC games remaining, with Duke and Wake Forest. Win them both and the Yellow Jackets will go to the ACC championship game in Tampa on Dec. 5. Win the last four, which includes a visit from state rival Georgia, and Georgia Tech can at least stay in the BCS conversation as a one-loss team.

"I think our football team, to be a special one, has to go out and want to win every game," coach Paul Johnson said. "We hear a lot about the SEC and there are always comparisons between the two leagues. We have an opportunity to play three SEC teams and this is our second one [Georgia Tech beat Mississippi State 42-31 on Oct. 3]. So we'll see how we measure up against them."

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