Sunday, September 21, 2008

Saturday Recap

It's another early Sunday morning and while I am contemplating todays Sunday Dinner Episode I thought I might as well get yesterdays football games out of the way.

Michigan - A great day for Michigan football, they never turned the ball over one time, didn't give up a point on defense and the coaching was flawless. Oh, what did you say? Michigan didn't play yesterday? Well that was probably a good thing since the lawn didn't need mowing yesterday. I guess I will save the lawn until next weekend when they play Wisconsin.

Michigan Tech - Yes MTU Huskies, believe it or not they were on national TV Thursday night. They showed up on Fox Sports Detroit and also on CBSC which is the college sports station for CBS sports. I found them in time to watch the second half. Here is the game recap from the MTU website:

"Phil Milbrath exploded for 189 yards and four second half touchdowns to lead Michigan Tech to a 47-21 win at Northern Michigan tonight at the Superior Dome. The win, witnessed by 8,672 people at the dome and a national television audience on FSN Detroit and CBS College Sports, was accompanied by the Miner's Cup, the traveling trophy for the rivalry."

Pretty impressive eh?



Sorry all I could find for sports at MTU.

MSU and Notre Dame - Since they played each other yesterday this will be easy. I'm not sure what to make of this game yet. Is ND's offense that bad or is MSU's defense that good? I think it's the ND offense since they really haven't done much this year other than a couple of drives against San Diego State and maybe one against Michigan last week. I think Charlie needs to find another quarterback because the one he has now isn't showing any improvement. I will give credit to the MSU defense though they look much improved from a year ago.

I will give ND's defense props though. If it wasn't for Ringer this game would have stayed in the single digits for the final score. Any games ND wins this year will have to come from their defense, they are much improved. All I can say about the MSU offense is it's a good thing they have Ringer.

Since we are 4 weeks into the season it's time to start posting my top 5 football teams.

1. USC - Didn't play this week but still looked good
2. Oklahoma - Didn't play this week but still averaging over 50 points a game.
3. Missouri - Won over Buffalo 42-21
4. Florida - Won over Tennessee 60-6
5. Georgia - Won over Arizona State 27-10

Who to watch for: Any team in the SEC conference.

Top Heisman hopefuls (In no particular order)

Knowshon Moreno - Georgia (Don't you love that first name?) - running back - 23 rushes, 149 yards, 2 TDs
Tim Tebow - Florida - quarterback - 8 for 15 passing, 96 yards, 2 TDs
Chase Danials - Missouri - quarterback - 36 for 43 passing, 439 yards, 2 TDs
Jeremy Maclin - Missouri - receiver - 14 receptions, 168 yards, 2 rushes, 25 yards, 1 TD
Rey Maualuga - USC - Linebacker - Didn't play this week (I got to have a defensive player in there)
Javon Ringer - MSU - running back - 39 rushes, 201 yards, 2 TDs.

6 comments:

jporterGOP said...

Dan LeFevour
24-44 291 yards 2 touchdowns
24 carries 124 yards 1 touchdown

Total:

415 yards 3 touchdowns against Purdue

On the season:

1,119 Yards and 7 Touchdowns, good for a QB rating of 130.6.

Unknown said...

But he threw the interception in the end of the game when they still had a chance to win the game.

I blame the coaches though there was no reason to throw the ball down field like they were trying. There was plenty of time left on the clock and they were on the opponents side of the 50 yard line.

jporterGOP said...

i blame the defense for that game. after your offense gives you the lead on a two point conversion, how can you give up that 40 something yard run and still look those guys in the eyes? after they just put it all out there and came up on top, to lose it all in a matter of seconds was just pathetic. CMU has an absolutely terrible defense. it's awful. if you ever wonder why they can't compete with good teams, that's why. their offense is fine against even teams like Georgia...but their defense can't keep anyone under 35 points.

carriegel said...

almost all of nd's starting offensive line are sophomores. they will get better.

i will be rooting for favre tomorrow night.

Unknown said...

I'm not sure their offensive line is the problem they didn't give up a sack until the MSU game.

For a minute I thought peej was talking about the Lions but then he said something about a good offense.

I watched the end of the game and didn't CMU give up a long kick off return and then make a stupid penalty too? Purdue was almost in field goal position anyway to win the game so when they scored I thought CMU had a better chance just because they had the ball in their hands. LeFevour made a good throw down the field to get them inside the 50 and they kept throwing down field with over a minute left on the clock. He made a bad throw into coverage and it got picked off. I thought they had plenty of time left to work their way down before they took a shot at the endzone.

Unknown said...

Oh I should add if you want to root for a winner root for Michigan Tech Huskies.

Go Huskies.