Another upset: Unranked Washington defeated #11 Michigan State 39-28 at home.
The Southern Illinois Salukis of FCS (formerly named division I-AA) came to Evanston and beat Northwestern 31-24 yesterday. The same Salukis team started the year 0-2 by losing by 35 points to Incarnate Word and then lost the following week to a not-so-great Southeast Missouri State team. Good work Salukis! I was at the game yesterday, and it was fun to join the fairly large SIU fan section.
Look up ‘egregious’ in the dictionary, and there is a picture of Saban with a big script A behind him.
FSU finally gets a sellout, plus we get a night game against BC.
Purely selfish of me, but getting back to night games definitely makes my Saturday better. I especially hate mid afternoon kickoffs which make it hard to plan much for a well needed day off
It should be pointed out that UT’s football program is entirely self-funded. It doesn’t take a dime away from the university’s academic expenses like tuition, books, etc. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, the football program actually makes so much money that it subsidizes the books, tuition, etc.
I didn’t mean to imply that money spent by the athletic department deprives the rest of the university – as you note, athletic department incomes and budgets are segregated from the rest of the university. I do wonder at what point universities will decide to just spin off their football programs into fully private entities, with a fat contact to use university facilities and branding. Then they wouldn’t have to worry about technicalities like athletes meeting admissions standards and complying with NCAA rules.
Clemson escapes at Wake in double OT. Fun game to watch.
Kansas beat Duke 35-27 and may appear in the Top 25 next week.
And Missouri lost at Auburn in a most painful way. First, the Mizzou kicker missed at 26 yard FG at the buzzer. Then Auburn missed a FG in OT, but Missouri was offsides, so Auburn then converted the kick. Then Missouri fumbled the ball at the 1 yard line, recovered by Auburn. Auburn won, 17-14.
I dont watch the games often but I do check out the sports pages on a few schools …but trying to find a single teams box score because you have to wade through the scores of prairie techs (go plowhorses!)epic 8-6 wipe-out of eastern hillbilly hollow U (the jugheads)… 
I really hope Maryland is actually good this year, or else Michigan’s season’s gonna get disappointing quickly.
Maryland isn’t bad, but Michigan didn’t look all that great, except for the one running back.
When was the last time Kansas started the season 4-0? Was it the year Mangino took them to the Orange Bowl?
Actually, no, it was 2009, two seasons after their Orange Bowl win. They started the 2009 season 5-0, and then lost their last 7 games. That was Mangino’s last season.
Predictions on how many TDs will be lost this year because players let go of the ball before going into the end zone?
Blake Corum nearly did it for Michigan today, and UK’s Barion Brown previously almost lost a 100-yard kickoff return for a TD against Miami-Ohio when he dropped the ball at the goal line.
Is it considered way cool to get rid of the ball ASAP, or is the extra half-second of celebration essential?
If I was a coach this would drive me nuts.
Georgia beats a hale and hearty Kent State team by the surprising score of 39-22. The Flashes became the first team to score a touchdown against Georgia’s first-team defense all year. The ESPN article on the game suggests that Georgia may be punished by losing their #1 spot.
It wasn’t a celebration but Missouri’s Nathaniel Peat would have been better off if he had kept the ball tucked and tried to bull his way into the end zone instead of going for the lunge, which caused the team’s overtime loss to Auburn.
A ball carrier for Arkansas did somewhat the same thing…tried to leap over the pile (from about the 5 yard line) and had the ball punched away. A&M returned it 98 yards for a touchdown.
In a tight one, Trojans deny the Beavers.
I still don’t quite know how Wash St. got Ducked. What a shit-show that was. Unbelievable.
IIRC, Bill Belichek would specifically bench players that reached for the pylon, even if they succeeded. It’s way too easy to lose - not only the touchdown - but the entire possession. A fumble out of the endzone is a touchback for the defense.
My wife went to WSU, as she says they Couged it as per the usual.