Samples: Lessons from Week 7 of college football
By CHUCK SAMPLES
ISL Correspondent
College football lessons from Week 7:
1. Jump on West Virginia by 28 points and hold the Mountaineers to a quarter-mile or less of offense and you can win.
2. LSU can outmuscle a national contender.
3. Bob Stoops has Mack Brown’s number.
4. Iowa State may have lost a close one to Kansas State, but the Cyclones are definitely moving in the right direction under Paul Rhoads.
5. Irish fans need to remember every last ritual and prayer they uttered or danced or whatever in the overtime against Stanford. Just in case THAT situation comes back up again later.
Needing a Tums after the weekend: Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M coach. Watched his Aggies fritter away a 27-point lead against Louisiana Tech and hold on a two-point conversion attempt with under 40 seconds left.
Needing a barf bag: Colby Cameron, Louisiana Tech QB; Mark D’Antoni, Michigan State coach. Cameron’s two-point conversion pass to tie the Texas A&M game was off target. D’Antoni’s Spartans could have avoided a double-overtime loss to Iowa if they didn’t have massive confusion on the last play before halftime…while in field goal range.
Needing a bang-up performance Saturday: Bo Pelini, Nebraska coach. To say you don’t know how to fix the ghastly defensive problems exposed by Ohio State — right before you meet your new athletic director — well, that’s just unnerving. The Ohio State game was his first official audition for keeping his job, and under no circumstances did he do well.
Game I’m most looking forward to this upcoming weekend: Kansas State vs. West Virginia. Steak and Potatoes vs. Flash and Dash.
