Beer of the Week

Week of September 29th --- Beer of the Week

Miller Lite


I had successfully avoided naming Miller Lite for something like 14 months, but since I did not drink anything interesting in South Bend and I started Saturday morning with Miller Lite I have no other choice than to name it beer of the week.

A full (OK, partial) recap of the weekend will be up later this week (most likely not written by me) all I will let you in on is both Ron Burgundy and I hurled before noon on Friday. It was a hell of a start to the weekend.

On Tap (Little to no effort edition)

Helping you get your weekend viewing priorities straight since 2007

I even had time to work on this and just chose not to, your loss (or gain).

Thursday

9:00 (ESPN) USC @ Oregon State. USC gets their first chance to get back on the field after throttling Ohio State. Every year it seems like USC finds one game to forget to show up to, unfortunately for the Beavers that is not this game. Key Fact: It is nearly impossible to ignore the obvious “the Trojans will pound the Beavers” joke, see I even tried.


Friday

8:00 (ESPN2) Connecticut @ Louisville. Another Friday night game for Connecticut. Also known as another Friday night game for you to ignore.


Saturday

12:00 (BTN) Minnesota @ Ohio State. I don’t even know what to think of OSU anymore, some day some game the Buckeyes are going to let a team hang around just a little too long.

12:00 (ESPN) Random early afternoon game on ESPN. One team will probably be ranked in the 20’s the other will be looking for a marquee upset but will totally settle for knocking off anything that resembles a top 25 team.

3:30 (ABC) Wisconsin @ Michigan. Wisconsin opens up there Big Ten campaign against the hurting Wolverines. Both teams are coming off a bye week. The Badgers have been celebrating their victory over Fresno and Michigan has been thinking about getting greased by the pillow Fighting Irish.

3:30 (ABC) Arkansas @ Texas. If you don’t live in the Midwest you will have the opportunity of watching Texas dismantle the fighting Bobby Petrinos.

3:30 (NBC) Purdue @ Notre Dame. First and foremost I will be at the game, if that is not reason enough to watch there is not much else that will get you to tune into a Notre Dame game.

3:30 (CBS) Tennessee @ Auburn. The Vols get the pleasure of getting blasted on national TV for the second week in a row.

7:30 (ESPN2) Mississippi State @ LSU. I don’t think Mississippi State is going to have a whole lot of fun in Baton Rouge.

7:45 (ESPN) Alabama @ Georgia. A battle of top 10 teams. The first chance for the SEC to really start beating themselves up. Will Georgia prove that it is national championship caliber, or will Alabama crash the party showing that the SEC championship goes through them?

8:00 (ABC) Illinois @ Penn State. Penn State has a chance to prove they are for real or at least as good as Missouri.


all times eastern

Well this sure won't get you anywhere

Normally this is where I would point out that this would come in handy for a Notre Dame fan, but it seems particularly convenient for Buckeye fans as well.

Beer of the Week (The long awaited return)

Week of September 22nd --- Beer of the Week

Leinenkugel's Oktoberfest



Yeah, of course it is not quite October, but it was this or Genesee Cream Ale.

Leinenkugel's Oktoberfest holds the wonderful quality of being able to survive a 3 day power outage and come out tasting better than it went in. Not sure if that is a good thing. Not the best Oktoberfest I have ever had but for the price it is worth giving it a taste.

On Tap (The day after too much Scotch edition)

Helping you get your weekend viewing priorities straight since 2007


Thursday

8:30 (ESPN) West Virginia @ Colorado. I have a sneaky suspicion that Colorado will win 17-14 in OT, just a feeling.


Friday

8:00 (ESPN2) Baylor @ Connecticut. Another one of those Friday night football games that you hope you are only watching it cause it is on in the background at whatever bar you happen to be in. Key Fact: This would be a better game if it were basketball.


Saturday

12:00 (BTN) Troy @ Ohio State. Troy has played top 25 teams tough the last few years, had they been catching the Buckeyes after a big win in SoCal I would say that they had a shot at an upset. Instead, they are running into an angry Ohio State team that has something to prove. Needless to say, this game is close going into the fourth before Ohio State pulls away. Key Fact: Troy’s mascot is the Trojan, that is enough to make me scared of them.

12:00 (ESPN) East Carolina @ NC State. East Carolina came close to coming back down to earth after barely getting past a pesky Tulane team on the road. They should get back on track knocking off a third team from a BCS conference. Key Fact: Listening to Lou Holtz talk (and by talk I mean slur) about his son’s team and getting almost teary eyed is probably the best part about him on ESPN.

3:30 (CBS) Florida @ Tennessee. One of the biggest rivalry games out there, although it seems that Florida has had the Vols number lately. Phil Fulmer’s seat could get a little hotter if Tennessee does not show up and at least give Florida a game. Key Fact: This game won’t be close and Urban Meyer will continue to run up the score cause he is a prick.

