Yeah, I know there are two games left, but I'll be drinking heavily during one, and paying no attention to the other, so....
I can only assume that people who claim to like pro football simply don't watch college football. We've already had five games better than anything the NFL will offer all year.
I know with all the streaming services and conference networks and whatnot, broadcasting talent must be at a premium, but Jesus. I'm pretty sure the play by play guy on the Pitt game was watching an entirely different game (perhaps in his head), and may or may not have been doing Social Studies homework during halftime. The guy doing the App State / UNC game must surely have been watching his first game of gridiron football. Either that, or he's just incredibly bad at math. Or both. Randy Cross twice wondered out loud if Navy should "go for the FG here," down 7 with 1:00 left in the game (and, not that it should matter, without its normal kicker).
Whatever Wyoming wore yesterday, they should wear forever. They have, to be kind, a challenging color scheme, but they looked pretty good yesterday. They also became the first underdog to cash a ML play for me in OT since the Eisenhower Administration. 
I'm usually not much for hyphenated, half-ass, regional programs, but UTSA seems to be an exception. That place was rocking, they got about 30,000 of their own folks to show up, and were fun to watch. Uniforms are goofy, but life is imperfect.
Nobody hates replay more than me, but even I can't recall seeing them screw up a play where a guy caught a ball twice for a TD, and wasn't awarded either. Poor Illinois. That said, I thought, on balance, the replays I saw over the weekend were seemingly called correctly, and there weren't tons of them. Let's hope that trend continues. Another trend I hope to see continue is the sanity with appeared to be applied to "targeting" calls. Didn't see one I disagreed with either way. The lack of pass interference calls was also a nice change.
Navy is incredibly terrible. Mids are lucky they play Temple, because I'm not sure there's another win on the schedule.
The average margin of victory in BC home games since 1987 is now a negative number. Physicists are unclear as to how this is possible. BC also hold the Guinness record for "most games during which the score was 9-7 at some point."
Southern U had 16 penalties for 136 yards last night, and won by 86. There's a message there somewhere.
Lost in the shuffle last night was the battle of a Team With a Coach I Can't Believe is Still There against a Team With a Coach Who Isn't Going to Be There Much Longer, in which Syracuse looked surprisingly good.
Feel like Alabama might be sneaky good this year.
great thread. 
Good luck with your M's. 
) ........Sept. 8th, 2012
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