Sports: College Football: This week leads up to Saturday's GameDay

In the USA, along with the Pro football teams, starting promptly in September after the universities and colleges fill up with students, College football launches into its hectic season.  And the sports journalists like vultures descend on the season-starting games of the College teams all over the country to measure, analyze, and predict who the leading teams are, what weaknesses each may have, what strengths, how the stack up against one another, so that early odds can be forecast and wild predictions made, of the star players and which teams / institutions will  prove-out to be champs in the regional college football conferences (I think they're called).

The video (requires Flash) gives some h+l+ts of what games are coming up, pitting which team against its opponent team, all toward predicting the strongest teams that will move to the top in the rankings, each seeking victory within its conference.

I'm glad to see one of my favourites, Boise State University (Boise, Idaho), is at this early stage already established among the topmost leaders of the pack in this week's College football (American usage).  The hot video clips here are embedded in an sports journalist's report under the auspices of Dr Pepper, a softdrink, of course.  I got the vid from ESPN, the compre- hensive sports news TV channel and webs+t.

I notice that on Fr+day n+t, Texas Christian U will take on Southern Methodist U at the SMU campus.

On GameDay itself, we see from the schedule above that Stanford will take on Notre Dame at the NDU campus (3:30 pm on NBC TV), while Oregon State U will face Boise State U (8 pm, on ABC TV).  The BSU Beavers are presently ranked 3rd, with TCU is 4th.  If BSU wins, then TCU will be held in check in the standings; but BSU looses, TCU will leapfrog (especially if it wins its game against SMU on Fr+day n+t) into the 3rd spot at the very least.  But in that sad case, BSU will fall in the rankings like a Magog into the abyss.  Well, a bit over the top from Star Trek 5:20.

I guess I won't do much blogging this Saturday, since I'm the kind of guy who doesn't enjoy keyboarding when I'm settled in to enjoy the atrocities of American college football in a t+m-honoured tradition of smack, whack, and tackle.  The beauty comes in those long passes when unintercepted that the receiver catches and runs his heart out, to cross into the end zone for a touchdown!

-- Sportikos