I call my buddy Nick Saturday night and he greets me with the following: “Yo. If you could have a cheetah or rabbit as a running back, what do you choose?”
Adam: “Umm. Cheetah.”
Nick: “[Explicative]. Rabbits are so low to the ground, they can’t get tackled.”
Adam: “Cheetahs run 60 mph and will rip your face off if you try to tackle them.”
Although cheetahs get fatigued easily, I think I win that as long as I have Michigan State’s Jehuu Caulcrick (6’0, 260) as my third down back.
About the State-Notre Dame game. I know I should have kept writing Saturday night, but when I shut down the operation, it wasn’t even half time. I would have written 72 pages had I kept going. I had people calling me, emailing me and IMing me about it, telling me I shouldn’t have stopped. Instead, show some love by leaving a comment.
Why did the comeback transpire? Was it because Brady Quinn turned it up about 100 notches or because the Spartans decided to watch the game from home in the second half? I’ thinking that Quinn figured how to throw an out route (see my Saturday night post) and everything unfolded from there. Notre Dame didn’t do anything special to spark the comeback; they just executed.
I will say that I think Drew Stanton is as good as Quinn, if not better.
Someone on one of the message boards I troll called this past “Sleepwalk Saturday.” I think that’s pretty darn clever considering there were so many close calls.
With a lot of big conference games coming up, I’m gonna give most close calls passes. But, Mark Richt, if you’re reading this, don’t think I’ll always be this kind. I won’t.
Here’s my top 25, followed by thoughts…
1. Ohio State
2. Texas
3. Florida
4. Auburn
5. Southern California
6. Michigan
7. Louisiana State
8. West Virginia
9. Georgia
10. Louisville
11. Virginia Tech
12. Oregon
13. Iowa
14. Oklahoma
15. Notre Dame
16. Tennessee
17. Clemson
18. Georgia Tech
19. California
20. Nebraska
21. Michigan State
22. Texas Christian
23. Rutgers…for the second week in my top 25
24. Boise State
25. Chris Simms’ spleen (if I had to pick a team, I’d go with Alabama)
- I love how West Virginia is ranked ahead of Texas. Do the pollsters really think if WVU and UT met at a neutral site that the Mountaineers would win? I think the Longhorns would blow them to pieces. After WVU’s ugly display of football for most of Saturday against East Carolina, the ice they’re walking on can’t get much thinner.
- October 7, Michigan State at Michigan. Should be a good one.
- Why can’t Florida State run the ball? Put it this way: FSU had 287 rushing yards against Rice and are NOW ranked 82 in the country in rushing at 108.75 yards per game. Here’s why I ask: What do their tailbacks Lorenzo Booker (senior) and Antone Smith (sophomore) have in common? They were both ranked No. 1 in the country coming out of high school. No excuses in my book.
- The ACC still sucks.
- Cool fact: Joe Cox, Georgia’s savior at quarterback on Saturday, went to Independence High School in Charlotte with still teammate Mohamed Massaquoi (same as Chris Leak). Independence is riding a 97-game winning streak. That’s a lot of games.
In the interest of doing my job, I must cut it short here. I’ll post tomorrow, even if I can’t come up with anything good, I’ll tell you how I kicked my cold in three days (including a night out with the cowokers until 4:30am).