BCS here we come....

Big and emotional win for the Wildcats last nite, 21-3 over Miami of Ohio. I was busy doing something more fun and important than college football (hard to believe!) so I didn't listen to the game. Yes, I said didn't listen, because, my cable provider does not carry ESPNU which televised the game. I sent a message to whitehouse.gov giving them the tasking coordinates for Comcast headquarters and asked them to pretty please free up one GBU-28.

My take on the game:

Miami was predicted to finish 6-6 this year. The team is not up to its usual quality.
NU defense played well, with a big help from the Miami QB.
NU offense did not play well in the first half.
NU offense, especially the true freshman QB, improved in the second half.
Where oh where was the vaunted running game which is operating behind an experienced O line?

Overall a good win, and next up is the New Hampshire Wildcats. I have no familiarity with this team which plays in the Atlantic 10, not a traditional football power conference. They did apparently win the conference title last year, so we'll make a point of getting especially pasted during the tailgate in case the game heads south.

Interesting game footnotes:

John Pont was in attendance.
Jared Parseghian, great-grandnephew of Ara Parseghian, is the Miami place kicker.
NU's total offense of 299 yards did not compare well to last year's per game average of 504.