Huge day of football underway and continuing into the wee hours of the night. Wisconsin, ranked 7th in the BlogPoll, already lost to Illinois. Mark May has already pronounced the s in Illinois not one but twice. Penn State just kicked off against Iowa (go Hawkeyes!). Michigan State just lost in OT to Northwestern. Kansas is at 5-0 after defeating #22 Kansas State. Plenty of fun going on…
Quickly, some Big East picks (a little late but what I wrote down Thursday night — honest):
Louisville over Utah (The Cards are really falling apart…and killing my picks)
(14) WVU over Syracuse
(5) South Florida over Florida Atlantic
(23) Rutgers over (17) Cincinnati (So it looks like I’m finally hopping off the Cinci bandwagon)
Thankfully Pitt is not playing today — they tend to ruin my Saturday’s when they lose — which is more often than not.
Other news, notes, and assorted fun:
— In Mel Kiper Jr.’s top junior-class players by position, he has Conredge Collins ranked 1st at FB and Conor Lee as the #4 kicker. (ESPN Insider)
— Penn State’s Austin Scott might be involved in a sexual assault and isn’t playing today.
— Every single channel I turn on has a game worth watching…I love it.
— I’ve had my high-definition TV for a while but only recently have realized how amazing it is to watch football (and any sport) in HD.
Updates:
5:30 pm: This has to be a joke. Also, Penn State is winning 13-0 at the half and Tennessee is destroying (12) Georgia. I’m beginning to formulate a BlogPoll ballot, and it’s going to be a mess.
6:25 pm: The NCAA has a new all-time leading rusher in D-II Chadron State’s Danny Woodhead. I’m still waiting for USF to turn it on; I’ve supported them as a legitimate top 5 team so they better not let me down against FAU. The Bulls lead 21-17 with 11:46 left in the game.
11:15 pm: If you live in the Wexford, Franklin Park, or Cranberry areas you need to try out Patron Mexican Restaurant on Route 19. Great stuff. I come home from there and on CBS, ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 I can see four games between ranked teams. Top ranked LSU is 12 minutes from losing, #2 USC already lost against Stanford, and one of the best Big East games of the year (Cinci vs. Rutgers) is close in the 4th quarter.
If you’re looking for some perspective on Pitt’s loss to Virginia last week, that same Cavaliers team beat Middle Tennessee by 2 points. On a field goal with 8 seconds left. Against Middle Tennessee. Against Middle Tennessee!
Cincy has nothing going for it. It was a mid-major 3 years ago that has old facilities and a 100 year old field (I think I read that somewhere)
They also lost their coach at the end of the season to MSU.
And they may be on track to win the Big East.
sorry folks no 3rd year, no more talk about 2008, no more super conservative playing not to lose mentality.
I heard Harbaugh speak after the game and I heard a man that can turn a program around.
I hear Wanny speak and I think I am hearing a blithering idiot.
It’s time for this program to go out and fix this tragedy. And make not mistake it is a tragedy that a program that showed such promise has denigrated to what it is now.
Cincy has become a player in the Big East…we have become the mid-major.
What a damn shame…
Let me ask you this question, would you hire someone that has not had any success in their profession?
I’m sure there are some exceptions but Wanny failed in Chicago and Miami, why did you think Pitt would be any different? He had sucess as a DC but guess what, he was carrying Jimmy Johnsons jock strap.
He can recruit but he cannot assemble a coaching staff because he cannot coach period.
We lost to UCONN by 20; it was a blow-out, Virginia, was that a game or a new comedy sitcom?
What a joke.
WVU is going to hang 60 on us.
Our coaches are just terrible; our performance on the field validates my point.
Remember MSU lost to N’Western yesterday, yes it looks very bad.
Wanny is an idiot he took a winning program over in 2006 and drove it into the ground, remember Foge in 1982?
Foge took over a Pitt squad that had 19 returning starters from a 11-1 team, he promptly turned it into 9-3, 8-3-1, 3-8, 5-5-1, check out Wannys pro and college track record, he is taking us down the same path.
Hopefully he resigns or the administration steps up and fires him, if Wanny stays we will be lucky to win 5 games over the remainder of this and next season.
