1. Michigan State University – Lost again to UM, going to lose next week also, as #1 OSU rolls into town.
2. Tim Tebow – No more gay jump passes, ok?
3. Florida International University – See #4
4. University of North Texas – You two combined for 47 points…after 7 overtimes. Each kicker missed 4 attempts during the OT periods, and all the points after regulation were field goals. This may be one of the most poorly played game in D-IA in a long time.
5. Wake Forest – An exquisite performance in the mold of John L Smith. Up 17-3 in the 4th quarter, and attempting a field goal to make it more, a bad snap turns into a TD for Clemson, who proceeded to roll up 24 unanswered points in the fourth to win 27-17.
6. Florida State University – You lost to NC State…guess it’s karma for renting a band. But it is good for you that the next rule doesn’t apply, or you’d be worse than Akron.
7. The Transitive Property – Ivan Maisel of ESPN.com said it better than I can: “Auburn fans reveled in the old comparative-score trick last week. The Tigers beat Washington State by 26. USC beat the Cougars by six. Let’s see now: USC beat Arkansas by 36 …“
8. IDLE – A tough opponent for some teams (Miami (FL), FSU, VT, etc.), but Tech should have no problems. A win here sets up a huge match up against Clemson in 2 weeks…

Down with the red and black…

Auburn lost.

Here we go.

Noon:

• Arkansas @ Auburn, CBS – As much as I admire Arkansas for somehow beating Alabama, they’re probably heading for a beating here.
• UNC @ Miami, LF ACC Game – Amato has saved his job, so these are the two hottest seats in the ACC right now. The funniest message board post I’ve seen in the past two weeks involved a UNC fan going on the Miami board to make sure that UM was pysched about beating UNC. The UM fans responded in kind, asking UNC to lay the wood on UM. I kid you not. These people are depressed.
• Purdue @ Iowa, ESPNU – Once again, fellow engineering school bias. Go Biolermakers!
• Clemson @ Wake, ESPN – A surprisingly heated ACC rivalry – Wake has won the last two meetings. Wake is also the sole remaining undefeated team in the ACC. Can the Deacons pull it off?

2:30- Stanford @ Notre Dame, ABC – ND rolls. Why can’t they just play USC already?

3:30:

• Oklahoma @ Texas, ABC – I think Texas rolls here. Adrian Peterson has a chance to make some noise, and I wish I could see it, but nonetheless, the horns hook ’em again.
• LSU @ Florida, CBS – I wish I could also see this game. A lot of people like LSU, but I think Florida has a good chance. It helps Auburn a lot if LSU wins, though.
• Maryland @ Georgia Tech, ESPNU – Can Tech keep it up? Will the Fridge outsmart us? If for some reason you happen to have ESPNU, tune it in. I’ll be there (hence my two previous statements) along with a guest appearance by my brother.
• Washington @ USC, FSN – USC rolls. (It’s almost 6am, I’m tired.)

4:30: Michigan St. @ UMich, ESPN – How, MSU looked so good 3 weeks ago. Amazing what one horrendous loss can do to a team. And John L. Smith is insane.

7:00:

• Missouri @ Texas Tech, TBS – TTU burned me last week, but I refuse to believe that Mizzou is actually any good. General good rule right now for the Big 12 is that the Big 12 South is a lot better than the North, so I’m going with the Raiders on this one.
• Central Mich @ Toledo, ESPNU – Uh, go Rockets?
• South Carolina @ Kentucky, ESPN2 – Kentucky is in the bottom 3 worst programs in the SEC right now, along with the Mississippi schools. The Visored One rolls.

7:45: Tennessee @ Georgia, ESPN – Big SEC East game. Go Vols! (Seriously, UGA, where is your offense? Not that I’m complaining.)

8:00: Oregon @ Cal, ABC – Cal continues to try to recover from their opening loss to UT, and karma hopefully will work against Oregon. Cal, I imagine, also has a better post-3rd quarter song. So Go Bears!

It’s that time of year again, and for the first time in a long time, I won’t be obessively tracking it.

If my old website was still up, I could show you my old tracking of the baseball playoffs, originally born out of a desire to have a readable schedule. I used to check MLB’s websites extensively for any hint of when the games would be, stuff like that.

But due to a combination of the Braves sucking, readable website designs, and trying to graduate this semester (hint: do not take more than 2 real classes your graduating semester) I simply do not have the time or desire to do it. So, yeah.

That said, I will still be doing bowl predictions. With this new commetary site thinger, the three of us could have a sort of competition to see who’s picks turn out the best. Or I could continue what I did last year, which is get a bunch of my friends together early Sunday morning after the games were over to decide the best bets for who goes where and trying to decide what the BCS would look like. In the end, I’ll probably compromise – use the comittee to predict who goes where, and then have a competition picking the actual games.

Anyway, I don’t do the predictions until the weekend the first BCS standings come out, which I believe is next weekend (which is also my fall break). So keep it here for two weeks for no to get my opinion on who will be in such illustrious new games like the Birmingham Bowl and the International Bowl.