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National Championship Post Mortem

It’s never a good sign when your team climaxes 16 seconds into the game like the Buckeyes did with Ted Ginn’s kickoff return. Never in a million years would I have guessed the football team would lose to Florida by more points (27) than the basketball team lost to Florida a couple of weeks [...]

This and That

Will there be a rematch after #1 Ohio State beat #2 Michigan last weekend? I don’t think it will happen provided either USC or Florida (and possibly Arkansas) wins out. The result eliminates Notre Dame’s title hopes because there’s no way they can let a team that lost by 21 to Michigan at [...]

What Happened to the Buckeyes?

That’s what we were wondering after going to see the Buckeyes and Illini play. In case you missed it, the Buckeyes made it out of Champaign with a 17-10 victory. The only answer we could come up with was that Ohio State was trying to avoid injury and limiting their play calling to [...]

Thoughts on College Football

An eclectic mix of thoughts as Leigh Ann and I get ready to head to Memorial Stadium to watch the number one Buckeyes take on the non-so-number-one Illini this Saturday with my mom and some friends. Last time we saw the Buckeyes play here, they won the National Championship (2002)…hopefully history repeats this year [...]

Pigskin Pick’Em

OK, after a few busy weekends, let’s try to pick some college football games again and see how I do.

Illinois at Penn St.: (Line is Penn St. by 18.5) The Illini seem to have done better on the road. But, the Illini are just in shambles. Do I give them the line or [...]

Five Thoughts on the Weekend in College Football

I’m Slightly Better than Random in Picking Games: How’d my picks do? I went 6-4…slightly better than the 5-5 you would expect if you just picked a winner at random.

OSU did about as I predicted against Cincy even if they were a little sluggish (and, surprisingly, they did when by exactly 30). [...]

Weekend Pickoff

So, tomorrow’s college football brings us seven games between Top 25 teams, which is the most in one day since like 1993. I’m going to try my hand at picking the games so everyone can tell me how dumb my picks were after the fact. I’ll do those seven games along with Ohio [...]

Six Thoughts from This Week in College Football

Ohio State is clearly number one: Their defense is still suspect, but the national champ now seems poised to be one of these five: OSU, USC, Notre Dame (though, I still think they’re over-hyped), West Virginia, and Auburn. There’s definitely no team as strong as 2004 USC or 2002 Miami in the bunch. [...]

Five Thoughts on the Weekend in College Football

Biggest Shock: The trendy pick is Division I-AA Montana State beating Colorado 19-10 in Dan Hawkins coaching debut (how the value of the domain FireDanHawkins.com just increased). But, I have to go with Kansas State beating Division I-AA Illinois State by one (24-23) when they stopped a two point conversion! To put this [...]

Oy Vey! Maurice Clarett is a Schmuck

For the next season of The Surreal Life, they should just have one guest…Maurice Clarett. After his little chase from police with his vodka, guns, and lint roller, now details emerge that Clarett was involved with the Israeli mafia! Some chutzpah. Honestly, I didn’t even know such a mafia existed. Hollywood [...]

College Football: Almost Here!

Just three weeks away from my favorite sports season of the year. To help prepare for it, I found this highlight clip of Ohio State receiver Ted Ginn (he’s really fast):

And, Ohio State QB, Troy Smith:

 

2005 College Football Awards

Feel free to add your own awards in the comments!

Irrational Exuberance Award: After the Illini started 2-0 by beating Rutgers and San Jose State, one of the local news stations led a segment with the title, “Feels Like 2001″. 2001, of course being the year that the Kurt Kittner-led Illini went 10-2 and earned [...]

The BCS Picture As I See It

So, Saturday seems to have cleared a lot up. We know that the the following three conferences stand no chance of getting at-large bids:

The Big East. If West Virginia trips, there’s a plethora of more qualified two loss teams.

The ACC. Miami’s loss took care of this…there’s better two loss teams than the [...]

Hang On, Sloopy!

In Jim Tressel, the Buckeyes seem to have finally found a coach that can pwn the Wolverines the way that Carr and Moeller pwned John Cooper.
Gonzalez seems to have got his mojo back in this game…that was a heck of a catch towards the end of the game.

Best line by the commentators was when [...]

College Football Lines

Here’s the lines for some of my teams this weekend:

Ohio St. at Michigan: OSU by 3. I’d definitely take the Buckeyes with that spread.
Clemson at USC: Clemson by 2.5. It’s close…Tommy has kind of pwned the Gamecocks…but I have a feeling Spurrier wins this one.
Northwestern at UIUC: Northwestern by 14.5. Heck, I’d [...]

College Football Thoughts

The Buckeyes’ offense has actually looked pretty good the past couple of games (of course, as soon as I say this…). Ted Ginn is actually started to make some big plays…man, if he gets an opening on a kick, he can fly.
Props to myself for calling Georgia’s imminent loss! I think I’ll apply [...]

Random College Football Thoughts

I never got around to writing something last week, so I guess that I’ll try to give thoughts on the previous two weeks.

The Michigan State-Ohio State game seemed to be more a case of the Spartans snatching defeat from the jaws of victory rather than the Buckeyes playing well. Though, ironically, the Spartans weren’t [...]

Mark May Was Right

As much as it pains me to say so, Mark May brought his A-game to the post-Ohio State game analysis.
First off, Lou Holtz was full of crap when he said that Penn St. won by going back to an old school Joe Paterno style of play. Having a Michael Robinson at quarterback and running [...]

College Football Perspectives

We went to see the Illini play Michigan State this morning. Pretty much the worst beating I’ve ever seen live, I think (61-14). We were gone at halftime.
Saw the fourth quarter of the Ohio State-Iowa game on TV. Pretty much the first time I remember seeing a Tressel-led Buckeyes team beat a [...]

Five Things I Did This Weekend

While checking out at the grocery store, heard the cashier tell the bag boy that Mr. Deeds is a great movie. Hoped that he is not considering a career as a film critic.
In post-game wrap-up on ESPN Plus, learned that John Cooper has “never seen a bad Michigan team”, which seems pretty intuitive given [...]