by Michelle Richardson

photo credit yahoo sports (Michigan St after game with Oregon)

Michigan State (2-0) 31 Oregon (0-2) 28: This was a very good win for Michigan State and it was a strong one for Michigan State who is number five and Oregon is number seven. This was a close game by two evenly matched teams. Oregon had the confidence but Michigan St never gave up both schools never gave up in this one and proved to be confident.

On first downs Oregon had 26 first downs and Michigan State had 21. The Spartans were trying to use the clock to their advantage. At least they had 33 minutes and 26 minutes. Oregon had 432 total yards to Michigan State’s 389 total yards that was pretty comparable. What was there in this game turnovers, turnovers, Michigan State had one turnover and Oregon had two.

This was one of my favorite games to watch as these two teams were evenly match as this game was a Michigan State and they played that well and that said a lot about Oregon and what is going to happen in the Pac 12 this year. Oregon Ducks quarterback Vernon Adams Jr threw for 22 completions, 309 yards, one interception and two touchdowns. Adams does not see the field as well as former Duck quarterback Marcus Mariota did last year. This is a system at Oregon that Adams can grow into.

BYU 25 Boise State (1-1) 24: BYU (2-0) quarterback Tanner Mangum threw for a 35 yard touchdown with just 45 seconds left in the game against Boise State. Ironically Mangum just came back from Chile after three months of LDS missionary work for the Mormon Church and had a banner game for the Cougars.

One of the things that BYU always had in their favor is they have much younger players, one of the things about BYU for having younger players they never get caught up in the moment they come out of these missions and their a little older and a little more mature. Boise State is coming out of the Mountain West where BYU was before and now is an Independent. Boise State were going to see what their made of now they have a new coach Bryan Harsin. Former Boise head coach Chris Peterson is the one who built up this team and is now over at Washington.

Notre Dame (2-0) 34 Virginia (0-2) 27: Both schools played a very tight and exciting game and the Irish who were led by quarterback Deshone Kizer who came in for the injured starter Malik Zaire who rolled his ankle. It was Kizer who threw for a game winning touchdown pass 39 yards for the game winner with 12 second left to win it for the Irish on Saturday.

Despite all the cheering for Notre Dame they lost their starting quarterback Zaire, they chose this young man to start over Everett Golson whose led the Seminoles to two straight victories and is most importantly healthy. Now with Zaire out they have their back up quarterback Kizer filling in but this was a large hit for Notre Dame.

Notre Dame was expected to be moving forward and their other injuries as well but when you lose your team general, your quarterback that’s a tough way to go. It was a great game and the Cavaliers by no means are no slouch and look for them in the ACC and they still have time to definitely still make things happen but they’ve got to get on the good foot themselves.

Michelle Richardson does the NCAA podcast each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below