Bob's Picks - Take the Bears, the Ducks, the Bucks and the Wazzu Wonders

Cal off to a great start, but Gophers can be sneaky

Holy guacamole.

Stadium scoreboards are exploding all across the country as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

I never thought I'd witness an opponent - any opponent including the 49ers - beating our beloved Aggies by 60 points.

UC Davis head coach Tim Plough, realizing things were out of hand at halftime with his charges trailing 42-10, pulled his starters in the second half to save their talents for another day.

Washington, with the best roster money can buy, continued to pile on the touchdowns in the second half until even the scoreboard operator cried "Uncle."

Husky Stadium was not the only stadium in America witnessing such a fiasco last Saturday.

Florida State 77, East Texas A&M 3

Alabama 73, Louisiana Monroe 0

Tennessee 72, East Tennessee 7

Ohio State 70, Grambling 0

Oregon 69, Oklahoma State 3

Nebraska 68, Akron 0

Central Florida 68, North Carolina A&T 7

Minnesota 66, Northwestern State 0

Utah 63, Cal Poly 9

Texas Tech 62, Kent State 14.

The gap between the Power 4 conferences - Big 10, SEC, ACC, Big 12 - and the rest of the college football world continues to grow.

When a superstar emerges at the FCS level where UC Davis competes or at a non-Power 4 FBS school, someone from a Power 4 conference will quickly pounce, offering more cash than some of us make in a lifetime.

If Elon Musk ever gets interested in college football, he could literally buy himself a national championship.

The ketchup is out of the bottle on this one and no one has figured out how to bottle it up again.

This week's picks are as follows:

CAL over MINNESOTA ... The Golden Bears were decimated by the portal, but are playing decent football nonetheless. A win here would go a long way toward a possible bowl bid.

BOSTON COLLEGE over STANFORD ... The once-mighty Cardinal might not win a game this fall.

OREGON over NORTHWESTERN ... Can anyone stop Nike U.?