3:30 (ABC) Notre Dame @ Michigan State. This should be a surprisingly good game. Michigan State’s defense has looked solid and ND looks like there is some life in their offense. Notre Dame fed off of Michigan’s mistakes last week, hopefully MSU can make ND prove that they can win. Key Fact: It pains me to admit it but I am going to be rooting for Notre Dame to win, but that is only cause I want them to be undefeated so that their fans get back to the annoying levels that we all know and love just in time for me to travel to South Bend and watch Purdue shut them up.

7:00 (ESPN2) Wake Forest @ Florida State. FSU has lost two in a row to Wake Forest. Yes, you read that correctly. Last time Wake visited Tallahassee they walked away with a 30-0 win. It shouldn’t be that easy this go around, even though FSU has only played games against 1-AA teams. Key Fact: Has any team that has fallen off the college football map shown more early season promise year in and year out for us only to find out they still suck than Florida State.

7:45 (ESPN) LSU @ Auburn. Even though this game did not get the prime ABC billing it will probably be the best game of the night. Both teams are ranked in the top 10 and the winner puts themselves in the lead of the SEC west. Key Fact: Expect this to be low scoring (not 3-2 low scoring).

8:13 (ABC) Georgia @ Arizona State. This game lost a little bit of its luster when ASU could not get past UNLV. A few people (crazy people) have said that the PAC is one of the better conferences in the county, last weekend’s 0-4 performance against the Mountain West slowed that talk. Coupled with a shellacking at home by Georgia should effectively end it. Key Fact: Dennis Erickson is two years away from having the appropriate number of criminals on his team to compete for a BCS bid.

all times eastern

Fail

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Let's just not talk about this.

On Tap

No time for a real write up, just some games that should be good (or hideously awful)

Friday

8:00 (ESPN2) Kansas at South Florida (good)

Saturday

12:00 (BTN) Montana State at Minnesota (awful)

3:30 (ABC) Oregon at Purdue (good)

3:30 (NBC) Michigan at Notre Dame (awful)

8:00 (ABC) Ohio State at USC (Oh how I hope it is good)

10:30 (ESPN2) Wisconsin at Fresno State (good)

On Tap

Helping you get your weekend viewing priorities straight since 2007

Nice and abbreviated this week (and somehow the font and size got all jacked up and I don't have the time to deal with it)

Thursday

8:30 (ESPN) South Carolina @ Vanderbilt. Another Thursday night with Steve Spurrier.

Friday

7:00 (ESPN) Navy @ Ball State. Somehow I have the feeling that Navy is going to run the ball, a lot.

Saturday

12:00 (ESPN2) Miami (OH) @ Michigan. The Wolverines need this win to avoid starting 0-2 for the second consecutive season.

12:00 (ESPN) Ohio @ Ohio State. No Beanie should be no problem against the Bobcats.

3:00 (FSN) BYU @ Washington. Washington got stomped last week by the Ducks and things are not going to get much easier against a BYU team that is looking for a chance to play in a BCS bowl.

3:30 (ABC) Cincinnati @ Oklahoma. I have heard some experts say that this game has upset potential. I think Brian Kelly is a fine coach at Cinci, but I just can’t see them going into Norman and knocking off the Sooners.

3:30 (ABC) Oregon State @ Penn State. The Oregon State Beavers travel to Beaver Stadium to take on Penn State. I think it is just too coincidental for the Beavers not to pull a mild upset in Beaver Stadium. Then again OSU lost to Stanford last week and that is never good for any team.

3:30 (NBC) San Diego State @ Notre Dame. Talk about a great team to open up against for ND. SDSU lost to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo while giving up 263 yards on the ground and gaining only 27 for themselves. As much as it pains me to admit ND should have a much better year, as a result of a year of experience and a much more generous schedule.

4:30 (ESPN) WVU @ East Carolina. Can ECU knock off a second ranked team in a row? The Big East has been hurting early this season and a loss here would do nothing to help their credibility. A win for ECU makes them yet another non-BCS conference team dreaming of a big January 1^st pay day.

8:00 (ESPN) Miami (FL) @ Florida. Florida has not beaten Miami since sometime in the mid 80’s. If there was every a year to end that streak this should be it.

all times eastern

Beer of the Week

Week of September 1st --- Beer of the Week


Dinkel Acker CD-Pils



I always like a good German beer, and the Dinkel Acker fits that mold perfectly. It has that good crisp refreshing beer flavor without any annoying overbearing aftertaste. Apparently it is a close second (and rising) to Beck's in popularity of German beers in America, but after the publicity it gets here I am sure that it will shortly fall back to third.