26-20: Michigan State Upsets No. 22 Michigan in Overtime

As we would have guessed, The Only Colors is ecstatic over the Spartans’ overtime win over Michigan.

The Only Colors also celebrates with a choice Springsteen video. It’s a safe bet that our Michigan blog, Maize n Brew, won’t follow suit.

Hey, did you hear? Michigan State beat Michigan. You may have learned this from looking up the page, or looking down the page, or looking to your right, where your butler is telling you about it. Just kidding, you don’t have a butler. Here are your final scores:Michigan State 26, No. 22 Michigan 20

No. 6 Virginia Tech 34, Duke 26

Alabama rolled (get it huh huh?) 99 yards after Mark Ingram was nearly caught in the endzone for a safety, repeatedly throwing into the unoccupied middle of the field before Greg McElroy threw a 3 yard TD to Colin Peek to go up 14-6 on the Wildcats. The drive of the game—all but ending any real chance Kentucky had of pulling off the upset—became even more conclusive when Kentucky fumbled on the succeeding drive, giving up an easy TD off the turnover and putting the ’Cats in a deep hole going into the half.

The biggest story so far is perhaps Michigan State’s 10-6 lead on No. 22 Michigan. Here are all the games that are needy of your attention:

No. 6 Virginia Tech 17, Duke 10

These two teams are battling fiercely for dominion of Michigan’s myriad lakes and woeful economic state. Michigan has only managed two Jason Olesnavage field goals, as quarterback Tate Forcier has been held to only 65 yards in the air.

The Spartans’ Kirk Cousins is 13-for-16 with 140 yards passing.

No. 6 Virginia Tech just threw a touchdown against underdog Duke, putting the score at 17-7. The call was reviewed by officials, the question being: Duke interception, or Hokie touchdown? The refs spent a good three minutes before ultimately deciding that it was, in fact, a touchdown.Cutcliffe then burned a timeout specifically so that he could argue with the refs some more. Because, as everyone knows, refs will double back on their video review if you scream at them, but only if you cost your team a time out just to yell at them for an extra minute.

Syracuse and South Florida have combined for five turnovers before the end of the first quarter: two fumbles lost for each, and a pick thrown by Greg Paulus. With a one turnover advantage at this point, South Florida holds a 7-0 lead on the scoreboard, though Dick Vitale saluted Paulus’ exceptional leadership in throwing the first pick of the game, because he’s just a great kid and leader like that.

Duke quarterback Thad Lewis executed a play fake to perfection, finding Brandon King wide open to score the first score of the game. And I mean wide open.

Virginia Tech’s defense fell for it all the way. Apparently they thought the running back had the ball somewhere in Nebraska.

If you don’t follow along with these game threads, you will not understand what is going on. You will be like the ant who doesn’t realize he’s toiling in a plastic ant farm for a small child’s fleeting amusement. Don’t be like that! Learn yourself something!

No. 6 Virginia Tech at Duke

(Game thread at Gobbler Country)

Good morning, campers. Coffee in hand, let us survey the early shift’s splendor:

Gameday! Boston! Um, I mean: Gameday! Boston! Clever camerawork is actually making it look like there’s an actual crowd at Boston College, where some ingenious angling has led to it looking like a real, live crowd behind the Gameday crew. Which there’s not, because it’s raining, fifty degrees, and in a city with no love for college football.