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Looking to the weekend

Between Temple going for its third straight win against Miami (Ohio) and Penn hosting first-place Yale, this looks to be one of the better weekends of local college football we've seen in a while.

Naturally, I'm not going to be in town for it.

So talk among yourselves, and before I go here are today's headlines:

Recaps from Rich Fisher and Mike Kern of Rutgers' win over South Florida. More BCS chaos is always a good thing, though I'd like to know from you whether South Florida losing helps or hinders the not-as-famous schools' cause.

Mike Jensen's interview with Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, who's looking pretty good right now given the state of his football teams. Plus the latest Heisman Watch.

Bernard Fernandez's Nittany Line column about offensive lineman Rich Ohrnberger.

Jeff McLane on how Indiana is remembering their late coach Terry Hoeppner.

Kevin Tatum's preview of Miami-Temple, which will be on Channel 17.

USC's plane hit some serious turbulence landing in South Bend today.

And a basketball story: Zach Berman talks to former Neumann-Goretti stars Rick Jackson and Scoop Jardine, who are trying to repeat their act at Syracuse.

Over to you. Back Monday.

Comments (1)

Fred F:


JT:

What are your sources saying over at Penn about the play calling in Triple OT?

From what I read down 6 from the 1/2 yard line, the coach calls a slow-developing halfback option resulting in an offensive lineman downfield before the ball was thrown.

Why in the world was that play called?

How about something a little more conventional and higher percentage?

FF

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