The Mid-American Conference received another night in the national spotlight with a MAC game featured on ESPNU for the third straight evening as Central Michigan lost at home last night to Ohio University 43-to-28 with the victory giving the Bobcats the MAC East Division lead.
Also last night, #10 Virginia Tech beat #21 Georgia Tech 37-to-26 while #11 Houston hammered Tulane 73-to-17.
Tomorrow’s schedule includes Michigan State at Iowa, Michigan at Illinois and Notre Dame vs. Maryland at FedEx Field, the home of the Redskins.
Meanwhile, the latest development in the child abuse sex scandal in the football program at Penn State is that assistant coach Mike McQueary will not only not be on the sidelines, but he will not even set foot inside Beaver Stadium for the Nittany Lions' game tomorrow against Nebraska because of multiple threats made against him.
A published report, though, says the university Board of Trustees does not plan to fire McQueary or ask him to step down. This past weekend, grand jury testimony revealed that in 2002, McQueary, then a 28-year-old graduate assistant at Penn State, witnessed former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy. McQueary reported the incident to head coach Joe Paterno, who dutifully informed athletic director Tim Curley.
The scandal has already cost Paterno and the school president their jobs, while Sandusky was arrested and charged with 40 counts of various sexual crimes.
