To all, a wild day in college football. First, my abject apologies to all Nebraska fans. The team simply had not impressed me all year. But they did yesterday, or at least the parts of the game I saw they were impressive.
UCLA has a tendency to flop around in the first half and then come on like a freight train in the second half. Sort of the reverse of Ohio State. Unfortunately, that freight train bit doesn't work every time against real good teams. And Stanford is a real good team.
The Pac-10 is a mess. The only thing for certain is that Cal is unlikely to win the title. <g> Washington State was one of my favorite dark horses for a natl. championship. And, to be fair, they lost a good game to a good team.
The SEC west is sort of Huh? Auburn beats Florida, which is certainly one of the five best teams in the country, then barely beats La. Tech and loses to Arkansas, a team that is streaky. I haven't figured out if LSU was way overrated or if Ole Miss is way underrated. South Carolina/Tennessee and Florida/Georgia were both terrific games.
The Big Ten is not as messy as the Pac-10, but it is not a clean shot here, either.
I hate Miami. Nothing personal. Just that they look awfully good.
Penn won and looked good. Harvard, which has shaped up all year as being the speed bump on the schedule, still looks that way.
Local team Rice got way behind, 31-0, I think, then tied it up and lost in Overtime. Against the same La. Tech team that gave Auburn fits.
Sorry, I didn't get the score of the Yankton State game. <g> |
