The Week That Was | NFL & College Football Recap & Preview | The 55th Anniversary of Monday Night Football

The College Football landscape continued last week with a few upsets such as Vanderbilt beating #11 South Carolina by score of 31-7. Clemson who was ranked #12 played at Georgia Tech and lost by score of 24-21 when Kicker Aidan Birr kicked a 55-yard field goal. 

Florida continued their losing woes on the road losing to #3 LSU by score of 20-10. Miami Hurricanes handled their business against South Florida winning by score of 49-12 featuring Quarterback Carson Beck of Miami throwing 3 touchdown passes on 340 yards passing including Running Back Mark Fletcher Jr rushing for 120 yards and 2 touchdowns.

#16 Texas A&M went on the road against #8 Notre Dame winning by score of 41-40. Finally the game of the week was #6 Georgia going into Knoxville Tennessee and won in overtime by score of 44-41. The crucial moment in this ballgame was Georgia was trailing by score of 38-30 and on 4th down and 6 at the Tennessee 28 yard line and Quarterback Gunner Stockton of Georgia connected with Wide Receiver London Humphreys for a 28-yard touchdown pass to make the score of 38-36 then converted on a 2-point conversion for the tie at 38-38.

Then in overtime Tennessee scored on a field goal for a 41-38 then Georgia scored a walk off touchdown run by Running Back Josh McCray for the win. Moving forward for this Saturday's slate of games in college football keep eyes on Auburn vs Oklahoma,Indiana vs Illinois/Michigan vs Nebraska/Florida vs Miami/Michigan St vs USC. For the results of these matchups, Oklahoma beats Auburn,Indiana over Illinois,Michigan over Nebraska,Miami over Florida and USC beats Michigan State.

NFL Outlook:

Let's look at the week that was in the NFL where the Cowboys and Giants played a shootout and The Dallas Cowboys prevailed by winning by score of 40-37. The key play in the game was the field goal by Kicker Brandon Aubrey who made a 64-yard field goal to tied the game at 37. Then Aubrey made a 46-yard field goal to win in overtime. Superb in defeat was Quarterback Russell Wilson of The New York Giants who threw for 450 yards including 3 touchdown passes. How about Quarterback Daniel Jones of the Indianapolis Colts playing flawless football at quarterback position against the Denver Broncos vaunted defense where he completed 316 yards passing including 1 touchdown pass. Running Back Jonathan Taylor of Indianapolis Colts ran for 165 yards on 25 carries. The final score was 29-28. Finally the rematch of Super Bowl a season ago where the Philadelphia Eagles won 20-17 against the floundering Kansas City Chiefs who look a shell of their former selves. The Chiefs offense is not the same with no Xavier Worthy or Rashee Rice at Wide Receiver. Travis Kelce is just not the same tight end maybe father time is catching up. The Eagles just find ways to win not in a pretty way but in a whatever it takes kind of way.

Moving forward to this week's slate of games in the NFL keep eyes on Vikings vs Bengals because Quarterback Jake Browning of The Cincinnati Bengals who will be replacing the injured Quarterback Joe Burrow who suffered a turf toe injury against the Jacksonville Jaguars but despite that occurring, the Bengals won by score of 31-27. The Bengals are 2-0. Then keep eyes on Rams vs Eagles, Chargers vs Broncos, 49ers vs Cardinals and Lions vs Ravens. The Predictions for these games is Bengals over Vikings, Rams over Eagles, Chargers over Broncos, 49ers over Cardinals and Ravens over Lions.

On September 21st 1970 Monday Night Football made its debut when the New York Jets played on the road against the Cleveland Browns featuring the marquee player in this game in Quarterback Joe Namath. Cleveland would win this game by score of 31-21. ABC Sports had the rights to Monday Night Football as ABC executive Roone Arledge spearheaded this idea and concept for Monday Night Football to become a reality. The NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle approved this idea and the rest is history. To this day Monday Night Football is still going strong with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman doing the broadcast. But the first broadcast team to do Monday Night Football was Keith Jackson,Don Meredith, the one and only incomparable Howard Cosell. The Monday Night Football platform would become a cultural phenomenon.