Heisman

Who will win it this crappy year of college football? Thats the question. Why not skip a year?

Well, it has to be delivered to somebody and right now the talk is among these 4. Lets put up + and – on all of them.

Mark Ingram – Alabama

+	-
Exceptional running back, especially for a sophmore.	Alabama can not keep runing the wildcat if they want to win. Must vary the playcalling –> less yards for Ingram.
Has the ability to run over guys and stay north-south bound to gain the extra yards.	Had a bad game against UT with a fumble.

Tim Tebow – Florida

+	-
Arguably the best college QB of all times.	This year? Not so much production.
Strong leader of the team. Puts the whole team on his back and wins games by himself.	More interceptions then TD’s this year so far.

Colt McCoy – Texas

+	-
Very productive passer, escpecially to his “room-mate” Shipley.	Very bad first half of Red River.
Leader of the entire team.	Not so much a down-field threat.

CJ Spiller – Clemson

+	-
Elusive punt/kickoff returner. Percy Harvinish running back style.	Clemson is not doing so well (4-3).
Wins games on his own for Clemson. No fumbles this year.

Jimmy Clausen – Notre Dame

+	-
Very productive year passing.	Decision making skills sometimes bad.
Has won games with final drives for the Irish.	Notre Dame will slip again despite crappy schedule.

 

Personally I think (hope) it is Tim tebows to loose. If Florida wins out, Tebow will have good enough numbers for the voters to put him first.

We will see.

Go Gators /Magnus

Is Cody Heisman bound?

What do ya'll think? Will Alabamas DT Terrence Cody end up in New York at the Heisman Trophy Award Cermony? Two crucial blocked FG in the fourth quarter for "Mount Cody"

Gators still on top

Gators just don’t seem to get any big offense going. Saturday was the same story as previous games with bad conversions in the redzone and no downfield threat. One difference was that Urban Meyer had one of his worst playcalling games ever. The decision to let Tebow throw on 3rd down at the end of the 1 half was just BAD. We could have been 16-3 and game over basically, instead there was a pick-6 and 13-10 and a ballgame. The same thing in the second half with the game basically over and Gators on their own 5 yard line. Another pick-6.

Good for the Gators that Miss State did not have any offense at all.

BSC still has Gators on top, but the strange thing is that Iowa is no 1 in the computers!!! This is the team that won over Northern Iowa with 1 point, Arkansas State with 3 points and Saturday won the game on the last second vs Mich State who are 4-4. Ridiculous!

Still a lot of football left.

Go Gators /Magnus

Off site

I am off site this weekend but will try to see as much football as I can on ESPN360. It feels like the season is over for me, but a quick reminder of my upcoming holiday in USA.

Even though Oklahoma is 3-3 and the hope of a new Big XII title looks fading at best, it is going to be great to go down to Buddy Hollys birthplace and have some steaks and beer and watching OU football. And how about the game in Gainesville? The refs are doing their best to look after both Florida and Bama to be unbeaten until the SEC-championship game. And what a game Tim Tebows last one is going to be at the Swamp. Really psyched!

One developing story is about Bradford and where he will end up in the draft next spring if he goes into surgery. Mel Kiper (ESPN) is thinking pick 10-20, and that is something that Sam really wasn´t looking for. This draft is going to be one of the most intresting the last couple of years. So many Sooners going, and where the hell is Tebow going to end up? Gresham? How are the NFL teams going to think about this years QBs?

/Markus

BCS standings

After a hard evening for a Sooner fan the BCS standings is coming up tomorrow. I am going to try to give you my prediction after a Texas win, a VT loss to Georgia Tech and a Florida not playing good at all – or as some one wrote on ESPN.com Arkansas 20 – Florida 16 – Refs 7. :)  I do not think my brother has the same opinion as me, but some of the calls on the drive that tied the game late in the 4th quarter was just stunning…

Ok, here is my prediction (before the end of the Alabama game, who has some problem with SC):

1. Florida by alot!

2. Alabama

3 Texas

4 Boise State

5. LSU

6. Cincy

7. USC

8. Iowa

9. Miami

10. TCU / Penn State

Otherwise, the sooner game was just plain hard to watch with all sorts of crazy turnovers. The worst, obviously, Franks one which reminded me on the one Mark Bradley decided to pick up in the Orange Bowl 2005 against USC – the play where I lost all confidence in college football players being smart… 

/Markus

Where is Cincy going to end up.

