College Football Recap

Week 5 College Football Review

I spent the weekend in Kansas City at my parents place so I pretty much spent the entire today watching College Football. Since I recently opened a Twitter account, I have been encouraged to start blogging, so here I go, my first blog post in many months and what better way to start up again with some thoughts on College Football.

I have many thoughts on Notre Dame. For one, they are the only team in College Football that could either be 5-0 or 1-4; however, they currently sit at 4-1 and have a much needed bye week to prepare for their next home game against Southern California. The last four games played by the Irish have either gone down to the final minute or overtime with only Michigan being able to dethrone the Irish. What does this mean? Does it mean the Irish are back, well, not exactly; however, one could certainly say the Irish are much better. They are not getting blown out and they are very competitive; however, are these close games only delaying the inevitable firing of one Charlie Weis. What happens if Chaz starts losing more close games than he wins? The best thing for Chaz to do is get his team to start putting games away prior to the final few minutes because the minute things go back for Notre Dame in terms of losses, is the time we start hearing speculation about how much money Notre Dame is willing to pay for Urban Meyer. And yes, I know Meyer said he would never be the Notre Dame Head coach, but Nick Saban once said he would never coach at Alabama.

Trailing 20-6 with 4:33 left, I had left the Michigan Wolverines for dead. They had not moved the ball all game against the Michigan State defense; however, Tate Forcier woke up in time to drive Michigan to the game tying touchdown with two seconds left in the game. I even disagreed with Michigan State’s decision to award Michigan the ball first in overtime, as they seemed to have momentum to do whatever they wanted on offense. Then, Forcier remembered he was a freshman and threw an interception. One missed tackle later, and Michigan State was celebrating a 26-20 win. Like Notre Dame, Michigan is better but they have a long way to go to being the Michigan team that we are used to seeing (you know, good year, lose to Ohio State, lose the bowl game)

Hey Houston, the BCS called, they laughed and hung up the phone. Congrats on giving up 58 points to the same UTEP team that Kansas held to 7 points just a week later. Casey Keenum is a great QB for any chance for him to win the Heisman and for Houston to crash the BCS ended late into the night in El Paso, Texas. Speaking of UTEP, you know who their coach is right? Yep, Mike Price, the same Mike Price who was set to take over at Alabama prior to that stripper scandal.

Did you see the smiling grin on Sam Bradford’s face at the end of the Oklahoma game where they fell 21-20 to Miami? That grin was the “I should be the starting QB for the Detroit Lions and making $40 million grin.” Oklahoma can still contend for the Big 12 Championship and they will certainly needed Bradford healthy for their October 17 matchup with Texas in Dallas. Also in that game, Brent Musberger kept his streak alive as he made at least one reference to alcohol. By the way, why do they allow alcohol sales at Miami Football games? That’s the worst idea since going to a party with a……..never mind.

I fell asleep during the middle of the Georgia and LSU game; however, I woke up in time to witness a wild fourth quarter, where the teams combined for 20 points in the final 3 minutes of the game. While Georgia fans may seem unhappy with the outcome; overall College Football fans should rejoice, as this now sets up a top 5 matchup next week between #1 Florida and #4 LSU.

Remember when California was #6 in the country and had a Heisman Trophy Candidate in Jovhan Best? Wait, that was two weeks ago.

Not surprising to see Boise State drop from #5 to #6 in both polls this week. They had an unimpressive 34-16 win against UC Davis; however, what justification is there to put Virginia Tech at #5? Did that 34-26 win over Duke really impress the pollsters? Where is the love for USC? I mean, you do realize that USC has given up 3 touchdowns all year, right? More love for USC is needed. They are the best one loss team in College Football right now.

Wisconsin beat Minnesota 31-28. Do people in Minnesota even know what Paul Bunyon’s ax looks like anymore? Anyway, the Badgers are 5-0 and they have a big test this week at Ohio State. What is Wisconsin’s reward for being 5-0? Well, they are not ranked in one poll, #25 in another, and they are 16.5 underdogs at Ohio State this weekend.

I will be back later this week for predictions. Since Nebraska travels to Missouri this Thursday I will throw this one out ahead of time. Missouri is ranked #18 in one poll. Nebraska has not beaten a top 20 team in about forever. Until they do, I will go with the top 20 team. Missouri 27 Nebraska 17