College Football: Week 3

[xubrew]

-Every few days, we have to stop obsessing over conference realignment and take a little time to watch this season's games.

-LSU at Mississippi State should be a crazy atmosphere, but it probably would have been even bigger had MSU not spotted fourteen points to Auburn last week. Still, it should be a fun one.

-Iowa State is actually getting votes in the polls. Their defense could certainly use some work. Whether they beat UConn or not won't change my opinion of them. They're not one of the 25 best teams.

-Boise travels to Toledo, who played Ohio State evenly last week and came very close to beating them. Had they won, the Glass Bowl would have been off the hook. It's not often that Toledo is unbeaten with a win against a ranked team on their resume, and hosting a top five team. The thing is, Boise is better than Ohio State, and I think they'll win rather easily.

-Stanford won't be tested often. I don't think they'll struggle too much at Zona this Saturday.

-Utah at BYU is no longer a conference game, but still a rivalry. BYU should have beaten Texas last week. Both teams are likely bowl teams, but that's not saying much since seventy teams will play in bowl games.

-Auburn at Clemson. It was an overtime game last year. It will probably be a typical Auburn game. They'll win either in overtime or on the last play of regulation again this week.

-Florida will get their first moderate test as they host Tennessee. Both teams are unbeaten and have looked good, but have looked good against teams that probably won't be playing in bowl games.

-UCF and FIU are both unbeaten. This is actually an intriguing game. I think both teams are for real and will be forces in their conferences. UCF cracked the rankings last year. FIU had thier first ever winning season last year. In fact they'd only won more than three games once since moving up to FBS prior to last year. With UCF coming in, it may be their greatest home atmosphere ever this weekend.

-Kansas and Georgia Tech are both undefeated, but also both untested, and Kansas still had some trouble against Northern Illinois.

-Louisville is at Kentucky, and the Bluegrass State will be transformed into a football state for one week. Neither team looks all that good, and it should be back to a basketball state in no time at all.

-West Virginia and Maryland is always a fun game. The way things are going this could turn into a conference rivalry once all the dust settles.

-Washington and Nebraska are both unbeaten. Fresno is a pretty solid team and they made Nebraska sweat a little bit last week, but the Huskers pulled it out. I don't know all that much about Washington this year.

-Notre Dame hosts Michigan State, and the way things are going Irish fans may want to brace themselves for being 0-3. I wonder who MOR is rooting for...

-I haven't seen much of Syracuse yet. I'm kind of curious to see what they can do out at USC.

-Oklahoma State visits Tulsa. It's great that Tulsa gets to host games like this. They never win them, and that isn't likely to change, but it is still good for them that Oklahoma and Oklahoma State give them home games every now and then.

-Texas is at UCLA. I've been very underwhelmed by both of them so far.

[xubrew]

Forgot about Oklahoma and Florida State. That one is kind of big too. I think it's the toughest game on either team's schedule. Oklahoma does play TAMU, but that's a home game. Florida State also goes to Florida, but as tough of a game as that is, it's probably not as tough as this one. The winner will be on pace to win out.

[gladdenguy]

great post brew to get me pumped for the weekend.
do u think it gets bigger than eastern michigan at michigan? haha...not for me

[mlcspinner]

LSU over Miss St
Iowa St over Conn
Boise over toledo
BYU over Utah
Clemson over Auburn
FLA over Tenn
UCF over FIU
GT over Kansas
Kentucky over Louisville
WV over Maryland
Neb. over Wash.
ND over State
u$c over Cuse
Oklahoma st over tulsa
UCLA over texas

[GoMuskies]

Kansas still had some trouble against Northern Illinois.


That's not much of a criticism of KU. NIU won 11 games last year and was a 7 point favorite in Lawrence. That was a huge win for Turner Gil.

[XUglow]

Wow. LSU's defense is awesome. I thought that they looked good on TV against Oregon. I saw them in person last night, and they are as good as I have ever seen. It looked like they had 12 or 13 guys on the field on every play. John Chavis was good at Tennessee. Now he has great athletes at every position.

I thought last year that LSU had the best athletes of any team that I saw play. I am sticking with that assessment until someone shows me better. I don't know if LSU is the best team in the country, but if you are better than the bunch I saw last night, you are really, really good.

The atmosphere was pretty wild. MSU is putting on a very good show for its fans. My LSU daughter poo-poos anything not done to Tiger Stadium standards, but even she was impressed.

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Per Awful Announcing.....


