Sooner or Later Ya'll Gonna Listen To Me...

I hate to say...I hate to say it, Its probably me-Sting

No actually it was me.

With the exception of the Titans-Browns game that was a self described toss up. I just seemed like every game that I pick came down the line, just like I said they would. You laughed at me when I said that the Vikes would handle the Lions, sneered at me when I said the Bengals would shoot down the Ravens and snickered when I said not to worry about the Skins that they would get it done against Philly. Hmmm it seemed that all of them came down right.
And did you enjoy those games that I told you to watch besides that Va. Tech/Miami snoozer?
Sooner or later you'll listen to me.

Big Shakeup in the Power 5 of course with Miami throttling the Hokies they move up, but not past Bama. The hell with what the AP says.

1) USC (9-0 Last week 1, beat Stanford 51-21 next vs Cal)
Steamrolled Cardinal, the curve starts to get steeper as they face a good Cal squad that was ranked as recently as last week.

2) Texas (9-0 2, beat Baylor 62-0, next vs Kansas)
The Longhorn massacres continue, pity the poor Jayhawks who face a huge comedown after 1st win over Nebraska since the stone age.

3) Alabama (9-0 4, beat Mississippi St 17-0, next vs LSU)
How long can the Tide live on their defense??? The Tide will have to do a lot more to beat a damn good Bayou Bengal team.

4) Miami (7-1 5, beat Va Tech 27-7 next at Wake Forest)
The U brought the pain and made Marcus Vick look human, but they will be behind any unbeaten team

5) Penn St (9-1, beat Wisconsin 35-14 next at Michigan St 11/19) A second (literally) from being undefeated and in the championship mix.

Dropped Out
Va Tech (8-1 lost to Miami 27-7, next at Virginia)
Canes shatter national title dreams, but a ACC title and BCS slot is still very much in their hands

Keep an eye on...
LSU (7-1 beat Appalachian St. 24-3, next at Alabama)
Still in the mix for an SEC title berth

Fell off the map
UCLA (7-1 lost to Arizona 52-14)
Bruins ruined by flat performance in the desert, all they can hope for now is to spoil SC's run

Now for my seemingly weekly Notre Dame rant Since when does beating 2nd rate teams from the power conferences get you a BCS bid. Oh okay, the Irish beat Tennessee who beat LSU and and they beat Michigan who beat Penn St, right and okay wait a minute they played USC closer than any other school, ya feelin' me??? Actually I'm not... The Irish while not to be commended for their solid season, have lost twice. You're going to tell me that the Irish are better than Ohio State??? Or better than Oregon, or UCLA or Texas Tech or Georgia or even West Virginia. All these teams are in the elite conferences that Irish Boosters say that they're team plays. Lets substitute Ohio State for Michigan and West Virginia for Pitt and Penn State for Purdue and UCLA for Washington and Georgia for Tennessee and we're not having this conversation. I double dog dare you to name me a team that Notre Dame has played that is any good besides USC. Close losses don't count. No one is giving Penn State any BCS championship dap, even though they lost to Michgan on the last play. No one is thinking about Va. Tech or UCLA now after suffering blowout losses. The Hokies and Bruins will only get in a BCS if and only if they can beat Fla. St and USC in their conference championship and season finales respectively. Notre Dame will try to benefit from the possiblilty of teams ahead of them in the BCS like LSU, Alabama , Ohio State Michigan, Auburn and LSU taking losses. Its not wishing and hoping the aforemention six teams play each other. Notre Dame is counting on these losses combined with their 3 expected wins over cream puffs Navy, Syracuse and Stanford to boost their record to 9-2 and then whine that they are deserving of a BCS bowl bid and that they "are back" Notre Dame will get in a bowl game and get against a real team in the BCS mix and get their hats handed to them in a blowout loss while a more deserving team goes to the Carquest or Holiday Bowl. Notre Dame will be good if not great real soon, but their time is not now. Memo to UCLA win the ones in front of you before you talk about knocking the champs off. How are supposed to be a title dark horse when you let Arizona...Arizona??? not only beat you but take you out back of da woodshed. There might be some truth to the rumor that UCLA was heard screaming in Tucson Saturday "Poppa, don't hit me no more!" The sound you hear between thwacks was the air going out of UCLA's claim to be a legit team.
Anyhoo, due to limitiations in posting I'll be posting 2-3 times a week and post a football prevue for the rest of the NFL season after that...we'll see.