OBSERVATIONS FROM SATURDAY
By mark rogers
September 13, 2009
Things I noticed:
Texas took a while to get rolling, but when they got rolling, it was fun to watch. Former Southlake Carroll Tre Newton may end up having a great redshirt freshman season. He looked really good when Vondrell McGee went out.
Colt McCoy seemed to have a little trouble getting used to the thin air - had a lot of balls sail on him - but he ended up with good numbers (3 TDs passing, 1 rushing) and is in the thick of the Heisman race.
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I'm really mad at myself because I missed the end of the Central Michigan/Michigan State game. After Central Michigan missed the 2-point conversion, it was 2:30 PM so I switched it to the Texas game. I only noticed the score on the bottom of the screen later in the evening and read about what happened.
Cent Michigan QB Dan LeFevour is a player I told you all to look out for before the season. What a huge win for that program. And how about the player who was offsides on the first game-winning FG attempt? Wow. Wonder how he slept last night?
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Two games were decided by missed extra points: South Carolina/Georgia and Purdue/Oregon.
The Gamecocks had one blocked earlier in the game, so instead of being able to kick a tying FG in the final seconds, they had to go for the TD...didn't make it and lost.
Purdue missed a PAT and ended up losing to Oregon because of it. My argument on PATs is that if the game comes down to an extra point, then you didn't do the job in other aspects of the game. If you want to win the game, win the game. Don't let it come down to one point.
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UNC beat Connecticut on a bad snap that resulted in a safety. 12-10 was the final. UNC didn't look as good as I thought they would.
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Ohio State REALLY surprised me. USC was favored by 7, and I thought they'd have covered that two or three times over.
Instead they needed true freshman Matt Barkley to go 90-plus yards in the final seconds...AT Ohio State.
That was really impressive - and he did it on a banged up shoulder. I think he's going to end up being something very special.
And although USC didn't dominate like they did last year, a win's a win, and they'll keep their #3 ranking.
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And how's this for a crazy string of games: Wyoming beat Weber State, Weber State beat Colorado State, Colorado State beat Colorado, which got mutilated by Toledo, which got mutilated by Purdue which lost to Oregon, which lost to Boise State...wonder if that will ever come back around to Wyoming. I'll keep track of it.
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