These are the kinds of college football weekends that I live for. Wins by almost all of the teams I wanted to win and really close games that were fun to watch. On top the great games, my College Pick’Em went really well this weekend too.
- Nice solid win from FSU this weekend. Another cupcake of a team, but we handled the game the way we should have. I actually got to watch this one, which I’m definitely happy about. The offense looked really solid through the first half of the game. I’m pretty please with what I saw from Christian Ponder. I totally hate the situation for Drew Weatherford, because he’s done everything a coach could ask for, but he just hasn’t shown that he’s the best players to lead the noles. I don’t think the offense ran as smoothly under Richardson in the second half, but they obviously continued to put point on the board so can’t complain too much.
- The UGA game was nuts. Ugly win, but I’ll take it. They always say to win championships you have to able to find a way to win when you’re not playing your best. UGA did that this weekend, but let’s hope they don’t make a habit of it. I have to give credit to USC’s defense who played pretty well. I also have to admit that it was very satisfying to see Steve Spurrier all frustrated and flustered. I’ve disliked him ever since his days at Flordida.
- The last game that we really watched was the end of the Oregon game. Didn’t really care about that game except that I had alot of Pick’Em points riding on it. First, congrats and well done to Oregon, which lost two quarterbacks during the game. I also have to give a nod to the Oregon coaching staff, who made great play calls in the second overtime to win with a quarterback who had just stepped into the game. On the other side of things, I feel terrible for the kicker for Purdue. I badly missed a field goal at the end of the game that, if I remember correctly, would have won it, and then missed another one in overtime that could have sealed the win. That’s a really rought way to go out.
- Pick’Em progress was good. Eight for 10 on my picks and the two that I missed were my two lowest point total games. I’m up to the sevent-seventh percentile and making pretty good progress. Hope that trend continues.
FSU has their first big test next weekend against Wake Forest, who many pundits picked to make it to the ACC championship game. We’ll see if any of the good play during our first two games wasn’t simply because we were playing terrible teams. Georgia travels to Arizona next week. Not sure how this game is going to be. I think Arizona was supposed to be a pretty good test, but I think they lost to a less than impressive team this weekend, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
