MAC's "big" Saturday

The Mid-American conference does what it can to get any type of national spot light, If it means playing a lot of their games mid-week so they can be stand alone games on epsn or espn2, they will do it. If it means playing a bunch of Big Ten teams on the road, they will do it. This Saturday 8 MAC teams played at Big Ten teams. two of them, Toledo and NIU won, beating Purdue and Minnesota. Temple did start out great against PSU and scored 13 points in the first quarter, sadly for them, they didn't score again, and lose 22-13. CMU also played Northwestern close for most of the game, it was 13-13 at halftime, but the Wildcats took control in the 3rd, leading 30-13, before the Chips came back to make it a game, at 30-25, but a onside kick was not recovered with just over a minute left and that was the game. CMU made too many mistakes to win, missing a field goal and two PATs, as well as turning the ball over three times. They need to get those problems fixed, but if they do, they could still be a force in the MAC. It does look like Toledo will be the team to beat in the MAC West. Some of the MAC teams didn't fair so well as Ball State got rolled 45-0 at Iowa, Michigan put up 65 on BG, and of course the worst MAC team, if not worst team in the country, Eastern Michigan went to OSU and somehow scored 20... but they gave up 73. The other MAC-Big Ten match ups was Akron at IU, which was close for awhile. Two other MAC schools had "big" games against the Big East, Buffalo vs UCONN, and the Big 12, Miami Oh at Mizzu. Uconn won 45-21, while Mizzu had no problems with the Redhawks 51-13.

For the rest of the nation:

Auburn beat south car at home after a nice come back

Bama had a great come back on the road to beat Arkansas

Boise handled Oregon State at home

Texas got rolled at home to UCLA

Cinci played OK very tough, and almost got the win, but couldn't finish, loosing 31-29

The college football weekend got started with da U going to Pitt and destroying them 31-3.

SMU played well for a half at home vs TCU, but the second half belonged to TCU winning 41-24

NC State continues to be one of the surprise teams in the nation, as they handled UGA Tech 45-28, and are now ranked.

The Big East has no teams in the top 25, as WVU feel out after loosing at LSU 20-14.

FL had no problem with Ken, as they get ready for Bama next week.

Next week there will be a lot more big games, so I am looking forward to that. CMU plays Ball State in their conference home opener, and after a three game road trip, I am ready to go to K/S for another CMU win.. hopefully they will bounce back nicely. I'm right, you're wrong.