Weekend Recap

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This weekend was one of the greatest weekends in college football. From Central Michigan's unbelievable luck in the tail ends of their game against Sparty, Tate Forcier's coming out party, and USC pulling one out in Columbus.

As it looks right now, in week 2 of the college football season, no conference has established themselves just yet as the elite conference in the nation. Alabama is struggling against FIU, Buckeyes just lost to USC, however both teams were evenly matched, Sooners have already lost to BYU, and the ACC has lost to two FBS teams already. It seems like every year is a competition to match the mayhem from the year before.

Anyways, the three games I want to touch on from this last weekend are Michigan vs. Notre Dame, Ohio State vs. USC, and Houston vs. Oklahoma State.

Houston vs. Oklahoma State, the game that was not on anyone's radar, but ended up being one of the most exciting games of the weekend. I mean, even if it wasn't, it was still an upgrade from the LSU/Vandy game. This game validates to assumptions that were made at the beginning of the season. The first of which is Houston's QB Case Keenum's ability to play the QB position. This guy has put up amazing number the past couple of years has not gotten his fair share of attention. Look for this to cause a rise in his draft stock and look to hear his name more often as the season progresses. Secondly, the preconceived notion that the Big 12 plays terrible defense. I know Case Keenum is a great QB, but Houston is not a great team. There is no way that they should've put up 45 points on a team that held Georgia to only 10 points.

Notre Dame vs. Michigan, also known as the hot seat game for the coaches of both of these programs. This game was very exciting to watch and both teams delivered. I'm here to tell you that Michigan beat a very good Notre Dame team. Both of these teams at the end of the year should be in the top 25. If they continue to play at the levels that they can, this could be the year that both programs re-establish themselves as elite programs in the nation. I know we all found out that Lou Holtz was wrong once again, but I think we will all find out that he was not too crazy. Look for both of these teams to play the spoiler roles as they play more top ten teams as the season progresses.

USC vs. Ohio State, this was the most exciting game of the weekend. Ohio State came out a little sloppy and it looked as if another rout was on course again. However, Ohio State responded to an early turnover with a TD drive of their own. As a matter of fact, the Buckeyes not only hung in there with the big boys of USC, but they punched them right in the mouth. This Buckeyes controlled every aspect of this game until that very last drive. I want to go ahead and address that last drive by USC because a lot of people are saying that that drive will be the signature drive to the start of Matt Barkley's career. I want to go ahead and point out that Barkley did nothing. 85 yards of that 86 yard drive came from Joe McKnight, and the final yard was from Stafon Johnson. Both QB's in this game looked sloppy, but that's expected from a defensive game, which the PAC-10 doesn't see that often, but I'll tell you what, Pryor looked determined. If there was one thing made known from this game, is that both USC and Ohio are elite programs, but nobody wanted it more than Pryor. I would say to look for both of these teams to possibly meet back up in the Rose Bowl.

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