I kinda like Musberger. YMMV.
Cowboys beat Rice, not a great game though. Real questions to answer.
Waving the smoke away – but smiling – in Ohio. 
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Sorry about that Gonzomax, didn’t see it. But it can’t be said often enough. Listening to Musburger is painful.
I remember watching the NFL today back in the 70’s with Musburger, Irv Cross Phyllis George, and Jimmy the Greek. Mom (big football fan, and yes she watched the pregame shows) hated Musburger and I was ambivalent. As time goes by, Mom is often correct.
Musberger has great hair though, but I suspect it isn’t real. He and the Donald share the same stylist, apparently.
Someone didn’t sweep the SEC landmines out of Columbia, SC. I was really expecting for Ole Miss to win this game easily.
Teams that play on the road on Thursday nights should probably schedule an off week prior to the Thursday night game.
A good win for the SEC East.
That’s a tough turnaround, I agree.
And what’s the deal with Wednesday night college football? I can put up with people who bitch and moan about the ND NBC contract, but forcing a Wednesday game on student athletes is nothing but greed gone awry. Football players get locked into a rhythm during the season. Throwing a giant wrench into it like a Wednesday game just feels very very wrong.
Penn State is on Jinx Watch.
ESPN Game Day is at Penn St for the PSU/Iowa game. PSU (Ranked #4 or #5) has played all their games at home thus far and Iowa struggled to beat Northern Iowa in Iowa City.
IMO, ESPN Game Day should be at Virginia Tech today as that appears to be the can’t miss game of the day. Miami has beaten two ranked teams (at the time of the games) and Va Tech has been a premier program for a long time.
Naturally, ABC has regional coverage and here in the midwest, and it looks like I am going to be stuck with Illinois at Ohio St. {yawn} ESPN listings are saying that it is covering the Va Tech game, but it will probably be blacked out here.
Funny, you just scoffed at two games I’m really looking forward to. Particularly PSU-Iowa.
Miami-Va Tech will be a game to pay attention to, but I suspect Miami is getting way more love than they’ve deserved because all the analysts want them to be a factor, and Va Tech is nothing special this year–they certainly don’t deserve their 11 ranking.
Of course, main interest today is my Badgers taking on Sparty. I’m expecting this to be a defense-can’t-get-a-ticket type game, with both teams throwing the ball all over the place. It’s going to be an odd game–you usually expect running games and stout defenses out of these teams, and so far that hasn’t been the case for either team. I think this is going to be a 38-31 final with MSU unable to bounce back from their brutal loss to ND.
You must be a Big 10 fan to be looking forward to Wisc-MSU, PSU-Iowa, Ill-OhSU games. Those games just do not ping my radar screen whatsoever.
Very guilty as charged.
And all is right with the world as Bucky stomps Sparty. I just want to block out the last three minutes of the game. A 38-17 laugher turned into 38-30 real fast. Gotta love the PREE-vent.
Indiana damn near pulled the upset over Michigan. I expect Michigan will have a bunch of ups and downs this season with a true freshman at QB. You’ve got to figure he’ll cost them at least two or three over the course of the season as he learns the ropes.
Miami currently down 21-0 to Va Tech. UNC goes down to Georgia Tech. FSU loses to USF. Not a good day to be a ranked team in the ACC.
That was a horribly reffed game. I was prepared mentally with a list of at least 6 occasions where UM got bad calls , then all of the sudden in the last 2 minutes the refs pulled one of the biggest WTFs I have ever seen to Screw Indiana and lock it up for us.
Michigan can score at an incredible rate. But they are vulnerable to big receivers. Wisconsin has a couple Winnabegos to throw to. They could be tough for them. The U of M defense is small. But do not dismiss a team that has that speed on offense.
I’m having the best luck… and by extension, my Longhorns as well, this season. Our schedule looks pretty doable, with challenging games vs. o.u. in Dallas and OSU in Stillwater, but running the table is very, very possible.
We took UTEP to the woodshed today, 64-7. Incredible offensive show as well as D (only points UTEP scored were off a McCoy pick-six). And even down to our third string guys, it could have been worse.
Of course there are the Texas haters out there, so we need to be lucky too. So far USC and maybe Penn State are helping out. This season has been pretty nuts so far… I think style points matter less and less and it’s about just getting the W.
The TTU-Houston game is pretty good. Keenum deserves more Heisman hype than he’s getting and UH looks like they will knock off a pretty good Tech squad. I wanna see the goalposts come down, and I hope they go BCS. (Cant root against Tech though as I dig Leach and the sis is in the band - I’ll be happy either way.)
Also, the halftime of OSU v. Grambling was more competitive than the game. Good to see our backups executing though.
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[li]That was a bullshit call to end the Indiana-Michigan game. One of these days, Michigan’s luck is going to run out.[/li][li]What was the deal with Purdue calling that timeout? And how do you not blitz on the 4th down? Yeesh. Still, one of these days, Notre Dame’s luck is going to run out (er, again).[/li][li]How big of an idiot would you feel if you had doused yourself in monsoon-proof white paint for the Penn State game, only to see your team get embarrassed? (Iowa “reverse covered” the 10-point spread, hehe.) Couldn’t happen to a nicer set of 100,000+ jagoffs.[/li][li]Do you think Joe Paterno is going to catch pneumonia after being out for three hours in a steady downpour? Didn’t seem too bright of a move, but I think JoePa has been a few cards short of a full deck for the greater part of this decade.[/li][li]Has anyone yet requested the college football season to be called off, because the Golden One got a concussion?[/li][li]How much blame does Urban Meyer deserve for leaving Tebow in? I know it was the third quarter, but still, Kentucky couldn’t do dick in that game. You could have put in Ryan Leaf and the outcome wouldn’t have been any different. Or is it Tebow’s fault for wanting that second Heisman sooooo bad that he refused to be taken out in what was, for all intents and purposes, garbage time? (Come to think of it, Colt McCoy was in awfully late in his game, too. What the hell?)[/li][li]What’s the over/under on the number of times announcers say “What a fierce competitor!” when Tebow comes back in two weeks after getting his bell rung and has an 8-18, 130 yds, 1 TD, 12 rushes, 70 yds, 1 TD sort of performance? I’ll put it at an even dozen, but I reserve the right to adjust the number if it turns out that The Golden One performs any miracle healings during his hospital stay.[/li][li]What does the concussion test look like for Tebow? Trainer: “Who are you?” TT: “Your lord and savior Jesus Christ.” Trainer: “That’s an acceptable answer. He’s fine. Put him back in; he’s such a fierce competitor.”[/li][/ol]
How do you define long time? They’ve been pretty consistent over the past 10 or 15 years, but nobody knew who they were before that.
Boy, my Kentucky Wildcats got taken down a few pegs. What a slaughter. I’d expected them to do better.
At least I can take some solace in the fact that there is a very good chance that Cincinnati can overtake OSU in the rankings within a couple weeks, if things play out right. When’s the last time that’s happened? Probably never.
Also, Tim Tebow is a fierce warrior, a God amongst boys, a real tough cookie (with a long history of breaking little hearts like the one in me).