Week to week

Life is flowing gently from week to week right now. Thats the beauty of the football season. You start following the rhythm of the football season - both college and NFL, and your excitement level picks up towards the weekend and settles down during the week. With some spike in excitement Monday night for MNF and Thursday night if you are a hardcore college guy. Week 1 was good in the NFL. Lots of low scoring games as the offenses are still trying to get into the groove. New Orleans beat Minnesota 14-9 and Washington beat Dallas 13-7 in 2 of the more surprising low scoring games. Baltimore beat the over-rated Jets 10-9 in a game which didn't surprise me at all. The one true upset of the week was Indianapolis losing 34-24 to Houston despite Manning throwing for 433 yards and 3 TDs. This was a huge win for Houston as we have all been waiting for them to take the next step. This victory might propel them to much better chemistry and performance down the road this season.

In college, ASU is playing Wisconsin tomorrow. Arizona is playing Iowa and the cats are ranked 24. Hope they lose and stay out of the rankings. No other major top-25 match-ups between ranked teams. Last weekend, Va Tech lost to James Madison 21-16 at home. This was shocking and embarrassing for the Hokies, but more importantly, this diluted Boise state's win over the Hokies the weekend before. So Boise lost some shine and may be some number 1 votes even without playing a game. Classic college football - broken system with questionable semantics. I always love how at the end of year talk shows are endlessly arguing about the relative superiority of conferences. Oregon state lost to Mississippi state which lost to Tennessee but Tennessee lost to UCLA which in turn lost to Oregon state. So is the Pac-10 better or the SEC? You can argue about all this till the cows come home and thats exactly what NCAA wants us to do. We are still a few months away from such discussions. Lets enjoy the games until then.