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11am kick-off. Ouch. The student section should be in by around 11:30am.

350 yards and four touchdowns in just 4 games as a freshman!

Texas is off this week but there’s still a few big games to watch this weekend. The one I’m most interested in seeing between #10 Tennessee at #3 LSU got pushed back to Monday because of Hurricane Rita, so today there’s #21 Iowa at #8 Ohio State and big matchup at home for #4 Virginia Tech hosting #15 Georgia Tech. #1 USC plays #24 ranked Oregon, but I really don’t think that one is going to end up being very close. Here’s how we think things shake out today and Monday:

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We play Ohio State, Texas A&M plays Texas State.

The Aggies are only up by 6 and the first half is almost over. Bobcats are driving too and will take the lead if they score. Aggies have gotten several turnovers and big plays but have only put 20 on the scoreboard. Plus they can’t stop the mighty Texas State offense either. Now it’s a 3 point game. I predict Texas A&M wins 50 to 31, both defenses look terrible.

Well, at least the Ags had some moral victories in the first half.

The game is being aired on FSN but they didn’t actually send any commentators or camera men so we’re listening to the Aggy radio guys and watching footage from the stadium scoreboard cameras. Between every single play we get to see Aggy students embarrassing themselves. I know like at least five people on the Texas State roster and I coached for a member of the coaching staff. A guy I played with in high school is dominating the formidable Aggy defensive line. This is amusing.

By the way, the Aggy announcers are terrible and have no idea what’s going on half the time. Plus, they get really excited about every little thing, forgetting they’re playing what is essentially a really good high school team. They also keep claiming there’s 25,000 people and only students at the game, but unless A&M is admitting toddlers and old people there’s not many students there.

Dallas Mayor Laura Miller really screwed this one up.

Nate already has 3 INT’s this season and already 8 in his career.

Our Thoughts

Brian – Leak didn’t do poorly, but he also didn’t impress in his first game against a top notch opponent (Tennessee) so he falls this week. He’ll have to do a little bit more this weekend if he wants to stay on my list. Leinart looked very good against the piggies and if he plays that well against Oregon this weekend he’ll probably vault Bush on my list regardless of what he does. Like it or not, the Heisman has become a quarterback award and Bush will really have to earn it if he wants to beat out Young and Leinart.

Matt – Leinart and Bush looked very dominate and put up some impressive numbers, but that was against Arkansas, so I feel you have to take all of that with a grain of salt. I still think the trophy is Vince’s to lose. I moved Maroney up because basically, that guy is just sick. He added another 200 total yards and 3 touchdowns in the first half of last weeks game. He will be good in the NFL.

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Our Thoughts

Brian – I think the biggest news this week is the two teams dropping like rocks, Notre Dame and Oklahoma. Notre Dame looked like the average football team I thought they were, they made a gutsy comeback at the end of the game but it was almost a blow out in their own stadium. they’re well coached and showed a lot of heart, but they’re just not a very good football team. It’s a travesty that they’re still ahead of Michigan State in both the AP and USA Today polls.

Speaking of not good football teams, OU is really bad. They lost to a decent but middle of the pack Pac 10 team in UCLA. No wait, they didn’t lose, they got throttled. I knew they had offensive line problems and that Rhett Bomar is looking really shaky so far, but their defense is pretty average too. They’re going to have to get a lot better if they don’t want to lose 3 or 4 more games this season.

Matt – I swear, college football is the greatest sport ever known to man. The atmosphere surrounding the college game is like no other. This week we had a huge SEC battle with Tennessee traveling to Florida. What a game. However, It is a shame that it was partially decided by such a dumb move by the punter.

Texas proved again how dominate they are, with Jamaal Charles running for 171 yards and 3 touchdowns, in the first half! And on the other end of the spectrum, OU should how awful they are, getting man-handled by UCLA. I did some minor shifting in my poll, but I am still leaving Texas at the #1 spot (USC only won by 53, that is weak). Hook ’em.

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Horns’ Daniel Gibson is #2 behind Illinois’ Dee Brown.

Hurricane is looking like a doozy as it heads for Texas coast.