The big game this weekend on campus was no. 16 Utah at no. 4 TCU horned frogs, whatever the words horned frogs mean. TCU dismissed Utah 55-28 to stay where they are. Number 6 Boise State crushed Idaho 63-25. Cincinnati won 24-21 and will probably stay at number 5. That leaves 3 mid-major schools in the top 6. I guess the parity in college football is for real. At least Cincinnati is in a BCS conference - Big East. Big East is not a great football conference after the whole ACC expansion a few years back, but it's still the Big East. But the BCS is being turned upside down by TCU and Boise State. They are saying Boise State may still not make a BCS bowl game because TCU is ahead of them and it will be too much to put both of them in. That would be a shame if these teams stay undefeated and still don't get a chance to play in a major bowl. But then again BCS has alway been a shame and a scam like this wouldn't be a major surprise. I sure hope both these schools stay undefeated and both get invited to the big dance. And I want both of them to defeat the major schools they would be playing in the BCS bowl games. I can definitely see them handling the Georgia Techs and the Cincinnatis of the World. I see only 3 elite teams in the nation right now - Florida, Alabama and Texas. TCU and Boise State should be given a shot ahead of any of the other mediocre schools.
In the Pac-10, the roller-coaster ride continued today with more somersaults and up and downs. Arizona lost to Cal, and I am of course happy about it. Actually, Arizona never had a real shot at the Rose Bowl given how difficult the last few games on their schedule was going to be including the rivalry game against ASU. Speaking of ASU, another week, another Pac-10 loss - this time at Oregon. They played with their 3-Rd string QB who was running around like a chicken with it's head cutoff. Athletic dude, but had a tough time at Oregon. The shocker was USC losing to Stanford at home once again. I guess no more hype for USC QB Matt Barkley on ESPN and thats a good thing, actually a great thing. Pac-10 currently has a reputation of being very deep. I guess it's because USC beat the suckeyes and the Domers and UCLA beat Tennessee and Washington almost beat LSU. Otherwise, the so-called experts will be trashing Pac-10 as always given the lack of a dominant team and since they don't have any idea who will beat who on a given weekend. I think Oregon will make it to the Rose Bowl and will handle the suckeyes easily. There are only 2 good weeks of college football left as far as I am concerned. The conference championship week where Florida plays Alabama and the BCS bowl week. Thats about it. The Heisman race has also turned upside down since the beginning of the season. Now it's Alabama's Mark Ingram's trophy to lose. He had another big weekend this week - 147 yards and 2 TDs in Alabama's 31-3 win at Mississippi state.
In the NBA, couple of rookies are on fire. Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings and Sacramento's Tyreke Evans are both having an awesome season. And thats not just by Rookie standards, but by "veteran standards". Today, Jennings blew up big time. He dropped 55 points on the Warriors. He scored 16 points in the fourth quarter and nobody is even talking about that because he scored an amazing 29 points on 12/13 shooting in the third. I have watched a lot of basketball, but that was one of the most amazing individual performance I have ever seen. I can't remember anybody on fire quite like this - not even Kobe or Melo or LeBron. 6/8, 10/15 may be, but not 12/12 before missing a 3 at the end of the quarter. That was fun to watch. This game was surprisingly entertaining and was one of the better NBA games this season. Both teams were pretty on with the Bucks taking it 129-125. The Suns are back tomorrow against the Raptors and that should be a high-scoring game too. They fell flat on their face against the Lakers on Thursday. It looked like they had mentally given the game to the Lakers and didn't really believe they can beat them that day. They are now 8-2 and since the Lakers lost the next day at Denver, they are still on top of the Pacific. Both of Suns losses have been blowouts on the road on the back-end of back-to-back games. I guess they got no legs on those days.
Lets bring on the Colts-Patriots tomorrow.
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