This is fun because I simply look at last week's games and give you my first impressions. I'll study the stats and game action later: Was N.C. St. that good, or Cincy that bad? I believe every team needs a little time to adjust to a new coach, and despite decent returning talent for the Bearcats, particularly on offense, they must simply adjust to new coach, Butch Jones. I think you will see that adjustment problem at Notre Dame under new coach, Brian Kelly...Boise St. does not have a cake-walk to the national championship. If they survive Oregon St., which will be a tough contest, they face Nevada in Reno in late November. Maybe you were sleeping( or partying?) early Saturday morning when you missed Nevada destroy the PAC-10's Cal Bears, 52-31...Now, a team that may have a cake-walk to the BCS title game are my boys from FORT WORTH, TEXAS, the TCU Horned Frogs. They destroyed Baylor, and their toughest game in the remainder of this season is at Utah in early November. You know TCU will improve every game defensively, that's coach Gary Patterson's modus operandi. It's his offense which may be even more impressive this year. The Frogs have very good returning RBs, receivers, o-linemen, and a premier QB in Andy Dalton. My friend Aldo-Bo bet on them early in the year to win the national championship, and I believe my friend has a great chance to win $$$$.
I gave out La.Tech, but, I was still happy with the service academy results this past week. Army shut-out North Texas; Navy came back to beat L.T. 37-23, and Air Force played a great game in their 24-27 loss vs. Okla. Oh yeah, all three teams covered ATS(against the spread)!!!
Three teams got a lot of expert and public support last week in their matchups against three teams that are among the college football elite. All three teams lost, two convincingly. Can you name those three losing teams? Answer at the bottom.
Leave Georgia coach Mark Richt alone! He is 56-23 in conference games and 7-2 in bowl games, so any talk of his being on the hot seat should be stifled. He's breaking in a highly rated, but young freshman QB in Murray. Give him time to get it back together. He will... Did I say Duke would give 'Bama a tough game? Nah, that wasn't me...While I was sleeping, Iowa came back and tied Arizona 27-27, after being down 7-27. If Iowa's defense is as good as I thought they were, that defense should have taken over at that point. They didn't. I heard Arizona went right down the field and scored on the Hawkeyes. Very disappointing... And, speaking of a disappointing Big-10 result, Wisconsin barely survived against an ASU team that I believe will be horrible this year. Now, what I have to watch out for: am I over-rating Wisconsin, or did they let-down in a non-Big 10 matchup...Houston is pretty reliable when playing teams in their class. But, despite being tempted to pick them against UCLA, it's just a fact of CUSA life that Houston playing UCLA is a dangerous step up in class for the Cougars. They were never, seemingly, in that game.
I wrote in the beginning of the year that if my Temple Owls could beat UConn(accomplished!), and at least play PSU tough, the Owls could end up in the Top 30 by the end of the year. Heck, now I think Temple can beat them Nits. GO OWLS!
The three teams that were getting public and expert support last week in their games against three of the historically elite college football teams, AND THEN PROCEEDED TO LOSE CONVINCINGLY, were Miss.St(vs.LSU), Texas Tech(vs.Texas), and Washington(vs. Nebraska).
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