Michigan<\/b> (0-2) – Played Oregon<\/b> at home, lost 39-7. Conclusion: Debilitating Loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBuckeye opponent’s records after the second week, 17-7. Last week, I stated that Wisconsin<\/b> would have to be considered the heavy favorite to win the Big 10. Now, I’ll rank Ohio State<\/b>, Penn State<\/b>, and Wisconsin<\/b> as a pick ’em choice to win. Iowa<\/b> and Indiana<\/b> won against Syracuse<\/b> and Western Michigan<\/b> respectively to propel the Big 10 to a 10-1 record on the week. Michigan’s<\/b> collapse is stunning – I never would have predicted them to start 0-2. Next week’s “toilet bowl” (you heard that here first…) between Notre Dame<\/b> and Michigan<\/b> will be for the first win between the two teams…Ohio State<\/b> has a tough game on the road in Seattle next week.
\n<\/p>\nQuick Hits from Around College Football<\/h2>\n
\nDivision IAA Champion Appalachian State<\/b> carried on where it left off last week beating Lenoir-Rhyne<\/b> 48-7. The Mountaineers worry that Michigan’s play this week will hurt their strength of schedule in the computers…
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\nTeams that look like MNC contenders from week 2: LSU<\/b>, Oklahoma<\/b>, and USC<\/b>.
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\nThe jury is out on these teams who are technically still in the running, but their play to-date leaves room for doubt: Florida<\/b>, West Virginia<\/b>, Louisville<\/b>, Texas<\/b>, Wisconsin<\/b>, Arkansas<\/b>, Ohio State<\/b>, Nebraska<\/b>, Oregon<\/b>, Texas<\/b>, and Penn State<\/b>.
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\nThese teams stand virtually no chance of contending for the MNC, but still looked good in week two: Rutgers<\/b>, Cincinnati<\/b>, Connecticut<\/b>, Georgia Tech<\/b>, South Carolina<\/b>, Alabama<\/b>, Arizona St<\/b>, and Hawaii<\/b>.
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\nThis is the first time both Notre Dame and Michigan start a season 0-2. Someone will have to win next week, right now, I think it will be Notre Dame. Michigan seems to have given up. If ND lines up in 4-5 wide receiver sets, it’ll be a long day in Ann Arbor.
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\nGame of the week, South Florida’s<\/b> win over Auburn<\/b> in OT. Runners-up, Minnesota’s<\/b> 3OT win over Miami of Ohio<\/b>, Texas A&M’s<\/b> 3OT win over Fresno State<\/b>, Nebraska’s<\/b> win over Wake Forest<\/b>, and Hawaii<\/b> over Louisana Tech<\/b>.
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\nMismatch of the week, Western Kentucky<\/b> over Western Virginia Tech<\/b> 87-0. Runner up, LSU<\/b> over Virginia Tech<\/b> 48-7.
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\nIn the coming week I’ll post an Washington\/OSU preview, a game review of Washington\/OSU, and a Weekend Update Sports edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s the update from this weekend’s college football action. OSU Opponent Watch Youngstown State (1-1) – Played South Dakota State at home, won 23-17. Conclusion: Expected Win Akron (1-1) – See game review, lost at Ohio State 20-2. Conclusion: Expected Loss Washington (2-0) – Played Boise State at home, won 24-10. Conclusion: Unexpected, Quality Win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}