Some observations on a most interesting College Football Saturday......
- Pitt needed a win yesterday and they got a most convincing one over Temple yesterday, 47-17. Paul Chryst's Panthers are now at .500. Temple is better than it used to be, but, still, a win over Temple doesn't exactly stir the heartstrings.
- Ohio State really thumped Penn State yesterday in what Gene Collier ingeniously called "The Battle of the Banned". I fear that my praise of Matt McGloin last week may have jinxed him yesterday, as he showed some flaws yesterday. On the other hand, Ohio State may simply be a better - much better, perhaps - team. QB Braxton Miller sure was impressive.
- If there were any doubts that Notre Dame was the real deal this season, the Irish put them to rest with that convincing win at Oklahoma last night. The biggest test before them now seems to be USC in Los Angeles, and now even that seems to be becoming less and less of an impediment.
- Looks like it is going to be a very long day for the Panthers in South Bend next week.
- Will be interested to see how the BCS standings shake out after #2 Florida's defeat. My guess is that it will be Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon, and Notre Dame.
- I am guessing that ESPN would love to see an undefeated ND play in the BCS Championship game in January. How will it that maneuvered if all four of those teams remain undefeated?
- How about Rich Rodriguez' Arizona Wildcats beating USC yesterday? Rodriguez seems to have regained his touch after that less than successful stint in Ann Arbor.
- Did you see where UCLA beat Arizona State yesterday. As my buddy Dan Bonk says, ASU Coach Fraud Graham has no soul.
- Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, and Brian Kelly all coach undefeated teams yet you watch them during a game and hear them interviewed after a game, and they all seem to be a grouchy and dyspeptic bunch, and this is not untypical of college football coaches. Why is that? They are at the very top of their professions. Can't they be HAPPY about that?
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