Senior day

One day away from leaving to the Gator senior day Saturday. What an emotional game it will be at the Swamp, celebrating Tebows last home game at Florida Field.
Exciting also to see the GameDay crew and ESPN roadtrip in Gainesville.
Hopefully Tebow and the rest of the guys can stay focused on the game, because Florida State is never easy.

GO Gators /Magnus

You gotta love this game

Another Saturday gone by, but what a crazy one it turned out to be. Ole Miss – LSU game was total mayhem the last 3 minutes. LSU trailing 2 points, had 27 seconds left on the clock with one time out left. Did not call it until 9 seconds left!!! One hail mary later LSU had the ball caught inside the 10 yard line (BUT WITH 1 SECOND LEFT). Confusion started! The chain gang was also confused. Jeffersson tried to spike the ball but time went out. This was the only play he should NOT DO, but DID. What a misstake –> what entertainment :-)

The controvercy continues as Les Miles clearly called for a spike according to video below, but lied about it afterwards.

Same insanity goes for the Oregon-Arizona game, total crazy in the end with Arizona sudents almost running into the field in belief that they won the game. Jeremia Masoli put up a Heisman comeback to stick it to the Stoops brothers and get Oregon one win away from the Rose bowl.

College football at its best. Next up for me, Markus, GameDay and Espn Roadtrip –> Gainesville next Saturday for the instate rivalry game Seminoles-Gators.

Go Gators /Magnus

Gameday!

It is gameday in Lubbock. last night we did Lubbock, drinking $1,5 drafts and just talked football - obviously we were watching Boise State at Utah State. Not much of a game but still it was football and so far I have watched football every day since coming here.

Lubbock is a fine Texan town, just surrounded by cottonfields for miles and miles... A little bit hotter than in Oklahoma city as well. we are just about to leave for the game right now, so I'll be back later for an update

/Markus

Closing in on Amarillo

Me and mike are just entered Texas. Ballard just took a final breath of oklaho
a air. Have not gotten any air in his lungs since.

We are now closing in on the big red barn BBQ in Amarillo.
We have also geared up on sooner stuff at walmart. I just love this country...

Later!

/Markus

The Trip!

So, tomorrow the big trip is starting for me. It has been decided since March that I was going but the plans have been vague – finally they are settling.

I leave Stockholm – Frankfurt – Houston and finally arrives at OKC tomorrow night where M Ballard hopefully is meeting up.

Friday – after a grand slam – the roadtrip goes thru Oklahoma down to Lubbock Texas!

Saturday the game Oklahoma- Texas is held in Western Texas. Hopefully me, Mike and the gang is getting drunk and watching Laundry Jones put up big numbers again.

Sunday back to Oklahoma and Tulsa. Hanging out at Fanny’s place, playing with the dog, eating out and just celebrating Thanksgivin’

 

Friday comes and I go by flight from Tulsa to Orlando to meet my brother. A car rent later and some hours on the road and we’ll be in the heart of Florida – Gainesville. Staying in Gainesville Friday thru Sunday with the big event is the game Florida State at Florida.

And this is not an ordinary game. This is senior night for Tim Tebow – maybe the best college player ever playing at Florida and his last game in the Swamp. The crowd will be crazy!

 

 

 

After the game and one more night in Gainesville, me and my brother is hitting the road down to Tampa. Watching NFL all night Sunday.

Monday is Busch Garden day – freaking awesome way to end the stay in Tampa. Roller Coasters all day and watching Monday Night Football in some sportsbar in downtown Tampa maybe. And what a game – New England Patriots at the Superdome!

Wednesday we are just heading down to Orlando and a day of shopping – going thru malls and outlets…

Not an ordinary trip – it is a football trip! Yey!

I will try to update from the US – if not: See you later!

/Markus

Notre Dame bound – not so fast my friend

Markus is clearly avoiding the subject in the blog so I guess I have to write about it.

Bob Stoops to Notre Dame!!!!

Link to chicago Sun Times article about it

Seriously, who do the Irish think they are. Going after Urban Meyer and Bob Stoops is like Tottenham trying to sign Lionel Messi. They just do not want to leave better teams and programs for a “has-been” great Notre Dame. Of course Stoops called the rumors ridiculous.

Lets face it Notre Dame is getting way too much media attention for beeing a bad team year after year. OK for the tradition, but there is a new order in fooball and new powers are taking over. I do not see Notre Dame beeing in the top 10 consistently the next decade, like Florida and OU have been and will be.

Well, if they get Urban or Stoops they might, but then Oranges would be growing on trees in my back yard in Sweden first. The odds are better on that.

Go gators /Magnus

A new deal!

In addition to the post below I am really thrilled to see USC taking a beating on the west coast. And how Standford really pounded USC to their biggest point-allowed game ever.

And one must love that Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh went for a 2-pt conversion after Stanfords 7th TD at 48-21 and just a couple of minutes left of the game.

According to sources Coach Carroll said during the mandatory handshake after the game: "What's your deal? What's your deal?" where Harbaugh answered: "What's your deal?" and the conversation ended.

Just as Oklahoma, USC is really having a bad season with loads of injuries. I guess we just need to understand that teams are liking the thought of giving years of losing back to us. And making it look ugly is just fun for them.

