Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Random college football thoughts

Sorry I haven't posted this week, I procrasinated on a book report due tommorrow, I just finished it. Anyways, here are some totally random thought about college football.
-A Florida team without Tim Tebow isn't going to win 9, 10 or 11 games. Try the 6-8 range. Tebow will insist on playing against LSU, but if your not 100% you don't win in Death Valley.
- Alabama is the best team in the nation. Hands down. Look at my above note about Florida, and Texas is playing well, but they aren't playing like the #1 team in the land. And we all know, defense wins championships. Alabama has the best D I've seen this year in college football (it's nowhere near the Jet's D-line, which I'll hopefully get to in an upcoming post)
- Cincinnati won't live up to the hype. Teams that have gotten hyped so much, hmmm let's think about Miami, BYU, Florida State. Cincy is an "up and coming" team, just like those teams were. They aren't going to run the table. Tony Pike isn't Peyton Manning. And ESPN people, Tony Pike isn't the best QB no one has heard of. Because I've heard of him. And I think Kirk Cousins is better (yeah, that's probably biased, but he's still a sophmore!)
- What's the deal with LSU? Yeah sure, we all know they can win in Death Valley, but what the heck happened against Mississippi State? I'm not going to rank a team in the top 5 that was 6 inches away from losing against the annual cellar-dwellers of the SEC.
- Michigan isn't that good. They just aren't. Let's look at who they beat. They beat Western (I refer to Western Michigan as Western, Eastern Michigan as Eastern, and Central Michigan as CMU), which is not much of a feat. They beat a Notre Dame team that is 3-1. But Notre Dame's loss is to Michigan, their wins are over Nevada (WAC team) and Michigan State and Purdue, 2 teams that lost to MAC teams (CMU and Northern Illinois, respectively). Michigan beat Eastern, and the game was closer than the 45-17 score indicated, scUM (Michigan) didn't put the game away until the 4th quarter against the annual cellar-dwellers of the MAC. They beat Indiana (one of the big ten's worst) by 3 points, and in the game appeared worse at tackling than Michigan State (and that's saying something). Long rant short, Michigan is not one of the best teams in the nation.
- The Pac

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