Today in College Football

First off let me say how excited I am about college football being back in full swing.

Today has two feature matchups that people will be watching for the BCS title picture. The first game this afternoon features the Notre Dame Fighting Irish taking on one of their biggest rivals the Michigan Wolverines. Last week Notre Dame looked amazing on offense and defense with Jimmy Clausen finally being the quarterback and leader that the Irish were looking for the past two seasons. With receivers like Golden Tate and Michael Floyd and shutting down a pretty good offense in Nevada it was definitely a strong opening game for the Irish. However tell me there isn’t a team in college football that doesn’t have more to prove than Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines.  It’s tough to really take a whole lot out of a game against Western Michigan, other than Tim Taylor from Home Improvement going there that’s really all I can tell you about the college. Anytime you have to go into the “Big House” it is never an easy task especially when you play a tough, young, hungry team. I’m looking forward to seeing a hard hitting, high scoring very exciting game, however I think that the Irish’s experience will prevail in the end and Michigan will have to go back to the drawing board.

The later game tonight is definitely the game of the week featuring the USC Trojans vs the Ohio State Buckeyes, and trust me Ohio State needs to win this game. You’ve all heard the Ohio State “suckeyes” jokes, the comments about Jim Tressel’s sweater vests, if they want those to stop go out and beat a team like USC. If there was ever an opportunity to make a statement that the Big Ten is a power conference and not just another overhyped MAC conference this would be the time to show it. USC has a freshman QB leading them, they also lost a lot of key defensive players to the draft, for the first time in what seems to be an eternity the Trojans are a beatable team. Terrelle Prior needs to go out and be huge, throw the ball down the field, use your legs at a weapon and keep USC on their toes. Ohio State cannot go out on the field today in front of their home crowd and play like they did against Navy last week, if they do USC will go crazy and ESPN will be once again killing Ohio State and the Big Ten Conference and no one will be able to defend them, no pressure Ohio State you’re not only playing for your own pride, but also for your entire conference. There is no way I can pick against USC until Ohio State shows some heart and passion on the field….. all we as fans can hope for is a good game and that the Buckeyes will help save their conference.