It's Week 3 of the college football season and we already have a clear Heisman favorite in Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson. Last year at this time, Michigan also had a Heisman candidate in Tate Forcier. You may recall he didn't win the Heisman.
Three more North Carolina defensive starters are not traveling with the team for Saturday's game in Atlanta against LSU, meaning the 18th-ranked Tar Heels could be without 15 players amid an ongoing NCAA investigation.
"As scripted." That's a phrase one of our television producers barks (or gently intones) in our ears when everything is to proceed as planned. It hardly ever happens on a college football Saturday. It would never happen every Saturday. But the 2009 season largely went "as scripted."
Judging from the hysterical accounts, all Terrelle Pryor's 2010 Rose Bowl performance versus Oregon lacked was Prof. Henry Higgins in the background singing, "I think he's got it, I think he's got it!" Pryor, who ran and passed for 338 total yards in Ohio State's 26-18 victory, at last had his transformative Eliza Doolittle-meets-Vince Young moment in Pasadena.
The Colt McCoy era was actually over five snaps into last season's BCS national championship game last January. But that didn't prevent any Longhorns fans from continuing to look down the tunnel at the Rose Bowl, hoping he might make the triumphant return and rally the team past Alabama.
In the past two seasons, TCU has lost exactly three games -- all against top 10-ranked teams away from home: No. 6 Boise State in last year's Fiesta Bowl and to No. 10 Utah and No. 2 Oklahoma in 2008.
Saturday, a female employee of Hog Sports Radio, Renee Gork, had the absolute gall to wear a Florida Gators hat to an Arkansas Razorback press conference. Why did she have the hat on? Because, she says, it was raining outside (Razorback fans deluged me on Twitter to say it was a sunny day ... so be it).
Lane Kiffin should probably stay out of Tennessee for a while. Just to be on the safe side, he should also probably refrain from calling, texting, IMing or video chatting with anyone in the Volunteer State.