College Football: Weekend Overreactions

This was a “wheat from the chaff” weekend. We’ve gotten rid of a good portion of the overrated bunch that clogging the top of the polls.

• Only Alabama has consistently looked good. Maybe we’re being a little too hard on Florida. They were an uncharacteristic Tebow fumble and a crap celebration call from being up 30-6 going away on UT. Still, the Gators have massive problems at tackle, making it incapable for their QB’s to stay in the pocket. Elsewhere, OU and Texas both look lackluster and everyone else is just pretending.
• LSU is ridiculously overrated. The Tigers have massive problems on both side of the ball. Mississippi State turned the ball over 4 times to the Tigers, who also had a special teams touchdown, and Les Miles bunch would still have fallen if not for a horrible QB decision on 4^th and goal from about a foot out. This team has 3 or more losses in them this year.
• Tennessee is about to lose 4 straight games. You aren’t going to beat many teams if you can’t throw the ball downfield against Ohio. We hope that the fan base will lay off of Kiffin until year three of the rebuilding process. If there are many more games with under 70 thousand in attendance, Mike Hamilton will really have to weather a storm to give them that time.
• Man it feels good to be a Cougar. If both Houston and Boise State win out, how can pollsters really give the Broncos the edge over a Houston team that would have beaten two Big 12 powers and an SEC team?
• Someone should lose their job in Ann Arbor. Possibly the worst call that we’ve ever seen decided the IU/ Michigan game. How no one has been fired, suspended, or indicted over the incident is beyond me. The interception call was too glaring to have been a mistake. No one misses that call, much less fails to overturn it on review. Forget the company line about their not being enough evidence to overturn the call. There was no other conclusion to draw and the ball was dead at the same place either way.