Something aint right in west Texas

Following the Houston loss this saturday coach Mike Leach at Texas Tech decided to suspend their own captain Brandon Carter "for a violation on team policies". He might have done some terrible in the aftermath of the game, but I still believe that Leach is making a terrible mistake taking one of the best, if not the best, OL in the country from his team. Later one of the other players made a remark on Coah Leach by using his twitter - Mike Leach responded by banning use of social networks among player.

Something ain't right i Lubbock, Im telling you.

Another news coming from the Texas Tech - Houston game is that the plan invasion following the upset resulted in 3 lost helmets. The coach of the Cougars team now reaching out using his Twitter to try to get the helmets back: "Saturday night was fun, but it will be hard for 3 of our guys to play this week without their helmets. Please return, NO QUESTIONS ASKED"

Don't you just love college football?

No wonder Houston won!

With Houston QB Case Keenum having 2nd half stats like this

AP Pollsters going nuts

Sundays always meens digging into the polls for me. Extra fun is it to go to Pollspeak and see how different AP-writers rank the teams. And in turbulent weeks like this one some people just goes nuts.

For example Doug Lesmerises, writing for Plain Dealer, OH (to the right)
One can also see how high and low people rank their teams simply by clicking on Higher and Lower in the poll. Try it!

/markus

Crazy Saturday

Anyone who could predict the future would have made big bucks yesterday on one of the craziest gamedays I ever seen.

First of Ole Miss loses the thursday game, then Cal takes a beating up at Oregon. Then no 9 Miami got their fist L at VT. Later that night Penn State goes the same way... And after no 1, 2 and 3 right now it is just crazy. What do you guys think?  top 4-10?

Giv me your top 10 in the comments!

My top ten at hte moment would be:
1. Florida
2. Alabama
3. Texass
4. LSU
5. Oklahoma
6. Virginia Tech
7. Boise State
8. Ole Miss
9. USC
10. Ok State

Just Crazy!

And then to top everything Tebow gets hammered in Kentucky. A fair hit that send Tebow to the hospital - interesting to watch how he comes back!

/Markus

The clash of two superstars

Incredible hit by Berry and Tebow. Maybe the best defensive player in college football against…well Tebow.

Unpredictable season so far

First three weeks of ballgames have only proved one thing. Pre-season predictions and polls are overrated. There are also very many teams that show us different faces every week so far.
Look at Seminoles for example. First they loose to Miami in the opener and then barely gets by Jacksonville State! Saturday they totally dominated BYU!
Georgia starts by loosing convincinly to OKI state. Saturday they rallied back to beat Arkansas and puts 52 points (!) on the board, their second SEC win.

I think we have at least 2-3 weeks of games before we can see any trends on where teams are and where they are going in competing for BCS and nationals.

Go Gators /Magnus

Upset dawgs

Washington huskies really chocked the college football world last night with their epic victory against the Trojans of USC. Managed to follow the game some in commercial brakes from the Gators-Vols game. It looked to me however that it was the lack of good play from USC that got the W for W. Hats of to Steve Sarkisian for beating his old mentor Pete Carrol and opening up all kinds of possibilities for other teams to get to the national championship game

Think about it! USC is OUT. Ohio State is OUT. BYU is OUT, Utah is OUT. Good guess is that one spot will be held for the winner of the SEC championship game. The other one is open, and right now Texas, Penn State and Miami has the inside track. Lurking behind is OU, if they can (and I surely hope so) beat the Horned nerds in Dallas for the Red River Shootout. Also Michigan has a chance. Personally I hope for the BIG 10 teams to beat each other up and thereby be OUT, and that OU will beat Texas and we will have a re-match of last years game between OU and Gators.

If this would happen, I would actually not be disappointed if OU won the whole thing. I think Sam deserves a national championship before leaving for NFL.

Go Gators /Magnus

How about them canes

So the Hurricanes down in Miami is starting to gain in strength as the game vs Oklahoma is approaching. Last night they seem to have taken a fairly easy W against (13) Georgia Tech. Come this sunday, Miami is going to be closer to the top 10 in the AP poll and ready for OU to come down to stinking Florida.

How about the games this Saturday?

Texas has it's first test in Texas Tech at Austin. Shouldn't be any problem for the Longhorns to seal that deal. And the game of the week is obviously Lane Kiffin's Vols going down to the Swamp for som gator stomping. Intresting to see if Floridas cupcake preperation will affect them, or if they are ready for Tennessee. I called this an upset alert earlier, and still think that this is going to be a close one.

