September 13 College Football Thread

[DoctorBombay]

Under a half hour to kickoff, folks! Another great day of college football ahead. Again, my tv is full of action today:

9 am N.C. State at Ohio State
Arkansas at Texas
Miami (Ohio)at Northwestern
Louisiana Tech at Michigan State
Cincinnati at West Virginia
Iowa at Iowa State
Purdue at Wake Forest
UNLV at Wisconsin
9:30 Auburn at Vanderbilt
12pm Minnesota at Ohio
12:30 Notre Dame at Michigan
South Carolia at Georgia
Rutgers at Army
1:00 Hawaii at USC
3:00 Florida A&M at Florida
4:00 East Carolina at Miami-FL
4:45 Kentucky at Alabama
5:00 Penn State at Nebraska
Georgia Tech at Florida State
Illinois at UCLA
BYU at New Mexico

Some great ones out there! NCSU-OSU I think will be close and low scoring.....Texas is a mystery right now, Arkansas will test them some.
I like Purdue as a dog at Wake today. Wake is much more dangerous as an underdog.
Iowa HAS to beat ISU this year. they can't afford to lose six in a row, and they have more talent this year.
Cincinnati could very well go into West Virginia and win.
How will Auburn respond against an improving Vanderbilt team?
ND-Michigan is always a classic, I expect nothing less, although the 10-pt spread raised my eyebrows...why so high? Michigan has the talent to win big, but this is the Irish.
How will the USC defense handle that goofy Hawaii offense? Hawaii will probably pass 60 times.
Miami is going to just beat the pants off of a bad East Carolina team
I think Penn State is going to get crushed in Lincoln. Payback, and PSU isn't very good.
UCLA will bounce back, unless they lose their QB, because then they'll have to play their #4.
I expect Florida State to keep rolling.
BYU-New Mexico is a VERY intriguing game to me.The Mountain West is a good league that should have a very tight race this year, and these two are in the thick of it. You only play 7 league games, so this one is very important.

:bounce: Here we go! I will, as always, try to provide unbiased analysis throughout the day, as well as trying to keep my alcohol to caffeine ratio balanced as too not get too wasted or too wired.


edit: forgot a couple games!

[bamademo]

1. 6:45 CDT ESPN Kentucky at Alabama

Roll Tide!

[DoctorBombay]

2. Forgot that one!

Thanks! I like Alabama to bounce back and win that one, too.

[Scurrilous]

3. Go canes!

UM is favored by 41. They'd better win by 42 or more or they'll drop in the polls. :eyes:

[DoctorBombay]

4. First half, early games impressions

Ohio St's D-line is dominant right now, but they didn't put the Wolfpack away. NC State just cannot run the ball without McClendon.

Arkansas!! Running and throwing effectively makes them much more dangerous. Texas is in a fight, but that late TD is giving them momentum.

Wisconsin. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. They did this about the same time last year against Northern Illinois and barely escaped.

Wake-Purdue is a good one, Purdue missed some opportunities to go up by more.

Iowa solid against Iowa St. Cyclones look exactly like the Kansas City Chiefs in those jerseys.

Auburn found the end zone!

It's been raining hard in Morgantown, Cincinnati up at the half. Sloppy game there, too.

Miami-OH is drilling Northwestern, not a huge shock if they win, really. I like NU's new purple tops better than the black.

Some good finishes look to be in order...

[DoctorBombay]

5. Midday thoughts

What a game between OSU-NCSU!!! An instant classic. Hats off to the OSU defense, who held, and to NCSU RB TA McClendon, who gave it all he had on a really banged up knee. What college football is all about.

Texas-Arkansas. The fire Mack Brown crowd is probably all over Texas radio right now. Their defense could not make a play when it needed it. Arkansas showed a passing attack, that will make them tough.

Cincinnati and Louisville cemented their resumes to join the Big East, beating West Virginia and Syracuse respectively, both on the road.

Wisconsin. WTF was that??? I know Anthony Davis got hurt, but 5 turnovers and 5 points? Embarrassing.

Purdue-Wake Forest was a terrific game as well. Purdue got a great stop on 4th and 1 on their 10 with 1:00 to go to cement it.

On the flip side for the big Ten, you can't lose at home to UNLV, Louisiana Tech, and Miami-OH on the same day. Two of those games were blowouts, too.

Iowa took out a bunch of frustration on Iowa State, I expected that.

More thoughts later on the middle of the day games!

[SmileyBoy]

6. Bison are hosting Cal-Davis in about three hours.

Let's kick some AGGIES ASS!!!!

[DoctorBombay]

7. Cal-Davis is the Aggies??

I did not know that, and I live in California.

Cal-Davis is a very liberal school, so take it easy on them!

[SmileyBoy]

10. You don't have to worry. We lost.

23-14.:-(

[carpetbagger]

8. Hope you bet on some of those.

OSU-NCST was as close as you can get. The score was reasonably low until the last quarter.
Called Arkansas (at least if you got a spread) and Perdue.
Called Iowa.
Called Cincinnati.

Damn.

[DoctorBombay]

9. Had Purdue and Cincinnati with the points

Didn't bet Arkansas-Texas.

There was no line in the OSU-NCSU game, probably wouldn't have touched it anyhow.

North Texas messed up a couple parlays...had them +8.5, lost 34-21 to Air Force. Surprised UNT gave up that many points.