October 2008 - Posts
Immediately following this nomination of Minnesota safety Kyle Theret for “understatement of the season,” we’re back to wrap up Week 9 of the college football season.
After the surprising Golden Gophers improved to 7-1 with a 17-6 victory at Purdue on Saturday, Theret said: “It’s really different, especially from last year.”
You could say that. Minnesota was 1-11 last season.
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While striving for half the efficiency of Colt McCoy, we’re back to wrap up Week 8 of the college football season.
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Before sending out a search party for the LSU defense, we’re back to wrap up Week 7 of the college football season.
It’s tough at the top: Texas, the highest ranked team that posted a victory this week, deserves to jump from No. 5 to the top of the heap. Alabama, which sat this wacky week out, should hold steady at No. 2, followed by Penn State, which went to Camp Randall Stadium and decimated Wisconsin, 48-7. Florida also decisively took care of its business with LSU, 51-21, staking its claim to climb to No. 4. Once you get past that quartet, it gets a little messy. We’d go with Oklahoma and USC at Nos. 5 and 6 (losing to Texas is no crime, while getting worked over by Oregon State is). Then, you’ve got Texas Tech, BYU, Georgia and Oklahoma State to fill out the Top 10. Missouri and LSU have good shots to end the season in the Top 10, but they don’t deserve to be there right now. Both Tiger squads might not mind too much. It’s dangerous in there.
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Here’s what was learned on another eventful Saturday around the college football landscape:
Vanderbilt is for real: The studious Commodores (5-0 overall, 3-0 in the SEC) continue to pass every test placed in front of them with flying colors. On Saturday against Auburn, the most unlikely hero for the most unlikely SEC East leader was backup quarterback Mackenzi Adams, who entered the game in the second quarter with Vandy down, 13-0. Unfazed, he tossed two touchdowns passes in the 14-13 victory, the Commodores’ first as a ranked team in more than half a century. Professor Bobby Johnson needs to keep his players focused next week at Mississippi State, with the big midterm looming at Georgia on Oct. 18.
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