Pick your preferred form of embarassment: last week's loss to Applalachian State or yesterday's 32-7 undressing by Oregon. Regardless, the natives are clearly restless in Ann Arbor, Mich. Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom says Lloyd Carr shouldn't be fired, while his colleague Drew Sharp says "Michigan quit" and Carr should offer to resign.
I get the impression that Albom is the proverbial one guy in front of the huge mass of people with pitchforks and torches trying to stop them all from charging ahead to battle. The one guy pretty well never wins that fight, even if he is a bestselling author and TV commentator as well as a writer.
But on the bright side, Mike Hart guaranteed that Michigan will beat Notre Dame next weekend.
On the even brighter side, Notre Dame is also 0-2 after being whacked by Penn State at a frothing Beaver Stadium last night. If any Penn State fans who were there do read this blog, I'd love to know what the atmosphere was like from you. It sure looked special on TV.
Jeff McLane recaps the game by highlighting Austin Scott's 116 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries. I was particularly impressed in the fourth quarter, when the Nits called 18 run plays and only three pass plays.
The last touchdown drive was particularly impressive: 10 plays, all rushes, for 63 yards over a span of five minutes and 12 seconds of game clock. The very definition of a running game that just beats an opponent's defense into submission.
Shannon Ryan's sidebar on Jimmy Clausen's rough night has one of the best ledes I've ever seen.
Mike Jensen wasn't too impressed with anyone in a gold helmet, writing that the Irish "won the miscue battle."
On the local scene, Temple kicked Vegas in the rear by losing to Buffalo, 42-7, while Villanova impressed in a 30-20 win over Lehigh.
And the rest of the regional wrap-up.
Finally, in the other big game of the day nationally, Pat Forde recaps how LSU turned Virginia Tech into boudin sausage (mmm, sausage). I know there are some Hokie fans around here, and all I can say to them is you have to tip your hat to the Tigers and their fans. I'm not sure anyone goes into Baton Rouge at 9:15 on a Saturday night and wins.
And I'm not sure Pete Carroll comes out of the Superdome in January with a win over them, either.
