Back in 2002, Villanova played its Big 5 game against Penn at the Wachovia Center. Seated in the upper deck, the Penn student section brought rollouts that said "We're High" and "What's the score down there?"
I mention this because I'm currently sitting in the press box on top of the upper deck at Franklin Field, covering the Georgetown-Penn football game for the print edition of the Inquirer. I've done this before, but it had been a while since I last made the trek all the way up the steps... and as many of you probably know, there are a lot of steps.
Anyway, while I'm waiting for the game to start, let's have a look around the media this morning on a day of college football that has some intriguing games.
We start with Mike Jensen's College Football Report, which leads by asking how close we are to BCS chaos. I hope we get it, because then we might get a playoff, and I happen to think the college presidents are full of it when they say a playoff would hurt the student-athletes. But not as full as the university coffers after a bowl trip filled with money and free stuff.
Games of the Week leads with Wisconsin at Illinois and an intriguing I-AA showdown between Delaware and New Hampshire.
Jeff McLane previews today's Iowa-Penn State game, in which both teams have a lot in common.
Props to TCNJ for beating Rowan on a last-second field goal, but no props to Louisville for losing at home yet again.
Nationally, pride of place goes to Florida-LSU tonight at 8 p.m. on Channel 3. The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Tony Barnhart (who's also a CBS pundit) picks Florida to upset Mike VI and the rest of the Tigers.
But since he wants people to call him crazy, I'll do so (politely -- he does know what he's talking about) and say LSU wins. Tiger Stadium at night is the toughest place to play in college football, and I think the home team rides that energy to a win and another big step on the way to the national championship game.
All is not well in Gainesville, as Gators safety Tony Joyner has been in trouble with the law of late. He was reinstated for tonight's game, but Florida Times-Union columnist Gene Frenette thinks Urban Meyer didn't do so out of principle. "[T]he truth is a key player had a classic entitlement moment and chose to break the law," Frenette writes, further wondering "if Joiner would make the trip if the opponent was Western Kentucky."
I'll let you take that one up among yourselves.
The Red River Rivalry game between Texas and Oklahoma had national title implications until last weekend, when both teams lost games they probably shouldn't have. But the game could still affect the Big 12 title game, and the Dallas Morning News' Chuck Carlton says that's enough to get both teams up for the trip to Dallas.
No, I won't include the sponsor of that game in this post, or anywhere else on the blog. But I will note that for the second week in a row, we don't get the best 3:30 ABC regional game of the week. Such is life.
The game here is underway -- Penn just went up 14-0, in fact -- so I think I should get back to watching it.
