(Note: Somehow my week 5 results post got deleted from the blog, so I have had to recreate it here – sorry if you read the previous version that was online for like 24 hours and this one seems different. I normally keep a duplicate of my posting on my MySpace, but hadn’t gotten around [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Week 5: Topsy Turvey Twenty Five!
Posted in Sports on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Upcoming Games: Week 5 – Two Teams Destiny Awaits
Posted in Sports, tagged college football, football, games, predictions, rankings on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Week five of the college football season is upon us and proves to be interesting only because two top ten teams face major challenges from top 25 teams trying to take it to the next step. Oddly enough, this week sees the top 4 teams in the nation on the road. Anything can happen. Most [...]
Week 4: Hangovers and Parity
Posted in Sports on September 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Those of you that know me well enough know that I admire solid fundamental football with solid defense. The more we get into this season, the more I think my philosophy plays true. And I’m sick and tired of teams that get promoted in the polls, without playing good fundamentals. Pollsters seems to just vote [...]
Week 4 College Football: Reasonably Quiet
Posted in Sports on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while you’ll get a week where there just isnt much going on. Now that doesnt mean that teams dont have to win their games, but of course we’re always looking for the big rivalry games or the top 10 or 20 match up. This week provides very few. Lets run down [...]
Week Three – USC Silences Critics, Others Dissapoint
Posted in Sports, Uncategorized on September 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Each week in college football, you just never can be sure what is going to happen. Sure, you can make some pretty logical guesses, and those guesses in some cases are safer than others – but all in all its still a guess. But three games into the season, some things DO start gelling. Others [...]
Week Three Preview – USC, Florida on the Hook
Posted in Sports on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just watched West Virginia make short order of Maryland 31-14, though the Terps did make it interesting early. Problem with that is, the game goes 60 minutes, 4 quarters and is many times decided by halftime adjustments (or lack of same). WVU certainly made the right ones.
Another team thats perhaps the best with those [...]
CFB Week Two: Resoultion and Validation
Posted in Sports on September 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Week two of NCAA Football proved to be a day of games where teams began defining themselves for the rest of the year. Two, Notre Dame and Michigan, clearly proved that their poor showing in week one wasn’t a fluke; that indeed the wheels are off and serious rework is in the offing. Others such [...]
Looking to Week 2 – Unanswered Questions
Posted in Sports on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Many teams in week 1 had great, expected performances. Teams like LSU, Louisville, Florida, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Hawaii, USC, Texas Tech, Penn State, Michigan State and others did what they were supposed to do. Others won, but were far from impressive: Texas, Auburn, and Virginia Tech. Still others came far from living up to [...]
Week One Update – Tech Rolls, Seminoles Blow it
Posted in Uncategorized on September 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I should have known that Daddy Bowden would have problems again. The seminoles defeat Monday night look vaguely reminiscent of their losses 3 of the last 4 years (now 4 of the last 5). That causes me pause to see where I need to put them and then realign the top 25.
Texas Tech looked very good dispatching SMU 49-9, with a very decent defensive effort! Looks like the offense hasnt lost much either.
Here’s the modified top 25 after week one:
1. USC (1-0) [...]
First Weekend, A Big Surprise, and Big Yawns
Posted in Sports on September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dont get me wrong, I LOVE college football, but this first week, it seemed that most teams were doing what they were supposed to do, and almost in a pedestrian way. That being said, there was a little excitement when former Div II Appalachian State (Trivia- where are they located? answer at end of post) [...]
