ECU stomped UCF in greenville and won by two touchdowns. It wasn't quite a "rout," which was the headline the Sentinel ran with, but it certainly was convincing. UCF had 5 turnovers in the third quarter. You can't do that on the road against a team that was a popular pre-season pick to win our division (along with USM). It's easy to look at ECU's record and write them off, but with injuries and suspensions, last night was the first real game they've had with close to everyone on the field. My guess is ECU wins out. For our sake, let's hope they lose one more and we find a way to win the rest of our conference games. My expectation for UCF at the beginning of the season was to be bowl eligible. I stand by that. Three more wins knights, four for good measure.

You know who else had 5 turnovers? USC. All is right in the world when the media darling finally drops a game. To Stanford no less. Prior to the game, Jim Harbaugh, the coach for Stanford, called this year's USC the greatest college football team of all time. Stupid fantasy time zone and their cute little conference. Maybe they've been sleeping through noon kickoffs.

Cal on the other hand, might be the real deal. After the shakeups yesterday (when they had a bye week), where do you put them? #2, #3? #1 is obvious, of course. Good teams find ways to win, and LSU did that over a young gator team. The question there is what to do with UF. Do you keep a 2 loss gator team in the top 10? Being that they were already #9, I'd say that's a giant negative. Certainly top 15 though. At least until the South Carolina game.

Ohio State over Purdue. Finally, normalcy in college football.

Illinois over Wisconsin. Sorry Greg. That Ron Zook sure can coach, though.

Did anyone actually watch the USF game? I highly doubt it and I bet the polls will reflect it. FAU had the game in hand until a couple of Big East ref's blew a call on a fumble recovery. FAU punts the ball, two USF players run into each other and fumble. FAU recovers right outside the endzone, Big Easy ref's call interference on FAU. ESPNU announcers, who I believe were borrowed from the local high school press box, acknowledge the error and then immediately go back to blowing smoke up USF's ass. Sooner or later, someone's going to expose this team. For the Big East's sake, they better hope it's not in a bowl game blowout.

Rice over Southern Miss. Memphis over Marshall. Utah over Louisville (hah!). Tennessee over the Dawgs. OK over Texas. Kansas over Kansas State. South Carolina over Kentucky. Maryland over Ga. Tech (go terps).

Man alive. What a great weekend of college football.

Typically, week one football is a mess. I guess, this year was no exception, except the outcomes were a bit different than usual. If you live here in the States and still don't know about the Michigan game, then you really need to consider canceling your WoW account and joining the rest of us in laughter. Suckers.

I had started the season thinking we could see another Big 10 vs SEC match up in the national championship. Ohio State has lost a little bit of its punch this off-season, and really, that only leaves big blue in the conference. Everyone else sucks (you heard me, Wisconsin.). The SEC, for the record, will be represented by LSU, not Tim Tebow (you heard me, Sentinel staff).

Turns out I was completely wrong about Michigan. Maybe Wisconsin does have a chance in the Big10. LSU vs USC in the NC game would be a media field day though, and may finally settle that tired debate once and for all (pac10 is overrated). I should make it clear that I'm not mentioning LSU over and over because I'm a fan of them or the SEC -- in fact, I'd enjoy nothing more than watching the SEC beat each other into irrelevance. It's just LSU's defense looked dang fast the other night.

ND got blown out by Ga. Tech, which makes Baby Jesus very happy, regardless of what TD Jesus has to say about it.

FSU lost to Clemson. I'm not sure what FSU did to justify a top 20 ranking, they finished the season last year completely out of it and then fired 5 of their coaches. If nothing else, their first half on the football field was going to be ugly as sin -- which is exactly what happened. The ACC should be fun to watch this year though. Clemson, Ga Tech, Wakeforest all have non-traditionally strong teams. Va. Tech showed weakness, FSU and Miami are rebuilding. I thought the OK/Miami game would be Randy Shannon's official coming out party, but after OK knotched up 70+ points on their cupcake opponent, I'm not so sure. Miami beat Marshall, but not by 70.

Cal over Tennessee -- pay back's a bitch.

UCF over NC State was absolutely thrilling to watch. The knights learned how to run to the ball and tackle. UCF developed a tolerable pass rush, and their corners are even better. Kyle Israel and his WR's need to work on their pitch and catch a bit though, because the defense looked beat up and tired in the second half. Kevin Smith can't do everything, even if he is a monster. An absolute monster.

Some big games coming up this weekend -- can't wait to see the Auburn/USF game, notably.