An examination of this week’s faculty soccer scores revealed that a minimum of 20 video games had mixed scores of 70 or extra. Twenty video games resulted in 1,560 factors scored, a mean of 78 per recreation. Good grief, no matter occurred to protection? Sixteen of those 20 video games weren’t noteworthy regardless of the rating:
Oklahoma State at house outlasted Texas Tech 49-45, you select whether or not these are two nice offensive or two actually awful defensive groups (94 whole factors).
Navy at house beat Duke 46-43 (89).
No. 13 Oregon (within the AP High 25) traveled to Stanford and gained 55-31 (86), we anticipated as a lot. The Geese at the moment are 4-0.
No. 4 Oklahoma traveled to Tulsa and gained 62-21 (83).
Bowling Inexperienced at house beat Temple 48-35 (83).
Troy traveled to LA-Lafayette and gained 48-31 (79).
Northern Illinois traveled to Idaho and gained 42-35 (77).
Purdue traveled to Minnesota and gained 45-31 (76). The Boilermakers at the moment are 4-0.
Arizona State at house beat Oregon State 44-32 (76). The Solar Devils at the moment are 4-0.
UCF (the College of Central Florida) at house beat Memphis 56-20 (76).
Auburn at house beat New Mexico State 55-20 (75).
Tennessee at house beat Arkansas State 48-27 (75).
UCLA at house beat Washington 44-31 (75).
No. 6 California at house beat Arizona 45-27 (72). The Bears at the moment are 4-0.
No. 7 Texas at house beat Rice 58-14 (72). The Longhorns at the moment are 4-0.
Toledo at house beat Iowa State 36-35.
4 of those 20 video games have been noteworthy past the 70-plus mixed rating:
No. 21 Kentucky traveled to Arkansas and gained 42-29 (71). The Wildcats at the moment are 4-0. I nonetheless assume Kentucky is not so good as its file. They will must beat higher competitors to persuade me.
Syracuse (an 0-3 workforce) traveled to No. 18 Louisville and upset the Cardinals 38-35 (73). Syracuse led 31-14 after the third quarter. I’ve been saying for 3 weeks that Louisville has no protection value speaking about. The Washington Huskies traveled to Syracuse of their opener and beat The Orangemen 42-12. No. 19 Hawaii at house beat AA Charleston Southern 66-10 (76). The Warriors at the moment are 4-0 after one other cupcake opponent.
No. 24 Nebraska at house beat Ball State, sure, THAT Midwestern powerhouse, 41-40 (81).
The underside line: Would the sportswriters who vote within the AP High 25 Ballot recover from it and transfer Louisville, Hawaii and Nebraska proper out the ballot. All three groups should be booted out.
The 4th week noticed two different upsets: Miami (FL) at house simply dealt with No. 20 Texas A&M, and Michigan at house held off No. 10 Penn State 14-9. Michigan was favored within the recreation, however I believe Penn State ought to have been a visiting favourite if the Nittany Lions are actually the No. 10 workforce within the nation. Together with Louisville, Hawaii and Nebraska, Texas A&M ought to be voted out of the High 25 to make room for higher groups.
No. 1 USC simply slammed Washington State 47-14, No. 2 LSU beat No. 12 South Carolina 28-16, No. 22 Georgia traveled to No. 16 Alabama and gained with an ideal landing cross and catch on the final play 26-23, No. 3 Florida slid by a weak Mississippi workforce 30-24, and No. 9 Wisconsin managed to beat a weak Iowa workforce 17-13 with a final quarter landing.
No. 5 West Virginia, No. 8 Ohio State, No. 14 Boston Faculty, No. 15 Clemson, No. 17 Virginia Tech, No. 23 South Florida and No. 25 Missouri all gained.
The underside line: USC, LSU, Florida, West Virginia, Ohio State, Boston Faculty, Missouri, Clemson, South Florida and Wisconsin all stay unbeaten. I nonetheless assume Wisconsin shouldn’t be the ninth finest workforce in faculty soccer. Actuality lastly hit Indiana because it misplaced its first recreation to Illinois.
Among the many unranked and nonetheless unbeaten, Kansas at house beat Florida Worldwide 55-3, Michigan State traveled to Notre Dame and gained 31-14, Connecticut traveled to Pittsburgh and gained 34-14, and Cincinnati at house beat Marshall 40-14. Amongst new coaches, Mark Dantonio of Michigan State is 4-0, Dennis Erickson at Arizona State is 4-0 and Nick Saban at Alabama misplaced his first recreation with the Crimson Tide and is now 3-1.
Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley
