Week #4 Review

Nice little weekend of college football. However, the old maxim was proven true yet again. Never trust a soccer player wearing football pads.

1. Hmmmm…..Scrubs marathon on Comedy Central versus an afternoon of football. Thank you for TIVO.
   
   

2. How do two teams like Colorado and Georgia play such great defense for 3 and a half quarters and then crappy defense for the final half a quarter? The prevent defense might be the worst idea since the Maginot Line. Actually the Maginot Line wasn’t a bad idea, the implementation was poor. How about the FlowBee? Now that was a bad idea.
   
   

3. Crazy BCS thought. What happens if Auburn goes undefeated, no one else does, and LSU finishes with one loss? Do Auburn and LSU play in the National Title game?
   
   

4. Say what you will about Troy Smith, but that is what Heisman trophy winners do for their teams. Uh oh, I think I just sounded like Lee Corso. If I had used a lisp, I would have sounded like Lou Holtz.
   
   

5. Auburn defensive coordinator Will Muschamp said that Buffalo scheme presented problems for Auburn in the first half. If Buffalo’s scheme creates problems, what is Florida’s scheme going to do?
   
   

6. Yes, the Gators are rolling right now. But the two storylines for me from that game are: 1) Kentucky can actually play football and 2) How had is it? Tebow comes in and he is going to run the ball. Cue obligatory 65 yard TD bomb by Tebow on October 14th in Auburn.
   
   

7. If last week was Separation Saturday, this week was Letdown Saturday. There were some teams that were just off on Saturday. Did anyone look good?
   
   

8. Am I the only one who wonders if Arkansas just woke up? They looked like an actual football team out there, which hasn’t happened for two years.
   
   

9. Tom O’Brien, you obviously didn’t learn anything from your game against Central Michigan. Now you just went from ACC contender to also-ran. Actually, I wrote that before I saw the fumble that created the opportunity for NC State. I apologize Tom, you were trying to do the right thing.
   
   

10. The Alabama-Arkansas game is exhibit numero uno for why I hate kickers. Mike Shula relied on his kicker to make field goals. It affected his play selection even after Tiffin showed that he was having an off day. Similar to Auburn-LSU last year, when a kicker misses two field goals, you should just start going for it inside the 30. I hate kickers and Alabama fans now know why.
    
    

11. That being said, how did a Joe Kines defense give up 173 on the ground to a team with a freshman quarterback? Wow.
    
    

12. Memo to John L Smith, you are supposed to shut the offense down in the fourth quarter, not halftime. I appreciate it, now you ensured that we will all be subjected to arguments about why a one-loss Notre Dame team is better than [insert undefeated team of choice].
    
    

13. Speaking of Notre Dame, how badly do the ESPN guys want to give Brady Quinn the Heisman? Is Fowler having wet dreams about handing it to Quinn in December? The guy has played five or six decent quarters this year and he is the best player in America? What am I missing? The defense and Michigan State’s horrid play selection won that game on Saturday night, not Brady Quinn.