Weekend in review, Part I. Day of the Dogs

My buddy Darrel, I call him Dub is the one I call when I see things that are crazy in the world of sports. I know when he is surprised about something cause he will double adjective something. Typical conversation:

Bandit: Hey Dub
Dub: Bandit, sup
B: You see that Oklahoma score?
D: Nah, whats the count?
B: Colorado got 'em 27-24
D: For Real? For Real?

Both of us burned up the phone lines this afternoon and evening. This was a Saturday where the upset special was the norm. Lets run down who got bent

#3 Oklahoma fell from ahead 24-10 to get bent by Colorado 27-24
#4 Florida fell behind 2 scores, but shook off an icing attempt to kick a game winning field goal 20-17
#7 Texas got jack-slapped by Kansas State...AT HOME!!! 41-21 in Austin Are you serious???
#10 Rutgers got beat down by Maryland 34-24
#13 Clemson just got flat out shut down by Georgia Tech losing 13-3
Outta breath???? Those aren't all the upsets...
#21 Penn State may be on its way out of the top 25 with it second straight close road loss, this time a 27-20 loss to Illinois in Champaign
#22 Alabama (so sorry Loriebamafan) took a loss to Florida State in a rare, rare meeting between these two deep south football institutions

Is it possible that these upset victims got caught-lookahead-itis? Oklahoma and Texas were a week away from the Red River Shootout. Rutgers has a ranked Cincy that they have a score to settle with coming in next week. Clemson had #17 Va. Tech to look forward to tangling with. All these teams might be looking for bounce back wins next week.


You might be able to blame #18 South Florida for this. They started all this wackiness with a stunning upset of #5 West Virginia on Friday Night. This was the first weekend since October of 2003 that four teams in the top ten all lost in the same weekend

Now make no mistake there were some favorites that won. Though not easily. USC struggled to beat Washington. LSU had its hands full with Tulane in the first half before wearing them down and pulling away. Wisconsin won a shootout with a tough Michigan State as did Cal who went into a raucous Autzen Stadium and won a wild one with Oregon. Ohio State looked almost bored in beating Minnesota (what was up with those ugly unis that the Gophers had on???) My beloved Bearcats validated their #24 ranking with an impressive 52-23 beatdown of SDSU on the west coast. Trust me it wasn't even that close. Cincy had a 42-10 lead at the end of 3 and Coach Kelly sent the scrubs in to finish the game. There will be some moving and shakin in all polls. Check my man ito06's college football poll (which your humble scribe casts a vote for)next week to see how much things will be shookup.

Now to MLB. I think I have written more about baseball in the past week than I have in the past six months. If the Mets recover from their swoon, they might want to give some money or at least send a fruit basket to the Marlins Miguel Olivo. His altercation with Jose Reyes which incited a bench clearing brawl might have woke the slumbering Mets who won 13-0 with John Maine taking a no hitter into the 8th. The Phils now in the unaccustomed position of being the hunted dropped a 4-2 decision to the Nats who have been playing the spoiler role to the hilt. Meanwhile the D-Backs locked up the NL West when the Padres came apart in Milwaukee. The Mets, Phils, Padres and Rockies all could finish with an 89-73 and we would have a four team three day knockout style playoff to secure the two remaining playoff spots. I hope that scenario happens, playoffs before the playoffs. Bonus baseball is never ever bad, and then you would have two more teams with 90+ wins in the playoffs with the D-Backs.

I'll finish my weekend review late on Sunday or early Monday with a review of MLB's final (?) day and week 4 in the NFL. Until Next Post fellow sports fans, I need to catch my breath!