Going into this past weekend, the slate of games seemed a bit lackluster beyond OSU v. USC. This proved to be false, thankfully. After the barn-burner between Ga. Tech and Clemson on Thursday night, we probably should have seen it coming.
Recap from last week’s action:
Peter: Life continues to be precarious for teams from Oklahoma as the Cow-pokes over in Stillwater were dropped by a salty Houston team. They still have a few tests left, but they have definitely inserted themselves into the discussion of possible BCS busters. The other most noteworthy item to me was the continued struggles north in our rust belt. While only Michigan State and Ohio State were the only teams that lost ball games, there were only two convincing wins in the Big 10: Penn State (sorta) & Iowa (over Iowa State).
Bjorn: I’m only going to recap what I saw, (which is ample!). Michigan – Notre Dame was a fun game. I’m glad big blue came out on top. The Hornses’ offense was slow to adapt (surprise, surprise), but the defense gave the coaches enough head scratchin’ time to realize how bad the Cowboys defense actually was. Yipee! Ok St. – Way to ruin our strength of schedule. The Big 12 went from one of the strongest years for any conference ever, to a complete joke. Still better than the PAC 10. Lousy hippies.
Tate Forcier, not only a great QB, but a mouth breather too. Who knew?
-Five Thoughts-
Peter: Wyoming successfully exploited Texas/Colt’s offensive weaknesses. They were consistently dropping 6-8 defenders back into shallow pass protection and thus taking away UT’s bread & butter routes. Eventually, the offense pulled through, but it worries me that the ‘Horns were thwarted for an entire half by a severely out-manned team. Leach & his staff certainly took note and said as much on the radio this week.
Bjorn: I feel like talking shit about the state of Oklahoma. So I’m going to. In particular how the three largest schools from the nation’s appendix choose to display themselves to the rest of the world. Tulsa: Bad colors, and cursive on their helmets. Honestly, cursive on your helmets is admitting to the rest of the country that the ability to write in cursive still impresses you (see Ole’ Miss). You learn to curse about the same time you learn to write cursive (about 8 years old), and boy do you do it a lot. Then around high school, you realize that it is pointless gaudiness and you scale it down to a signature here and there and traffic jams…..unless you are from Oklahoma or Mississippi apparently. OU: Horns down. This may be a longhorn being touchy, but is there anything less original in all of college sports? What if countries did that? Well we can’t think of anything for our own flag, but you know who we hate? The freakin’ Portuguese. Can we just turn their flag upside down? Finally, Oklahoma State, who felt so inspired by mexican marionettes that they found the king of all of them (i assume it has something to do with the aztecs) decapitated him, and made some poor son of a bitch walk around with that thing stuck on his head.
wtf? this demigod frightens me
Peter: What is going on in Charlottesville? After the Horned Frogs thrashed Virginia this past weekend, I see only three winnable ball games for the Fainting Al Groh’s: Indiana, @Maryland, & Duke. And even three wins might be asking a lot from this horrible bunch.
Bjorn: I can’t live in a world where Notre Dame is a powerhouse. Every loss they accrue adds years to my life.
Peter: Tate Forcier v. Matt Barkley? I think this question will be percolating for a few years, but after the opening week I have to take Forcier. Sure, Barkley led a game winning drive under the lights and on the road, but he wasn’t asked to do near as much as Forcier was. Barkley, though shaky throughout the majority of the game, illustrated while he will eventually become a fabulous college quarterback. Forcier, however, illustrated why he is already a fabulous quarterback.
-Five Games-
Tennessee v. Florida
Peter: Should be no question who wins here. The real question is how many touchdowns God grants Tebow. This is like a perfect God storm on the football field: God hearts Tebow and hates Tennessee. I think this one has to be at least a 4 touchdown difference.
Bjorn: The original UT! ‘Bout to get chomped. I think every team in the SEC thinks that whoever they are playing next is their biggest rival. It’s a very strange and shortsighted place, the deep south. I guess that explains the age of the earth thing.
Georgia v. Arkansas
Peter: This is a trap. As an Arkansas boy, everyone expects me to pick Arkansas even though I’ve never once called the Hogs. Georgia is battle-tested. Are they tired? Did that extra week of prep help Petrino’s boys? I’m somewhat surprised the spread is a essentially a pick’em, but I kind of like the Piggies here.
Bjorn: I’m going to be honest, I don’t anything about Arkansas since McFadden left, but I’m always in favor of high powered offenses and self degrading cheers. Sueeee-weee?
Nebraska v. Virginia Tech
Peter: No gimmicks or spread offenses here, this should be old-fashioned football…you know the kind that was a lot of fun, but sort of boring at times because they’re just getting a few yard runs, punting a lot, and really executing game plans well? I’m very interested to watch this game because I’m a boring sort of dude. I think the Huskers escape with an upset here.
Bjorn: Nebraska is not a good road team (in the past few years) and they still have enough pride left in the goiter-dome to hold on.
Cincinnati v. Oregon State
Peter: Two huge games in Oregon this week, both have me excited, but this one pits two of my favorite coaches in all of CFB against each other. Break out the chili, because Cincinnati has looked strong so far. I think they win this game and make a serious bid to run the table.
Bjorn: I like everything about Cincinatti this year. Without the UConn glitch last year, they are in a big time bowl, and this year, I don’t see that glitch coming, especially not against these Pac 10 bottom feeders.
Texas Tech v. Texas
Peter: Though they are trying to amp this game up as one of exacting revenge, the level of excitement around these parts is far from palpable. Even though I find Leach fascinating, I think his team is garbage…just like last years and every other ball club they run out on the field in the dusty expanses of Lubbock. They survived last year on adrenaline and a lot of luck. This year they’ll have neither. Texas will win…and they better win big.
