2007 Week 6
October 10, 2007
We could talk about a lot of the action this weekend, but what about that exciting Saturday night in Los Angeles? I hadn't seen Coach Harbaugh on the sidelines since his days with Western Kentucky, so it was great that he got back into the action again and led Stanford to the upset win over USC. What a wonderful job by Jack Harbaugh! And what a disappointment for TV psycho Diane Carroll's husband Pete.
But the nightcap was even better (as most nightcaps are). Following up the stunning Stanford upset, the plucky youngsters from Notre Dame took to the same field at the Coliseum and stuck it to UCLA.
Overall it was just a lousy week for football in that obtuse city of angles, as I see that the Rams suffered an acute loss too.
Now there's another topic I want to address: the polls. It's just not acceptable to have all these pre-season and early season polls. The teams haven't even played yet and they're being ranked, then if a team is ranked #2 and keeps on winning, it stays ahead of the #3 team no matter how unimpressively they've played and that puts them in better position once the post-season comes around.
So I looked at the polls last week and sure enough, all the same powers are rated highly. You've got Kentucky, Florida, Boston College, Ohio State all in the top 10. There's other up and coming powers like Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Missouri, and Purdue all rated pretty highly too, and LSU is #1. Even more amazingly, some of these basketball teams have records like 4-0 after their names, so they're already playing even though it's only early October. I think they shouldn't be rating basketball teams this early.
Even the football polls are a bit confusing. I saw that the #2 team in the football poll was ND State. I think things have gone too far, now even the Irish have their own land grant college.
It used to be state schools like Penn, Oregon, and Louisiana-Monroe would set up land grant "State" schools to teach kids the arts of animal husbandry (which usually led to sheep stampedes).
Now it's not just states, a branch school in South Bend wasn't enough, you're seeing a land grant school being set up by those foreign folks in Ireland. And with that #2 ranking, ND State is doing even better than Coach Charles White's team this year.
Pretty soon Notre Dame may be looking up at their lesser land grant sister school the way those folks in the Athens of Ohio, at The Ohio University, are forced to do these days.
Well, I'm getting geared up for another weekend of college football. We should all be thankful that we get so many games on the tube these days. I have not-so-fond memories of trying to watch college football on TV and playing with the rabbit ears (and even the cute little white cottontails).
Sometimes it was best to be frozen in one position holding onto the antenna. One time I was putting down some tile with Elmer's, then I climbed up on one of the beams holding up the loft, to adjust the antenna while trying to tune in that big TCU vs. Baylor game. Then I slipped off the beam and wound up holding onto the antenna while dangling downwards--and the picture on the TV was perfect. After a while I realized my halitosis had eased up and even my scoliosis was better too.
And that's how I invented gravity boots.