I don’t find these first two weeks of college ball very interesting because most of the top teams try to establish intimidating credentials by drubbing patsy teams like Austin Peay and Louisiana Monroe.
Those patsies are to college football as Iron Mike Sharpe (“Canada’s Greatest Athlete”) was to WWF wrestling. They are hired specifically to make their opponent look good. I always thought it must be weird to be one of those guys like Iron Mike or The Duke of Dorchester because they lived in a nebulous limbo world between the good and evil worlds which are defined so clearly in rasslin’. One week the crowd might be on The Duke’s side as the Million Dollar Man was stuffing dollar bills into his dentally-challenged mouth, but the very next week the crowd might be booing him as he took a few cheap but ineffective shots at Andre the Giant.
Anyway, back to football. The only really interesting thing to report is that it was a terrible two weeks for the states of Michigan and Florida. Miami, Florida and Florida State all lost games they were expected to win. Michigan and Michigan State also picked up losses.
Last week there were a few events worth noting:
#9 Auburn defeated #6 Washington
#12 Notre Dame defeated #14 Michigan
#25 LSU impressed by defeating #8 Miami. Miami was down 27-3 at halftime.
#20 Virginia Tech crushed #19 Florida State. The Seminoles had nothin’ in that game.
#23 Texas lost to unranked Maryland.
All other ranked teams defeated their unranked opponents.
This week:
#3 Georgia defeated #24 South Carolina
#10 Stanford defeated #17 USC
#25 Florida lost to unranked Kentucky. That last time Kentucky won that match-up, I think their quarterback was Daniel Boone.
#15 Michigan State lost to unranked Arizona State
All the other babyfaces defeated all their Iron Mike Sharpes.