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Careful or you will hear from the stats junkies who will find some statistic to downplay his offense. No, you won't. What you will find is some solid evidence suggesting it'd be foolish to expect him to achieve those feats again. There's no reason to be optimistic that he's capable of repeating this years success. It's a fluke and it's out of line with his last few years. But even if he doesn't achieve those feats again, his career averages would be a huge upgrade at 2B or CF for the 2007 Cubs. One probem with that...he can't play 2b. You may as well put Barrett out there in the middle IF if you're that desparate for offensive production from 2b that you'd completely disregard defense altogether. I haven't watched him in the OF this year...he's got the arm and the speed for CF, but I dont' know whether or not he could hack it, so I won't say he'd be a bad idea there either. Also, there's no guarantee he'll come close to those kinds of numbers next year either. He hit about as bad as Neifi away from Arlington last year. No exaggeration there, his road OPS really was close to Neifi's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't RFK a pitcher's park? Either way, Soriano has a .944 OPS at home and a .921 OPS on the road this year.

Could we, yes. Will we, probablynot. Everything I hear about A-Rod is he wants to stay in New York and the Yankees do not want to trade him. That could change if he has a horrible postseason though.

I'm sure that will pretty much be the national consensus (everyone outside of OSU fans) which is very cool. Yeah this will be the third time in four weeks they'll be at OSU's game, but really they haven't had much choice. They had to be at the Texas game and Iowa-OSU is the only matchup of ranked teams next weekend and the clear game of the week, plus Herbstreit will be there. I was surprised they were at Columbus today, but I guess the next best options were Notre Dame or Cal and Arizona State. And you know as long as Michigan doesn't fall off the map, Gameday will be in Columbus on November 18. I thought I heard they didn't plan on going to the same location twice. A quick look shows the only other ones that would make sense being Auburn/Alabama and Cal/USC. They could go to Cal/USC also. But that one depends on whether they go to USC for the Notre Dame game.

I have to say that going back and reading all of the posts - especially the posts from early in the game - was quite entertaining. From the impression I got from looking at the box score, some credit has to be given to Notre Dame for coming back. Anytime a team lets a 17 point lead get away, they choked at least little bit. Apparently Quinn went 2-8 for 6 yards in the first quarter meaning in the other 3 quarters he went 18-28 for 313 yards and 5 touchdowns. That's a solid 3 quarter performance for any quarterback. Then factoring in the rain as well as the fact that it was a road game, his performance becomes more impressive (I do realize he wasn't perfect though). What Notre Dame definitely has to do is shore up their defense. This team reeks of 2005 USC all over except with a less potent offense. And believe me, that is not a shot at Notre Dame at all rather a compliment to USC. I'm really torn on whether or not Notre Dame should be encouraged by both the result of the game and their 3-1 record right now. It's always a good sign to see a team continue to fight to the end and pull out a victory like this, especially on the road, but Michigan State likely isn't a great team this year and a team with National Title aspirations should have done better. I do think all of the media hype inflated the expectations for Notre Dame this year and that isn't helping matters. But Notre Dame is going to climb in the polls as they get into the easy part of their schedule and other teams start beating each other in conference. And for those who think the Brady Quinn Heisman campaign has been derailed, it hasn't and it will pick up in the next few weeks as he piles up stats. He will be in New York for the ceremony. And as much as I hate to say it, congrats to Notre Dame on the victory.

I'm sure that will pretty much be the national consensus (everyone outside of OSU fans) which is very cool. Yeah this will be the third time in four weeks they'll be at OSU's game, but really they haven't had much choice. They had to be at the Texas game and Iowa-OSU is the only matchup of ranked teams next weekend and the clear game of the week, plus Herbstreit will be there. I was surprised they were at Columbus today, but I guess the next best options were Notre Dame or Cal and Arizona State. And you know as long as Michigan doesn't fall off the map, Gameday will be in Columbus on November 18.

Chalk up another K for Adam Dunn.

In the Youngstown St./UC Davis game, Youngstown St. got a touchdown in which a player went untouched to the endzone and the announcer said "he went unmolested to the endzone." I kid you not.

ARam is the man.

Congrats to Missouri. Any chance they'll be ranked next week?

30 minutes til UC Davis.

Ohio State finally gets on the board with a touchdown. 7-3 OSU.

Considering the weather, I'm not too surprised. I figured it would be low scoring. We'll see if OSU makes any adjustments in the second half. Have the announcers said anything about JoePa? I've been watching the Cal-ASU game.

Where was this Cal offense against Tennessee three weeks ago?

Texas isn't looking too hot against Iowa St. and is only winning 16-14. Any word on what happened to JoePa?

I could watch the Cubs game, or I could watch UC Davis at 3 instead. Not a tough decision.

Cal just returned a punt for a touchdown. 21-7 Cal over ASU early in the second quarter. GO BEARS!!

With the rain, this is looking like it could be an ugly game.

Touchdown Georgia with 46 seconds left. 14-13 Bulldogs.

Excellent. Bonus coverage of Georgia-Colorado on ESPN2.

It was a quality exchange. Unintentional comedy galore.

Georgia gets a touchdown. 13-7 Colorado. Oh god. Mark May and Lou Holtz arguing on College Football Scoreboard. Time to change the channel.

How so? You have to refresh my memory. Well, for one, there would be enough time to fit in at least 10 more plays. But when you get down to 7 or 6 minutes left, the clock will just fly by. Running the clock after a change of possession is going to eliminate many 4th quarter comebacks. I forgot about clock running after a change of possession.

How so? You have to refresh my memory.

Is it on tv out here? I just have Comcast cable.

After converting a 4th and 19, Minnesota converts 4th and goal later in the drive to cut Purdue's lead to 27-21. Gopher defense needs to step it up.