1. Michigan vs. Notre Dame - Pillow Fight Alert!
Kicking these guys when they're down is good times. Notre Dame could justify losing to a solid, fast Georgia Tech team at home in Game 1 with rookie QBs. They could spin losing on the road with a FR QB to a quality Penn State team. But losing to a hapless Michigan team at home without Henne? Will Weis' elongated honeymoon finally end? If you have three recruiting classes under your belt, and you can't field a competitive team, your coaching staff has massive holes in either talent evaluation or development. This game reminds me of some sort of Lumber Jack match from the early 80s in which neighboring jobber programs like Illinois, Indiana and Northwestern surround the sidelines and refuse to let either Michigan or Notre Dame leave the building without someone stepping up and winning the game. Winner takes on Boozy Suzy for the PFL world title.
2. USF vs. Auburn: BOOOOOO!
I'm not sure I've ever heard a chorus of boos for the home team like the end of regulation on the Plains. (From memory) Tuberville had around 40 seconds and two timeouts left when Brandon Cox was sacked with the score tied. Rather than take the timeout and advance the ball down the field, he elected to basically sit on the ball for overtime. Brandon Cox is some sort of AJ Suggs without the pedigree meets Joey Harrington without the flashy smile meets Reno Hightower without the kickass body repair shop.
3. LSU vs. Virginia Tech: Damn. Just. Damn.
VT lost this one when they announced the start time of 9:15 EST. When your QB is afraid of
4. Ohio State: Michigan Who?
Who woulda thunk it? OSU is probably more concerned with a road trip to Washington than the season ender vs. Michigan. I'm pulling for Willingham because (1) his success creates comedic parallels to Weis (2) He's playing Cheaty McSweaterVest (3) he's a milk drinker. UW is a 4.5 point underdog. That seems generous for OSU fans regardless of how much I want this to be a close one.
5. Louisville: Offensive defense
After watching MTSU score 42 on Lville, I can't help but like UK's chances vs. the Cardinals in Lexington. The SEC is a slaugther house this year.
6. The ACC sucks: Again
Miami and VT got the hell beat out of them by Oklahoma and LSU. FSU looked like a high school team for about 55 minutes vs. Clemson. Tech is coached by Gailey and Clemson by Tammy Bowden. Could the best team in this league really be BC? Wow.
7. Hawaii: Don't trifle with the Dooleys
It's an up and down week for Hawaii's chances of backing into the BCS this year. The overtime battle with La. Tech will cost them votes as the season goes on. But Washington looks to be a team that could give them a quality test if UW's momentum holds up against their brutal schedule.
What were your observations across the broader football world?
See Also:
-- Don't Bet on it (around the SEC) - DawgSports.com
-- Different types of Losses - HeyJennySlater (very funny)
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13 comments:
Let's see what Tech does against BC, if they win convincingly, I am willing to overlook Chan and say this team could be good.
Consider me a Huskies fan for the rest of the season -- partly because I like Seattle, partly because of the same Notre-Dame-looking-longingly-at-Ty-Willingham reason you mentioned.
And oh lordy, do I hope Boston College busts Tech's ass this weekend.
a team that your coach 0-1 to right?
yeah uga did lose to bc, that's right!!!
"a team that your coach 0-1 to right?"
Atrocious grammar and midweek slams based on bowl games from 6 1/2 years ago: not just for Auburn fans anymore!
(I may just post this twice in 2 minutes for comment irony's sake.)
It's also worth noting that Georgia Tech hasn't beaten Georgia since before Georgia lost to BC. Just had to point that out.
Just wanted to point out that the ACC has lost to the following teams in the first two weeks:
East Carolina, Central Florida, Wyoming, Connecticut. Oh, and your defending champ lost at home to Nebraska.
Oh, and your two new additions/flagship schools got absolutely rocked by Oklahoma and LSU...wasn't it just 4 or 5 years ago that the ACC was talking about being a super-elite conference with the addition of those two? Thank god for BC.
With all that said, Clemson and GT are looking very very good RIGHT NOW, BC has the conference's best QB and Wake is a very well coached team....it will likely end up being between those 4 but the conference is very much wide open.
my week 2 review
Aureliano is right about the ACC. In my review I shed some light on the piss poor ACC season to date:
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The ACC is as bad as its ever been, in fact, the total record of the out of conference teams the ACC beat this year is a measly 2-12 and thats not counting the 7 out of conference games they've lost so far. The best team just might be Georgia Tech but the've still yet to prove anything. The ACC hasnt really tried to prove itself with many out of conference games against BCS schools but the 4 games they have tried they have fail miserably: Going 0-4 and being out scored 164-51. Thats just nasty!
Suzy's the pillow champ? Really? With an 8-5 record?
There was a nice article on T.Brown's incredible recovery in the AJC today. He is a freak of nature.
I wonder why Tubberville doesn't get the criticism that Richt seems to when it comes to decision making and clock management issues. I think some people think just because Richt brain farted in the 2001 Auburn game that somehow Tubbs is superior to him in this area.
But Tubbs does make mistakes in how he manages games sometimes. The decision to play for OT wasn't smart. If he had to deal with the AJC he'd find 3 seperate articles on that one issue on Sunday a.m. And ESPN would pick it up as a storyline for every Auburn game for the rest of the year.
Listen to Finebaum sometimes. They bury Tuberville for his mistakes.
The USF thing is a full on beat down in the media and sports talk.
I don't care for Tubby either, but going into overtime versus throwing the ball away in the last forty seconds makes sense when the opposition's kicker can't hit squat..advantage Aubarn...but they couldn't cover the touchdown maker!
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