Friday September 16

Bryant University at Sacred (7PM Heart MSG/Cox Sports) Paul Dottino, Steve Levy
4 Boise State @ Toledo (8PM ESPN) Joe Tessitore, Rodney Gilmore, Jeannie Edwards
Iowa State @ Connecticut (8PM ESPN2) Mike Gleason, John Congemi



Saturday September 17

#21 Auburn @ Clemson (Noon ABC) Dave Pasch, Urban Meyer, Chris Spielman, Quint Kessenich
Penn State @ Temple (Noon ESPN) Ray Benlty, David Lamont
Wyoming at Bowling Green (Noon BCSN/ESPN3) Greg Franke, Tom Cole
Central Michigan at Western Michigan (Noon MAC Network/MASN/GamePlan/ESPN3) Michael Reghi, Doug Garber
Pittsburgh @ Iowa (Noon ESPN2) Beth Mowins, Mike Bellotti
#18 West Virginia @ Maryland (Noon ESPNU) Rob Stone, Danny Kanell
Eastern Michigan @ Michigan (noon BTN) Tom Hart, Derek Rackley, Lisa Byington
Southern Missouri State @ Purdue (noon BTN) Wayne Larrivee, Joe Tiller, Jon Jansen
Mississippi @ Vanderbilt (noon SEC Net/ESPN3) Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano
Duke at Boston College (12:30 PM ACC Network (National)/GamePlan/ESPN3) Steve Martin, Dave Archer
Kansas @ Georgia Tech (12:30 ACC Net) Rich Waltz, Keith Jones, Jenn Hildreth
Coastal Carolina at Georgia (1 PM CSS-PPV/GamePlan/ESPN3) Bob Neal, Buck Belue
Harvard at Holy Cross (1 PM Charter TV3 (MA)) Kevin Shea, Andy Lacombe, Dave Bolduc
Colorado State @ Colorado (1:30 FSN) Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt, Petros Papadakis
Louisiana-Monroe at #23 TCU (2 PM The Mtn.) Todd Harris, Todd Christensen, Amanda Mazey
#10 Eastern Washington at #12 Montana (3:05PM SWM/KPAX (MT)) Dennis Patchin, John Edwards, Derek Buerkle
#7 Wisconsin vs. Northern Illinois @Chicago, IL (3PM ESPN3) Jim Barbar, Christian Fauria
Texas Tech @ New Mexico (3:30 VS) Paul Burmeister, Shaun King, Anthony Herron
15 Michigan State @ Notre Dame (3:30 NBC) Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock, Alex Flanagan
Tennessee @ #16 Florida (3:30 CBS) Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
Northwestern @ Army (3:30 CBSSN) Gary Thorne, Randy Cross
Virginia @ North Carolina (3:30 ESPNU) Pam Ward, Dan Hawkins
#24 Texas @ UCLA (3:30 ABC/ESPN) Bob Wischusen, Bob Davie, Samantha Steele
Missouri State at #12 Oregon (3:30PM CSN-Northwest/GamePlan) Joe Giansante, Anthony Newman, Jill Savage
Washington @ #10 Nebraska (3:30 ABC/ESPN) Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Heather Cox
Akron at Cincinnati (3:30 PM ESPN3) Dave Weekley, John Gregory
Georgia State at #17 Jacksonville State (3:30PM CSS) Ryan Brown, Ray Hammett
Miami-OH @ Minnesota (3:30 BTN) Matt Devlin, Glenn Mason, Rebecca Haarlow
South Carolina State @ Indiana (3:30 BTN) Tom Werme, Gerry Dinardo, Stacy Patez
Nevada @ San Jose State (4PM WAC Net) Barry Tompkins Joe Glenn
Arkansas State at #13 Virginia Tech (4PM ACC Network (Regional)/GamePlan/ESPN3) Mike Hogewood, John Bunting, Sammy Linebaugh
South Alabama at North Carolina State (6PM ESPN3) Ryan Rose, Rob Harley, Angela Mallen
#16 Lehigh at Princeton (6PM WFMZ (PA)/FCS-Atlantic) Mike Zambelli, Mike Yadush, Al DiCarlo
Bucknell at Cornell (6PM TWC-Central NY) Steve Flamisch, Dale Drypolcher, Danny Liedka
Lafayette at Pennsylvania (6PM LSN) Gary Laubach, Mike Joseph, John Leone
Central Florida at Florida International (6PM ESPN3) Doug Bell, Rene Ingoglia
Navy @ #11 South Carolina (6PM ESPN2) Mike Patrick, Craig James, Jeanie Edwards
Louisville @ Kentucky (6PM ESPNU) Clay Matvick, Brian Griese, Allison Williams
Washington State at San Diego State (6:30PM The Mtn.) Ari Wolfe, Blaine Fowler, Jenny Cavnar
Gardner-Webb at Wake Forest (6:30 PM ESPN3) Joe Davis, Warrick Dunn
Idaho at #9 Texas A&M (7PM FSN-PPV) Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox
Stephen F. Austin at #19 Baylor TBD
Florida A&M at #20 South Florida (7PM BH-Tampa/SNY/GamePlan/ESPN3) J.B. Long, Ryan Nece, Justin Pawlowski
Indiana State at Western Kentucky (7PM ESPN3) Shawn Kenney, Drew Henson
Western Illinois at Missouri (7PM FSN-PPV Dan McLaughlin, D'Marco Farr, Todd Donoho
Marshall at Ohio (7PM ESPN3) Dan Gutowsky, Je'Rod Cherry
Nicholls State at Louisiana-Lafayette (7PM Cox 4 (LA)) Jimmy Fredrick, Scott Brazda, Blair Abene
#22 Arizona State @ Illinois (7PM BTN) Eric Collins, Chris Martin, Dionne Miller
Kent State at Kansas State (7PM FCS-Central) Steve Physioc, Yogi Roth, Desmond Purnell
#13 James Madison at #22 Liberty (7PM GamePlan/ESPN3) Mike Tilley, Ray Jones
Houston at Louisiana Tech (7PM ESPN3) John Sadak, Rene Nadeau
North Texas at #2 Alabama (7:30PM FSN-Regional/GamePlan/ESPN3) Bob Rathbun, Tim Couch, Kristina Akra
Tennessee Tech at Eastern Illinois (7:30 PM WEIU (IL)) Mike Bradd, Jack Ashmore
Troy at #14 Arkansas (7:30PM BH-Orlando/CST/GamePlan/ESPN3) Matt Stewart, Chris Doering, Maria Taylor
#17 Ohio State @ Miami-FL (7:30 ESPN) Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Heather Cox
Syracuse @ USC (8PM FX) Gus Johnson, Charles Davis, Tim Brewster
UTEP at New Mexico State (8PM Altitude/GamePlan/ESPN3) Glen Cerny, Danny Knee
#1 Oklahoma @ #5 Florida State (8PM ABC) Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Erin Andrews & Tom Rinaldi
Northern Arizona at Portland State (8:05PM CSN-Northwest) Bob Akamian, Rashad Floyd
Utah @ BYU (9PM ESPN2) Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham, Jessica Mendoza
North Dakota at Fresno State (10 PM ESPN3) Trey Bender, Jay Taylor
Hawai'i at UNLV (10PM The Mtn./CBS Sports Network) Bill Doleman, Jay Leeuwenburg, Molly Sullivan
#8 Oklahoma State @ Tulsa (10PM FSN) Ron Thulin, JC Pearson, Jeremy Bloom
#6 Stanford @ Arizona (10:45 ESPN) Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard, Shelley Smith




