This week in football

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Depending on how they affected you, there were quite a few “Lucky Covers or UNlucky Losses” last Saturday . . . so on to those “dreadful (or awesome)” back doors:

1. Minnesota (-6.5), ahead 13-7, decided to kick a 38 yard field goal with 22 seconds remaining in the game – Final; Minnesota 16-7.

2. Colorado State (-2.5) trailing 28-27, was setting up for the winning field goal when RB Johnson III broke a 10 yard TD run with 9 seconds to go in the 4^th quarter. The Rams scored again on a 7 yard fumble recovery the ensuing kickoff when UNLV was doing that lateral nonsense – Final; Colorado State 41-28.

3. Florida (-26.5), leading 31-7, scored on a 48 yard TD run with 1:04 remaining – Final; Florida 38-7.

4. Central Florida (-13.5), leading 24-17, scored on a 15 yard pass with 1:35 left in the game – Final; UCF 31-17.

5. Akron (-3) – This one was a bit wacky. Akron was trailing Kent 21-17 when they scored on a 24 yard TD pass with 1:28 to go in the 4^th quarter to take the lead (and push) 24-21 until Kent tied the score 24-24 with 32 yard FG with 4 seconds remaining. The Zips kicked a 25 yard FG in the 2^nd OT to win 30-27 and push on the line (once again).

6. Oklahoma State (-25), lead 49-28 until scoring a late TD on a 7 yard run with 1:48 left in the game – Final: Oklahoma State 56-28.

7. Ohio State (-2) was trailing at Wisconsin 17-13 after a Wisconsin TD with 6:31 left in the 4^th quarter. The Buckeyes scored on an 11 yard TD run with 1:08 remaining to get the win (20-17) and cover.

8. Memphis (-3) kicked a 25 yard FG with 2 seconds left in the game. However, a quick note here – Memphis threw an interception in the end zone with 7:30 left in the 4^th quarter and on their last possession had a 1^st and goal at the UAB 5 yard line with 1:25 remaining and opted to run the clock down and take the chip shot FG as time nearly ran out.

In other action . . .

Pitt held South Florida to 245 total yards in their upset while the Bulls 1^st TD came on a 32 yard blocked punt return.

The Duke offense played hooky at Georgia Tech coming up with 35 yards rushing and 97 yards through the air.

Navy got the win at Air Force 33-27 but scored TD’s twice on blocked punts and were out-gained 411-206.

TCU easily won & covered against San Diego State 41-7 and held the Aztecs to a minus 13 yards rushing in 15 attempts and 85 yards total.

Toledo could only come up with 157 total yards (14 rushing) while being shut out at home 31-0 to Ball State .

Louisiana Lafayette rushed for 556 yards and tacked on another 172 passing in their 44-35 win at Louisiana Monroe.

Finally, for those of you that think Hawaii turned the corner last week when they upset Fresno 32-29 in OT, take this into consideration . . . Fresno turned the ball over 6 times and the Bulldogs kicker (NFL – Not For Long) was 3-6 (3-5 in the official stats but missed another that was negated by a penalty). Add to that the Warriors had a 90 yard kickoff return for a TD and were out-gained 522-342.

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College Football				NFL
Power Ratings				Power Ratings
10/10/2008				10/10/2008
	Power	Home			Power	Home
	Rating	Field			Rating	Field
Air Force	75.5	3.5		Arizona	91.5	3.5
Akron	68.5	2.5		Atlanta	89	3.5
Alabama	93	3		Baltimore	91	3
Arizona	84	4		Buffalo	93.5	3.5
Arizona St.	81	3		Carolina	95.5	3
Arkansas	69.5	2		Chicago	95	2.5
Arkansas St.	71	3.5		Cincinnati	90	2.5
Army	58	2		Cleveland	89	3
Auburn	85.5	3		Dallas	100.5	3
Ball St.	80	4		Denver	93.5	3.5
Baylor	72	2		Detroit	83	2
Boise St.	86	7		Green Bay	93	3
Boston College	80.5	3		Houston	91	3
Bowling Green	72	2.5		Indianapolis	95	3
Buffalo	71	3		Jacksonville	94	2
BYU	86.5	5.5		Kansas City	85.5	2.5
California	87.5	5		Miami	91.5	3
Cent. Michigan	74	3		Minnesota	94	3
Cincinnati	78.5	4.5		NY Giants	99	2.5
Clemson	83.5	3		NY Jets	93	3
Colorado	79	3.5		New England	95	3
Colorado St.	66	4.5		New Orleans	92.5	3.5
Connecticut	77	5		Oakland	89	2
Duke	71.5	3		Philadelphia	95	2.5
E. Michigan	60	2		Pittsburgh	94.5	3
East Carolina	78	3		San Diego	98	3
Florida	96.5	5		San Francisco	89	2
Florida St.	84.5	2.5		Seattle	91	3
Fla. Atlantic	68.5	3.5		St Louis	84	2
Fla. International	62.5	3		Tampa Bay	93.5	3.5
Fresno St.	80.5	3.5		Tennessee	96	3
Georgia	93	3		Washington	96	2.5
Georgia Tech	82.5	3
Hawaii	67	5.5
Houston	76	3
Idaho	47	1.5
Illinois	83	3
Indiana	73	3
Iowa	81	3
Iowa St.	71	4
Kansas	89	4
Kansas St.	75.5	3.5
Kent St.	63	3
Kentucky	81	3
La.-Lafayette	70	3
Louisiana Tech	67	4.5
Louisiana Monroe	63.5	2.5
Louisville	77	3
LSU	93.5	3.5
Marshall	68	3
Maryland	80	3
Memphis	69	2.5
Miami	81	2
Miami (Ohio)	66	2.5
Michigan	80.5	3
Michigan St.	84	3
Middle Tenn.	67.5	3
Minnesota	76	4
Mississippi	81	3
Mississippi St.	75	2.5
Missouri	96.5	5.5
N. Illinois	72.5	3
N.C. State	71	2.5
Navy	75	3
Nebraska	75	4
Nevada	76	5
New Mexico	70	3.5
New Mexico St.	63.5	3
North Carolina	82	3
North Texas	51	1.5
Northwestern	77.5	2.5
Notre Dame	77	3
Ohio St.	91	4.5
Ohio	67	3
Oklahoma	101	5.5
Oklahoma St.	89	5.5
Oregon	84	5
Oregon St.	80.5	4.5
Penn St.	93	4.5
Pittsburgh	79.5	2.5
Purdue	75.5	3
Rice	67	3.5
Rutgers	76.5	2.5
South Florida	86	3.5
San Diego St.	61.5	2.5
San Jose St.	68.5	4
SMU	58	1.5
South Carolina	83.5	3.5
Southern Cal	98	5
Southern Miss.	72	3
Stanford	74.5	3
Syracuse	63.5	2
TCU	84.5	4
Temple	68	3.5
Tennessee	83	2
Texas	96	5.5
Texas A&M	69	2.5
Texas Tech	90	5
Toledo	66.5	3.5
Troy	77	3.5
Tulane	68	3
Tulsa	83	4.5
UAB	59.5	3
UCF	67.5	3.5
UCLA	73	3
UNLV	68	3
Utah	84	3.5
Utah St.	56.5	2
UTEP	69.5	3
Vanderbilt	87.5	3
Virginia	69	3.5
Virginia Tech	82	4
W. Kentucky	60	2
W. Michigan	72	3
Wake Forest	83	3
Washington	65	2.5
Washington St.	56	1.5
West Virginia	83.5	4.5
Wisconsin	84	4.5
Wyoming	60	1