Thursday Night in South Florida and Utah

The podcast will be up later today, most likely in the evening. The talkshoe software is experience some problems and last night's live podcast was not uploaded in time for me to edit it. I have a ticket in with their service department and expect it to be taken care of soon. Tonight we have two games going on in college football. The first one has the Pittsburgh Panthers traveling to Tampa to play the South Florida Bulls. The Bulls, along with the Connecticut Huskies, look like they are two of the top teams in the Big East. South Florida had a nice win at home a few weeks ago again Kansas, but tonight they will be a bit shorthanded against the Panthers. All-American DE George Selvie (ankle) and DT Terrell McClain (ankle) likely will miss their second consecutive game. I do think they will still have the fire power and the defensive strength to stop a Panther team who struggled against Syracuse last week, but Pitt always wins one game each year that they had no business winning. Could the Bulls be this year's West Virginia on Pitt's schedule. For Pitt to win they must have a better showing on the offensive line, Selvie being out should help, and be able to put a strong hold defensively on South Florida QB Matt Grothe. In the other Thursday night game, the Oregon State Beavers travel to play the Utah Utes. The Beavers play their second Thursday game in consecutive weeks, and I don't think I have to remind you about what happened against USC last week. Jacquizz Rodgers is the Pac 10's leading rusher and is going to see a lot of carries tonight against Utah's 5th rank run defense. It will be interesting to see if the Beavers have a let down against Utah. Mike Riley is already warning the Beavers against said letdown. If the Utes aren't careful their BCS dreams could go up in smoke with a loss tonight. Brian Johnson leds the Utes at QB as they average over 35 points per game. I think it will be a tough night for the Beavers as they will have trouble stopping Utah. Rodgers will not see the same holes he did last night as the Utes will be ready for him. I think both games have the potential to be good ones, and as we know in the past, on Thursday nights crazy things happen in college football.