Bjorn: Y’all already know wut it is, I ain’t even gotta tell y’all. Last year took a miracle by the best (and dumbest, inversely proportional) Red Raider ever to beat us. He’s unemployed somewhere right now, and the Red Raiders don’t have a shot. This one is for that idiot in the Sarasota, Florida Buffalo Wild Wings who started cheering for Tech to spite my friends and I, but who, upon my questioning, didn’t know where Texas Tech was located. I’m sure he has died of a steroid overdose by now. RIP.
Upset Specials!
Peter: I’ve already noted that I thought Nebraska might steal one from VaTech this weekend, but I think Minnesota might have something up its sleeve for Cal. This is a total trap game. Also, might want to keep an eye on Michigan State v. Notre Dame.
Bjorn: I like the Minnesota pick, but to be original I’m hoping for Rice over Ok St. How great would that be for the city of Houston if Rice follows U of H with a victory? I bet they reopen Astroworld!!
The Tilted Pylon
Going into this past weekend, the slate of games seemed a bit lackluster beyond OSU v. USC. This proved to be false, thankfully. After the barn-burner between Ga. Tech and Clemson on Thursday night, we probably should have seen it coming.
Recap from last week’s action:
Peter: Life continues to be precarious for teams from Oklahoma as the Cow-pokes over in Stillwater were dropped by a salty Houston team. They still have a few tests left, but they have definitely inserted themselves into the discussion of possible BCS busters. The other most noteworthy item to me was the continued struggles north in our rust belt. While only Michigan State and Ohio State were the only teams that lost ball games, there were only two convincing wins in the Big 10: Penn State (sorta) & Iowa (over Iowa State).
Bjorn: I’m only going to recap what I saw, (which is ample!). Michigan – Notre Dame was a fun game. I’m glad big blue came out on top. The Hornses’ offense was slow to adapt (surprise, surprise), but the defense gave the coaches enough head scratchin’ time to realize how bad the Cowboys defense actually was. Yipee! Ok St. – Way to ruin our strength of schedule. The Big 12 went from one of the strongest years for any conference ever, to a complete joke. Still better than the PAC 10. Lousy hippies.
Tate Forcier, not only a great QB, but a mouth breather too. Who knew?
-Five Thoughts-
wtf? this demigod frightens me
-Five Games-
Tennessee v. Florida
Peter: Should be no question who wins here. The real question is how many touchdowns God grants Tebow. This is like a perfect God storm on the football field: God hearts Tebow and hates Tennessee. I think this one has to be at least a 4 touchdown difference.
Bjorn: The original UT! ‘Bout to get chomped. I think every team in the SEC thinks that whoever they are playing next is their biggest rival. It’s a very strange and shortsighted place, the deep south. I guess that explains the age of the earth thing.
Georgia v. Arkansas
Peter: This is a trap. As an Arkansas boy, everyone expects me to pick Arkansas even though I’ve never once called the Hogs. Georgia is battle-tested. Are they tired? Did that extra week of prep help Petrino’s boys? I’m somewhat surprised the spread is a essentially a pick’em, but I kind of like the Piggies here.
Bjorn: I’m going to be honest, I don’t anything about Arkansas since McFadden left, but I’m always in favor of high powered offenses and self degrading cheers. Sueeee-weee?
Nebraska v. Virginia Tech
Peter: No gimmicks or spread offenses here, this should be old-fashioned football…you know the kind that was a lot of fun, but sort of boring at times because they’re just getting a few yard runs, punting a lot, and really executing game plans well? I’m very interested to watch this game because I’m a boring sort of dude. I think the Huskers escape with an upset here.
Bjorn: Nebraska is not a good road team (in the past few years) and they still have enough pride left in the goiter-dome to hold on.
Cincinnati v. Oregon State
Peter: Two huge games in Oregon this week, both have me excited, but this one pits two of my favorite coaches in all of CFB against each other. Break out the chili, because Cincinnati has looked strong so far. I think they win this game and make a serious bid to run the table.
Bjorn: I like everything about Cincinatti this year. Without the UConn glitch last year, they are in a big time bowl, and this year, I don’t see that glitch coming, especially not against these Pac 10 bottom feeders.
Texas Tech v. Texas
Peter: Though they are trying to amp this game up as one of exacting revenge, the level of excitement around these parts is far from palpable. Even though I find Leach fascinating, I think his team is garbage…just like last years and every other ball club they run out on the field in the dusty expanses of Lubbock. They survived last year on adrenaline and a lot of luck. This year they’ll have neither. Texas will win…and they better win big.
Bjorn: Y’all already know wut it is, I ain’t even gotta tell y’all. Last year took a miracle by the best (and dumbest, inversely proportional) Red Raider ever to beat us. He’s unemployed somewhere right now, and the Red Raiders don’t have a shot. This one is for that idiot in the Sarasota, Florida Buffalo Wild Wings who started cheering for Tech to spite my friends and I, but who, upon my questioning, didn’t know where Texas Tech was located. I’m sure he has died of a steroid overdose by now. RIP.
Upset Specials!
Peter: I’ve already noted that I thought Nebraska might steal one from VaTech this weekend, but I think Minnesota might have something up its sleeve for Cal. This is a total trap game. Also, might want to keep an eye on Michigan State v. Notre Dame.
Bjorn: I like the Minnesota pick, but to be original I’m hoping for Rice over Ok St. How great would that be for the city of Houston if Rice follows U of H with a victory? I bet they reopen Astroworld!!