So Coach Carroll, try to lick your wounds and stay classy - why not update your Twitter, you are just not as active as before when winning :)

/markus

Recap – week 11 games

Another weekend of games didn’t answer that many questions. Top 3 teams will be intact and the story for all three of them are:

- Florida gets the job done, without any amazing plays.

- Texas keeps putting up big numbers on Cupcake teams.

- Alabama’s defense is outstanding, lead by awesome linebacker Rolando McClain.

Feels setup for a direct semi-final in the SEC championship game, even if Bama or Gators stumble on one of their final 2 games (Not against Chattanooga though).

I watched most of the Bama game and of course all of Gator’s game. South Carolina put up a good fight. They are a good team and extremely well coached. The offense is very hard to defend, with a lot of different looks and also a good QB in Stephen Garcia. It was a typical SEC game with Hard defense and a lot of dive running plays, mostly from Carolina actually. Florida are struggling with every aspect of the offense, except Tebow. He gives the receivers a good chance of making plays, but gets a little help. Also the most productive running game comes from himself. Personally I think they should focus on one running back to get better production in this aspect. Moody is my choice right now.

Also, it seams that Tebow needs high profile games to get him going. He seams boored out there sometimes. I think sparks will fly of him in Atlanta, can’t wait.

Also TCU did not stumble and will probably go to the BCS Orange Bowl or something. No national championship game for them, Sorry.

Also “the stache” is putting up big numbers for OU. It will be a better year next year for OU, also with McCoy gone.

Go Gators /Magnus

CUPCAKES!!!

Well Markus, OU has a masters degree in scheduling Cupcakes.
Tulsa, Idaho state, Baylor, The Kansas cupcake twins, the Aggies, even BYU (you thought).
Don't throw stones in a glass house, Markus.

Go Gators /Magnus

Game I am looking forward to this week

The regular season doesn’t have many intresting games left. I have been searching for good matchups and found some games that still is exciting.

This week

Obviously Florida at South Carolina is always a game to watch with the coaching history in the background. Iowa at the Horseshoe would have been great if it wasn’t for the stumble of Iowa last week. Last but not least, last couple of seasons power house Utah is playing TCU in a BCS-impacting game

But next week is when SEC really gets tough. How about Chattanooga AT Alabama, while Florida International is going to the Swamp.

/markus

Heisman according to Markus

The season is coming to an end soon, and things are looking really bad for Oklahoma. I saw the game this saturday and the offence was just horrible. Laundry Jones was ice cold, and the recievers wasn't helping him. This seasons recruiting seems to be one of Coach Stoops most important he has had at OU. Or is this the end to an era in Oklahoma football?

Once again the defence looked like the finest defence in the country, too bad many of them are going in the draft. Nebraskas D wasn't too bad either :)

When it comes to Heisman, my brother had a post a few days ago. From my point of view I would go against the opinion of the blog readers ( who voted Tebow) and pick Colt McCoy. My pick is based upon fairness, and I believe that the Heisman jury is going to acknowledge McCoys college career as they already have with Tebow and Bradford.

My trip to the states is coming up. I will be in Lubbock for the OU at Texas Tech game in two weeks. And after that head back to Tulsa/Claremore, OK for thanksgiving. Three weeks from now me and my brother is going to Gainesville to see Tebow at his Senior Night. Getting Psyched!

/Markus

To the comment on the last post: No Swede plays a big role at a major school right now. Watch the thread here for more info. http://amerikanskfotboll.egetforum.se/board/svenska-college-spelare-t588.html

Great Halloween costume

Even if my brother might have a different opinion, here is my favorite Halloween costume of the year. Love it!

 

/Markus

Indisputable evidence

Big Ten officials trying hard to get an undefeated team to the BCS. Pure BS

BC(mes)S

It is shaping up to be a real messy ending to the season if the unbeaten teams continue to win. I also have a feeling that LSU will win this weekend vs Bama. Alabama was really bad offensively against Tennesse and there is nobody better then Les Miles to prepare his team for the one-dimensional offense using Ingram in the wildcat.

If LSU wins and eventually meets Florida (I hope) in Atlanta for the SEC championship, we will have havoc in BCS if TCU, Iowa and Boise State wins out. We are talking “congress-hearings-mess”.

Let’s face it. LSU will from now until then have beaten a number 3 team and a number 1 team, as well as SEC opponents, Arkansas and Ole Miss.

Boise will have beaten Louisiana Tech, Idaho, Utah State, Nevada and New Mexisco State. There is NO WAY they will get into the championship game ahead of a one-loss LSU team.

TCU and Iowa has the same problem, they just do not play any good opponents. Accept that Iowa plays Ohio State, where they will loose anyway.

It will in any case be an interesting ending of the season.

Go Gators /Magnus

Big hits!

As the season rolls on another team is off the National Championship game and also the BCS-picture. For those, along with me, who is following Coach Carroll on Twitter it has been awful quiet since Saturday. I read somewhere that this was his biggest loss ever at USC. But the ducks and Masoli is quite a team. Really interesting to see who they eventually is going to meet in the BCS-bowl. Big hit for USC and Pete Carroll anyways!

And how about Jamar Wall out of Texas Tech. That guy is living up to his name. Look at this clip from the Kansas @ Texas Tech game. Damn!  Too bad the clip didn’t show the Kansas player post-tackle reaction…

/Markus