Ball State has gone through its toughest test of the season and come out of it undefeated.

The Cardinals took on Central Michigan tonight and pulled out a hard-fought win 31-24 win on the road, improving their record to 11-0. Central Michigan was the two-time defending Mid-American Conference champion, but Ball State can now lay claim to the title of best team in the MAC.

With quarterback Dan LeFevour having a big game both running and passing, Central Michigan led most of the way, and the Chippewas were up 24-17 in the fourth quarter. But Ball State quarterback Nate Davis threw two fourth-quarter touchdowns for the come-from-behind win.

David Letterman’s alma mater doesn’t have a strong enough position in either the computer ratings or the polls to get to the BCS, but they’ve now won their toughest test on the way to an unbeaten season.

On Saturday, Toledo wide receiver Nick Moore caught 20 passes for 162 yards in the Rockets’ upset at Michigan for the most catches ever against a Michigan team.

Hours later, he and a teammate, defensive end Albertson Alexandre, were arrested outside a Toledo bar. Moore got in a fight and was charged with disorderly conduct, while Alexandre was charged with obstructing official business after he refused to leave, police say.

Both players will be disciplined, including but not limited to being out of the starting lineup Saturday at Northern Illinois, Toledo coach Tom Amstutz said.

“As head coach, it is my judgment that Nick and Albertson violated team rules, and as a result will face team penalties,” Amstutz said. “Both players will be held out of the starting lineup this Saturday against Northern Illinois. In addition, they both will face internal team discipline.”

The players have court dates later this month.

It’s a dark day in Ann Arbor.

In an upset that was in some ways uglier than last year’s shocking loss to Appalachian State, Michigan has fallen to Toledo, 13-10.

The Michigan offense sputtered all day, with quarterback Steven Threet incapable of completing anything other than the shortest of passes. Only freshman running back Sam McGuffie, who led the team with 105 rushing yards and 44 receiving yards, was able to do anything at all for Michigan offensively.

We all knew that new coach Rich Rodriguez would need time to get the spread offense running the way he likes it, but no one could have thought they’d be unable to move the ball at home against Toledo. This was a terrible offensive performance.

Michigan’s defense looked solid; Toledo’s only touchdown came from a 100-yard interception return by Tyrrell Herbert, a good-looking defensive back. But the offense is a mess.

Heading into this game, Michigan was 24-0 all time against teams that are currently in the MAC. Now they’re 24-1.

Make no mistake, Toledo is a bad football team. They entered the game with a 1-4 record, and two weeks ago they lost 35-16 to Florida International. At home. But today, Toledo was better than Michigan.

The Wolverines fall to 2-4, and they are in serious danger of their first losing season since 1967.

Georgia running back Knowshon Moreno had 18 carries for 168 yards and three touchdowns, and he also caught three passes for 30 yards, in Georgia’s win over Central Michigan Saturday.

But one play stands out above all the others: Moreno treating Central Michigan safety Vince Agnew the way Edwin Moses would treat a hurdle:

“I’ve never seen anything like that before,” Georgia defensive tackle Corvey Irvin said. “He might not even be human. Wow, how’d he do that, all in one motion?”

When asked how he did it, Moreno said, “I think all of that stuff is just instinct. Instinct just takes over. … I’m just having fun and playing the game.”

Ohio State has confirmed that running back Chris “Beanie” Wells will miss Saturday’s game against Ohio University, a week after hurting his toe against Youngstown State.

Coach Jim Tressel said it’s too soon to say whether Wells can go a week later at USC. But assuming he can play at USC — and the early indications are that he’s making good progress — the fact that he’ll miss a game that Ohio State will win easily shouldn’t mean much to the Buckeyes. If anything, it might be good for Wells to get a week off before going up against that great USC defense. Youngstown State and Ohio are essentially preseason games for the Buckeyes, and NFL teams often hold their stars out of preseason games.

The only real issue for Wells is whether he’s missing an opportunity to pad his stats and aid his Heisman Trophy candidacy. That could be a concern, but if he has a big game at USC, no one is going to remember that he didn’t play against Ohio.

The teams of the Big East have spent much of the past three years proving that the conference still deserves an automatic berth in the Bowl Championship Series.

And they might have pissed away all of their efforts in three days.

On Saturday, Pitt lost at home to Bowling Green.  On Sunday, Louisville lost at home to Kentucky.  And on Monday, Rutgers lost at home to Fresno State.

In all, the Big East teams went 4-4 over the weekend, with the wins coming against the likes of Hofstra, Villanova, Eastern Kentucky, and Tennessee-Martin — all from the division formerly known as I-AA.

The only team from the conference that should have lost was Syracuse, which traveled to Northwestern.

Hey, it’s always better to lose games early in the year than late, but if this weekend’s performance is an indication of how Pitt, Rutgers, and Louisville will fare this season, it’s gonna be a long, long year for the Big East.

The first Saturday of the college football season is just getting going, and already we have two unranked teams beating two ranked teams.

East Carolina beat No. 17 Virginia Tech, 27-22, in a great game with a great ending, as the Pirates scored a touchdown on a blocked punt with less than two minutes left. Virginia Tech quarterback Sean Glennon was terrible, calling into question Frank Beamer’s decision to make Glennon his starter.

Meanwhile, No. 25 Pittsburgh has lost to Bowling Green, 27-17.

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