•September 7, 2016•

Whit Kirtaker
NP Sports

This was one humdinger of a week of sports to recap.

To start:

As of print date, the Cubs are 41 games above .500, and the magic number to cinching the NL Central is close to single digits.

Texas beat Notre Dame in college football—a 50-47, double overtime barn-burner might I add—for the first time since 1970. Surely Texas could have gouged the Irish in that time with Ricky Williams, Vince Young, and other stars in that time frame, but scheduling didn’t really allow for those games.

Speaking of the 70s, for the first time since 1972 two top five teams—LSU and Oklahoma—fell in the first week of the season. LSU’s loss was to Wisconsin, 16-14 at Lambeau Field, and Oklahoma got caught on the tracks 33-23 against Houston who showed they haven’t lost much, if anything, since their upset triumph over Florida State in the Peach Bowl last season.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.