Saturday, October 9, 2010

Thoughts from Upset Saturday!!!

With five teams in the top 25 sustaining upsets this Saturdays, how will the polls shake out? You have #1 Alabama, and #9 Arizona losing for the top ten teams. Then you have a team like #8 Auburn who just scratched by Kentucky but beat Alabama's team who Alabama lost to. Should Auburn move down after that performance or just stay at number 8. How far will South Carolina be moving up? All of that scenario  is just with one team. The polls should be interesting when they come out. But if you go by what Herbstriet and Musberger said on ABC Alabama should only move down to number four behind Ohio State, Boise State and Oregon. Here is how i see the top 10 shaking out when the polls come out on Sunday:
1. Ohio State
2. Oregon
3. Boise State
4. TCU
5. Alabama
6. Oklahoma
7. Nebraska
8. Auburn
9. Arkansas
10. Utah

O MY! Les Miles has done it again! How on earth could Florida not play for the fake on a 52 yard field goal when they should have known that the mad hatter was most likely not going to kick it. Everyone that plays them should always leave two men back off the corners to cover the kicker run that LSU likes to do. I guess Meyer forgot about the South Carolina game that LSU pulled that one on.

Alabama fans don't panic. Alabama still has to play LSU and Auburn on their schedule so they could still make a chase for the National Championship game, if they get past South Carolina in the SEC Championship game. And I believe that Saban, given another chance, will be able to beat the Gamecocks then. Alabama has also gone through their toughest stretch on their schedule. Playing @Arkansas, Florida, and @ South Carolina would give any teams atleast one loss. Now just go out against two sub par SEC teams in Ole Miss and Tennessee and beat'em then recover during your bye week. Im sure any team in the nation would take a 19-1 twenty game record any day.

Did anyone watch the Florida State Miami game? I thought it would have been way closer than that. I mean its just the biggest rivalry in the state of Florida and Randy Shannon produces that kind of product on a national stage. Things aren't going to look good for Randy Shannon down the road if he keeps this kind of play up. Miami still has VA Tech, GA Tech, and North Carolina on the dock. If they play like they did tonight, you can forget about any ACC Championship game hope because they are going to be Emerald Bowl bound again.

Im sorry but this is not biased in anyway but Auburn has not impressed me yet. Yes Cam Newton has but Auburn as a team has not. How can you let a Kentucky team come back after being up 31-14. That shows that the defense is having a tough time making adjustments after half-time. And Kentucky's found a way to stop Auburn's offense. Kentucky's defense had given up 90 points the two previous weeks with Florida and Ole Miss scoring on them with ease. Auburn should be careful cause next week they are going to play a team that scores often and quick just like they do in Arkansas.

Oregon State finally got its big win of the season this past Saturday in beating Arizona. After they lost to TCU and Boise State in previous weeks. Does that mean that TCU and Boise State could go into the Pac-10 and win it, not really, but for that one game which both those team treat it like their national championship games, they shown that they can play with the big boys. Could they do it week in and week out? We will never know unless the Big 12 or Pac 10 extends them invitations.

I cant wait to see what next week brings us!

1 comment:

  1. Whooo good blog, sir. Completely agree with everything...except for one thing...MIZZOU. OK just kidding. I, also, was surprised with how dominate Florida State was against Miami. At least you didn't pick Michigan on a sports show.

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