Sept. 13 Northern Illinois 48, at UNLV 34 And You Care Because … Drew Hare threw three touchdown passes on the day and ran for a score, and Cameron Stingily ran for the first of his two scores as Northern Illinois rolled out to a 31-12 lead midway through the third quarter. UNLV wouldn’t go away as Devante […]
Sept. 13 at South Carolina 38, Georgia 35 And You Care Because … Bulldog kicker Marshall Morgan missed field goals from 26 and 28 yards out – with the latter coming with over four minutes to play with Georgia down three – and South Carolina was able to convert a 4th-and-inches – but barely – for the tight […]
Northern Illinois (2-0) at UNLV (1-1) Sept. 13, 7:00 pm, CampusInsiders.com Here’s The Deal: They’re doing it again. The Northern Illinois Huskies just keep on rolling, blowing away Presbyterian to start the season and then pulling off a shocker – okay, slight shocker – to beat Northwestern to make it 25 straight regular season wins since losing the […]
Houston (1-1) at BYU (2-0) Sept. 11, 8:00, ESPN Here’s The Deal: Just two weeks into the new season, the ground floor of a possible special season is down in Provo. BYU returns home with a couple of road victories and a No. 25 ranking in the AP poll. Last week’s 41-7 blitz of Texas in Austin was […]
Tennessee (2-0) at Oklahoma (2-0) Sept. 13, 8:00, ABC Here’s The Deal: This is just the third meeting between the two historically giant programs and it’s the first time in the regular season, with Tennessee winning the 1939 Orange Bowl 17-0 and Oklahoma winning the 1968 Orange 26-24. For the modern era and to this season, this represents […]
Georgia (1-0) at South Carolina (1-1) Sept. 13, 3:30, CBS Here’s The Deal: It’s a long, long college football season, and there are always several strange twists and turns, but in one way or another, the SEC East title will be influenced in a big way in a potential make-or-break game. Let’s just call it – if South Carolina […]
Sept. 6 Texas Tech 30, at UTEP 26 And You Care Because … Texas Tech seemed to be able to get a little breathing room in the third quarter on Bradley Marquez’s second of three touchdown grabs of the game, but UTEP kept pushing with Jeremiah Laufasa running for a 24-yard score and Aaron Jones coming up with […]
E-mail Pete Fiutak Follow me … @PeteFiutak I tried to make all sorts of excuses for Ohio State. I assumed J.T. Barrett would be more than fine in place of Braxton Miller, and he someday might be, but it’s hard to tell with a slew of Hokies sitting on his head all game long. I assumed the Ohio State running game […]
E-mail Pete Fiutak Follow me … @PeteFiutak Michigan State is going to get lumped into the upcoming national The Big Ten Really, Really Sucks narrative, but it doesn’t – it’s not fair. It’s not fair to the Spartans, and it’s not fair to an Oregon team that stepped up its game at home. It’ll get totally lost in the aftermath, […]
E-mail Rich Cirminiello Follow me … @RichCirminiello Two games. That’s all it took Steve Sarkisian to earn his first monster signature win at USC. I had my doubts about Sark’s return to Troy. I felt the school could have done better with its successor to Lane Kiffin. While it’s certainly too early to hand out any grades, the coach is […]
Virginia Tech (1-0) at Ohio State (1-0) Sept. 6, 8:00, ESPN Here’s The Deal: This first-ever meeting between Virginia Tech and Ohio State—and Frank Beamer and Urban Meyer—will warrant a primetime audience this Saturday night. The Buckeyes return home after a sluggish performance in Baltimore versus Navy. Yeah, the top 5 program survived, but a close call with a […]
Ole Miss (1-0) at Vanderbilt (0-1) Sept. 6, 4:30, ESPN Here’s The Deal: It’s hard to come up with a worse start to a coaching era than Derek Mason had last week. Not only was he taking over for the energetic and popular James Franklin, but with so many nasty games on the slate, his Vanderbilt team needed […]
Colorado (0-1) at Massachusetts (0-1) Sept. 5, 3:00, ESPN3 Here’s The Deal: Colorado is making a rare trip to the East Coast, to Massachusetts of all places. It could be worth the trek for the Buffaloes who’ll travel anywhere to get a win these days. The team is still smarting after squandering a fourth-quarter lead to rival Colorado […]
Colorado State (1-0) at Boise State (0-1) Sept. 6, 10L15, ESPN2 Here’s The Deal: Utah State should have something to say about it, but this might be the battle for the Mountain division. Colorado State roared back with 24 unanswered points after getting down to Colorado 17-7, making it the second game in a row – counting the […]
BYU (1-0) at Texas (1-0) Sept. 6, 7:30, Fox Sports 1 Here’s The Deal: Mack Brown did phenomenal things for the University of Texas football program. He brought it back from the doldrums, made it a perennial Big 12 and national title contender, and he made the school gobs and gobs and gobs of money. But for all […]