Wild Wonderful College Football
Saturday was quite possibly the most exciting college football day in my lifetime. With the exception of the OSU/Miami Fiesta Bowl, of course. The day started with me screaming at the OSU offense to get their shit together against Michigan St. The blocked kick at the end of the first half and John L. Smith subsequent blow up totally shifted the momentum. But it still took a 14-point 4th quarter from the offense and a great 4th quarter from the defense to win it. Thanks to MSU’s secondary for being so awful.
At this same time the Wisconsin/Minnesota game was going on. This game was very tight down the stretch, just like the battle for Paul Bunyon’s Axe should be. After the OSU win was in hand I flipped over to this game. If you’re Minnesota how do you have a special team’s breakdown like that at the end of the game? If they get that punt off the game is basically over because everyone know that Wisconsin can’t throw the ball consistently to save their lives.
At this same time Ole Miss was giving Bama all they wanted and then some. I flipped over to CBS just in time to catch Bama lining up for the winning field goal. Team’s that make runs need games like that to test their grit. Bama clearly didn’t have their A-game on offense but their defense kept them in it.
At this point in the day I’ve seen parts of three pretty fantastic games, so I’m happy if the day ends right there. But it doesn’t. The Notre Dame/USC game was one of the best games ever. A game that truly lived up to the hype. Charlie Weiss is as good a game planner and play caller as there is any where (college or pro). Reggie Bush carried the Trojans and it was clear that ND didn’t have an answer for him. On the other hand I thought that Brady Quinn was great. He hit his throws for the most part and showed me more scrambling ability than I thought he had. But I really give credit to ND’s defense. Up until the long pass to Jarrett on the last drive they contained SC’s passing attack. Just an all around great game.
While I did watch this game from wire to wire, every commercial had me flipping over to my ABC regional game, WVU/Louisville. UL was up 24-7 going into the 4th, and all of a sudden WVU makes a couple of plays and its 24-17. They got it into overtime, three of them in fact. And managed to hold UL on the two-point conversion that would have tied the game in the 3rd overtime. Awesome come back, but a huge bust for the Big East. They’re in the same boat as they were last year. Their BCS rep will have three, maybe ever 4 losses and will get walloped by whoever they play.
So that’s it, right? All the good games are done. No, not quite. Florida State played up the road against UVA. Now I figured with the way UVA has played this season that this would be a walk for FSU. But I think UVA had some karma on their side. They were honoring the UVA team that beat FSU back in 1995. That was FSU’s first ACC loss since the joined the conference in 1990. I really thought that UVA was going to blow it in the second half but FSU’s horrible quarterback made a real bad decision by throwing deep on the last drive and got picked off. Good for UVA. And you just knew that FSU’s bad QB play was going to catch up with them. Play Xavier Lee, at least he could have ran down the field on the last drive.
As much as I hate the Chicago White Sox, I have been pulling for them in the post season. I’m a big believer in rooting for the team that beat you. Since the Sox knocked the Indians out of Wild Card contention I’m pulling for them. I don’t think that I’ve seen a more consistently dominant pitching performance than what they did to the Angels in the ALCS. But honestly I think that the Game 2 controversy affected them more than they let on. Its just like they never recovered and the White Sox knew that they got a break and they were going to make sure they took advantage of it.
Watching the NLCS I get the feeling that the Cardinals are running into a buzz saw. The Astros just look like a team of destiny. I really like the Cardinals team, but an Astros/White Sox World Series would be awesome.
I knew the Browns were going to lose to Baltimore Sunday. The Ravens defense has been roughed up this year so the Browns offense was the perfect pick-me-up for them. Plus the Browns always trip up against down-and-out teams.
I laughed when I saw that Michelle Wie got disqualified from the LPGA event this weekend. I have nothing against her. My only beef with her is that all along she’s been saying that she wanted to stay an amateur so she could go to college and play golf. Well, I guess those millions were just too tempting. Don’t blow smoke up people’s asses, its bad P.R.
