by Michelle Richardson

LSU (7-2) 10 vs. Ole Miss (7-1) 7: LSU have been struggling when their at home they can let the good times roll too but in that game on Saturday for the most part it was a high scoring game it was only a 10-7 victory for LSU. Miss St scored in the first half and it was very much a defensive struggle. For total yards Miss St quarterback Bo Wallace had to pass and rush to get some yardage going.

Wallace threw for 176 yards and rushed for only 40 yards in 12 rush attempts. LSU had more rushing yards than Miss St and Miss St had more passing yards. Strangely enough LSU had a rough time with four turnovers but they controled the ball better they kept the ball for 36 minutes and Miss St kept it for 24 minutes. This is just one of those flukey kind of things that LSU turned nice flour into mud pies.

Honestly this wasn’t a great game by either team LSU just scraped and scrapped and managed to pull out a victory. LSU had good form and they needed this victory because they were number 24. Michigan State moved up into eighth place in the AP Polls.

Ohio St (6-1) 31 vs. Penn St (4-3) 24 (2 OT): This was a hotly contested game as two teams are rivals when they meet just like when Ohio St meets Michigan. The Penn State fans found out what hotel the Buckeyes were staying at and went and blasted music outside their hotel in the middle of the night. I guess you got to do what you got to do for your team.

Ohio State they scrapped through and managed to come across with a victory, they know that anytime they play Penn State the Nittany Lions are going to give them their best game. Ohio State knows that Penn St is their rivals. The Lions are the Buckeyes neighbors to the east and it’s a big rivalry for them. When it gets down to it it’s all about that ball handling management.

Ohio State possessed the ball for 34:24 and that was almost the full six minutes more than Penn State. They both had turnovers, Ohio State had to turnover more third and fourth down conversions, it was a game where it came down to who could get the job done. The Buckeyes had built a 17-0 lead and they were cruising to a win and then Penn State defensive tackle Anthony Zettel made an interception and returned it for 40 yards. The game went to two overtimes and Ohio State got the game winner in the second overtime.

Arizona (6-1) 59 vs. Washington State (2-6) 37: Airing it out is what the Washington State Cougars do and since the Cougars head coach Mike Leach is back he’s all about airing it out. That’s kind of what he does and as I’ve been saying week after week. Arizona is trying to be in a coversation with some of the other top teams in the NCAA and their a one loss team right now.

The Pac 12 is not getting a lot of respect when it comes to talk about the National Title games. Washington State had a whopping 543 yards and Arizona had 451 yards. The Cougars quarterback Connor Halliday threw for four touchdowns and he was picked off two times. It’s never a good thing and Wash St had more turnovers as opposed to one turnover made by Arizona.

Arizona won this game and did a good job, they clearly out muscled Washington in the first half of the game but the problem is Arizona got a little laxed because Washington State came back and scored 21 points in the fourth quarter. This is a game that could have got out of hand if they had a little more time. You have to watch out for teams like Wash St they haven’t been very competitive for the past few years and some teams say “it’s just Washington State” and get laxed but the Cougars were making a few move towards towards the end of Saturday’s game

Michelle Richardson does commentary on the NCAA each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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