CFB wrapup: MADNESS, I tell you, MADNESS
October 14, 2007
Hey there football fiends-since my BRONCHITIS (lovely, right?) is keeping me up I figured why not write the CFB wrap up now? A win-win…at least until I start coughing up internal organs with this painful bronchial cough thing I have. Ah…fun times here on the couch of your Gridiron Goddess. Fevered dreams of Matt Leinart being madly in love with me aren’t bad, though….
But I digress. I blame the Ny-Quil and diet Coke combo.
College Basketball season kicked off last night around the country with Midnight Madness. Now, had your Gridiron Goddess not been coughing up a lung, I would have trucked my butt down to Southern California’s Galen Center to report on all the O.J. Mayo goodness. But there is plenty of time for that once CFB season is over.
Two weeks ago we had the Wacky Weekend of Upsets. Then #3 Oklahoma lost to an unranked Colorado. Then #7 Texas fell to an unranked Kansas State. Then #10 Rutgers took a dive against unranked Maryland. Then #21 Penn State got beat by unranked Illinois. #22 Alabama got beat by unranked Florida State. Then #4 ranked Florida fell to unranked Auburn. #11 Oregon got beat by then #6 Cal. And my then #1 ranked USC Trojans squeaked past UDub.
At the end of the weekend the top 25, but the top 10 especially, were in disarray and heading into the 5th weekend of the CFB season the top 10 were:
1. LSU
2. USC
3. California
4. Ohio State
5. Wisconsin
6. South Florida
7. Boston College
8. Kentucky
9. Florida
10. Oklahoma
Then LAST WEEKEND, tragedy struck in the heart of Your Gridiron Goddess and her fellow Trojan fans. And I am sure other things went on too, like Florida losing to the hated LSU, but all was eclipsed by my melodramatic heartbreak.
Heading into this weekend, the top 10 was:
1. LSU
2. California
3. Ohio State
4. Boston College
5. South Florida
6. Oklahoma
7. South Carolina
8. West Virginia
9. Oregon
10. USC
Today, more insanity occurred. LSU lost to Kentucky. Cal lost to 3-3 Oregon State. Oklahoma handed Missouri their first loss today in Norman. Penn State drilled Wisconsin. Ohio State and BC won–but Ohio State’s quality win comes against one of the teams at bottom of the Pac-10 ladder: UDub. And who has BC played to convince us they are as strong as they look? No one yet. South Florida beat Auburn at Jordan Hare and beat WVU, so IMO have a more legitimate claim on the #1 position this week.
Now, concerning USC, interestingly enough we’re in about the same position as 2003. 1 loss, ranked 10th. That was the year we ended up winning the AP Nat’l Championship while fellow 1 loss teams LSU and Oklahoma played in the BCS Title game.
Um, deja-vu anyone?
This Trojan team we have now is not as strong as 2003’s squad but only for one reason: INJURIES. Our vaunted O-Line is now made up of back ups and in many cases the back ups back up. Our D is decimated, and today we lost the lynchpin of
our defense in Rey Maualuga after primo O-Line go to guy Sam Baker went down for duration of the game.
BUT, while our loss last week to Stanford shows the world we ARE beatable, doesn’t this week’s loss by Cal to Oregon State show the same thing and shouldn’t they fall to 10 or below in the rankings while we move up to 9 or higher? I don’t know. LSU, I’d keep them in the top 6 or 7 at the lowest, since their sole loss comes from a strong Kentucky team.
Consider this–every single AP pre-season top 10 team now has at least one loss and it is only October. This is the craziest college football season ever, people.
The first BCS rankings come out in the morning.
It’s not going to be pretty for many of our teams. I have a feeling traditional power houses like LSU and Oklahoma will fare better than South Florida and BC, even though those two teams remain unbeaten.
Is it fair? Nope. But when did I ever proclaim the BCS fair? LSU and Auburn fans would agree with the USC crowd, though for their own reasons, on that statement.
Oh, but I did go 11-5 today, which considering the #1 and #2 ranked teams losing, is pretty flipping good IMO. And now, I must sleep.
-Your Gridiron Goddess, signing off with a picture representative of how I feel right now with this bronchitis thing
Funny. I said the exact same thing (except about Sam Baker…forgot about that for a second) on my blog last night. Great Trojan mind think alike I say!
Feel better soon. I came out of my cold already. Lots and lots of green tea and Vitamin Water.
Love the picture you all hung-out with Bronchitis. I suffer from that all the time, and it’s a real pain in the ass. But to clarify, are you saying that if I combine Nyquil with diet coke, Matt Leinart will fall in love with me? I’m not sick, but I’m willing to try that.
Your Gridiron Goddess says: lol if you have a crush on him it might. lol All my dreams this weekend/monday on ny-quil or robitussin and diet coke featured him. Needless to say, I wanted to stay asleep and in the world where he loved me. HAHAHHAAH Sigh, it was wonnnnnderful!
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Looking forward to the O.J. Mayo reporting…at least college basketball has an actual playoff to determine a more worthy champion than the bizarro, unexplainable world that is the BCS. All this BCS crap starting up again just turns me off of college football as more attention is now paid (at least fan-wise) to who your opponents are playing/have played than to whom your own damn team is playing.