First takes: Surprise, surprise...

Many surprises today so far, not the least of which is the fact that I still have both power and high def. We will cover all of it soon. In the meantime, a few first takes:

Wassup, Jake, with the Pac 10 conference? Maryland beats Cal convincingly, BYU wipes out UCLA, TCU crushes Stanford, Baylor (Baylor!) puts the beat down on Washington State and No. 16 Oregon was forced into overtime by a mediocre Purdue team. Strange happenings. Beware USC..... After getting embarrassed early this season, the ACC is getting back some of its mojo. UNC slaps Rutgers on Thursday in front of everybody and Maryland, which last week lost to Middle Tennessee, all of a sudden looks like the Indianapolis Colts..... Michigan is god awful. I saw it with my own eyes today. They may be good down the road, but it ain't this year. They made Notre Dame look like god's gift to football today. That's quite a task given that Notre Dame almost lost to San Diego State last week..... Chase Daniel ain't the man. It's Jeremy Maclin that teams playing Missouri need to worry about. Against Nevada, he had sick touchdown catches of 80 and 49 yards and snagged a third from 14..... That said, I believe Mizzou is vulnerable. Sure, they crushed Nevada at home 69-17. It'll look good in the papers. But I saw this game in high def. Nevada was running wild on Mizzou's defense. In fact, the pass-happy Wolfpack racked up 182 yards on the ground. And they were in catch-up mode for most of the day. That Mizzou D is gonna be a problem come Texas and Oklahoma..... Speaking of ridiculous offenses, Penn State's cannot be stopped. They have launched a hybrid spread-zone-read-option that the team has dubbed the Spread HD. And they have the athletes to run it. I was wrong about this team. They are for real.