http://www.awfulannouncing.com/pammies/announcing-schedules/week-3-college-football-announcers-schedule.html

[paulxu]

The atmosphere was pretty wild. MSU is putting on a very good show for its fans. My LSU daughter poo-poos anything not done to Tiger Stadium standards, but even she was impressed.

I forgive you for last week. I started off my picks this week with LSU, even though I thought MSU was your home team.

Wild? More cowbell?

[XUglow]

I forgive you for last week. I started off my picks this week with LSU, even though I thought MSU was your home team.

Wild? More cowbell?

I just like going to football games. I have done 2 Ole Miss and 2 MSU games so far. Both schools are roughly 1 hour away. Bama is 2 hours away, so it is a reasonable option for me as well, but getting tickets for them can be a bit dicey at times.

On the other side, I absolutely hate going to basketball games at MSU or Ole Miss, and that's sad, because I really do love watching college basketball live.

[xu95]

Bama will be #1 next week after FSU rolls over the Sooners.

xu95

[gladdenguy]

http://sportscrack.com/images/ineligibowltatsvstutes_large2.jpg

[boozehound]

Love that one, GG.

[Masterofreality]

--Notre Dame hosts Michigan State, and the way things are going Irish fans may want to brace themselves for being 0-3. I wonder who MOR is rooting for...

Oh, I don't know.

Let me check the Vegas Line.

[paulxu]

Last edited by American X; Today at 01:40 PM.. Reason: gladdenguy is a luddite

I am suitably impressed. Gladden has somehow hired AmeX as his editor.

[Masterofreality]

Last edited by American X; Today at 01:40 PM.. Reason: gladdenguy is a luddite

I am suitably impressed. Gladden has somehow hired AmeX as his editor.

Reps to AmeX for his excellent word useage in contextual sarcasm.

However, also reps to Gladden for his visual slam at the football bourgeois.

Luddite: A person who fears or loathes technology.

Luddites were a social movement of 19th-century English textile artisans who protested – often by destroying modern equipment that they believed was threatening their jobs.

[gladdenguy]

Thanks AmerX. That is how I wanted it to be.

[Masterofreality]

And the Big Least begins another stellar weekend with UCon losing to Iowa State at home.

Big East football. Catch the Excrement!!!

[paulxu]

What possessed me to pick Mississippi over Vandy? Vandy is killing 'em.

[Masterofreality]

Pitt blows a huge lead against Iowa and loses in spectacular fashion.

Big East Football. Catch the Excrement!!

(The ACC may turn them down after that debacle)

[GoMuskies]

I hate Kentucky so very, very much. Go Cards!

[Masterofreality]

West Virginia held on to beat Maryland.

Well, at least soon I won't have the Big East to beat around anymore.

And No-trees Dame beat Michigan State. Give 'em a cookie.

[paulxu]

Well, at least soon I won't have the Big East to beat around anymore.

You may wake up someday and be IN the Big East.

ps. How 'bout them Gamecocks!