Thoughts on Saturday #1

The late games aren't over, but my eyeballs are bleeding from 11.5 straight hours of football, so I'm pretty much foregoing the end of the UCLA-SDSU game.

A few brief thoughts (with further explanation as merited at a later time and date).

- Big Ten: 10-0. Sweet.

- MAC: 1-10. Great win over Western Illinois, though.

- Big XII: Biggest Flop of the day. Oklahoma loses, Texas A&M loses, Baylor barely beats SMU, Oklahoma State barely beats D-1AA Montana State, Kansas State squeeks one out against barely-D1A Florida International, Iowa State struggles against D-1AA Illinois State, Kansas wins ugly against barely-D1A Florida Atlantic, Nebraska wins a nailbiter against Maine(!?!?). The "marquee win" was Colorado at home over Colorado State on a field goal at the gun. Other than that, it was Missouri over Arkansas State and Texas mauling Louisiana-Lafayette. I mean... three ugly wins against D-1AA schools, two more ugly ones against teams that are playing their first season as D-1A schools, and two of your top three teams lose to unranked opponents? Good God.

- Ohio State: Surprisingly easy win, at least from what I saw. Ginn needs to stop trying to score on every play. Sometimes a first down is okay.

- ESPN Gameplan: Great fucking job finally getting the OSU-Miami game up on the satelite sometime in the middle of the second quarter. More on this later. Eleven hours later, I'm still pissed. Assholes.

- Michigan: Yeah... umm... good effort, guys. How many of these games are now back in the "possible loss" column: Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Minnesota, Iowa, Northwestern, Ohio State? That was embarassing today for long, long stretches. You'd better beat that lard-ass Weis next week. I don't want to listen to the season-long suckfest that will follow if ND goes to 2-0.

- Michigan, Part 2: Your offense is scary-good. Avant: He catches football-shaped objects well. The game with MSU could end up with the loser scoring 38-42 points. And I know the blocked PAT wasn't Rivas' fault, but the atrocious miss from 48 yards was. Rest assured, I'm keeping track.

- Texas: The win was meaningless, but having your new kicker miss one PAT and get two others blocked is not a good sign for close games.

- Bowling Green: Offense- really good. Defense- Too bad they couldn't make it. Madison is fun.

- Notre Dame: Let's see that fancy shit next week. Pittsburgh sucks. However, I'm suddenly not sold on the fact that Michigan walks away an easy winner next week. That's going to be an interest point spread to see.

- Pittsburgh: Your defense sucks. A lot.

- Tennessee: Nice showing against UAB. Good freaking luck against Florida and LSU.

- Southern Cal: Your defense looks vulnerable. Really, really vulnerable. At least from what I saw during the first half.

- Boise State: Thanks for playing. Coupled with the MAC, this weekend has been a bloodbath for the non-BCS schools.

- College Gameday: WTF is with the country music in the open? Last year's was great. This year's blows. Nick Lachey? Desmond Howard? Fuck that noise. Give me Kirk, Lee and Chris, give me the old theme song and give me some decent analysis. Enough with the bullshit already.