College Football Review

What’s going on everyone. Its time for the College Football Review

Music to listen to: Cut That City by The Mars Volta



Crush of the Day: Vivica A. Fox (Purdue)



I tried to find an attractive alum of Purdue to celebrate it’s win over Ohio State but couldn’t find one. Instead, I’ve picked Vivica, an Indianapolis-native, to represent.

Let’s get to the games:

Boise State 28, Tulsa 21: Enjoy the Fiesta bowl, Broncos.

Cincinnati 34, USF 17: Thought that the Bulls could pull off the upset especially after Pike went down with his injury but the Bearcats are tough. Over/under of Brian Kelly staying the Natti’s head coach is 16 months. I’m taking the under.

Pittsburgh 24, Rutgers 17: Underrated road win for the Panthers. This may finally be the year Pitt comes through with a conference title.

Clemson 38, Wake Forest 3: The unpredictable ACC got even more confusing with this score. I never thought that I would see a Jim Grobe team get beaten like that by anybody.

Iowa 20, Wisconsin 10: I read somewhere that if a team like Iowa was replaced with Ohio State, Michigan or even Penn State, we would be talking about them as a national title contender. I kinda agree with that. The problem is that while the Hawkeyes had a nice run in the early 2000’s, the past few years have been underwhelming. However, you have to respect road wins over two decent teams, Wisconsin and Penn State. Enjoy the Rose Bowl!

Michigan State 63, Delaware State 6: Usually I ignore these blowouts but this one came with a caveat. The Hornets turned down a conference game to head to Ann Arbor for the big payday. While earning six figures to take a beating is fine and capitalism in practice, what about the players? Surprising thing is that the State players didn’t mind missing their conference game and enjoyed facing Michigan. Its not often you get to play in front of 100,000 people.

Purdue 26, Ohio State 18: I posted on Facebook after the game “Thanks for not showing up Ohio State,” in a sarcastic tone. Multiple people were quick to point out to me that this is typical of Big 10 football. I should have known better. I’m the same dude who takes pride in talking about “crappy Big 10 football,” similar to “crappy Big 10 basketball,” sensing a theme? So I should have realized that the Buckeyes have been the most overrated program outside of Norman, Oklahoma the past decade and this loss was bound to happen. However, Ohio State usually loses its big games but wins the games where their talent is better than the opponent. Now that the Buckeyes have mastered this art, lets get the Fire Jim Tressel bandwagon started. Just kidding, I like the sweater vest. But Terelle Pryor, I don’t like. Should have gone to Michigan kid.

Texas 16, Oklahoma 13: When Alabama beats Texas by two touchdowns in the national championship game, we will be asking ourselves why the Longhorns were even in the game. Thanks BCS. Oh and Sam Bradford, feel bad for you bro but I said from the day after the championship game last year, you should have gone pro. Screw this whole “stay in school” mentality. You can’t play that game in football, too much risk for injuries. If you’re a first round pick, especially like Bradford who was projected to be in the top-10, at worst, you HAVE to go pro.

Georgia 34, Vanderbilt 10: Was at this game, score was about right with the flow of the game.

Florida 23, Arkansas 20: Its too easy to say that the refs had too much influence in the game, but the thing that would worry me most as a Gator fan is that your leading rusher was Tebow with 69 yards on 27 rushes. He’s not going to last the season going at that rate.

Texas Tech 31, Nebraska 10: This truly proves that any team from the Big 12 North is going to get smoked in the conference title game.

USC 34, Notre Dame 27: All of the Golden Domer fans will point to the final score as an indication that things are improving by their inflated standards but it isn’t. The Trojans were up by three scores early in the 4th quarter and many of us will agree that this is USC’s weakest team in about six years. The gap is still wide.

TCU 44, Colorado State 6: Good job by the Horned Frogs to not look ahead to their game against BYU this week.

Idaho 35, Hawaii 23: Break up the Vandals!!! Bowl-eligible!

Georgia Tech 28, Virginia Tech 23: Good win by the Yellow Jackets.

Colorado 34, Kansas 30: Did this win save Dan Hawkins job? More importantly, why did it take this long for Hawkins to bench his starting quarterback? Oh I forgot, its because it was the coach’s son. That’s the second-worst case of nepotism behind Skip Carey doing MLB playoff games. He’s terrible. Actually, Joe Buck is the worst case of a crappy announcing son of a broadcasting legend. War Jack Buck!!!

Kansas State 62, Texas A&M 14: Confusing score, I have no explanation.

Indiana 27, Illinois 14: Looks like it’s the end of the Ron Zook era. Fun while it lasted.

Kentucky 21, Auburn 14: War Eagle Down!!! This is still a good season for the Tigers but the schedule gets a whole lot tougher. They still have to face Ole Miss, Alabama, LSU and Georgia. They can go 0-4 in that stretch and it wouldn’t surprise me. Realistically, I see 1-3 and then winning that homecoming game to bring their win total to seven games, one off of my prediction.

Arizona 43, Stanford 38: Pac-10 may be the deepest major conference in the country…seriously.

Alabama 20, South Carolina 6: Ingram saved the Tide’s bacon against the Gamecocks because South Carolina was game for a battle. Only thing missing from Alabama is getting Julio Jones and the passing game going. I see this happening against Tennessee on Saturday.

Looking ahead to this week:

USF at Pittsburgh: This is your chance to step up Pitt.

Georgia Tech at Virginia: Typical Tech would lose this game after the big win against Virginia Tech.

Tennessee at Alabama: The annual third Saturday in October battle, well it’s the fourth Saturday this year, darn TV. Bama wins this by only seven points.

Iowa at Michigan State: Calling the upset.

TCU at BYU: Game of the weekend. Upset #2 happens here.