I still contend, until college football has a playoff system, Saturdays will continue to have more storylines than Sundays. The games right now mean a whole lot more in September/October then they do in the NFL.
Thanks to the two televisions , and some fast thumb action on the remotes, I had the chance to watch and digest a lot of games this past Saturday. Here are some random thoughts:
It's blasphemy to say this, and most sportswriters down South would certainly never admit it, but has anybody noticed the S.E.C. is rather weak this year? Looks to me like a one trick pony named Roll Tide. There is some really bad football being played in this conference, primarily in the S.E.C. East. Who is having a rougher Sunday morning, Mark Richt, Urban Meyer or Derek Dooley?
Just when you thought losing to Miss.State was rock bottom for Georgia, they dug a little deeper and found there is still room to fall. Losing at Colorado registered pretty loudly on the Mark 'Richter Scale' with Bulldog alumni! I'm not even sure beating the Gators this year would be considered a quality win. Anybody seen their offense lately? Talk about an un-Godly (Tebow reference) performance against Alabama!
As for what's going on in Knoxville...well, Derek Dooley went from 'signature win' to 'I can't believe our coach had 13 guys on the freakin field! Lane Kiffin isn't that dumb!' Rather ironic Les Miles is in charge of this Tiger program because that dude has 9 lives like a cat! LSU may be undefeated right now, but they have certainly failed 'the eye test'. They have not looked good, primarily because their quarterback play has been so mediocre.
It's clear that Alabama is going to win the SEC West and take on some mediocre team from the SEC East and clean their clock at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
Finally, who is the genius at ABC that felt the urge to jam a Notre Dame/Boston College game down our throats on the East Coast? I understand the power of the Irish Catholic church, but I heard from Rick Sanchez at CNN, Jews run the networks anyway! So what gives?!? (I kid because I can...) The entire East Coast missed the most exciting game of the night, a battle of two top ten teams: Stanford vs. Oregon. Ask an SEC fan who LaMichael James is and you'll get a blank stare. He's the 5-9, 185 pound running back that ripped off 257 yards and 3 TD's vs. Stanford on Saturday. He's the guy who is now in the Heisman mix with Michigan's Denard Robinson. (Which by the way, do yourself a favor and set aside time to watch Denard...it's like Reggie bush all over again. I wonder if his parents have a mansion in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan?)
That's all for now....stay tuned next week when I analyze whether or not Nick Saban has the ability to smile.....
I know who LaMichael James is! I think the SEC fans know who he is too. It is unfortuate that we don't get to see the West Coast games because of the time zone difference. But really, the PAC-10 games only serve to keep us awake because there is a lot of offense and little to no defense played out there. If LSU was in the PAC-10... Jordan Jefferson for Heisman! (Okay... maybe second-team all conference.) At any rate, I want to see Alabama play Oregon in the BCS championshipgame like everyone else at this point but beating Slow-hio State would taste better. The only way I would be satisfied with not playing the Buckeyes is if they had to play Boise State.
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