Starting Five
1. The latest in fall fashion is the Collin Klein collection from Kansas State. Klein completed 19 of 21 passes for a career-high 323 yards, threw three touchdown passes and ran for four more in a 55-14 rout of West Virginia. Klein must now be considered your Heisman Red Grange Award frontrunner, while the Human Geno Project must be considered on life support.
2. Former U.S. senator, 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, and All-Aptly-Named Team all-timer George McGovern dies at the age of 90.
McGovern
McLovin
3. Florida pummels the OBC (Ol’ Ball Coach) and South Carolina, 44-11. In the last two weeks, the Gamecocks and Mountaineers have free-fallen into irrelevance while the Gators and Oklahoma have taken the greatest strides in the BCS. The Sooners have a chance to climb even higher with unbeaten, No. 5 Notre Dame visiting Norman next Saturday.
4. Justin Timberlake weds Jessica Biel in Anthony Fasano, Italy. We just want to 1.) see what guest Andy Samberg gave the couple as a wedding gift and 2) inquire if Rev. Eric Camden performed the service.
5. Ohio State wins a Purdoozie to remain undefeated, further underlining a point we made last year (in a video for The Daily) that the Buckeyes should’ve taken their bowl ban lumps last season.
Reserves
Best news we’ll hear all day? Probably this, that our beloved UWS neighbor Louis C.K. will host Saturday Night Live on November 3.
Sorry, Rece, but we may have to DVR College Football Final in two weeks
It was truly a bad weekend for the Human Geno Project. His Mountaineers were trounced for the second straight week, he threw his first two interceptions of the season, and Louisiana Tech’s Colby Cameron passed him on the list of Most Passes without an Interception, running his streak to 275 (this season) in a 70-28 win against Idaho.
Colby Cameron has a very “Johnny Football” look to him, wouldn’t you say?
The return of Stephon…
“An abandoned whitefish factory in Little Israel…”
…and this sack by Stephon.
“South Bend’s hottest new nightclub is…”
West Virginia beat Baylor 70-63, West Virginia beat Texas 48-45, and Texas beat Baylor 56-50. Average score of this trio’s three meetings: 58-52.
Shoppers: Beware of falling tuna cans. Retailers: beware of hyper-litigious octagenarian shoppers.
If you have yet to see Washington high school senior Austin Rehkow’s 67-yard field goal, here it is. In the same game, which Rehkow’s Central Valley High School squad won in overtime, 62-55 (Rehkow’s boot tied the game at the end of regulation), opposing quarterback Brett Rypien of Shadle Park High School threw for a state-record 577 yards. Rypien’s dad is Mark Rypien, who led the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXVI, a game in which he was named MVP.
Mississippi State has won all seven games it has played this season and lost all seven pre-game coin tosses. The Bulldogs visit Tuscaloosa next Saturday. How come we get the feeling they are going to win the coin toss?
Florida alum Ryan Lochte, asked for his celebrity pick between LSU and Texas A&M on “College Gameday”, chooses “Auburn.” We told you they should’ve gone with Andy Staples.
By the way, Stanford and Cal play “The Big Game” yesterday (Cardinal cruise, 21-3), but it is the Tigers and Aggies who pay homage to the 30th anniversary year of “The Play” by reenacting it on the their contest’s final snap (we are still searching for the video, but it is good humor).
Farewell to our favorite surname of the past few seasons: LUTZENKIRCHEN! Auburn tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen suffers a season-ending injury, while his coach, Gene Chizik, now owns college football’s hottest seat after the Tigers dropped to 1-6.
After Notre Dame edged BYU 17-14, CBS Sports’ Doug Gottlieb tweeted that “If you really think Notre Dame is the fifth-best team in the country, I think you don’t know football.” We’d agree that the Irish may not be the fifth-best team in the country, but they do deserve that ranking. Notre Dame is undefeated, after all, against a better schedule than any other unbeaten with the exception of Florida.