Penn St 33, Minnesota 21

So, the Jeff Horton era begins the same as the Tim Brewster era ended, with yet another loss.  I'm really ready for this season to come to an end.  Unfortunately, they've still got what appears to be 4 sure loses to go (Ohio St, Michigan St, Illinois & Iowa).  This sucks, I bought into Brewster lock, stock and barrel, I thought that he was the guy who would finally turn this program around, turns out he wasn't anything other than a snake oil salesman.  Other observations?   1) What's with the continued refusal to give MarQueis Gray some time at QB???  Their on their way to a 1-11 season, it's ok to play 2 QB's!  Who knows, maybe Gray would give them that spark that they've been missing.  2) DeJon McKnight continues to shine at WR, he had 3 TD's and 103 yards receiving, he's turned into a very nice receiver (props to WR coach Steve Watson BTW).  3) DeLeon Eskridge had a nice game at RB (111 yards on 26 carries), he's still a far cry from a program turning back though (see Lawrence Maroney & MBIII).   4) Nobody on defense stood out yet again, the only positive I can find is that at least they are gaining experience and will be better next year, hopefully in a scheme that fits their abilities better.  5) I keep hearing the name Mike Bellotti in the coaching search and I have to admit that his name is growing on me, he's been a successful Division 1 coach, he's well respected, he ran a clean program, he made some very good assistant coaching hires and he's available right now (he's not coaching anywhere right now, he's broadcasting) so he'd be able to jump right into recruiting.  I'm moving him to the top of my list (along with Al Golden from Temple and Troy Calhoun at Air Force).

***California 50, ASU 17***
A miserable performance by the Sun Devils, they got their asses handed to them in Berkley.  What makes this even worse is that it was coming off a bye week, they had 2 weeks to prepare for Cal and that's the best they could come up with.  Steven Threet got a concussion, he's been really up and down anyways (more ints than TD's).  Dennis Erickson is going to start feeling some heat soon if this keeps up.