Tide Wets the Cats, Big House Has its Lights On and More

A mediocre day of college football yesterday. They can't all be good.

I guess the highlight game was the Alabama Crimson Tide going to Happy Valley to face the Penn State Nittany Lions. What does Nittany mean anyway? Joe Paterno wasn't on the sideline as he got to see his team lose to the Tide from above, 27-11. Trent Richardson and Eddie Lacy ran for nearly 200 combined yards of offense for Alabama as they helped pound it down Penn State's throat. Alabama are 2-0 and are likely to remain at #3 in the country.

A big night for the Big House in Michigan. It was the first time that a night game was hosted in Michigan Stadium and that in itself deserves the big game that it got. This back and forth game literally went to last seconds. 3 TDs were scored in the final 2 minutes with the last one coming from Denard Robinson passing to Roy Roundtree for the game winning score with 2 seconds left. Wolverines win at night, 35-31. The Irish are now 0-2 while Michigan is 2-0.

As for some other games, Andrew Luck and the Stanford Cardinal would win against Duke in North Carolina, 44-14. Luck was 20/28, threw for 290, 4 TDs and one INT. South Carolina holds off the Georgia Bulldogs, 45-42. Georgia is now 0-2 while the Gamecocks are 2-0. The Texas Longhorns hold off the BYU Cougars after scoring a TD in the 4th quarter and winning by a score of 17-16. BYU was ahead for most of the game but "most of" doesn't count.

There was a bit of concerning news in the New Mexico State-Minnesota game as Minnesota head coach, Jerry Kill, collapsed along the sideline due to a seizure. He is in stable condition at a hospital. He has had seizures twice before on game day.

Other than the seizure, it seemed rather routine overall in college football.

P.S. The word Nittany seems to be from a Native American Term meaning "Single Mountain." It's also used in the name of the mountain near Penn State. I was curious, alright.