Late night open thread

Well Johnny got two out of the three results he wanted today as Ohio State kept Michigan in limbo with no 4-5 extra weeks of practice for a bowl game. It's Johnny's prediction that either Righ Rodriguez isn't back next year or Tate Forcier isn't.

Also the Mighty Lehigh Mountain Hawks got power up and pantsed Lafayette for the second straight year 27-21 this time in OT. Johnny is proud, very proud of his Mountain Hawks starting so poorly and still finishing 3rd in the Patriot League!
(Image credit to Lehigh Sports)

Elsewhere around America

Michigan State STILL lacks the big play hitters to hang with elite programs like Penn State. Next year's class should close this gap immensely but as for today, Penn State was just too much.

Rutgers played an inexcusable stinker game losing to a very bad Syracuse team, 31-13. If Rutgers winds up going to a lesser bowl than they had hoped this game will be the reason why. Nothing fancy about this game, the Orange just kicked the Scarlet Knight's ass in all aspects. Rutgers falls to 7-3 while The 'Cuse improves to 4-7.

UConn ended Charlie Weis' coaching career almost certainly with a gutsy 33-30 Overtime win in South Bend.

Eastern Michigan and head coach Ron English and the loser who hired English Dr. Derrick Gragg are now fully responsible for the 0-11 record in Ypsianti. One or both MUST be fired. Johnny has been close to the EMU football program since 1983, this is by FAR the worst version of the team. These players have quit on the head coach and Gragg's biggest hiring in his tenure has been an utter failure. Gragg and English are lucky, very lucky the mess down the street in Ann Arbor is perceived as worse and garnering the newsworthy coverage. EMU was waylayed by Toledo 47-21.

Temple has moved to 9-2 overall and 7-0 in MAC play with a strong 47-13 trouncing of Kent State. See, a few years ago Temple ws 0-11 and look at them now, Eastern Michigan, no excuses, it can be done.

#8 Ranked LSU forgot how a clock runs forward and not backward a real head scratching 25-23 loss at Ole Miss.

#1 Forida put on quite a few more pounds with their creampuff schedule scromping Florida International 62-3

Rice tipped UTEP 30-29

Iowa kept the 'Floyd of Rosedale' trophy by blanking Minnesota 12-0. This being Floyd of Rosedale:


Army beat North Texas 17-13.

Sacramento State won a shootout over UC Davis 31-28 in a game Sacramento State fans will dream about for weeks at leaast.

Both Texas and Nebraska won their Big 12 games today to set up a Big 12 title game between the two. That sounds like prime napping time if you ask Johnny.

Cal beat Stanford with no Stanford band members flooding the field or any laterals by a score of 34-28 on a late interception to seal the win.

Tonight's Jersey City Desk Game for the Week
The Drake Bulldogs beat the Butler Bulldogs for the right to be called Bulldogs this upcoming year 20-17. For losing the game Butler will be now known not the Bulldogs but the 'Barking Pumpkins'.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark