O, Joy!

College football has started and there is joy throughout the land...

Don't know who that Michigan cheerleader was in the ESPN Thursday Night game intro, but, Damn! Nice work, Wolverines! About time you got someone worthy of some television time.

South Carolina's gorgeous female fans in black dresses and heels for the opener...can't go wrong with that.

If Marcus Lattimore can do against the SEC what he's done to Southern Miss, South Carolina may finally make a run for that SEC Championship Game. And Stephen Garcia is making smart decisions, which has to make the Head Ball Coach happy. Granted, it's Southern Miss, but if those two keep it up, the Gamecocks will be dangerous in the SEC this year. And Connor Shaw is a player after my own heart...went to USC because he's a Spurrier fan.

Jenn Brown on the sidelines for ESPN Thursday night games is pretty close to a lateral move in place of Erin Andrews. Looking forward to Ms. Andrews getting a bigger role on the Saturday Gameday show, though getting up at 6am to catch it is going to be tough...but I'm a gamer, and I'll make the sacrifice.

Lindsay Soto

Speaking of sideline reporters, Lindsay Soto on the sidelines for Versus is way, way underrated. She's always smiling and she looks like she would be a ton of fun to have a few drinks with.

Can someone please kill the Dr. Lou spot at halftime? I'd rather watch some gravitationally challenged flag girls twirl their flags to the latest Lady Gaga hit reinterpreted by the home team band than listen to Lou Holtz stumble through another awkwardly forced bit.

Minnesota has issues. Struggling to beat Middle Tennessee State who is without their starting quarterback. And the fact that they traveled to Middle Tennessee State...can the Big 10 (11? New Big 12?) trade them out for someone else? Hard to believe that at one time the Golden Gophers were relevant in college football and won National Championships.

I love the tradition of college football, but I also love these so-called "new" teams getting a chance to show what they can do against the automatic qualifier conferences. Utah is good and has been good for a number of years now (Alabama...remember your beat down?). I'll be rooting for TCU and Boise State this weekend as well. I'm a long-time Penn State fan, but the arrogance of the Big Six conferences in regards to BCS berths really grates on me. These other teams are catching up...show some stones and start playing them if you truly think they aren't that good instead of playing Youngstown State, Charleston Southern, Georgia State, etc.

I know there's not a lot of love for the state of Utah in Southern California, but those female student Ute fans...blonde hair, tight Utah Ute t-shirts and tight jean shorts...that's a winning combination for me.

Really? ESPNU is televising Samford at Florida State on Saturday? I don't know which is more pathetic...the fact they're televising it or that I'll probably flip over to it during the commercial breaks on other games. Yes, I have a problem.

Got to love Spurrier throwing on 1st and 10 with just over 2 minutes to go in the 4th quarter and leading 41-6. There's a reason he's an assassin. Too bad it was an interception. Nice opening victory for South Carolina.  Now don't implode the last 5 weeks of the season.

USC vs Hawaii...and my first thoughts are of the Song Girls in bikinis on the sands of Waikiki.

Trojans look very sloppy on defense. Where's the hitting that used to be their signature? And did Hawaii ever give a reason for changing their name from the Rainbow Warriors to the Warriors?

Did the Song Girls not travel to Hawaii or did ESPN only have female camerapersons? I only saw one shot of an SC cheerleader...there's a producer who might need to be touching up their resume come Monday.