Weekend Report

We still have a couple of games today and a big one tomorrow as Boise St takes on Virginia Tech. What did you guys learn after watching the opening couple of days of football? I learned quite a lot although none of it was really unexpected.

I learned that the Cats could win 9 or they could win 5. They are still playing not to lose in the second half rather than to kick ass but still managed a good win over the dirty birds. Special teams play wont cut it when they get to the SEC so they better improve. The receivers looked much better, Hartline played good, Cobb and Locke did as expected and several defensive players are going to be real good this year. Over all they left Joker with a lot of work to do but earned the win.

I learned for the 20th time not to pick a Dennis Erickson team to win because something will cause me to lose. While I’m talking about that game what about LSU, over rated or what. And speaking about over rated how about Florida, mediocre is the best I can say after watching that game and next weekend they have South Florida a team that can very easily cause them to become the 4th best team in Florida. I’ll give Mississippi credit for putting up enough points to win but come on Jacksonville St.

Continuing in that frame of thought how about the Big East. How can they be thought of as a major conference when their best showing was Syracuse beating Akron or W Virginia beating Coastal Carolina.

How about the MWC and the WAC. The MWC big boys beat #15 Pittsburgh, #24 Oregon St. and Heisman favorite Jake Locker and Washington. The WAC had a respectable showing as Fresno St. thumped another Big East team Cincinnati. Utah St. gave a team some are picking to win it all all they could handle before falling to #7 Oklahoma on a late pick. If Hawaii could have tackled they would have spoiled Layla’s stud muffin’s first game but no tackle no win.

Hard to tell about the Big Ten other than Ohio St. Wisconsin had a rougher than expected game with MWC opponent UNLV and Penn St. managed to pick up steam after a slow start against Youngstown St. How about Rich Rodriguez and Michigan? They finally look like they are rolling and just in time to be put on probation.

The SEC is going to be interesting if this weekends games are any indicator. It looks like it might be a rerun of Snow White and the seven Dwarves since no one besides Alabama, Georgia and S Carolina impressed me and Georgia and SC face each other next weekend.

Hats off to my adopted nephew Kawika who got a win in his first game as NAIA Azusa Pacific beat FCS U of San Diego 42-14.