Best Game: USC @ Syracuse…I know & I know… this game on paper is bad …all bad for the Big East! The Men of Troy will not be deceived by the Trojan Horse Play or any other East Coast misdirect. Yet… however small the chances…. it is a giant opportunity for the Big East to draw positive attention to the Conference and to say… HEY … We belong in the Big Boy Fold! The SC beach boys pounded sand on the tails of the beach boys from Honolulu 49-10…. last week….with their QB, Matt Barkley, passing for just short of 400 yards! Meanwhile, Syracuse fought back from a big deficit (35-13) only to give up a last minute (0:44 seconds left in the game) score and fall to the Big Ten’s …. Northwestern…. 42-41! The Orange Offense was just short of 600 total yards and passed for 470 yards against the Wildcat secondary. I know & I know it’s the beach boy secondary this week…. Coppertone & Sea & Ski and all that slick stuff… but with those numbers…. however slight… A Hope! ……. (P.S. I was tempted to go with the (Best Game) South Florida @ Nevada … as the Wolf Pack beat … Cal 31-24 last week)
Worst Game: Howard University @ Rutgers, a FCS team from the MEAC and not a very good one (2009: 2-9, 2010: 1-10, 2011: 5-6) comes to New Brunswick, New Jersey for a tail whippin and a check… or… a check and a tail whippin…. Facts are solid… you pick the order! While it is absolutely true that Howard U is undefeated… its lone victory was a nail-biter against Morehouse College… 30-29… that’s right… Morehouse College (Not Morehead State… Morehouse College… from Atlanta, GA… Not Morehead State … from Morehead, KY )! That said…. Morehouse is a real good DII school… but a DII school… none-the-less! So how good Howard U may be this year… is in my view… no longer a serious question… They are taking on an 85 scholarship program from an AQ Conference ….. by surviving… barely…. a very good DII Program. Rutgers has this game as a tune up before their conference showdown in and with South Florida… Good luck with this …helping with that!!! Who in Hades schedules these games?
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