FOOTBALL Weekend!

So much going on so fast.

Cocoa High, the lil 2A school has defeated power teams from Miss, Penn and now Texas on successive weekends. The win over Abilene is remarkable. In fact, the 4 game FL vs TX challenge has Texas winning only 1 game, as DeSota beat Miramar 42-41 in OT when Miramar caught the 2pt conversion out of the end zone.

South Carolina started the college action yesterday by man handling Georiga. The Gamecocks appear to be the biggest threat to unseat the Gators in the SEC East. True fresh Marcus Lattimore is real and may turn Spurrier into a run oriented coach...nah :)

South Florida gave the Gators fits early, in the heat stroke waiting to happen at the Swamp. Florida's defense is special and that will give them a chance to win a lot of football games. If you can't stop the other team, you are in trouble, because you can't always outscore them. UF goes to Rocky top next Saturday.

The 3:30 slot had 3 supposedly good games. One was. Notre Dame and Michigan played a classic, and it took a TD by Dennard Robinson with 27 seconds to pull out the W for the Maize and Blue. Miami actually could play with Ohio State, but Jacory Harris completed about as many passes to the Buckeyes as he did to his Canes...over rated!
And the lowlight of my day was the woodshed beating the Noles got from Oklahoma. Bob Stoops actually held his team back in the 2nd half, or the 30 point W could have been 50. As mentioned in the paragraph above, if you can't stop the other team YOU ARE IN TROUBLE. FSU has not covered a Sooner receiver yet, and the game was yesterday. Folks are picking on Ponder, but while he was not awesome, he did not allow 47 points...There will be some empty seats at Doak Campbell on Saturday when BYU comes to Tally. The Mormon Cougars got spanked by Air Force.

The biggest trend of the weekend was how bad the ACC must be. Noles clobbered. Canes lost by 12. Georgia Tech lost to Kansas (and it wasn't basketball). Virginia Tech lost to James Madison. Wow. NC State beat UCF, but barely. Duke scored 48 points but lost to Wake, and Duke's reward is a visit from Alabama next weekend...ouch.

Speaking of the Tide, they could have poured 40 or 50 on Penn State if they wanted to. Trent Richardson made the folks in Tuscaloosa forget about Mark Ingram. Trent is from Escambia High in Pensacola, the same school that Emmit Smith carried the ball for back in the day. Tennessee played Oregon very well in the first half, before the Ducks started running downhill and piled up points.

I don't know who the best teams in the country are or will be at the end of the season, but Alabama looks like they could be in a category all alone. No one else looks close. Oklahoma (at least yesterday), Ohio State, Texas might be worthy as the games go on. I think Florida will be very good by December. Nebraska...still not sold. Southern Cal barely beat Virginia...not good. By the way, one of the best shirts from Saturday was on an Oregon fan and it said "I don't like Lane Kiffin either". That is good.

Georgia Southern lost to Navy by 6 or 7. A very good sign for GSU. We plan on going up to Stateboro for a game in October.

Tired...