Tuesday, October 16, 2007

My, my, look who is #1 - the South Florida Bulls!!! - College Rankings - Top 16 +1

1. S. Florida (#3) (6-0) - @ Rutgers (Thurs) - if this was college basketball, the media and fans would be fawning over this team as Cinderella....but this is football and the traditionalists do not want a team named South Florida in the Top 20 let alone #1....well too bad....the Bulls do have a very rough game on Thursday at Rutgers....Upset Alert - Big Time!!!....

2. Ohio State (#4) (7-0) - Michigan State - the media wonks are talking up the Bucks defense....but weren’t they doing the same last year until Michigan and Florida dropped 39 and 41 points on them?.....

3. Boston College (#5) (7-0) - BYE - give BC credit, they survived a possible upset in South Bend.....now they are off until Thursday the 25th when they go to Blacksburg to take on Va. Tech.....I’m saying it right now, that will be the end of the line for BC....


4. Oklahoma (#6) (6-1) - @ Iowa State - Youngstown, Ohio native Bob Stoops has righted the ship after that disastrous ending three weeks ago.....this team is led by a freshman quarterback - Sam Bradford.....the Boomer is back in the Sooners....

5. LSU (#1) (6-1) - Auburn - I stated last week that LSU had to be on Upset Alert....remember, Florida lost a game in mid-October last year and still won the title....the LSU defense is very good, but they were exposed a bit by Kentucky and by the injury bug.....

6. Cal (#2) (5-1) - @ UCLA - what the heck was the Cal quarterback thinking by trying to run for a touchdown instead of throwing the ball away and stopping the clock....the Golden Bears fought gallantly after their starting QB Nate Longshore got injured....

7. Oregon (#8) (5-1) - @ Washington - the Ducks smashed Wazzou....they have to be careful with this Washington game....I never realized until recently that Oregon and Washington is a huge rivalry game in which both side HATE each other....

8. South Carolina (#10) (6-1) - Vanderbilt - that win over Kentucky looks even more impressive....the Ole Ball Coach has this team rolling....

9. Kentucky (#16) (6-1) - Florida - a great win for Kentucky and the entire SEC....it just shows that the SEC is no Big Ten.....

10. West Virginia (#7) (5-1) - Mississippi State - West Virginia got a week to rest.....they should take care of Miss. State, but they better not get too overconfident because Sly Croom has the Bulldogs playing better than they did last year.....

11. Southern Cal (#9) (5-1) - @ Notre Dame - a 7 point win over Arizona?.....Southern Cal needs to thump Notre Dame big time on national television in order to get their swagger back.....

12. Auburn (#13) (5-2) - @ LSU - just another huge game in the SEC....Auburn won at Florida and at Arkansas.....this one will be an even tougher challenge when they go into Baton Rouge at night....

13. Florida (#14) (4-2) - @ Kentucky - the Gators have lost two in a row and are coming off a bye....they are going up to Kentucky, a team that just came off a big win last weekend....the Gators win - and win handily....

14. Kansas (#15) (6-0) - @ Colorado - Bear Mangino faces his toughest test yet....no, not a hot dog eating contest, but his Kansas team goes into Boulder to play Colorado.....look what happened when Oklahoma went to Colorado earlier this year.....

15. Arizona State (NR) (7-0) - BYE - the Sun Devils can relax, work on their tan, and prepare for Cal.....

16. Virginia Tech (NR) (6-1) - BYE - the Hokies are licking their chops for Thursday, October 25th when undefeated Boston College comes to town....they get a whole week to prepare for a team that gave them their first defeat last year.....bury the house on the Hokies!!!!....

+1 Penn State (5-2) - @ Indiana - two weeks ago it looked like JoePa was losing control of this team....but after two impressive wins, Penn State looks like a very dangerous team who could win out and finish the year 10-2 and in a BCS game.....

Dropped out from last week:
#11 Missouri - the Tigers only lost by 10 to Oklahoma.....I could see them re-entering the Top 16 very soon....

#12 Illinois - I called for the Illini to be on Upset Alert last week.....they face a must win when they host Michigan this Saturday night....


Monday, October 15, 2007

Monday Morning G.M.

How the mighty have fallen....just two years ago Shaun Alexander was ripping up the NFL as the best running back in the league....today, he looks like an old worn out workhorse who does not have the drive or desire to once again become an elite back.....

New England showed why they are the best team in the NFL....after trailing 24-21 early in the third quarter, Tom Brady and company kicked it up another level in order to put away Dallas....this was done without the service of their number 1 running back Laurence Maroney and limited playing time from his back-up Sammy Morris....Tom Brady is the league MVP.....

While he was the starting quarterback, Rex Grossman was taking the heat in Chicago....but since he has been benched, the Bears are 1-2....the blame cannot be put on his replacement Brian Griese who has played well....the blame should be laid on the most over-rated defense in the last 10 years.....the same media wonks who were hellbent on crucifying Grossman should now go after the Bears defense with the same vengeance....

Is Marvin Lewis’ job in jeopardy in Cincinnati?....he has lifted the franchise out of the doldrums of 4-12 seasons, but since their supposed breakthrough season, 2 years ago, the Bengals have regressed....a team of their talent should not be 1-4.....the Bengals need to be more business-like in their approach.....

The Cleveland Browns are on a bye this coming week and it was supposed to be the time that the team would transition Brady Quinn into the starting quarterback position.....but with Derek Anderson’s recent play, it looks like that timetable has been pushed back - possibly to very late this season or even next year....

Indianapolis will be going into a hornet’s nest when they travel to Jacksonville next Monday night.....

It’s unbelievable to think that Vinny Testaverde is still a starting quarterback at his age....this is not a knock on Vinny, but do you mean there are no other serviceable quarterbacks in the entire country who are still in their 30s?....

What ever happened to former Cincinnati quarterback "The Throwin Samoan" Jack Thompson?