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Appalachian State just clobbered #5 Michigan 34-32 at the Big House. Michigan had never before played an I-AA opponent before. Now we know why– they were running scared.

Hopefully this blood-letting will draw discussion away from a certain university’s likely loss to Georgia Tech…

Speaking of Notre Dame football:

“There are a couple things that everybody in the country is going to know,” Jones, the sophomore Notre Dame quarterback, said earlier this week. “They’re going to know who the president of the United States is. And they’re going to know who the quarterback of Notre Dame is.”

Right now our 80,000 fans are stone-silent. Normally I can hear the stadium a block away. The country may hear as much of Jones as President Bush, but Jones could only pray for the President’s 35% approval rating. Hell, even Congress’ 25% sounds like a stretch at this point.*

A comparison between Mr. Jones and President Bush makes a good case for the Electoral College. (Mercifully, the Electoral College is not scheduled against Notre Dame this year.)

I don’t expect that Mr. Jones will last long at QB. Hopefully defensive safety Tom Zbikowski is still available. **

UPDATE: Refugees from the stadium inform me that Notre Dame is down 16-0. OK, guys, enough alms for the poor. Less charity, more carnage!

BEARS QUOTE OF THE DAY. In response to Mariotti-esque stupidity about Chicago Bears superstar Devin Hester: “Hester is as controversial as the Goodyear blimp.”

Footnotes

* - What can I say? I’m a bipartisan heckler.

** - Defensive safety Tom Zbikowski joked before the game that he had been named quarterback. He went to high school a mile away from me, incidentally, and was also a star high school athlete. No, wait, that was a different BMac? That probably explains why coaching staffs stopped calling me.