ESPN College Football Live, 2.0

Yesterday's highlights:

1. Any time Kirk Herbstreit is on, it's a good thing. Smart, articulate, and well connected -- he is a cut above Todd Blackledge as ESPN's top analyst. (CBS' Gary Danielson is the best overall.)

2. Mark May made his College Football Live 2008 debut yesterday. He, too, is good, due to his decisive opinions. In fact, he's very good when he doesn't have Lou Holtz around to play the ever annoying (and totally phony) good cop/bad cop.

3. Splint Our Man Brent Musburger revisited Blackledge's popular game feature from last season, "Taste of the Town", in which Todd would visit one restaurant from the town in which he was broadcasting. After 60 seconds of chow-down clips, May (looking a tad heavier this season) asked Blackledge (looking a tad anorexic this season) how he stayed so thin. QB14's response? "You know the secret-- the treadmill. Workout to eat."

4. Perhaps Blackledge was in a food induced slumber (especially after Musburger had an ESPN chef bring him a heaping plate of grub), because when referring to Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, he called him Rick Leach. Last time we checked, Rick Leach was Michigan's quarterback in 1978!

5. Yesterday's helmet battle was won (correctly) by Georiga, which soundly defeated Oregon. Today's match-up is Penn State and Clemson. My six year old clicked on Clemson. I am guessing they will win in a landslide.

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6. Musburger ended the second day by stating that Clemson was his sleeper to crash the BCS Champion Game.