Notre Shame!

Last week I asked how bad is Matt Leinart if he looks that much inferior to Alex Smith? This is the same question I have with Notre Dame. Hoe bad are they if they are losing 38-0 to Michigan? They look horrible right now and Charlie Weis should be in the hot seat, but he is not. For one, he is a good old boy who can talk his way out of anything. And also he has some goodwill in the bank after his first 2 years, except for the bowls that is. I wouldn't entirely blame the Domers for their Bowl troubles either. They just get invited to Bowl games way above their level just because they are the Fighting Irish and they end up getting exposed. It's kind of like how most people in corporate America raise up to their level of in-competence and not necessarily up to their level of competence. The Domers in Weis's 3-Rd are 0-3 and have had 2 bad blow-outs. It makes you wonder how good is his recruiting. Good programs drop-off, but never like this and thats all recruiting. You got to keep the pipeline filled and is Weis really doing that or did he just coach Tyrone Willingham's recruits to 2 good years? Makes you wonder.

The Big game of the week was USC going in to corn-country to face Nebraska. USC literally ran away with this game with 312 rushing yards. They won 49-31, but it was really not that close as the Huskers scored 2 garbage TDs at the end. 388 passing yards for Sam Keller, the ex-ASU QB now starting for the Huskers. Nick Saban's stock is rising now with Alabama at 3-0. Today his team beat the 16-Th ranked Arkansas team 41-38 with a great drive at the end. Bama lead big, lost it all, trailed at the end and came back to win. Saban is a factor again in college football. Another minor upset was Boston College beating 15-Th ranked Geogia Tech. But Boston college at 21 is a pretty good team. Fifth ranked Florida spanked 22-Nd ranked Tennessee 59-20. The better the Vols do, the better Cal looks since they beat them in week 1. The Vols look bad right now though Cal themselves took care of business today.

Ninth ranked Louisville lost to Kentucky 40-34 is a very interesting game. We know Louisville always plays high-scoring ball, but Kentucky one-upped them today. Few years back, Kentucky celebrated too early against LSU and doused coach Guy Morriss with Gatorade. But LSU quarterback Marcus Randall beat them with the last play of the game. This time that didn't happen as Louisville's stud QB Brian Brohm's 369 yards was not enough on this day. But the biggest upset of the day to me was UCLA losing 44-6 to Utah. Pac-10 has been looking good so far and then this happens to the 11-Th ranked team. To many turnovers killed the Bruins, but thats no excuse. As an ASU fan, I am happy a Pac-10 team is taking a back-seat, but still I don't like ranked Pac-10 teams losing like this. But I am happy this at least happened against another Western team in Utah rather than a East coast team from a big conference. Speaking of ASU, we beat San Diego state 34-13. So far so good for Dennis Erickson as Keegan Herring filled in for leading rusher Ryan Torain with two scores and 163 yards. Hope this keeps up in-conference.