After another good win for Cincy at South Florida (21) last night the Bearcats are bound for something big. Unfourtunatly for Cincinnati their Heisman hopeful QB Tony Pike was injured during the game, and his coach told media that: "it didn´t look good"

So it seems like Pike is out for a couple of weeks, but their backup QB, Zach Collaros, really steped up and ran 75 yards for his first TD and finished of with another TD-run for a 34-17 win.

Key matchups for the Bearcats?
None! Their schedule looks rather easy from now on. They have West Virginia at home and that might cause some problems. Instead Cincy is looking for Boise State to get a loss, and that OU will beat Texas this Saturday. If those two things happens... Something really big might happen to Cincinnati in the beginning of next year.

The Red River Rivalry is coming up

It isn’t often I say that Oklahoma isn’t going to win on a Saturday. But this weekend is different, and what I have seen the last couple of weekends it seems like OU won’t be even close to Texas.

With that said, I have to say that I don’t like Texas this year either. I just don’t think they play well enough. What would be interesting is if OU is to win. Who is going to play Florida in Pasadena i January? Cincinnati or Boise State? Or it might even be Alabama on a re-match of the SEC-championship game, if that match-up is close.

Tebow was back this weekend – and he sure is a fine college football player. He got it in him!  Talking about Tebow, this piece from CBS 60 minutes is quite interesting. It sure reminds you that Football is one of the hardest job one can have. It is like a big lottery where everyone that joins win, but some just don’t come out as winners.

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The most intresting game of the week

See you in Parken this Saturday. I´ll be the one shouting the most!

/Markus

Road to Pasadena

It is becoming clearer that if Alabama and Florida fight it of in the SEC championship game, it will be a semifinal to the national in Pasadena. One of those two teams will get a spot. I think that even if let’s say Florida looses to LSU this weekend it will be this way.

The big question is who the other team will be. If Texas wins out, they are in, but if they loose to OU (hope so) it will be tougher. Will USC get the spot, or will there at the end be an undeafeted Big10 team like iowa or Wisconsin? Cincinatti?

What about VT?

Interesting stuff ahead of us.

Go Gators /Magnus

NFL getting more Gatorized

Percy is getting it on in the NFL. Even I am surprised how much production he is able to achieve.

Percy at the top

Where is Matthew Stafford?

Go Gators /Magnus

It wasn’t even close

With the breaks we got from the referees during Q3 – it wasn’t even close. The injuries at QB, TE and now one of the top WR I guess this is what you would expect. Still, the Big12 starts next week and the goal of beating Texass is the main one this season. And to win that Big XII title again.

One wonder if they are letting Sam Bradford in the game again. It is going to look nasty for his NFL chances, that´s for sure – the O-line is just not standing up.

Kiper Jr and McShay nonsense

Starting to get real tired of these 2 guys talking down Tebows possibilities in the NFL. I agree that his style of play may not be directly transferred to the NFL, but you must account for the competitiveness and willing to win.

As for the latest draft talk they even start talking about Jake Locker from Washington beeing even ahead of Colt and Tebow in the draft next year. This is just BS!

If comparing only passing between Tebow and Locker the last 3 years we get:

Tebow: 716 pass (Compl 66%), 6 675 yards (14,2 yards avg), 68 TD, 11 Interceptions

Locker: 557 pass (Compl 51%), 3 576 yards (12,6 yards avg), 21 TD, 18 Interceptions

According to me Locker just Sucks!

Get real Kiper Jr and Mcshay. This is not even professional.

 

Go Gators /Magnus

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