I didn’t take notes today because I had to be in and out of the house during the game today. Hey, it was just Navy.
(I heard a rumor.)
I decided that the SEC doesn’t have any Heisman candidates today, because CBS was hyping BQ for the entire game. SEC football is great on CBS, but there isn’t anyone in the running for this year’s “Running Man with Stiff Arm”. And you know what? That’s OK with me. Brady is a better quarterback than Troy Smith, IMHO. So as long as we keep winning, I’m back on the Brady for Heisman Bandwagon. Now I do wish he got at least 5 more than the 295 yards passing he amassed today. But, true to what Godfather and Rosie said, Charlie wouldn’t have dared brought him in for one more pass to get him past 300. We’ll take the high road and have to be satisfied if it doesn’t lead to Heismanville.
(Something about Southern Cal.)
Outside of the 4th and goal that we didn’t convert, a very good game by Charlie’s Boys today. Yes, it took a while to figure out the option, and really, we never totally figured it out. But a few key stops, and an offense that refused to punt (did we punt today? I don’t think so), piled the lead high enough to force Navy out of their game. A good tuneup #1 for the mighty USC.
(Something about the Trojans not being so mighty anymore.)
Well looky looky here. I hope some of you were able to watch the Crimp in Corvallis. Oregon State had leads of 21-0 and 33-10, but the Men of Troy made it close. They went for two earlier in the second half and made it, so they were only down 8 at the end. They got the TD with 7 seconds remaining, but JD Booty’s pass on the 2-point conversion was deflected at the line. For once, things didn’t go right for Uncle Pete. If only Texas Tech and South Carolina could have kept their second half leads over Texas and Tennessee. Oh well. Maybe next week.
I won’t belabor our victory. It was good, it was solid, it was what it should have been. And don’t worry about Air Force’s option this year—they’re just not very good this year.
So I’ll just close by saying I stand by our continued commitment to playing one or more of the service academies every season. It’s a lot more classy than BC beating up on Buffalo today, if you ask me. I’m admittedly a little biased here, but in a good way, I think. We rarely play all three, and we can’t help it that some of our ACC (North Carolina) and PAC-10 (Stanford) opponents are awful. Although, I’d love to be in the room when our AD is trying to put together future schedules. An interesting process, I’m sure.
So we’ll see how far the Trojans fall. Since their loss is against an unranked team and ours is against #2 UofM, they should fall below us, in my mind, especially given all their non-blowout victories over the last several weeks. We shall see.
I’ll write again tomorrow after the BCS poll comes out, be it good or bad results.
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I did watch the USC loss Donny, and you know how much I love to see them lose. Furious comeback but the lost and should plummet in the polls. Clemson lost as well so we should move up 2 in the AP even though that has no bearing on the BCS. Tribune says we just got aced out of the championship because of USC's fall, but I see them losing to CAL as well before us. Either way we beat them this year.
Totally agree on Brady, he is back at the top of the Heisman list in my view and deserves it. No one else is stepping up and hopefully he will put it all together at USC for a big win. Palmer and Leinart both one the Heisman by shining in that game.
Mike Lupica actually said on the Sports Reporters today that BQ is the player in college football he most wants to watch. So the mo is shifting back towards him, I hope.
The local press here in LA has been mostly of the "they had it coming" variety. Which they really did, given their near misses over the last several weeks. They could easily have 3 losses already.
And as bad as it was for UCLA after we beat them, laying an egg against Washington State nailed the coffin shut in the press this week. And REAL crap for the fans, who all left the rose bowl really early. UCLA fans have a very "fair weather" reputation, and they delivered in spades Saturday.
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