Sports of the Weekend – NCAA Football Kickoff and Euro 2012 Qualifiers!
Posted by Hudson on Sep 02, 2010
NCAA college football kicks off this Labor Day weekend!
Some have been waiting for this day ever since the Alabama Crimson Tide was crowned national champions. Others have been waiting since the last game of the regular season.
We have new head coaches, most notably Lane Kiffen of USC and Brian Kelly of Notre Dame. Lane Kiffen’s disappearing act on Tennessee and recently imposed NCAA sanctions are going to give USC headaches to come. Similarly, Brian Kelly’s resignation from Cincinnati prior to the Allstate Sugar Bowl has also left a bad a taste in the mouths of Cincinatti fans.
We have new starting quarterbacks with large shoes to fill. The last time John Brantley saw any significant playing time for Florida was when Tim Tebow got laid out against Kentucky in September 26, 2009. Brantley went 4 for 6 with one touchdown. More recently, Texas watched Garrett Gilbert fill in poorly for Colt McCoy against Alabama in the Citi BCS National Championship Game, where Texas got manhandled worse than the 37 – 21 score appeared and Gilbert went 15 for 40 and 4 interceptions. Not a good way to debut.
We have teams that need to get back on track. Notably, and I say this as subjective as possible, Rich Rodriguez and Michigan needs to turn this program around. They are not facing an easy Connecticut team that has 16 returning starters.
Finally, we are seeing the rise of non automatically qualifying schools with (3) Boise State and (6) TCU breaking the top 10 in the Associated Press rankings. Luckily we get to see these boys play some big games to kick the season off!
And if that is not enough, we feature England in Euro 2012 qualifier action and the New York Red Bulls in MLS action.
Here is our NCAA football and Soccer schedule for the weekend:
Thursday - September 2, 2010
- 11:00 PM – (14) USC vs. Hawaii – NCAAF
Friday – September 3, 2010
- 3:00 PM – England vs. Bulgaria – Euro 2012 Qualifiers
Saturday - September 3, 2010
- 12:00 PM – Miami (OH) vs. (4) Florida – NCAAF
- 3:30 PM – Connecticut vs. Michigan – NCAAF
- 3:30 PM – Purdue vs. Notre Dame – NCAAF
- 7:45 PM – (24) Oregon State vs. (6) TCU – NCAAF
- 8:00 PM – (21) LSU vs. (18) North Carolina – NCAAF
- 9:00 PM – Real Salt Lake vs. New York Red Bulls – MLS
- 11:00 PM – (12) Wisconsin vs. UNLV – NCAAF
Monday, September 6, 2010
- 8:00 PM – (3) Boise State vs. (10) Virginia Tech
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