Monday, December 8, 2008

Time to go Bowling

  • I think the BCS game is actually the right pick for once. Shocking, I know. Granted I think Texas should have been in the Big 12 game instead of Oklahoma, the National Championship game is right though. The two champions of the two best conferences in football are playing for the National Championship.
  • Although Utah is undefeated and very well has a claim to be playing in the National Championship after an unblemished record, at least they're not Boise State. The Broncos were left out of a BCS bowl discussion...again. I think Utah's schedule and how they won the games put them in place for at large bid. But what says the Ohio State deserves the remaining BCS at large over the Broncos?Bulleted List Yeah, I know, they only lost 2 games and to very good teams in USC and Penn State but how does a team thats 12-0 get left out in favor of a 10-2 team? How does a #10 team get selected over a #9 team? Oh, revenue. Thats how. Look for a great game between the Broncos and TCU...its the best non-BCS matchup.
  • Virginia Tech won its 3rd ACC championship in 5 years..and they said the Hokies would hurt the ACC didn't they? I won't dwell on this too much since I am obviously biased towards the Hokies. I think a great amount of credit is due to the coaching staff this year and the ability to do what they did considering the amount of players lost to the NFL, suspensions, and injuries. Bud Foster proved once again that he is one of the best in the business as the Hokies finished 7th in total defense...after losing 4 starters to the NFL draft.
  • Colt McCoy announced today that he's going to return for his senior season at UT. And why not? He already owns Longhorn passing records, why not try for all time records? But I don't think that's the reason he's returning. After the Longhorns went 11-1 this year and were left out of the National Championship, I think McCoy wants to prove next year that the Longhorns can win it all while he's there. He's already going to be a no-doubt first rounder in the NFL so barring a career ending injury he's got nothing to lose. Also, look for the Longhorns to make a point in the Fiesta Bowl. I know I know, "the Buckeyes have a good defense!" But they have seen nothing like McCoy and the Longhorns offense.
  • One last thing, Hawaii fans, don't chant "overrated" until there's less than 2 minutes left in the game and you're up by more than 2 scores. Matt Ryan taught me that lesson unfortunately. All that does is fire the opposing team up. How did that 19 points that Cincy dropped on you in the 4th quarter feel? Not too good in the end I'd imagine.
That's it for now.

2 comments:

J. Bourne said...

Casey, thank you for giving me the chance to do what I always like to do:

Fuck Ohio State.

We were told they had an AMAZING defense last year, and the year before. They were top in the NCAA in all these defensive categories, blah blah blah blah blah. What did the undertalked Florida and LSU teams do? Despite having some losses, they KILLED the undefeated OSU kids. Why? Because all those OSU stats are beefed up by playing a lot of crap teams. Sure they played Penn State and USC, but they also play a bunch of teams that would get hurt by divison II schools.

You're 100000% right, this OSU team, again, has not seen anything like the offense they're about to play, and even Texas defensively can hold it's own against an OSU team that, without Wells, struggles on offense compared to high caliber teams.

Here's to watching OSU get blown away from yet ANOTHER BCS bowl game =)

Great read too!

J. Bourne said...

I meant to say, that aside from Wells, the OSU offense isn't stunning (Prior is looking good though =( ) I think Texas can hold them enough and score WAY more than OSU can. If OSU runs the ball a lot to score points, and Texas just reams them with the passing game, OSU loses. If it takes Texas an average of 3-5 minutes to score passing, and OSU 5-8 minutes to score running a lot, as you can see OSU will find itself running out of time to keep pace with Texas scoring