Week 2 QBR

Week two ESPN Total QB Rating...

1. 96.7 Jayden Malava USC

4. 89.6 Haynes King GT senior transfer  

5. 89.3 Carson Beck Miami senior Heisman candidate

7. 88.9 Thomas Castellanos FSU Heisman candidate

10. 87.3 Diego Pavia Vanderbilt senior transfer

16. 82.1 Gunner Stockton UGA junior Heisman candidate

19. 81.5 Dante Moore Oregon Heisman candidate

20. 81.2 Brendon Lewis Memphis

21. 81.2 Dylan Raiola Nebraska sophomore

27. 79.4 John Mateer Oklahoma Heisman candidate

30. 77.8 Julian Sayin Ohio State Heisman candidate

33. 77.6 Devon Dampier Utah Heisman candidate

35. 76.4 Garrett Nussmeier LSU Heisman candidate

36. 76.0 Aaron Philo GT redshirt freshman

37. 75.7 Ty Simpson Alabama

45. 68.7 Joey Aguilar Tennessee

48. 67.0 Nico Iamaleava UCLA transfer

55. 63.0 Kaidon Salter Colorado transfer

56. 63.0 Arch Manning Texas sophomore Heisman candidate

60. 60.6 CJ Carr Notre Dame

82. 47.3 LaNorris Sellers South Carolina Heisman candidate

84. 46.8 Bryce Underwood Michigan freshman “sensation”

88. 44.0 JC French Georgia Southern

104 34.6 Cade Klubnik Clemson pre-season All-ACC senior

115 24.8 Dexter Williams Kennesaw State

116 22.1 Geo Lopez UNC

A long time Nike school, Penn State is switching to adidas. Long time Under Armor schools Auburn and South Carolina are switching to Nike. Rumor is that Georgia Tech will be switching to Under Armour. UCLA recently got dumped by Under Armor.  

Question of the Day: Who is your favorite George? 

Some answers: Carlin, Wendt. Constanza. Washington. George of the Jungle. Boy George? Foreman. George Jefferson. Harrison. Brett. George Herman Ruth. Jetson. 

I said Plimpton, Blanda, and Stone. Any George except the dreaded Jeff.

TED KLUSZEWSKI  [SABR Bio] was the last player to lead the league in home runs with fewer strikeouts than home runs, with 49 HR and 35 K’s in 1954. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington and helped the Hoosiers win the Big Ten football championship—its only undefeated season. The 1945 football team was 11-0-1. Klu played 1941-46. He was the first player to hit two home runs in his first World Series game, in the 1959 WS, G #1

The mysterious interstellar object is morphing in unexplained ways as it moves closer to Earth. Perhaps it is time to start praying that God spares us from any unforeseen calamities? Probably something we should be doing anyway. Pretty sure this is Trump’s fault.

DENISON: Patrick Deneen (political science professor at Notre Dame) wrote Why Liberalism Failed. He describes “liberalism” as “rights-bearing individuals who pursue their own version of the good life.” This view has led many to jettison everything that constrains individual freedom, including religion, societal mores, and legal strictures. Western culture has “evolved” to a place of existential freedom in the quest for a temporal utopia. How is this working for us? Deneen notes “70% of Americans believe the US is moving in the wrong direction,” while “government shows declining levels of public trust” He concludes, “Nearly every one of the promises that were made by the creators of liberalism has been shattered - Liberalism failed—because it was true to itself.” By removing constraints on human behavior built by religious teaching and legal structures, liberalism has freed us to be our fallen selves. And when my “will to power” collides with yours, conflicts abound, terrorists attack, wars are launched, and the weak are oppressed by the strong.