OK, Jacksonville State.

I’ll give you Jacksonville State, which lost its opener last week at Alabama State.

Besides the lone NCAA Division 1-AA program on the University of Memphis’s schedule, the Tigers’ non-league opponents suddenly have become rather challenging.

Last weekend, it was Arkansas State taking a fourth-ranked Texas team down to the final minute before falling, 21-13. Had a questionable call that disallowed an Indian recovered onside kick not been made, who knows what ASU would have done? Perhaps they would have shared ESPN SportsCenter time with Appalachian State.

Thursday night, it was Middle Tennessee State, whom the Tigers play Oct. 13, trading touchdowns with No. 8 Louisville for most of the game before succumbing. It was 38-35 Louisville at the half.

I just received a rundown of the proposed new sport fishing regulations in Tennessee.

Some of them are pretty interesting.

Remember, if you see something you’d like to comment on, you have until Oct. 15 to do so.

From TWRA:

On August 29, 2007 the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency presented the following proposals regarding sport fish regulations to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission (TWRC). The public is invited to provide comments on these proposals until October 15, 2007.
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THE BIG STORY

South Carolina will probably announce today that senior quarterback Blake Mitchell, suspended for last week’s season opener, will start on Saturday at Georgia.

“Yeah, in all likelihood,” Florida coach Steve Spurrier said of whether he will start Mitchell. “We’ll probably announce that (today). He’ll take back over with Tommy Beecher ready to go. Chris Smelley sort of sprained his shoulder in the game the other day and hasn’t thrown the ball all week.”

Mitchell is ranked seventh on USC’s career passing list with 4,245 yards as he enters his third year as a starter (he’s 11-6 as a starter).

But he has been suspended twice in two years. He was suspended for last year’s Wofford game after his arrest for punching a bouncer at a Columbia nightspot. Though the charge was later dropped, it took Mitchell seven weeks to reclaim his starting spot from Syvelle Newton. His suspension last week was for missing too many summer school classes.

The State newspaper reported Mitchell being ragged by Carolina students at last week’s opener against Louisiana-Lafayette. USC linebacker Dustin Lindsey, who was out with a knee injury, said he stood next to Mitchell as “student-section kids” lobbed insults at Mitchell such as “Loser” and “Go to class, Blake.”

“It’s no big deal,” Mitchell said. “I don’t let that kind of stuff get to me.”

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