Last thing, Hawks center Jason Collier died Saturday apparently from cardiac arrest. Collier was from Springfield, OH and I remember watching him dominate the state Final Four his junior and senior year (1995 & 1996). Now at 7’ anyone should dominate in high school. But he was awesome. He could shoot, handle, and take on triple and even quadruple teams. He was a little soft to play for Bobby Knight, but he was very good at Georgia Tech and was developing into a serviceable NBA player.
At this same time the Wisconsin/Minnesota game was going on. This game was very tight down the stretch, just like the battle for Paul Bunyon’s Axe should be. After the OSU win was in hand I flipped over to this game. If you’re Minnesota how do you have a special team’s breakdown like that at the end of the game? If they get that punt off the game is basically over because everyone know that Wisconsin can’t throw the ball consistently to save their lives.
At this same time Ole Miss was giving Bama all they wanted and then some. I flipped over to CBS just in time to catch Bama lining up for the winning field goal. Team’s that make runs need games like that to test their grit. Bama clearly didn’t have their A-game on offense but their defense kept them in it.
At this point in the day I’ve seen parts of three pretty fantastic games, so I’m happy if the day ends right there. But it doesn’t. The Notre Dame/USC game was one of the best games ever. A game that truly lived up to the hype. Charlie Weiss is as good a game planner and play caller as there is any where (college or pro). Reggie Bush carried the Trojans and it was clear that ND didn’t have an answer for him. On the other hand I thought that Brady Quinn was great. He hit his throws for the most part and showed me more scrambling ability than I thought he had. But I really give credit to ND’s defense. Up until the long pass to Jarrett on the last drive they contained SC’s passing attack. Just an all around great game.
While I did watch this game from wire to wire, every commercial had me flipping over to my ABC regional game, WVU/Louisville. UL was up 24-7 going into the 4th, and all of a sudden WVU makes a couple of plays and its 24-17. They got it into overtime, three of them in fact. And managed to hold UL on the two-point conversion that would have tied the game in the 3rd overtime. Awesome come back, but a huge bust for the Big East. They’re in the same boat as they were last year. Their BCS rep will have three, maybe ever 4 losses and will get walloped by whoever they play.
So that’s it, right? All the good games are done. No, not quite. Florida State played up the road against UVA. Now I figured with the way UVA has played this season that this would be a walk for FSU. But I think UVA had some karma on their side. They were honoring the UVA team that beat FSU back in 1995. That was FSU’s first ACC loss since the joined the conference in 1990. I really thought that UVA was going to blow it in the second half but FSU’s horrible quarterback made a real bad decision by throwing deep on the last drive and got picked off. Good for UVA. And you just knew that FSU’s bad QB play was going to catch up with them. Play Xavier Lee, at least he could have ran down the field on the last drive.
As much as I hate the Chicago White Sox, I have been pulling for them in the post season. I’m a big believer in rooting for the team that beat you. Since the Sox knocked the Indians out of Wild Card contention I’m pulling for them. I don’t think that I’ve seen a more consistently dominant pitching performance than what they did to the Angels in the ALCS. But honestly I think that the Game 2 controversy affected them more than they let on. Its just like they never recovered and the White Sox knew that they got a break and they were going to make sure they took advantage of it.
Watching the NLCS I get the feeling that the Cardinals are running into a buzz saw. The Astros just look like a team of destiny. I really like the Cardinals team, but an Astros/White Sox World Series would be awesome.
I knew the Browns were going to lose to Baltimore Sunday. The Ravens defense has been roughed up this year so the Browns offense was the perfect pick-me-up for them. Plus the Browns always trip up against down-and-out teams.
I laughed when I saw that Michelle Wie got disqualified from the LPGA event this weekend. I have nothing against her. My only beef with her is that all along she’s been saying that she wanted to stay an amateur so she could go to college and play golf. Well, I guess those millions were just too tempting. Don’t blow smoke up people’s asses, its bad P.R.
Last thing, Hawks center Jason Collier died Saturday apparently from cardiac arrest. Collier was from Springfield, OH and I remember watching him dominate the state Final Four his junior and senior year (1995 & 1996). Now at 7’ anyone should dominate in high school. But he was awesome. He could shoot, handle, and take on triple and even quadruple teams. He was a little soft to play for Bobby Knight, but he was very good at Georgia Tech and was developing into a serviceable NBA player.
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