Looks like I'm 27-10 so far. Dang it all, Ducks! East Carolina you teased me, but I should congratulate Spurrier for his Gamecocks' rally. Rick, hope your days aren't numbered at UCLA, but they probably are. 'Ole Miss--one point, really? Eastern Washingon...so close; props to the other Coach Steve, too.
Things I loved: Andrew Luck (best Stanford QB since Elway--wish they could win it all in this system), CU's advert which showed the stark difference between an Education and Having Fun (hey Rainbow Warriors, I'll have more to say about the on-the-field comparison later).
Things I did not love: Georgia's unis--were they going for the "Dread Red" or "Bloody Awful"? They looked as if they were on a green screen and not a green field, Brent Musburger's hyperbolic commentary (as usual), the refs in the first quarter of the Oregon-LSU game (though Ducks you know you shot your own little luminous duck feet way too much for that to have mattered in the end), also, Oregon's penalty-machine hi-jinx.
Curiosities: Under Armor's new marbelized-sleeve shirts, the mass exodus from the Big-12...now 10...soon to be none? Let's chat about this a second.
When I first came to be a Colorado Buffs fan it was 1989 and the conference was the Big 8. If rumors pan out it may soon be that again. If T. Boone puts his $ where his mouth is--and he usually does--more defections are in the works. Remember a few years back when the Big 12 was THE conference of note? How quickly things change. And what will the Pac-10, now 12, do with 16 teams? The "Pac-Baker's Dozen Plus Three" sounds a little too Reality TV and is unwieldy at best. But the worst part of re-alignments is always the loss of games amongst rivals. I think one of the best weekends of the season is the Rivalry Week which usually occurs, for most teams, in the third weekend of November. If some of these folks never play each other again, that would be near-tragic.
Then again sometimes you cannot wait long enough to travel back in time. Take the Buffs and Hawaii. Take 1924 and last night. They don't call it "Pair-a-dice" for no reason, and both came up snake-eyes for the Buffaloes. But "Big Mo", the country's most prolific QB did have a personal best in support of Hawaii's 34-17 defeat of CU and Colorado did keep its record streak in tact--18 road games lost. Hey, a record is a record people! Try to think of one streak you've maintained since the Fall of 2007. Sorry if that brings up a sore spot, or a lonely one.
Buffs and Ducks, you make me sad. Cal, I'm proud you stuck with it and won. Stanford...well, what else is there to say but you are magnificent! And when I get blue over the Day-Glo Ducks or the Not-So-Golden Buffs, I know what my mantra shall be: "Fear the Tree", "Fear the Tree", "Fear the Tree".
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