SB Nation's College Blogs Preview This Weekend's Big Games

by Joel Hollingsworth on Oct 14, 2010 12:00 PM EDT in College Football

Around SB Nation's college blogs today:

The weekend's action kicks off tonight when South Florida takes on West Virginia. Bulls blog Voodoo Five and Mountaineers blog The Smoking Musket exchange questions. Voodoo Five's video game simulation of the contest gave the game to the Bulls, by the way.
In advance of the Texas-Nebraska game this weekend, Burnt Orange Nation notes that Cornhuskers QB Taylor Martinez is not quite Vince Young, but gets the attention of Texas fans by pointing out that Martinez "has as many rushing touchdowns through his first 5 games as a redshirt freshman quarterback as Vince Young had in 13 games as a fourth-year junior." Corn Nation says that this game is huge for both teams, but especially big for the 'Huskers, who need to win if they want to be in the national title discussion.
The Buckeyes travel to Wisconsin this week, and Ohio St. blog Along The Olentangy provides an in-depth analysis of the Badgers. Bucky's 5th Quarter helpfully notes that Wisconsin has won 25 of its last 28 night games.
Saturday's matchup between Auburn and Arkansas features the SEC's two best quarterbacks in Cam Newton and Ryan Mallett. Arkansas Expats has the comparison.
Roll Bama Roll looks back at the loss to South Carolina, including the potential impact of the injuries to Julio Jones and D.J. Fluker.

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Burnt Orange Nation notes that Cornhuskers QB Taylor Martinez is not quite Vince Young

Waaaaay to early for comparison assessments, but Martinez has a definite shot at being a better player than Young. Young is still probably the better athlete, but Martinez really seems to fit into the team and scheme. Based mostly on Young, I’d assume Martinez to be the smarter player.

by David Hooper on Oct 14, 2010 12:57 PM EDT reply actions

Ouch.

~~Based mostly on Young, I’d assume Martinez to be the smarter player.~~

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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.

by bobothevol on Oct 14, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions

I said blockquote, mouse!

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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.

by bobothevol on Oct 14, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Agreed...

Both Robinson and Martinez are upgrades of the prototype.

Vince Young was a beta version of the modern QB.

by Caban on Oct 14, 2010 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions

Check it out...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ys-deathtothebcs101310

Apparently, the 2001 Tennessee team would have played in the Championship game using the post 2001 system. Explain to me WHY IN THE WORLD you would remove margin of victory from a ranking system instead of simply capping it at ~35 points?

by Caban on Oct 14, 2010 2:55 PM EDT reply actions