Thank God I had other commitments and watched the 2nd half of Kentucky-Western Kentucky on tape – Why you ask am I thankful? I could fast forward through parts of this trainwreck. This game was a blight upon the institution of football. All copies of the tape should be burned, all record of its existence striken and all memory burned out of our collective minds. It was bad enough that the twitter consensus was that 3-2 was a better game. Heck, Western Kentucky trended on twitter because so many people were complaining about this thing. Just for the record, Kentucky won 14-3
UNLV-Wisconsin was every bit as gruesome as expected – Wisconsin first team offense: 8 drives, 7 touchdowns, 1 field goal before halftime. Nothing more needed other than saying UNLV's late 4th quarter garbage time touchdown means they covered the spread of 34.5 points, getting within 34.
Memphis is still the worst FBS team in America – Not that they ever really had a chance against Mississippi St., but the Tigers were atrocious is every phase of the game on their way to a 59-20 beating on their home field.
ESPN picked the wrong game – As it turned out, the best game (and really only good game) or the night was the only game between two BCS conference teams (gee, never would have imagined that). Syracuse came from way behind to beat Wake Forest in overtime. Too bad only the 127 of us that have espn3.com could watch it. Hec those same prior commitments that cost me the UK-WKU game live (thank God) also cost me on this game. I left when it was 20-7 Wake Forest and looking like a certain Demon Deacon victory.
We need a real Thursday night opener – This slate of games was just awful. Of course next year, I will get my wish. With two Chick-fil-a Kickoff games scheduled for next season (Auburn-Clemson and NC State-Tennessee), I expect one to be played on Thursday night and the other Saturday. It just makes sense.
The MAC is finally getting better again – It was only 3 FCS teams and Idaho, but the MAC was perfect on the night. Good for them and good for a league that has been bad pretty much since Ben Roethlisberger and Toledo's core graduated in 2004.
The Louisville-Kentucky game is going to be bad football appointment television – Kentucky was already covered. Louisville got off to a nice 21-0 lead against Murray St. Yes, FCS Murray St. They only won 28-9. Bad offensive performance, but it might be enough against Kentucky.
The Kentucky-Western Kentucky game was soo bad the Western Kentucky defense was talking smack at the beginning of the fourth quarter, until Kentucky managed to turn a broken play into a touchdown. This is what happens when you give basketball schools football teams.
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