We've been all football, all the time for awhile here at Old Gold & Blog, and although there's still plenty of that to cover this morning we're also going to take the opportunity to branch out ever so slightly.

Last night (Monday) was another good practice. My coverage is here, and there's this from the official site.

Dan Collins keeps us updated with his football notebook and this feature on Sam Swank.

One Arizona reporter thinks his Wildcats will be facing Wake Forest in the Emerald Bowl. He had better be wrong.

Lucas Caparelli, best known for being kicked off the team and out of school at Wake for posting threating messages on Facebook, will be playing at Texas Southern.

I promised some non-football news, so here it is. Women's soccer was picked fifth in the preseason ACC poll. Former Demon Deacon Kelly Dolton has arrived in China as a member of America's field hockey team. Finally, the baseball team has picked up a commitment from Philadelphia area shortstop Mark Rhine.

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Could a bye week have come at a better time? With all the upsets on Saturday I'm pretty glad we don't have to play Duke until next week. Considering our track record against them, and how unpredictable yesterday turned out to be, the bye appears to have come at a good time (not to mention the time it gives Riley, etc).

Kudos to South Florida, Colorado, Auburn, Kansas State, Maryland, Georgia Tech, Illinois, and Florida State; all of whom upset teams in the top 25. I don't know the last time that many teams were upset, but I'm guessing it's pretty rare.

Particular congratulations to Maryland and Florida State for representing the conference well against solid opponents from BCS conferences. Maryland's victory has to make you feel even better about last weeks win, and FSU's win makes me even more excited but nervous about their trip to Winston.

I had some other stuff going on this weekend and did not get to catch much on TV besides Auburn upsetting Florida and a little bit of the Falcons/Texans game this afternoon (yuck), but overall it seems to have been a pretty exciting sports weekend. Hopefully the Deacs got well rested and are prepared to take care of business next weekend!

I'm not going to spend any significant time on these, but CSTV posted a couple of articles this weekend about our field hockey and volleyball teams, and Monday's Journal has an article about women's soccer tying Virginia on Sunday.

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