Sunday, August 31, 2008

CFB Mini-Wrap Week 1

Wow...bunch of good games today it looks like...I finally got to a TV just in time to see Missouri put away Illinois with a pick 6...to ensure that I'm going at best 1-3 with my picks today (with Washington still playing)....
  • Michigan went down....I've heard/read alot about it...looks like we were ineffective running the football (somehow?) and had some sloppy QB play by both Sheridan and Threet with repeated high/inaccurate throws in key spots summed up by the final drive when Threet couldn't connect on a couple of routine throws....I honestly thought we were in deep trouble, so I'm not shocked by the result...but I am troubled by the lack of success in the run game and the defense being relatively ineffective albeit against a quality QB in Johnson....
  • Yikes...Illinois' defense gives up 50+ in a neutral site rivalry game....
  • Alabama absolutely lays the wood to Clemson....making me and everyone else that bought into Tommy Bowden and company look foolish once again....Good news for SEC fans again...looks like they have yet another quality team...
  • Funniest score of the day: Oklahoma 57, Chattanooga 2.....yes, 2.....laughter ensued when I saw this...My boy Demarco Murray goes 15 carries for 124 and 2 tds....
  • 2 upsets that everyone saw coming (Utah over Michigan isn't an upset....it was Michigan by 3 as the line...and since everyone knows that Vegas factors homefield as either 3 or 3.5 points...you get the picture) went down.....Va Tech goes down to East Carolina thanks in part to the immortal Sean Glennon going for under 150 yds. and 2 INT, and it prolly didn't help that All-American DB Macho Harris was out.....Pitt goes down to Bowling Green .... Now, this one wasn't quite as widespread to be picked as the VT one....but it should've been....Pitt got the benefit of the doubt being ranked without really proving anything other than that one victory over W. Virginia last year in a fluky game...they were beaten in all facets today by a MAC team...
  • Top Teams hold serve: USC was the most impressive by far...going on the road to a reasonable opponent across the country and winning 52-7....they seem to do this alot....Georgia and Ohio State utterly cruise against 1-A teams.....yawn...
That's all for tonight....enjoy

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe I missed, something but which game did you pick right again? Im seeing 0-5 YTD....

Brad said...

Notice it says "at best" 1-3

Anonymous said...

Clearly, my mistake...