Andy

I was hoping South Bend was close enough to Chicago, but not so much. Gameday Audio for me tonight.

For the 2nd week in a row, I'm really not expecting ND to win. But if they can, they'll be 3-0 for the first time since that one guy that can't recruit was head coach back in 2002. MSU should be interesting at the least. And Ball State - receiving a couple of votes in the polls this week! - is long overdue because they're 0-41 against big-conference programs all-time. It's time that ended. If we topple IU we will have no reason to not be undefeated heading to Central Michigan in mid-November.

New AP poll: 1. USC (61) 2-0 1,596 2. Oklahoma 3-0 1,485 3. Georgia (2) 3-0 1,437 4. Florida (1) 2-0 1,414 5. Missouri 3-0 1,389 6. LSU 2-0 1,274 7. Texas 2-0 1,140 8. Wisconsin 3-0 1,076 9. Alabama 3-0 982 10. Auburn 3-0 958 11. Texas Tech 3-0 904 12. South Florida 3-0 801 13. Ohio State 2-1 800 14. Brigham Young 3-0 788 15. East Carolina 3-0 781 16. Penn State 3-0 779 17. Oregon 3-0 679 18. Wake Forest 2-0 482 19. Kansas 2-1 445 20. Utah 3-0 428 21. West Virginia 1-1 179 22. Illinois 2-1 163 23. Clemson 2-1 160 24. Florida State 2-0 146 25. Fresno State 1-1 121 I half expected ND to get some undeserved votes, but they only got 4. Ball State got 1. They got 5 and 2 respectively in the coaches' poll.

Thanks for putting up with me, guys. I agree with most of you - you're the better team and we pulled this out of our butts. Maybe we'll see you in January, though.

Top 25 games ----------------- (3) Georgia at Arizona State (8 pm, ABC) (4) Florida at Tennessee (3:30 pm, CBS) Buffalo at (5) Missouri (2 pm) (6) LSU at (10) Auburn (7:45 pm, ESPN) Rice at (7) Texas (7 pm) (9) Alabama at Arkansas (12:30 pm, ESPN360) Massachusetts at (11) Texas Tech (7 pm) (12) South Florida at Florida International (5 pm, ESPNU) Troy at (13) Ohio State (12 pm, Big Ten – Regional) Wyoming at (14) BYU (3 pm, The Mountain) (15) East Carolina at NC State (12 pm) Temple at (16) Penn State (12 pm, Big Ten – Regional) Boise State at (17) Oregon (3:30 pm) (18) Wake Forest at (24) Florida State (7 pm, ESPN2) Sam Houston State at (19) Kansas (7 pm) (20) Utah at Air Force (4 pm, Versus) (21) West Virginia at Colorado (8:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) South Carolina State at (23) Clemson (1 pm, ESPN360) (25) Fresno State at Toledo (8:15 pm, ESPNU) Other games of interest ------------------------------ Kansas State at Louisville (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) Baylor at Connecticut (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) Florida Atlantic at Minnesota (12 pm, Big Ten – Regional) Ohio at Northwestern (12 pm, Big Ten – Regional) Iowa at Pittsburgh (12 pm) Central Michigan at Purdue (12 pm, Big Ten – Regional) Arizona at UCLA (3 pm) UL Monroe at Tulane (3 pm) Indiana State at Northern Illinois (3 pm) Notre Dame at Michigan State (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Northeastern at Syracuse (3:30 pm) Ball State at Indiana (7 pm, Big Ten) Wofford at South Carolina (7 pm) Vanderbilt at Ole Miss (7 pm) Iowa State at UNLV (9 pm, The Mountain) Holy Cross at Harvard (7 pm Friday) UC Davis at Montana (3 pm) South Dakota State at Northern Iowa (5 pm) Other nationally televised games ----------------------------------------- Central Florida at Boston College (1 pm, ESPNU) Akron at Army (1 pm, ESPN Classic) Miami at Texas A&M (TBA, ABC) Virginia Tech at North Carolina (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) TCU at SMU (8 pm, CSTV) Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Alcorn State (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU)

that hurts ? I wasn't being sarcastic. CATCH A PICK....ack. One more play, D!

Oh, boy. They're only about 30 yards from Gould range.

Game's far from over. Need one more stop and plenty of time is left.

IF we win, we stole this one. But we outplayed the Chargers last week, it's them that almost stole it from us. chargers had the game won. delhomme and his noodle arm got extremely lucky with that last pass in the charger gamee. You besmirch the holy name of Jake Delhomme at your own risk, but I respectfully disagree.

IF we win, we stole this one. But we outplayed the Chargers last week, it's them that almost stole it from us.

Manning almost had a backbreaker there. That ankle tackle doesn't happen and I shudder to think what happens.

I love 4th-quarter Jake. Please never leave.

KING! Hell of a catch!

Nice play, Jake to Hoov. Getting close now.

Wow, lucky.

Throw the damn ball away, Jake. Looks like my prediction was right - we're not winning this without another big defensive play.

I'm REALLY liking Jonathan Stewart through one-plus games.

ACK. That's two potentially huge picks dropped.

For all the crap I gave them to start the half, for the most part Carolina's made some good adjustments on both ends of the ball.

Jason Baker is the Panthers MVP of this game so far.

Ugh, that was a craptastic possession.

Whew. Big stop.

Doesn't sound like Harris had to do much. Harris punched at the ball. Olsen shouldn't have dropped it, but Harris did force it.

I don't want Hester to be hurt. I love watching him.

STEWART! Thank you for the fumble, Chris Harris! And now I look even more like an idiot. Oh, well.