What We Learned in Week 2

Week 2 of the college football season provided us fans, bloggers, students, et al a whole lot of excitement. The slate of games on the ESPN family today was unbelievable. First, Michigan takes out the Irish in the Big House on a great play by freshman Tate Forcier. If the last name sounds familiar, it's because he has two older brothers on resurging Pac-10 programs, although Chris is transferring out of UCLA. This Forcier brother seems to be like the one that is headed for greatness out of all of them and today we saw why. We saw two other freshmen go into hostile territories and come away with a win to take back to LA. We also saw the Big-12 get tested. Lots of goodness, so lets break it down.

Notre Dame can't play D: Well, if UMich led by the aforementioned Forcier can rack up 38 points on them, we know something is wrong. This is not to discredit the maize and blue, but no one saw this offensive production from Rich Rod's squad this early in the season.

UCLA is back: Well, going in with a redshirt freshman quarterback, new o-line into the sea of Orange that is Neyland Stadium seemed like a desperate chance to win. Apperantly no one told the Bruin running backs as Knox and Franklin had their way for the most part against the Vols' D and the UCLA secondary made Crompton look like... well... himself. Sorry Tennessee, it does get worse than this. Why? Ever heard of Tebow, Urban, and the Swamp?

U$C just cannot lose big games: They had to lose this one. They deserved to lose this one. There was no way they should have even been close against the Buckeyes the way they played. Unfortunately for the Buckeye nation, they are from the Big-10, and are in somewhat of a down year compared to the last few, so they lost.

Matt Barkley is NOT the real deal... for now: Lets examine the stats shall we? 15/31 for 195 yards and an INT. To be honest, those numbers are probably padded considering that the last drive in which he went 3/5 but only because of the way Joe McKnight was running and spreading the field. He was just plain silly! As for Barkley? He is not even a top-5 QB right now in the PAC and probably not as impressive as the guy wearing Blue and Gold.

Mike Gundy might be a man, but his team is overrated: Well Houston, who is not a bad team by any means, should not have won that game. In fact, they went down in the second half but showed guys and heart and pulled out a huge win in Stillwater. For those mathematically inclined, by the transitive property: UH beat OSU, OSU beat UGA, so UH > UGA? Which leads to...

The SEC is not that great right now: Call it Florida and the 11 dwarfs. Well, 'Bama and Ole Miss are legit. However, LSU who I expected to destroy UW barely squeaked up in Seattle last week, and UT looked horrific at home against UCLA. UGA got destroyed by OSU who then losses to UH. Also, USC (the real one) looked horrible last week against NCSU. The rest has been playing cupcakes, so time will tell if I'm right or not.

The Big-10 is terrible, again: Other then OSU and Purdue losing to Pac-10 teams, the conference has stunk it up (minus Michigan's win today). The most notable loss of the day has to be MSU losing to CMU in its own house. The same CMU team that could not put up points a week ago against the Wildcats out of Tuscon. Oh, and Wisconsin barely beat Fresno State at home, needing a FG in OT.

The beautiful thing about college football is that next week we will learn many new things, some of which will make me look like a total fool. Then again, it's why you play the games on the field (not on XBox or PS3).