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This is getting up late as usual. If I did not have to work for a living so I can eat, heat, and drive (to that job of all places), blogging would be a lot easier. Alas, I can assure you I wrote the game vignettes in chronological order.
THURSDAY, OCT. 1
Colorado v. West Virginia
7:30pm, ESPN
Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews
Is there any team that needs a win more than Colorado? Getting that much-needed win will not be easy at West Virginia as a 16-point underdog. This is a slightly disappointing penultimate weekend tilt. The worst of the season, probably.
VT/ECU on 11/5 is bad, too. Anyway, Noel Devine is a top 15 running back but he seems to have lost the shine he had when he showed up as the Deion Sanders project.
Against the Colorado rush defense, he should leap back into some CFB fans consciousness.
FRIDAY, OCT. 2
Pittsburgh v. Louisville
8:00PM, ESPN2
Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore
Has any team risen and fallen faster than Lousiville? From 2000-2006, the Cardinals went 70-20 and was a top 10 program in terms of winning percentage. Likewise, has a rising star gone black hole as suddenly as Steve Kragthorpe?
Of course, he was only 29-22 while coaching Tulsa and won only a single Conference USA title so maybe he should have been a lessor target.
Alas, fans everywhere have it in for him. Louisville has not defeated a D-I team yet this season and it is doubtful they will get it on Friday.
SATURDAY, OCT. 3
Can anyone tell me why College Gameday is in Boston this weekend for the Florida State vs. Boston College game? Sure, Boston is a top-5 city but BC recently gained approximately half a field in one game and FSU had a total meltdown last week. Thankfully, there is a reason and very good one too boot.
ESPN’s College GameDay has been all over the country since they took their show on the road, literally, in 1993. Until this coming weekend, though, the show had only been in Boston once, parachuting into Chestnut Hill in 2005 for Boston College’s first ACC game.
The reasoning for going to a matchup of two unranked teams in a town where college football may be the fourth or fifth passion?
Well, at least on its surface, it likely has something to do with the story of Mark Herzlich, the BC linebacker who was 2008’s ACC Defensive Player of the Year and diagnosed with cancer in March.
However, at the risk of sounding crass: Does this really require moving the entire production to Boston?
ESPN’s offices, it is impossible to forget, are in Bristol, Conn., and their crews are more than capable of driving to Chestnut Hill or Pennsylvania, where Herzlich may be with his family, and putting together a moving piece with or without GameDay in town.
Nuf said.
Michigan v. Michigan State
12:00pm, BTN
Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
I am actually excited about this game. Why, you ask? Because it is the only reasonable game starting at noon and I do not have the fortunate task of attending a home Ohio State game.
Moreover, the Buckeyes kick off at night so I get to watch a full two games before I have to devote all of my energy to pounding the Hoosiers in submission.
What better to start with than a semi-major rivalry game where at least one team cheats every time?
Wisconsin v. Minnesota
12 noon, ESPN
Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
These teams are 2-0 in the Big Ten and 7-1 overall. So, why don’t I respect either one? Each team had to go to overtime to defeat an overmatched opponent, and each team won their conference opener in a relatively high-scoring, defense-omitting game.
I promise that I will take the winner of this game seriously…until they revert back to their same ol’ selves.
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