Thanking the Irish
I am and you should be too. Michigan's Saturday night debut under the lights would have been fairly uneventful if Notre Dame hadn't gone LeBron James on itself and failed to show up for the entirety of the final quarter. Yeah, there was a brief glimmer of hope when Tommy Rees hit Theo Riddick in the closing minute to give the Irish the lead, but it was coughed up when the Wolverines' Roy Roundtree (wish his name was Richard) snagged a pass in the endzone from Denard Robinson.

It turned out to be the best finish of the day and for that, I will be sending Brian Kelly a nice fruit basket.

Memo to the defensive backs of Notre Dame: It might be a good idea to know where the ball is from now on rather than just running around looking aimlessly down field.

This of course helped Michigan's Denard Robinson prove he wouldn't let the new pro-style offense slow him down, as he threw for 338 yards and four touchdowns, while rushing for 108 and another score.

Georgia still the "cute" friend
Just because you hang out with the hot girl group, doesn't automatically make you hot. That's not such an easy thing to internalize, I mean who really wants to be the "cute" girl in that crowd? But that's exactly what Georgia has been in the SEC over the past few years and what they looked like yet again in Saturday's 45-42 loss to South Carolina.

Even Steve Spurrier admitted the Bulldogs outplayed the Gamecocks, but when you allow a 276-pound defensive end to score not once, but twice, the scoreboard tends to not light up in your favor.

Mad props to USC's Melvin Ingram who scored a 68-yard punt return and on a fumble recovery. Dude shouldn't just get a touchdown dance, he should get to have a picnic in the endzone if he so chooses.

Despite Aaron Murray tossing a career-high four TDs, the Bulldogs couldn't overcome being "cute" for a second straight week and dropped to 0-2.

Oh and by the way, Marcus Lattimore is still just as sick as advertised. 176 yards and a TD on 27 carries sick.

Martinez quietly rolling
Nebraska's Taylor Martinez is to Denard Robinson what Boo Berry is to Count Chocula. Same basic formula, comparably amazing, but a lot harder to find press on.

Yesterday the sophomore quarterback's  219 yards passing and 166 yards rushing in the tenth-ranked Huskers' 45-52 win over Fresno State marks his seventh game of breaking the 100-yard mark in both the air and on the ground. More important to Nebraska fans though was his 46-yard TD, which sealed the victory over a Fresno team which refused to realize it was a Fresno team.

Same old Virginia Tech
Solid defense, struggling to find some much need offensive fine tuning. The Hokies held East Carolina's air raid offensive, which put up 37 points on South Carolina last week, to just 112 yards in the 17-10 Virginia Tech victory.

Plenty of folks will argue this shows a huge weakness in a team some have thought can make a national title run, but let's not forget the Pirates are a tough team. Greenville is a tough place to play, especially as a first-year quarterback on his first road trip.

And honestly, did you see the logo at midfield? Tell you would be completely distracted by it's awesomeness.

The ghost of Cam gone?
For the second-straight week the Auburn Tigers took a game down to the wire, this week holding Mississippi State out of the endzone in the final second to take the 41-34 win. Do you get the feeling this team is starting to believe the program wasn't actually sent a tombstone from Carolina in April?