2025 Week 2
September 10, 2025
Well, we didn't have the excitement and top matchups that we had in week 1, but any week with college football is a great one, even a weekend where Fox interrupted a full day of football coverage to show a Twins game. I'm not saying that my good friend Gus Johnson is excitable, but, Gus, you don't have to go to 130 decibels to describe a successful bunt.
A lot of powerful teams decided to schedule some truly weak foes and the results were pretty laughable. Tennessee jumped out to a 41-0 lead before finishing off expansion state rival East Tennessee, 72-17. Alabama turned things around after a pathetic opening week performance by playing Monroe LA High School, with the Tide rolling 73-0.
Various teams in the expanded Big Ten also had easy wins. Minnesota beat the JV Wildcats, Northwestern State, 66-0. Top ranked Ohio State annihilated Grumbling 70-0. Up here Woody started whooping it up on each TD and was demanding Ohio State try two point conversions. I've always viewed Eddie Robinson as a quiet guy but the kind you would never want to mess with. This was evident when Coach Rob hit Woody's gut with a one-two that knocked the wind out of Coach Hayes and Woody was silent after that.
Oregon beat Oklahoma State 69-3. In spite of the margin I'd be concerned if I were Oregon. After their first two TD drives required a total of 3 plays, they slowed down so much that by halftime it was taking the Ducks a whole 12 plays to score. Then in the second half they got killed on time of possession, allowing the Cowpokes 3 possessions in a row due to two Oregon pick sixes. So I think Oregon has a lot of work to do to improve after this iffy performance.
The highly touted Fighting Illini had little trouble with a turnover-prone Duke team, winning 45-19, but I was more fascinated by the other teams in Illinois and a new cupcake trend: Many of the Abe Lincoln state's teams played in cupcake games to give some weaker major college programs a chance to rack up some wins. So Big Ten dregs Northwestern, Maryland, and Purdue got to beat Western, Northern, and Southern Illinois. And Indiana's JV team Indiana State completed the directional sweep by beating Eastern Illinois.
In one of the big games of the day Oklahoma ground out a solid 24-13 win over Michigan. I was impressed by Sooner quarterback John Mateer, who may end up getting a statue outside the stadium just like OU Heisman winners Billy Sims, Baker Mayfield, and a bunch of other Sooners who had short NFL careers.
In other Big Eight action, Missouri roared back from an early 15-point deficit to outscore the Kansas Jayhawks, 42-31. However, fellow Show Me State team Kansas City State didn't fare as well, losing to Army 24-21.
The biggest upset of the day occurred in Gainesville, as one of the Grammatica brothers, who must be in their 60's by now, booted a late field goal to help South Florida defeat the Gators 18-16. After the game Coach Napier said he wasn't on the hot seat but I guess a local moving company showed up without telling Coach, packed up his stuff, moved it to storage, and listed the home on Zillow.
Another coach with a possible short honeymoon is the prodigal son from Western Virginia, Coach DickRod. His guys were upset 17-10 by the Ohio Bobcats in a neutral site game at UGA's stadium in Athens, Georgia.
We had a couple exciting double overtime games. Baylor made a grand comeback to take Southern Methodist to overtime then made a field goal in the second overtime while SMU missed for a 48-45 win. I don't know if the Pony was at the game. Has anyone seen the Pony?
Michigan State had a similar dramatic overtime win over the Boston College Frodos at Chippewa Stadium, winning 42-40. What was odd was BC was up 40-34 in the second overtime, then MSU scored to tie. Instead of kicking the extra point to win they went for 2, fortunately made it, and won 42-40. I'm guessing either an injured kicker or else Michigan State was a 1 1/2 point favorite and wanted to cover the spread.
Next week we have some great matchups, including the USF giant-killers going to Miami, Georgia at Tennessee, Wisconsin at Alabama, the Texas Aggies bringing their team and their chaw loving fans to mess up South Bend sidewalks, and the revival of the greatest mascot rivalry ever as Ohio University visits the OSU Huckeyes. Talk to you soon!