College Football write up

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Late Cover . . . Temple (-4) scored 2 TD’s in the 4^th quarter, the last with 1:51 left to push the side. To add insult to injury, the Owls had just 143 total yards in the game.

One would think that opposing teams would have a clue but apparently not when they face Air Force (6-2). The Falcons were 1-3 for 1 yard through the air but still beat New Mexico 23-10. Same story against Southern Utah 8-12 for 75 yards (AF 41-7);

vs. Wyoming 3-4 for 15 yards (AF 23-3), vs. Houston 0-7 for 0 yards (AF 31-28); and

vs. San Diego State 5-7 for 72 yards (AF 35-10). Of course it didn’t hurt the Falcons chances when they returned a fumble 96 yards for a TD at the end of the 1^st quarter.

The game-day move against Boise (-8 down to -7) didn’t fare too well as San Jose State had a total of only 207 yards losing 33-16 at home. The Spartans scored their 1^st of 2 TD’s on a 62 yards interception return.

Texas Tech QB Harrell was 34-42 for 386 yards and 5 TD’s in his warm-up for the Longhorns Saturday.

Oklahoma (where’s the defense?) won and covered (58-35) against Kansas State but allowed the Wildcats to out-gain them 550-528.

Louisiana Tech came up with just 152 total yards in their loss to Army 14-7.

Navy took one from the Air Force playbook beating up on SMU 34-7 without trying a pass. The Midshipmen had 404 total yards (all on the ground) while holding the Mustangs to 8 first downs and 144 total yards.

The big move on Michigan went down as rival Michigan State (Michigan State -5.5 down to -3), fresh off their embarrassing showing against Ohio State the prior week, scored 2 TD’s in the 4^th quarter to win on the road 35-21. Michigan State out-gained the Wolverines 473-252 after getting only 240 yards vs. OSU.

Georgia ’s 2 interception returns for TD’s were the difference in their 52-38 win at LSU.

Bowling Green gained only 168 yards but covered the 6.5 losing 16-13 at Northern Illinois .

In the battle of winless teams in the Big 12, Texas A&M won and covered at Iowa State 49-35. These 2 teamed up for 1083 total yards (Cyclones 574-509). Iowa State had 34 first downs and never punted while the winning Aggies had 27 first downs but found the time to punt twice.

Alabama got their defense back in order stopping Tennessee 29-9 allowing just 173 total yards.

The Irish became the 7^th straight team to beat the soon to be Tyrone Willingham’s former team 33-7 as the Huskies totaled only 124 yards in their latest joke of an effort.

While the stats didn’t show it but Arizona hung tough against Southern Cal covering the 14.5 points but couldn’t get the job done losing 17-10. Perhaps their 188 total yards was the problem.

Undefeated Tulsa (8-0) pounced on Central Florida 49-19 as the Golden Hurricane tries to make a case for a BCS Bowl appearance. Unfortunately the Division I team that they’ve beat are a combined 17-39 and only one team has a winning record (Rice 5-3).

College Football
Power Ratings
10/31/2008
	Power	Home
	Rating	Field
Air Force	75.5	3.5
Akron	68	2.5
Alabama	93	2
Arizona	84	4
Arizona St.	75	2.5
Arkansas	75.5	2.5
Arkansas St.	71	3.5
Army	65	2
Auburn	81	2.5
Ball St.	81	4
Baylor	73	2.5
Boise St.	85	7
Boston College	81	3
Bowling Green	72	2.5
Buffalo	70	3
BYU	85.5	4.5
California	88	4
Cent. Michigan	72	3.5
Cincinnati	78.5	3.5
Clemson	80	2
Colorado	73	3
Colorado St.	67	4
Connecticut	77	5
Duke	75	3
E. Michigan	60.5	2
East Carolina	75	3
Florida	101	5
Florida St.	85.5	3
Fla. Atlantic	68.5	3.5
Fla. International	68	3.5
Fresno St.	76.5	3
Georgia	95	2.5
Georgia Tech	84	3
Hawaii	69	6.5
Houston	75.5	3
Idaho	51.5	2
Illinois	82.5	2.5
Indiana	71	2.5
Iowa	82	3.5
Iowa St.	69	2.5
Kansas	85	3.5
Kansas St.	76.5	3.5
Kent St.	67	2.5
Kentucky	78	2
La.-Lafayette	72	3
Louisiana Tech	65.5	4.5
Louisiana Monroe	64	2
Louisville	79.5	3.5
LSU	90	3.5
Marshall	68.5	3.5
Maryland	81.5	3
Memphis	69	2
Miami	81	2
Miami (Ohio)	66.5	2
Michigan	74	2.5
Michigan St.	82.5	3
Middle Tenn.	67	3
Minnesota	78.5	4
Mississippi	83	3
Mississippi St.	76.5	3
Missouri	96	4.5
N. Illinois	73.5	3
N.C. State	72	3
Navy	73.5	2.5
Nebraska	80.5	4.5
Nevada	74	5
New Mexico	73	4
New Mexico St.	63.5	2
North Carolina	83	3
North Texas	48	1.5
Northwestern	76.5	2.5
Notre Dame	79.5	3
Ohio St.	90	3.5
Ohio	67	2.5
Oklahoma	100	5
Oklahoma St.	96	5
Oregon	87.5	5
Oregon St.	82.5	4.5
Penn St.	96	4.5
Pittsburgh	79	3
Purdue	73	3
Rice	72	4
Rutgers	78.5	2.5
South Florida	85.5	3.5
San Diego St.	56	2.5
San Jose St.	72	4
SMU	61	2.5
South Carolina	85	4
Southern Cal	100	5
Southern Miss.	70	3
Stanford	75.5	3
Syracuse	63.5	2
TCU	85.5	4.5
Temple	68	3.5
Tennessee	84	2.5
Texas	101	4.5
Texas A&M	72.5	2.5
Texas Tech	93	5
Toledo	66.5	4
Troy	76	3
Tulane	67	2.5
Tulsa	86	5.5
UAB	63	3
UCF	67	3.5
UCLA	73	3
UNLV	70.5	3
Utah	85	5
Utah St.	59	3
UTEP	67	3
Vanderbilt	79	2.5
Virginia	79	3.5
Virginia Tech	82	4
W. Kentucky	62.5	2
W. Michigan	75	3
Wake Forest	80.5	2.5
Washington	61.5	2.5
Washington St.	49	1.5
West Virginia	84.5	3.5
Wisconsin	80.5	3.5
Wyoming	55	1