Elsewhere OU is preparing for Hurricane season with Tulsa Golden Hurricanes coming to Norman. Tulsa has had a great start to the season and now is the time for the Sooners to bounce back from BYU.

My last upset alert is going to be Nebraska going to Virginia Tech. Let say 31-21 to the Huskers

/Markus

Tebow motivation speech

Wouldn’t want to be a OU player after this speech. Incredible motivational leader.

Looking forward to seeing them “stomp” Lane Kiffin this Saturday.

Go Gators /Magnus

What can stop USC

With an impressive comeback at The Horseshoe this Saturday I wonder what can stop USC from going to the National Cahmpionship Game?

The true freshman Matt Barkley, who I mentioned before in this blog, made an extremly good impression on me. Just to be able to think in a hostile environment as the Horseshoe is impressive to me. Even more so when I read articles that states that they have never experienced an environment as hostile as this Saturday.

So who is going to stop USC? The computers seems like the only ones who can hold them of from going to Pasadena.

/Markus

We are F*cked

Oklahoma Sooners has seen better days...

Yesterday news came in that TE Jermaine Gresham needs a season ending surgery to his right knee. And this only days after Sam Bradford was hurt and side lined for 2 to 4 weeks. One can just imagine the regret these guys feel for not entering the NFL draft this year.

On the other hand this may mean that we are going to see both Bradford and certainly Gresham for another year in Norman. Anyways, it is going to be a hard season for OU...

Hey Hokies

Here we go again. Rammer Jammer after Bama win Saturday.

Wrap-up week1

"I'm sorry, I'm extremely sorry...". Famous Tebow quote after the Ole Miss loss last year. Time for Sam Bradford to make a similar speech after their opening game loss to BYU. Personally I really feel for OU fans right now. I remeber last year after the Gators Ole Miss loss, the emptiness you feel after this kind of loss. I still think however that it's possible for OU to get back in the National champinohip race. They need some help from other teams, and they of course need to beat Texas and win the BIG 12 championship. BYU also needs to loose a couple of games of course.
Other upsets week 1 was Boise state's win over Oregon, William & Mary (!!!) win over Virginia and to me Georgias loss to Oklahoma State.
Other then that the most surprising to me was Notre Dames convincing win over Nevada, especially the ND defence holding Nevada to 0 points. Also Michigans comfortable win over W Michigan. Week 2 will give us a good game when ND goes to Ann Arbour for the big game.
Other then that no surprises, just glad that the show is finally upon us. Let's enjoy the 141st fotball season.

Go Gators /Magnus

Oregon’s Blount makes a fool of himself

I guess that the scenes after the game corresponds rather well to the poll that ESPN Magazine made among College Football players where 55 % of them said they know of at least one teammate taking PEDs or other steroids.

Blount is not running on a football field in quite some time

Picks for week 1

TGIF! And whatta friday, the season kicks off tomorrow with some very intresting games. Me and my brother are going to watch some of the games at his place.

Here are my picks for week 1:

Oklahoma State over Georgia: 31-21

Upset Alert:
Nevada over Notre Dame 21-17

Gimme your picks!

/Markus

Let's get it started in here!

Ok, so it starts. The 2009-2010 season is finally here! With the kick-off in Raleigh with the game South Carolina at North Carolina State. The Lovgren Brothers are now to make their predictions with some remarks on how the BCS-formula is gonna place the teams before the Bowl games starts in December.

Magnus:

1. Florida Undefeted
2. Oklahoma Undefeted
3. Penn State Undefeted. This will be like Christmas for me when they
miss out on the Nat Champ game due to Cupcake schedule
4. USC 1 loss to Cal or Arizona State
5. Texas 1 loss to OU
6. Florida St 1 loss to Florida (of course)
7. Oregon 1 loss to USC
8. LSU 2 losses to Florida both times
9. Ohio State 2 losses to Penn State and USC
10 Notre Dame 2 losses

Markus:
1. Oklahoma Undefeted
2. USC Undefeted
3. Texas 1 loss to OU
4. Alabama 1 loss at Auburn
5. Florida 1 loss to Alabama, Florida runs the table and finally gets
some decent opposition and doesn’t make it
6. Ohio State 1 loss to USC
7. Virginia Tech 1 loss to Alabama
8. Cal 1 loss to USC
9. LSU 2 losses to Florida and Alabama
10. Oklahoma State 2 losses to Texas and OU

What´s your top 10?

I am as excited as I every will be!

/Markus