I Tell Ya' Herbie

  It's time for another week of takes from the world of college football, which we like to call I Tell Ya' Herbie.

I Tell Ya' Herbie:

                             I mentioned Brent Pry being in trouble at Virginia Tech last week, and the Hokies were in desperate need of a home win against Old Dominion.

Instead, the Sun Belt's Monarchs led 28-0 at the half and cruised to a 45-26 win in Blacksburg.

Pry was fired on Sunday and replaced by offensive coordinator Phillip Montgomery, who had served as the head coach at Tulsa for eight seasons.

I Tell Ya' Herbie:

                             Another head coach got the axe as UCLA canned DeShaun Foster after the Bruins were crushed 35-10 at home by New Mexico.

Virginia Tech's 0-3 start at least came to two SEC teams (South Carolina and Vanderbilt) while UCLA lost to Utah, UNLV, and New Mexico, two of the three at home.

To be fair to Foster, he was dealt a bad hand as he was hired late in the off-season when Chip Kelly decided he'd rather be an OC than a head coach (should have been a red flag for the program), and it was just as the Bruins entered the Big 10.

Still, UCLA didn't have a choice with a 0-3 record with the Big Ten schedule looming that could be a disaster under interim coach Tim Skipper.

I Tell Ya' Herbie:

                             It's only been two seasons since Oregon and Washington joined the Big Ten, and kudos to both schools for continuing their interstate rivalries with Oregon State and Washington State.

However, the difference between the schools has become apparent as Washington State was crushed by Texas State last week, 59-10, and Oregon State has dropped its first three games.

It's sad to see, but I only see the gap growing, and it's not out of the question that we could see either or both series discontinued due to uncompetitive games.

I Tell Ya' Herbie:

                            There aren't many games between ranked teams this week but the most surprising one has to be ninth-ranked Illinois visiting nineteenth-rated Indiana.

Two teams that perennially resided in the lower third of the league have been revitalized by newer coaches (Bret Bielema at Illinois and Curt Cignetti at Indiana), and I'm not sure which of the two jobs is the tougher place to win.

Illinois would occasionally jump up once a decade or so, and Indiana hasn't won a conference title in my lifetime, so that seems to indicate that Illinois might be the slightly easier of the two, and this is certainly the most important meeting of the two that I can remember.

I Tell Ya' Herbie:

                            Two teams that could be the eventual participants in the Big 12 title game meet in Salt Lake City as unbeaten teams: Texas Tech and Utah duel in the mountains.

And while it's nice to see the Big 12 receive some attention, as the game is the "Big Noon" game on Fox, I think it's ridiculous that the game starts at 10:00 Mountain Time for local fans.

I'm sure that the Utah fans will be loud, but something tells me that it might not be as raucous as it could have been with a later start, and that benefits the Red Raiders.