From the “blatantly and unwisely looking ahead” files… after tomorrow’s games against Cal and Washington, respectively, USC and Notre Dame both have bye weeks before their October 17 clash in South Bend. This got me thinking: if the Trojans and Irish both win tomorrow, could ND earn a spot in the Top 25 in time to turn their rivalry game… Read more »
In the immediate aftermath of Notre Dame’s dramatic win over Purdue on Saturday, I tweeted, “And Purdue saves Charlie Weis’s job by calling a terrible timeout that probably cost them the game. Irish win!” Stewart Mandel expands on this thought: If Notre Dame, now 3-1, winds up reaching the BCS promised land, affording Charlie Weis many more years of his… Read more »
…you lose some. Ah, well, they were both great games — reminders of why I love college football so much — and my team won the more important one. With Ohio State out of the way, USC “just” needs to go undefeated in the Pac-10 and beat Notre Dame, and they’ll be back in the national title game. It’s no… Read more »
Here is SI.com’s always helpful TV schedule for tomorrow’s college football action. Games of particular interest to me, with times converted to Mountain Daylight Time: • North Carolina at UConn, 10am, ESPNU (so, not really televised) • Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 10am, no TV • Notre Dame at Michigan, 1:30pm, ABC • BYU at Tulane, 1:30pm, ESPN2 • UCLA at Tennessee,… Read more »
Not a bad opening day. 🙂 Up next: Ohio State and Michigan, respectively. BEAT THE BUCKEYES!!! and BEEEEAT SKUNKBEARS!!!
YAY!!! It’s football season!!! The party officially starts at 3:30 PM EDT (when USC and ND kick off), but y’all are welcome to start using the Live Chat window (below right) whenever. As for the Live Blog (below left), I expect the frequency of my updates will vary wildly, as I’ll sometimes be holding a baby or chasing a toddler… Read more »
Beat the Wolf Pack!
Once upon a time, say five years ago, my ritual on the night before any given Saturday of college football season (at least one with an ND home game) would have been something like this: Go out with friends to Corby’s, have a bunch of drinks, talk football and law nerdery and miscellaneous nonsense, then head to The Backer, have… Read more »
In a scene reminiscent of every law school class ever, three members of the Connecticut State House of Representatives were caught on camera goofing around on their computers during the height of the legislature’s big budget debate yesterday. In the Associated Press photo, two representatives — Barbara L. Lambert (D-Milford) and John F. Hennessy (D-Bridgeport) — are seen playing solitaire… Read more »
If the FlightAware tracker is to be believed, my parents’ flight from Hartford to Chicago appears to have done some bizarre loop-de-loops over Indiana, not far from South Band. I wonder what that’s all about? Some sort of vortex caused by Northern Indiana becoming the center of the political universe? Evasive maneuvers to avoid being impacted by the ongoing Rust… Read more »