That was sure a sloppy but exciting game between West Virginia and Maryland. The OT win by WV gives them a good chance to dream of a big BCS bowl game, which the Big East still holds an automatic bid to ( a crime ) . They play arch rival Va Tech in 2 weeks, which they should win. The rest of their schedule is quite soft.
Little wonder Lee Corso picked them as a sleeper to be in the Big game come BCS time. Everyone else may suffer a loss while they drub inferior opponents for the rest of the year.
Michigan struggled on Offense and hung on at home for a 3 point win over San Diego St., who's kicker missed a couple short FG's. Iowa got crushed by Arizona St. Minnesota has crushed 3 bad teams. Will be curious to see what they can do in conference play. Purdue killed Ball St. and Syracuse. They could be the conference surprise. Joe Tiller is an excellent offensive mind but usually has a Defense that gives up a lot of points. That's their key.
Ohio St. played their usual conservative dull offensive game with Big play Defense and Special Teams... beat NC State 22-15. Opponenets call them the Luckeyes. Whatever. Since 2002 they are 29-2 with one National Championship. They win. Think Coach Jim Tressel has anything to do with this ?
Tenn-Florida was a great game. Tenn wins on a long FG on the final play. 30-28. My 3 nephews all are Florida grads. I can only imagine how many times they said
" Spurrier " yesterday. Zook is never allowed to lose a game.
Auburn beat LSU in a true bad game. That was boring as hell to watch. Still, a huge win for Auburn.
ND overcame an early blocked punt and put away Mich State. As a Buckeye fan, I thank them for beating both Mich. and Mich. St. ND is hard to read. They lose to BYU and then 2 nice wins. I give them props for having a tough schedule every season. Willingham is a good coach.
USC, Oklahoma and Miami all had some easy wins. Georgia looked sluggish while beating Marshall, the best 0-3 team in years. Conference play next.
Player of the Week - RB Maurice Drew - UCLA - 26 carries 321 yards 5 TD's
Great stat line-after the 1st Quarter - Drew has 4 carries- 163 yards , 3 TD's
Any impressions you wish to add from yesterday ?