Fem Football Weeks 9 - Favorites roll as Texas rolls over

As I predicted last week - in a half joking manner , Texas lost to Baylor. It seems to be a magic place for underdogs and teams that have never beat Texas, or haven't in a loooooooong time. 1997 was the last time the Bears beat the Horns. Baylor is usually in the bottom of the Big 12, but this year seem to be "taking over" - While lagging most of the game, they came back in the 3rd quarter with a 69 yard touchdown run, and then a 1 yard TD, then a pass for another TD. Final run - was to the corner to celebrate with the fans who trucked out to watch the victory. I think that Texas is going to need a bigger visitors section if they keep up the losing streak. Memorial Stadium, in memory of team that was once called the Texas Longhorns, but are now known as losers.

As for the picks, Favorites seemed to be taking the roll seriously, and winning as predicted. And things seemed to be status quo. Vandy lost to Arkansas, Washington to Stanford...although Virginia did pull an unexpected win over Miami (FL) who was favored by 15...

Florida took the controversial win over Georgia, in over time. This is the first OT in 95 meetings, and one for the history books, as both teams were unranked for the first time in over a decade. Although Florida has won 18 of the last 21 games, they came in as the underdogs of this game. Taking beatings the last 3 games, and falling out of the top 25 in week 8, things have been bleak for the Gators. Next week might as well be a bye week as they play Vandy, but they then have ranked South Carolina to contend with in week 11!

Predictions for next week
Dare I call ANOTHER Texas loss?
TCU over Utah
Iowa State over Nebraska
Texas Tech over Missouri

Fem Football - week 7, Aloha! huh? sigh... Aloha...

EEEEEEEEKKKKKKK! I did what? For those who may not know, Aloha, means hello AND goodbye. Why am I saying that in a football blog? Because, this weekend, Saturday the 16th, I threw a Luau birthday party for a [turning] 3 year old. It was great! There were leis, coconut cups to drink out of, tiki torches, and fantastic beach birthday cake! Organizing the decorations + planning the menu + packing good bags + shopping for last minute items (like a pineapple) = I forgot to do my picks.

Yeah. I know.

Thankfully, there is a default in our little program. Preseason we choose how we want our "missed" weeks to auto pick for us. I default to the favorites. Choices are favorites, underdogs, home team, road team...so while you won't miss a week, you don't get much choice in the picks other than that variant. I defaulted 24/50... ho hum.

So other than the stupid mistake of NOT doing my picks this week, I can't blog about why I picked so and so, and his hair, or any other choices I made.

So I will go to another default, this time for the blog. I will actually talk about some of the football info floating around out there.

I will now reach into my helmet and magically pull out a topic...

Oklahoma, Oklahoma VS Iowa State, and Oklahoma vs Missouri - No for the record, I am not a Sooners fan, but I am married to one.

I didn't pick this team for that reason though.

Oklahoma vs Iowa State - this is the game that put Oklahoma back in the #1 spot. While they hold a few records for this spot, such as "most weeks ranked #1" which sits at 97 weeks, and a streak of 15 consecutive weeks ranked #1, this spot has been eluding them for some time now. In 2004 they were seated number 2 from preseason, through the end, where they lost the BCS championship title to LSU 21-14. Thats when the trouble started. They spent the next 2 years barely waving in and out of the top 25, 2007 they seemed to be getting their groove back, and 2008 they were back in the top 10 all season, even taking turns in the #1 seat weeks 5 and 6. Again they played for the BCS Championship title, and AGAIN they lost - this time to the Gators, and the not so Tiny Tim Tebow 24-14. Which made 2009 an interesting season. We expected the team we saw the year before, but instead the team lost that loving feeling and fell out of the top 25 in week 10. They remained outside the circle for the rest of the season. HUH??

This brings us to this year. They magically managed a number 7 ranking in the preseason, and after some sketchy "almost losses "that were somehow wins, find themselves in the #1 seat once again. A 52-0 victory over Iowa State, more than doubling the spread of 23.5, Ryan Broyles had 182 yards receiving and DeMarco Murray set the school record for most TDs during their stomping of Iowa State, bringing his total to 58 [career touchdowns]. Iowa State was still reeling from their 68-27 loss to Utah, but looked like a high school team with barely 183 total yards the whole game despite 27:03 minutes of possession time. The Sooners magic offense and defense made the most of their 32:57 minutes of possession with 37 first downs, 7 TDs and a field goal. Could this be the team we once knew?

Remaining in the number one spot is going to be tough, and with the schedule set ahead of them, some may say impossible. They are only favored 3 points over next weeks Missouri. Missouri, who managed 7 sacks in last weeks game vs Texas A&M, winning 30-9, will be OU's biggest test this season, despite their 11th place ranking. Missouri is 6-0, Oklahoma is 6-0, Oklahoma has won seven in a row over Missouri and 19 of 20 in the series, with the Tigers' only victory coming in 1998.

The Tigers 35 point game average, and impeccable defense take on the Sooners record setting offense....

Eenie Meenie Minie Mo, can a Sooner catch a Tiger by the toe, again?

dum dum dum.... tune in next week, and find out!