Head Shots: Conference Roll Call and More

Beanie Getting Hurt Was Jim Tressel’s Fault: Or so Pat Forde wants you to believe. He thinks Tressel was trying to pad some Heisman stats. This just in: Pat Forde sucks.

“Few more chances to pile up numbers against an outclassed defense” doesn’t really say how well YSU played defensively. He slams you with accusations, then eases you with “any coach would have done it.” They, in fact, did.

Oklahoma’s DeMarco Murray was still in with nine minutes left in the third quarter (Score 50-2) after 15 carries for 124 yards. Georgia’s Knowshon Moreno was in on the Bulldogs first possession of the third quarter and racked up one of three touchdowns at 24-0 on single-digit carries.

You could argue that Beanie wasn’t needed at this point, I could argue he wasn’t needed all day. Beanie and AJ Trapasso could have been at home watching Big Ten Network and the Bucks would have cruised.

Sure, another TD would have looked nice and I’m sure Beanie didn’t argue about being in the game. Damn Field Turf. If Ohio Stadium still had the natural grass, he could have slid from the 7-yard line to the end zone. Jim Tressel says “He’s going to be fine,” but does that mean carries against Ohio?

USC Will Take Your Dignity: I knew Virginia wasn’t any good. Phil Steele picked them right around last in the ACC (yes, that ACC), behind Duke. I figured Pete would take it easy on them. He didn’t and made Al Groh wish it was 2007 all over again. 52-7.

Everything clicked. If you were able to catch SportsCenter or any of the college football programs, you could almost find ESPN talking about USC like they were lone hot girl in calculus class (they don’t have a game this week and they lead off Week 2 discussions?).

Mark Sanchez got the start and played the entire game. Scratch that, Aaron Corp got in (1 of 2 for 6 yards). We’re all about game experience, but wouldn’t you even want to put your backup in some time in the first half, considering he has not a college snap and Sanchez has been injured recently?

The last thing OSU needs is for USC to have excuses if they beat them. Pete Carroll has struck first, it will be interesting to see what Jim Tressel does to Ohio.

CONFERENCE ROLL CALL

ACC: They should have to send the Big Ten ‘thank you’ cards. While Ohio State has been losing championship games, the ACC has been barely been able to win a BCS game. Follow that up with Week One and you have the worst conference. Plain and simple. Miami could be the lone bright spot, but only until they play Florida next week.

Big East: Did you hear West Virginia won? Pat White threw for five TDs! The rest of the conference? Not quite sure they scored five TDs combined. Steve Kragthorpe obviously hates his job, because I’m not sure he’s trying. Pete Fuitak thinks future pro prospect Hunter Cantwell’s delivery starts sometime in Brian Brohm’s sophomore season (I agree). Rutgers wants Ray Rice back. Un-Falcon-Believable, Pitt is really bad. Makes you wonder how bad West Virginia really did choke last season.

Big Ten: The cupcake games went as planned, which was better than I could say for the ACC. Even Iowa rolled over Maine. Higher profile games? Not so much.

Juice Williams put up real QB numbers, but the defense was helpless against Mizzou’s spread offense. Michigan State couldn’t get defensive against Cal, even with Dell’s 202 receiving yards. Michigan? I was more impressed with Rodriguez’s choke job against Pitt.

Big 12: I know why Oklahoma wins the conference. They play defense. Missouri let Juice Williams throw for 450 yards and five touchdowns (that’s like an entire season for him). The Sooners were able to hold Chattanooga’s total yards equal to roughly the length of a Greyhound bus. Texas A&M probably sent Mike Sherman a bill for part of his salary. No huge disappointments.

Pac-10: Either Rick Neuheisel has magic dust (he is in LA) or UCLA was really never that bad defensively. Both teams earned respect in my book after that game. Sign me up for some Norm Chow. See USC above. Stanford has a big white dude at tailback and he averages nine yards a carry (seriously, none longer or shorter). Oregon destroyed conference opponent Washington (UDub was better last year?)

SEC: Things went well until Tennessee lost to UCLA. Florida scored every which way against a June Jones-less, Colt Brennan-less, everyone else-less Hawaii team. LSU avoided the upset and looked good overall. Bobby Petrino will probably leave for the NFL after his team’s effort. Antonio Henton tried, but couldn’t conquer Georgia.