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This was kind of a crap weekend for football.  There were a number of decent games, but none of them went the way I wanted.

First, the quick and dirty.  How does Oregon take USC behind the woodshed last week and then lose to Stanford, of all people, yesterday?  That’s just embarrassing.

While we’re on the subject of embarrassing, Notre Dame lost to Navy again.  Now, Navy isn’t terrible, but Notre Dame has been playing respectably this year and they should be able to handle Navy at home.

To rattle off a couple more scores that shouldn’t have been, Michigan lost to Purdue at home, Oklahoma lost to Nebraska, and Cal lost to Oregon St.

The crap game to cap off the weekend was FSU’s loss to Clemson.  Now, if I’m honest I never really expected for us to win, but with our offense playing the way it had been I was harboring some dreams of a miracle.  Again, FSU gave me some hope, only to dash that hope in the end.

I knew that they would gouge us for big plays like they did, especially with CJ Spiller in their backfield.  What I didn’t expect was for Christian Ponder to have his worst game of the season.  There is a positive way to look at his performance in that his numbers were still pretty good in terms of yards and completions.  So even with a disastrous four interception performance, it wasn’t a complete meltdown.

Basically, what we can take from this is if our defense isn’t a complete nightmare next year, even on bad days our offense could still be decent enough to get the job done.  As it is now, our season is pretty much over.  Ponder is injured, possibly for the rest of the season, and Mickey Andrews is retiring at the end of the season.  Our chances of making a bowl game are pretty much nil at this point, which pains me to say, and while I’ll keep watching games, here’s hoping for a better run next season.