The weekend and Monday night football and the college weeknight games

Well I have to say that the tradition of moving college football games to throughout labor weekend is slightly better then the Monday Football Doubleheader next Monday. I think the fan would have been better served by having the Doubleheader Thursday night when the season opening game is now played. Do we really need Rascal Flatts and Diddy (what happened to P) performing on TV before the game starts or do the people on the east coast need to stay up until two in the morning to catch the end of the second Monday Night Game? Oh well I guess we can do something for the west coasters once in a while.

Well one thing we saw this weekend was that the road teams did very well against this weekend and the ones from the larger conferences dominated when they were supposed to. The MAC is not as strong as it has been over the last few years but will still play entertaining football against themselves. By the way did you notice that three Div 1-A teams (Colorado, Duke, New Mexico) lost to 1-AA teams? In addition, Kansas State only won by a point. Does this mean that the talent gap is shrinking further? Nope, just a few teams decided not to show up. As a Northwestern fan, I hope that the Wildcats don't make the same misstep against offensive powerhouse UNH. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I was a little surprised at how good the week started enroute to an 11-4-1 record. Well with week 1 done now, we have a week that includes the NFL as well and more of my life will be spent in front of the TV and sitting in bars drinking beer.

Boise St. -8 over Oregon St. The Broncos finally get a big conference team to come and play them. Former Coach Hawkins has a worse team in Colorado then he left in Boise and Oregon St. is a terrible early season road dog.

Pitt -7.5 at Cincinnati. Hmmm. Dave Wanstadt has one solid QB in veteran Tyler Palko and Cincinnati is taking turns with different QB's in different quarters. Cincinnati also averaged under 4 yards per carry in their opener against a 1-AA opponent.