Wish I could have stayed awake for the 4th quarter of the LSU-ASU game. It looked like ASU was just going to wear down and exhaust the emotionally drained LSU team, but that’s not the way the script writers would let it end.
Purdue did beat Akron, but Luke Getsy threw for 283 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. Stanford won in Walt Harris’ coaching debut for them. Could I have some more salt and lemon juice for the open wound?
The Pitt-Nebraska game could rival the Pitt-Ohio game for unwatchability and bad offense if that Wake-Nebraska game was any indication. Nebraska had 2 or 3 of its touchdowns on turnovers. Wake kept imploding, from what I caught.
College football abhors conservative offenses. You will pay the price eventually for such conservatism. This is, in part because one superb player can change the game completely. Witness Vince Young against The Ohio State University. OSU could not overcome the conservative tendencies on offense — yes, I know if the TE could have held onto a ball that landed in his midsection the discussion would be academic — they kept settling for field goals and passing on some riskier shots at the big payoff. The score stayed within reach and Young pulled one out.
(P.S. Someone might want to teach this lesson to Wannstedt and Cavanaugh. Pitt’s conservatism was part of the reason they took no shot at the endzone on the two-minute drill. Rather they just settled to keep field position, kick the field goal and take their chances with overtime. Pitt paid for that behavior.)
Jim Boeheim and Jim Calhoun were both inducted into the college basketball hall of fame this weekend. Appropriate, then, that the college football equivalent to Jim Boeheim — Lloyd Carr — and Michigan managed to lose to Notre Dame. I ended up hearing most of that game on the radio. On the ND Radio Network. Makes it that much easier to hate them. One of the announcers at the end said that this game showed that Charlie Weis does not walk on water — but his tone suggested that he didn’t really believe it.
Bad, bad day for the Big 11, as their 3 best teams lost. 2 of the 3 to Big 12 teams.
