I wanted to wait until the BCS came out this week before posting my blog. We have not been doing well in the polls but after lots of close calls in the past few weeks, four teams above us in the BCS bit the dust. Yeah, and Florida should have lost also. We are sitting pretty if we win out and actually have a chance to play for the National Championship as crazy as that sounds. Will the world like a Michigan/ND rematch? Probably not, but we will! Good news is that ND is likely to be in one of the big 5 bowls regardless of the USC outcome though winning that game will get us in one of the top two games. I like our odds against everyone but OSU, though a rematch of last year's Fiesta would be nice. Still a few games to be played that could change the matchups but it is either OSU or Michigan in the title game.
Quinn seems to still be behind Troy Smith for the Heisman though I cannot figure it out. It all comes down to the big games this month. How about Brady throws for 400 yards against USC and runs away with it?
Band Alert! ND is sending a 75 person pep band to the USC game so the Colonel will get to hear the real version of the Victory March. Great news unless you volunteer for it. Band will fly out on Saturday morning, play the game and fly back on the red eye. No hotel. I think it would be a ball but pretty brutal on the beauty sleep. Tony will be watching the game here with us.
Nothing to say about Air Force except we won. Will be very similar next week.
Go Irish, Beat Army.
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Well, Godfather, hopefully there are many more readers than writers. While I'm enjoying the conversation with you, it's not exactly what Nancy had in mind when creating this blog (HINT, HINT).
Yes, the road is paved here. Michigan clobbers OSU at Columbus, Arkansas loses to LSU but beats Florida in the SEC championship game, we beat USC, and the prize is ours for the taking.
While I agree meeting the Buckeyes would be nice synergy from last year, I can't go there with a clean conscious given our loss to Michigan. We have to hope for the rematch with the Wolverines.
Bad news on the injury front: looks like John Carlson will be lost through the Southern Cal game, although he should be available for the bowl game. Big arrow lost from Brady's quiver.
While I got the BCS top 10 right in names, I didn't get them right in order. Yes, we're #5 and Rutgers is #6, but I botched the 7-10 sequence. Arkansas is the sleeper. They passed us in the AP poll, jumping from 11 to 5 after beating Tennessee. We are 6th AP. I watched a lot of the Arkansas-Tennessee game. Arkansas is really good. One thing that helped this week (I think) is that our previous 9 opponents went 7-2 this week, with only MSU and UNC losing. And Ga Tech is a top 20 team now.
I honestly didn't think we'd smell the top five again this season. The way we lost to Michigan, I was sure more losses were coming, and soon. And we all know that MSU and UCLA were very near misses.
So let's all sit back and watch the fun in the Horseshoe Saturday. Perhaps OB will grace us with his first blog with an assessment of the local Columbus atmosphere leading up to the big #1 vs #2 game of the century, 2006 edition. You never know.
Have a good week, all.
GO IRISH!! BEAT ARMY!!
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