Week 3 was good for me

Was this the week of matchups that used to matter 5 to 10 years ago? OU at FSU, Iowa and Pitt, OSU and Miami, UCF at Florida Int… oh wait that one never mattered. None the less a few of those will pop up here on the blog along with a few more matchups this week.

School starts on this side of the world tomorrow so I think I’ll get outside and enjoy some fresh air this afternoon with some kickball and beers. Hey, if I can’t have college football, at least give me some kind of foot on ball sport that isn’t called soccer where when some guy runs into you, you drop like Falcons fan’s hopes of making the playoffs.

So let’s not get a delay of game and get right to it…

GAMES OF THE WEEK:
#1 Oklahoma over #5 Florida State 23-13
This was certainly the most hyped and highest ranked matchup of the weekend and I’m actually surprised that it ended up living up to all that hype. To be honest, I didn’t think FSU stood a chance in this one and really if they would have been playing in Norman rather than Tallahassee I think the score would have been much different. FSU’s defense did a decent job holding the Sooners out of the end zone a few times and limiting them to FGs but something has got to be done about their QB situation. You could say that the defenses were on par with one another and the difference really was OU has an established QB in Landry Jones and FSU, well… doesn’t. And that’s not to say that Jones had all that great of a day but he lead the offense well and seems to have it going in the right direction. Oklahoma survived an early test here an may just be rolling towards a National Championship.

Unranked Clemson over #21 Auburn 38-24
(You know it pains me to put an ACC team over an SEC team in the top games) Again, don’t call it an upset. Remember last week when Auburn beat Miss St. to get into the top 25 and didn’t look all that good doing it? Well now they faced a tough road game and I saw this coming a mile away. Auburn stormed out and had the drunken rednecks of Clemson feeling early hangovers. But by the second half not only was Clemson’s offense rolling, Auburn had forgotten how to play football. Halftime score was tied at 21. By the end of the 3rd Clemson led by 11 and won it by 14. Give credit to Clemson’s defense for not letting Auburn get back into it and snapping the nation’s longest win streak. Love the line from Clemson’s QB Tajh Boyd: 30/42 386yds 4 TDs and 0 INTs. Screw BSU’s K. Moore; T. Boyd played a real defense.

#3 LSU over #25 Mississippi State 19-6
DEFENSE!!! DEFENSE!!! Some people didn’t even have MSU in the top 25 anymore and I thought that was a shame since they… ok yeah they probably didn’t deserve to be there. Anyway, I do love a good ol’ SEC defensive game. LSU’s defense held MSU to only 193 total yards and those six points while snagging 2 INTs. And give the Bulldog defense a little credit here as well holding LSU out of the end zone all but one time and the only real * to that is that LSU had 9 penalties for 83 yards! They’re going to have to clean that up a bit as the year goes on.

#10 South Carolina over Navy 24-21
I’m only giving this an honorable mention. USC should have beat Navy by a lot more, but this one gets in here because of the running stats. Navy, a running team, threw for only 61yds as per usual. They rushed for 274yds and 3 TDs. Marcus Lattimore of South Carolina had a line that looked like this: 37 carries, 246yds and 3 TDs! Heisman? Is he making a case? Whisper whisper whisper…

UPSETS OF THE WEEK:
Notre Dame over #15 Michigan State 31-13
Damn it. I was trying like hell not to mention ND this week at all. I figured I was safe with MSU coming into town. But, remember last week when I said Sparty was overrated? Yeah, they went ahead and proved that this week.

Miami over #17 Ohio State 24-6
Ok, I did not see this one coming. I knew OSU was havin’ “issues” at QB but you can’t go 4/18 for only 35yds 0 TDs and an INT and expect to win any game against any opponent. I think I’ll save my commentary since Buckeye coach Luke Fickell said it best with, "We've got to do a better job all around. They made a lot more plays than we did and ultimately that's what the game came down to." Really? That’s what it came down to? They made more plays? Too bad I don’t have a DUH award for the week.

PILLOW FIGHT OF THE WEEK:
Wyoming over Bowling Green 28-27
An EPIC pillow fight! Wyoming is now 3-0 (when’s the last time you heard that?) and tried to find a way to lose this and start 2-1 but Bowling Green was having none of it. BG out gained the Cowboys 514 to 396 but committed 6! turnovers. Wyoming led 28-14 going into the 4th but somehow let BG score two TDs late to tie it at 28 with only :03 left on the clock… oh wait, no they didn’t because despite scoring the TD, BG had their game tying extra-point BLOCKED! Oh the hearts of northern Kentucky are aching tonight.

BEAT DOWN OF THE WEEK:
Georgia over Coastal Carolina 59-0
Much like ND, I was trying like hell not to mention Georgia this week as well. But, when you put up 59 points and hold the opponent to only 112 total yards, you’re going to get in my beat down of the week. I know, I know; Georgia played the Carolina school for the blind and deaf and now everybody is going to talk about what a great QB Aaron Murray is, but I aint buyin’ it. Wake me up when the game is over next week after UGA has to go to Ol’ Miss.

BIGGEST LOSER:
Realignment. That’s it. I’m over this. Can these fat, overpaid college regents not handle their dirty business in the privacy of their board rooms? Why does it have to be out in public and headline snatching every week? Now the ACC is expanding? Big Fucking Deal! How about this… Let’s skip all the bullshit and just hurry up and get to 4 super conferences. Does anyone think that’s not where we’re going anyway? Let’s get it down to the PAC X, the ACC, SEC and BIG X and call it good. Split each one up into two regions and have the winner of each region enter an 8 team playoff for the National Championship. What about those teams left out in the cold? Well fine, make it a ten team playoff and get 2 more “at large” bids in there. Have all your other bowl games as filler and make nice with your TV networks. I’m over this expansion talk. Just do it or shut up! I’d rather be watching actual football!