Almost a Perfect Start to College Football

I'm a big fan of college football, and this past Saturday was a good start to the new season with lots of upsets.

Sadly, though, the debut of the Jerry Kill era at my alma mater, Northern Illinois, came up 22 seconds short versus Minnesota. The Huskies had come from behind to lead most of the 4th quarter, until the Gophers scored with 22 seconds remaining.

The Big Ten Network commentators were making a real big deal about how gutsy Minnesota was for going for a 4th and 1 on the three yard line while they were down 4points. Hey fellas, a field goal wouldn't help in this situation. They had to go for it. The next play, Minnesota went up and ended up winning the game. Too bad.

Then, Illinois was pretty bad in their loss to Missouri. Sadly, Arkansas scored with under 2 minutes left to beat Western Illinois by 4.

High points, however, were Utah's upset of Michigan, East carolina's upset of Virginia Tech, Northwestern's defeat of Syracuse, Bowling Green's upset of Pittsburgh.

I was very happy to get to see the last quarter of the Northern game at Donovan's in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. I didn't know that they had the Big ten Network. We don't have it on our cable system which is too bad because I am a big fan of the Big Ten and now miss most of the games.

Here's Hoping for an Improvement on Last year's 2-10 Huskie Record. --RoadDog