College Football: Week 7

The road to the BCS Championship goes through the Big 12?

Chiggity Chase Daniel and Sultry Sam Bradford are lighting up scoreboard from Norman to Columbia to Lincoln to Seattle, both teams have led the conference on a roll that is unprecedented in my recent memory.  I have touched on this before briefly but, can any conference boast the talent that the Big XII has in the QB position?  Hands down SEC folks, the power has shifted to the Midwest.

The offensive rankings are simply too powerful to ignore.

College Football: Week 6

Something is fishy.

How does one team (USC) lose to an inferior one, which sets off a madcap weekend.  How about Florida?  How about Georgia?  How about Wisconsin?  The powers that be seem to have a sense of humor.  Is this a commentary on game preparation, or parity, or even that every game ACTUALLY matters.  In any event, the first major weekend of in-conference play was a disaster for the national title contenders.

I can’t explain it but I am pretty sure somehow Pete Carrol called the NCAA and the two of them are behind these shenanigans.

Since upset Saturday seemed to occur last week, one would assume it won’t happen again, yet dear readers anarchy is probably going to take place so that USC will still be in the hunt at season’s end.  My point is that there are still too many teams with unblemished records out there!

College Football Week 3

My picks have been off lately and I am not sure why.  I am pretty sure it has nothing to do with the head trauma that I have gotten over so it must be this new job which forces me to work instead of waste my days writing blog posts and analyzing each individual piece of each individual game.  In any event, I have spent my nights this week on the phone and analyzing statistical data which may, just may lead me to a .500 week in the third one of the young season.  But first some political talk.

College Football Week 2

I went 1-3 and damn, that wasn’t the worst part of Saturday.

Dear readers, we all know that LWN is quite fond of Gainesville.  Now that I live only 1.5 short hours away from the “Tree City,” I made a trip over after the Hawaii game to meet up with Thrillho and some of my merry minstrels.  Unfortunately, the night ending in sheer terror, I think.  What I mean by this is that three of us were pummelled with what I beleive I told the police in my report “bat-like objects.”  For reasons unknown, LWN, Thrillho and soon-to-be contributor “lab boy” were beaten nearly unconscious by a roving group of, [well I guess you could call them] thugs for no reason whatsoever.

LWN And TMOC Go Head To Head

 

LWN and The Man of Cheese got together at the LWN staff offices to go Head to Head for a battle of college bowl supremacy.  Each remaining bowl game was chosen by the two, and a coin flip determined first choice in team picking.  We went through the games chronologically and chose using spreads available on 12/21.  The team not chosen by the writer was given to the other writer.  For example, if LWN chose Memphis +3.5, TMOC got FAU -3.5 and so on.

LWN’s Administrative Assistant Picks The Bowls

My master plan was to have the esteemed writers of LWN’s Sports Blog go head to head with the Admin Assistant picking bowl games.  So far Admin Assistant is the only one to give me the picks.  I guess when you don’t pay your writers they get to you whence they can.

Without further ado, these are the picks of someone who knows nothing about football except the following three things.

1. Indianapolis has a football team
2. That team’s nickname is the Colts
3. The Colts Quarterback is Peyton Manning

Here are her picks in choronological order.  No spreads were used, the games were chosen straight up.

College Football Week 14

“The Ire Of The Tiger….(s) Fans”

If Mizzou fans are not upset today, then they will be after reading this. If I were a Mizzou fan, I would be upset. Sure that win against Kansas was dare I say the biggest win in the history of the program? There has not been so much excitement in Columbia since Don Faurot introduced the “Split T” formation to the Tigers and collegiate football.

College Football Week 13

“If you watch ‘The Biggest Loser,’ then I know who the biggest loser is!”

We will start with a quote from one of my favorite movies from 2004, “Mean Girls.”

Remember the part when they have to do the trust fall? The wheel chair girl (Jessica Lopez) gets up there and says, “I don’t hate you cuz yo’ fat…..yo’ fat cuz I hate you.” Powerful words indeed dear readers.

College Football Week 12

“The Picture is Clearing up”

The BCS Championship is starting to come into focus, and I can say with glee, Ohio State WILL NOT be invited to the party (they don’t deserve it). Sadly, the Big Ten will once again not win the big dance. Ohio State and Michigan will battle to see who plays in the Rose Bowl this weekend. Don’t get me wrong, I was raised a Big Ten fan by ABC. I learned to hate Florida State and Miami from all the exposure they got in upstate NY, and I was still trying to figure out where the hell South Bend, Indiana was when forming my earliest sports hatreds (besides the Red Sox, Eagles and Cowboys).