College Football Review, Week Four

Good week of college football, lets review it.

Music to listen to: Today by Tom Scott



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South Carolina 16, Mississippi 10: My goodness, how the over-hyped have fallen. I always thought that Ole Miss was a top-15 level team but top-five, not really. The disappointing thing was not necessarily the loss by Ole Miss but the lack of execution, especially on offense. The game wasn’t as close as the score. For South Carolina, the Gamecocks are a few stops against Georgia away from being undefeated and the second-best team in the SEC East. Now South Carolina has to take advantage of this momentum.

Michigan 36, Indiana 33: The Hoosiers really should have won this game, especially towards the end of the contest. The Wolverines still have a lot of work to do to return to an elite level. If Michigan handles Michigan State on the road, which the Wolverines haven’t even done yet this year, play a road game, then we may reevaluate it.

South Florida 17, Florida State 7: Congrats to the Bulls for getting their program’s biggest win over one of the three big Florida schools, but this has to be Bobby Bowden’s last year in Tallahassee, right. No disrespect to South Florida but the Bulls had no right winning that game. I know that you can say that South Florida has had a good program the last few years and are undefeated, but the Seminoles shouldn’t lose that game, that weakly at home. Furthermore, are you confident in Jimbo Fisher taking over the job as head coach in the future?

Georgia Tech 24, North Carolina 7: Surprised that Tech was able to handle North Carolina so easily.

Cincinnati 28, Fresno State 20: Who made the Bulldog’s schedule. Not only have they faced Wisconsin and Cincinnati on the road, two undefeated teams and conference title contenders, but they also hosted Boise State, but that was a conference game so they had no control over that. That may be the toughest schedule so far this season. Enjoy playing at Hawaii next week. Cincinnati is going to win the Big East and may even make a run at being undefeated but will miss out on the national title game. Just stating facts.

LSU 30, Mississippi State 26: I often don’t like listening to sports talk radio but driving home today an LSU fan made the point that this may be the Tigers’ weakest team since the early 2000’s. Of course many of us would like our teams to be in this position, but I’ve not a big Les Miles fan, especially his playcalling. I think that he out-talents a lot of his opponents and I see that happening again this year. LSU struggled against Washington earlier this year and needed a miracle goal line stand to survive against Mississippi State. The Tigers have no reason being in the top-five in the nation. If Tebow is healthy in two weeks, Florida puts up 40 on that defense.

Boston College 27, Wake Forest 24 (ot): You think your team lost roughly on Saturday, it has nothing on Wake Forest. The Deacons manage to score two touchdowns in the final minutes to tie the game and force overtime. BC gets a field goal and Wake is driving for the winning touchdown but fumbles the ball. That’s rough.

Virginia Tech 31, Miami 7: I wish I was able to do a college football prediction before this game because I was taking the Hokies, big. The “revival” of the Hurricanes is nice but those boys aren’t ready to go into Blacksburg and get a road win in those conditions. I still say that Miami finishes with about seven wins and makes it national title move next year.

TCU 14, Clemson 10: That’s not a fluke win by TCU and not a shameful loss by Clemson.

Alabama 35, Arkansas 7: The Crimson Tide may be the quietest undefeated legit national title contender at this stage of a season in a while. The reason I say this is that Alabama, outside of the opener against Virginia Tech, has played a weak schedule. Now that it is starting SEC season, we may see that it is the best team in the nation, which I think may be the case. With that defense, running attack and Julio Jones, not many teams can match up with that.

Oregon 42, California 3: Thanks for showing up Cal. No, its ok. Sure you most likely choked away your chance to finally play in the Rose Bowl and win the conference title, but all is well in Berkeley. Just like I will never trust Gonzaga and Wake Forest to make long runs in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament due to yearly disappointments, Cal has entered this category for me.

Texas 64, UTEP 7: Nothing learned or gained from this game.

Ohio State 30, Illinois 0: Was it only two years ago that the Illini were playing in the Rose Bowl? This proves my theory that schools have their ceilings. That’s not really a revolutionary idea but as I’ve learned as a Vanderbilt fan, I know that my team will never, ever be better than Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, LSU and Alabama if all things are equal. Sure you may gain an upset here and there but the reality is that you will always be behind those schools. For Illinois, its Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan.

Florida 41, Kentucky 7: Of course Tebow’s concussion was the main story of this one but I saw the start of this game and you knew from the opening kickoff that this may get ugly quickly. When Kentucky had to re-do a punt down 10-0, I had feeling that something bad was going to happen to the Wildcats and sure enough Chris Rainey blocks it and recovers the ball in the endzone. At this stage, the contest was over. Kentucky is a decent team and for Florida to shut them down from jump was impressive.

Auburn 54, Ball State 30: Break up the Tigers! I told you that these guys were going to win eight games this year. Sure, they haven’t left the Plains yet this year and have put up numbers against average defenses, but compared to last year, they are rolling. Todd throwing for five touchdowns is major and they will beat Tennessee on Saturday in Knoxville.

Georgia 20, Arizona State 17: Didn’t see one snap of this game.

MTSU 37, North Texas 21: Good job taking care of business in the Sun Belt opener, on the road, away from the Boro, MTSU.

Iowa 21, Penn State 10: I wanted to make my Crush of the Day someone from Iowa but couldn’t find one, seriously. I’m sure that there are plenty of attractive women in Iowa but the lack of finding one immediately for my purposes was alarming. So much for my thoughts of Penn State going undefeated. The impressive thing about Iowa was its defense more than anything. Its conference-title caliber. The offense is lacking though. But good win in Happy Valley.

Notre Dame 24, Purdue 21. Charlie frickin Weis is going to keep his job through a crappy schedule and catching breaks. Notre Dame has beaten weak Nevada, barely defeated Michigan State at home and got a gift from Purdue on its game-winning drive. Call another time out Purdue, my goodness.

Vanderbilt 36, Rice 17: Still major work to be done by the Commodores but a good road win.

Stanford 34, Washington 14: Still saying that Stanford finishes third in the Pac-10 and after seeing USC and Cal, maybe they can compete for second.

Houston 29, Texas Tech 28: Fun game to watch on TV. You have to think with all of the talent in Texas that Houston should be able to be the premier team in Conference USA and become the Boise State of the Southwest.

That’s all.