Ten Things

1. Saturday was the single best day of college football I have ever watched. Second place isn’t even close. I watched all or parts of the following games:

Central Michigan @ MSU – Central gets two cracks at a 40 yard FG, making the second to win it. This after missing the 2pt. conversion to win it and then recovering a beautiful onside kick.

ND @ Michigan – It goes back and forth the entire game and ends after Tate Forcier scrambles (A QB that can move what a concept) and throws a TD pass to Matthews.

UCLA @ Tennessee – Defensive battle, UCLA QB ends up with a busted jaw but not after the UCLA “D” makes a goal line stand for the ages, then hangs on in the final few minutes for the win.

Houston @ Oklahoma St. – Okie Light was my pick for one of the most overrated teams in the country. They look good enough beating UGA, but Houston did whatever they wanted. The D still isn’t fixed and they’ll lose a couple more games.

S. Carolina @ UGA – All offense and it came down to S. Carolina throwing an incomplete pass as time was running down. Another great game.

USC @ Ohio St. Another game with a lot of defense but in the end, a couple big throws from Barkley and Joe McKnight marching down the field. In the end it was all tears for Ohio St., yet again. I love it.


2. It was the best football day for me personally since the 1997 Rose Bowl. MSU lost a heartbreaker, Michigan beat rival #2 with a late TD pass and Ohio State still can’t beat anyone worth a damn. It can only go down from here.

3. The ACC is still trash. Jacksonville State took FSU to the wire, Maryland needed OT to beat James Madison and UCONN took a late safety to blow a 10 point 4th quarter lead to UNC, losing 12-10.

4. The Big1011 isn’t far behind. MSU lost to CMU, Fresno blew a lead and lost to Wisconsin in double OT, and Northwestern beat a terrible Eastern Michigan team by 3. Ohio St failed again; at home this time and Penn St. could only muster a 3 td win over Syracuse. Purdue went west and lost a close one to Oregon but at least Iowa won. Over the worst team in the Big 12, ISU. Minnesota and Michigan carried the banner this week.

5. Pete Carroll just gets it done. He’ll take his team just about anywhere and when they do, they play well. I know we’d all love to see USC vs. a great SEC school, so why don’t they make that happen? I’m sure there is 1 coach in the SEC who isn’t a pussy. Miles? Richt? Saban? USC vs. SEC would divide the country along the lines of the civil war. The USC v. Alabama would have a ton of built in story lines. USC was the school that whipped that Alabama ass back in the day and helped open the eyes of a state. Plus two ex-failed NFL coaches now leading two of the biggest programs in college football history. Alabama is willing to play people (Clemson, VT and PSU coming up) and USC isn’t going to run scared. This needs to happen.

6. Tate Forcier should have had 17 threesomes Saturday night. The kid took Michigan from the brink of a 5 win season, to a bowl bid. I can’t believe they won’t win at least 4 or their next 10 games. Seven wins is more than acceptable but if they manage 8 or more (I’m sticking with 7) heads will explode in Ann Arbor. The defense needs to become a lot better. Cissoko I’m afraid is the 2nd coming of Morgan Trent.

7. UCLA is better than I thought. I figured a two TD win by Tennessee would be the end result. UCLA came up with a great goal line stand but lost their starting QB for a couple weeks with a broken jaw.

8. LSU is the most overrated team in the polls right now. They are #9 in the AP and #7 in the SID poll. They beat Washington, a bad Washington team in Seattle and then put in a lackluster performance against Vandy at home. Yet they are still ranked in the top 10.

9. We still have 20 teams in the AP top 25 who have no losses. This number will be in the single digits by the end of week #5.

10. Florida finally plays a team with a faint pulse. It will be interesting to see if Meyer runs it up. Next year begins the P.T. 9Post Tebow) era at UF and they get to travel to Tennessee. I say he takes it out on them in spectacular fashion.