Ah, Saturday
The college-football day formerly known as Showdown Saturday is underway. And although last week's upsets deflated some of the big games, they lended unexpected importance to others, like Wisconsin-Illinois (Illini lead 24-19 in the fourth quarter) and Kansas-Kansas State (Jayhawks up 21-17, also in the fourth).
After last week's unexpected massacre of the Terrific Twenty-Three, how many unbeatens will fall today? Already, the Fantastic Fifteen is down to a Fantastic Fourteen after South Carolina's win over Kentucky on Thursday. And it'll decrease to at least thirteen when Ohio State plays Purdue tonight. In addition, Kansas and Wisconsin are both in close games right now, and Cincinnati (at Rutgers), Missouri (vs. Nebraska) and LSU (vs. Florida) all figure to face tough tests tonight. It wouldn't be surprising if the number of unbeatens decreases to single-digits by the end of the night.
Oh, and Buffalo is beating Ohio! :) It's 17-7 Bulls in the third quarter.
I probably won't be posting as many college-football updates as usual today, but feel free to comment here on whatever games are going on.
GOOOO IRISH!!! BEEEEAT BRUINS!!!
FIGHT ON TROJANS!!! BEAT THE FARM!!!
UPDATE: Illinois wins! After ending the #5-ranked Badgers' best-in-the-nation 14-game winning streak, the Illini are 3-0 in the Big Ten and will undoubtedly be ranked next week. If Illinois keeps playing this well, they could go to the Final Four! Er, the Rose Bowl, that is. :)
So now just thirteen unbeatens remain. Kansas remains in that group after going into Manhattan and knocking off Kansas State.
In other news: Buffalo 31, Ohio 10, final. w00t!
Oh, and Northwestern beat Sparty. Heh.
Now, Tennessee is winning at home, 21-0 over Georgia. Good ol' Rocky Top! Whoo!
As if the Trojan stomping of my Alma Mater wasn't going to be bad enough anyway, the Cardinal are starting their backup QB after Ostrander had a seizure last week (thought to be a reaction to pain meds he was taking).
Could. be. ugly.
Posted by: Jim Hu | Oct 6, 2007 3:48:08 PM
Could be good for Stanford though. If the backup guy can step up, he'll cause problems for SC since they don't have any game footage to plan from. Of course, they do have game footage on the offensive line, so Stanford might be going to their backup backup quarterback if they aren't careful. :)
Posted by: jc | Oct 6, 2007 3:56:23 PM
Make that 28-0...Whoo!
Posted by: Jay Johnson | Oct 6, 2007 4:45:31 PM
Let's goooooo, Mar-y-land!
Talk about holding on to a lead ... and almost blowing it twice. 28-26, if you were wondering, against Ga. Tech.
Posted by: Josh Rubin | Oct 6, 2007 5:11:14 PM
GO Illini! Yippee!
Posted by: Trisha | Oct 6, 2007 7:32:49 PM