Duquesne University

Navy defeated Towson 42-15.

Air Force over Duquesne 34-zip pitching the shutout.

Coast Guard over New England, 49-35 in their annual shootout, and Merchant Marine at Montclair State, a convincing 41-24 victory.

As we look at those games, we're going to take Army first with their, I tell you, what a dominating performance by the Black Knights against Bryant as they rechristened, renovated Mikey Stadium.

pulling away in the second half to a 42-15 victory over Towson.

Then we move to beautiful Colorado Springs at the foothills of Pike's Peak in the Colorado Rockies.

It was the Falcons defeating the Duquesne Dukes in their first ever matchup, 34-0.

Air Force delivered the only shutout of the opening weekend and moved to 1-0 while the Dukes dropped to 0-1.

And they've just had such little luck recently.

at finding decent corners you're gonna have to pay or redraft there anyway whether Samuel's good or not so I just I would have done it the other way around if it was me but that's just me all right um before we get too far afield here I want to go back to who I will represent all right I'm going to go to the college ranks on this one this is the Friday football show it's not just the Friday Steelers show so I'm going to go to the college ranks on this one and I'm going to go with Bernard Clark at Robert Morris University that's who I'm going to represent I want to see, and I won't be able to see it because I'll be calling the Duquesne game against Youngstown State, but I want to be able to drive home after that game, put on the radio broadcast of the RMU game, and hear that Bernard Clark blitzed 12 people in the first quarter against Akron for putting up this stunt of putting a fan as the offensive coordinator of the Zips.

Have you heard about this? Yes,

I have.

And I said to Deb, I said, that sounds like something Tomlin would have done.

Well, you know, I had people going back to the FCS ranks for a second here.

I had some Duquesne fans ask me, are they going to be in trouble going out to the altitude against Air Force one day in advance? And it's not the same thing as time zone.

Time zone screws you up regardless.

The artistic director is David Allen Ware.

In the studio with me, the Dean of Music and part of the faculty of Duquesne University recorded a fabulous pianist on the Connoisseur Society.

And I'm so excited as he introduces the brand new season of Music on the Bluff, which is focused on Brahms this year.

Brahms on the Bluff.

And we just love to play this stuff.

You mentioned that you started at Duquesne 25 years ago, and you gave a piano recital, and the very next day was 9-11, that we're experiencing now all of our memories and how our lives have changed.

And that was your first year teaching at Duquesne University.

And then you came up with this idea in 2002, and you had recorded all of the Beethoven sonatas, so then you wanted to perform them as a series.

Maybe they get their first win of their existence.

Next up, we go to Duquesne that CJ Sullivan, the bet detectives, alma mater, as they head to the ice castle to take on Youngstown state, who I did.

Make the mistake of betting last week.

Youngstown's laying 22 and a half.

The over-under's not changed.

It's at 52 and a half.

Look, we cashed on Air Force against Duquesne mainly because our co-host on the main show, CJ Sullivan, graduated from Duquesne, and he got intel.

He's like, this team's terrible this year.

Maybe they get their first win of their existence.

Next up, we go to Duquesne that CJ Sullivan, the bet detectives, alma mater, as they head to the ice castle to take on Youngstown state, who I did.

Make the mistake of betting last week.

Youngstown's laying 22 and a half.

The over-under's not changed.

It's at 52 and a half.

Look, we cashed on Air Force against Duquesne mainly because our co-host on the main show, CJ Sullivan, graduated from Duquesne, and he got intel.

He's like, this team's terrible this year.

I taught at Pitt before this job.

I also taught at Duquesne.

What I always say is that I think the dividing mark between Gen Z and millennials is that Gen Z cannot remember 9-11 and millennials can.

So my students who did not have any memory, no first-hand experience, who were born long afterwards, college first years today would have been born in 2008.

Can AJ Duffy bounce back and get back to the Duffy we saw two weeks ago? And can New Haven handle South Dakota State's physicality? New Haven is facing a team that just saw FBS level speed and size.

last week so how does new haven adjust to that and finally we get to our game of the week as we mentioned no conference games this week so our game of the week we're going to feature duquesne at youngstown state 2 p.m on espn plus duquesne they are oh and one They lost their season opener last week at Air Force.

15 players made their debuts and they were not really fully in sync, especially on offense.

And now this Dukes team has to turn around and meet a top 10 nationally ranked FCS opponent.

I mean, the Cougs

have a home game against Duquesne week three.

So they're not, like, totally shut out at home.

But, yeah, three out of four on the road at P4 is tough.

Cameron Johnston, the punter, Christian Koontz, the long snapper.

He's been around from Duquesne, so special teams.

But let's talk about the returners because there is at least one new face that showed some real promise in the preseason.

You're talking about Caden Weege and you're talking about Eli Heidenreich because both of them, I think, are very good.