- Ohio State takes 4 INT's from Harris and wins... the Buckeyes got some pretty good production (despite a sub 50% completion rate) from Pryor, and the defense stepped up picking off Jacory Harris 4 times en route to the win in the Horseshoe... it was an ugly day for the ACC (we'll see why in a minute), but this was simply a better team making plays... did anyone see defensive TACKLE Cameron Heyward take an INT back 50+ yards? Looked like a gazelle...
- Alabama pounds Penn State into submission.... my suspicions about Penn State were confirmed... they were inept offensively behind their true frosh QB and Alabama went on cruise control... but anytime you can get a 3 touchdown victory over a ranked team (even if they shouldn't be ranked), you'll take it and run...144 yards from "backup" RB Trent Richardson too... an embarrassment of riches
- Oklahoma beats up on Florida State... I didn't see 47-17 coming... Landry Jones was masterful (30/40, 380 yards, 4 TDs) against that battered FSU secondary, and Christian Ponder (11/28, 113 yards, 0 TDs, 2 INT) was less than stellar for FSU... simple as that... Oklahoma made a statement following their ugly opener... they're a team to be reckoned with..
- Oregon lays the wood in the 2nd half... the single most surprising half-time score of the weekend for me was Oregon/Tennessee being tied... I thought Oregon would beat up on them from the jump... they just decided to wait until the 2nd half, and somehow garnered a 35-0 in the 2nd half... too much talent, too much speed for rebuilding Tennessee... Lamichael James had a crazy reverse-field run that was see-to-believe...
- Georgia Tech loses to Kansas.... the same Kansas that struggled to beat an FCS opponent 6-3 in their opener put up 28 points on GT, and caused enough problems to get the win... definitely the 2nd most surprising result of the day...
- The first? Virginia Tech losing to FCS James Madison... and single-handedly submarining Boise State's hopes in my opinion... this was obviously a shocking result, and VT would've won had Darren Evans not fumbled in the red zone late... but the bigger story for me is that I don't think Boise can do ANYTHING to get into the title game after this result... no matter what VT does from here, they'll be dismissed as the team that lost to James Madison, and that will kill Boise's perception... oh, and the ACC is still brutal.... VT/GT/FSU/Miami? Good luck...
- South Carolina upends Georgia... freshman RB Marcus Lattimore strapped the gamecocks to his back to the tune of 37 carries for 182 yards and was the catalyst for their offense throughout... Aaron Murray showed flashes for UGA, but the gameplan was scarily reserved, and that hamstrung them...
- Stanford 35, UCLA 0... Nobody stayed up to watch this... but watch out for Stanford... UCLA isn't a bad football team, and to beat them by 5 TDs on the road... wow.... their defense looked fast and athletic too...
and finally...
- Shoelace.... I almost left it at that... 502 total yards for Michigan's Denard Robinson (I still laugh when I type that), and one of the greatest individual offensive performances I've ever seen at Michigan... I'm out of superlatives... and I already tweeted this, but I want to apologize to Rich Rodriguez for doubting him publicly about starting Denard over incumbent Tate Forcier... I was wrong, Rich... you were right... Now? Expectations will be through the roof for Robinson (just as they were for Forcier following the ND game in 2009), and we all need to calm down... but he's capable of carrying that offense, and is unquestionably a fantastic fit for what Rodriguez wants to do... Really a fantastic day all around... Hail to the victors...
Until next time...
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