While the last couple of weeks have had some games where the top teams survived upsets, week 7 of the 2013 season saw ranked teams fall. As Lou Holtz pointed out on College Gameday Final, fans forget that this is also the time for midterms. Between road trips and exams and being college-age kids, looking […]
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College football 2013 – week 5
Stanford and A&M won, while the Badgers fell in Columbus to favored Ohio State. Overlapping game times meant that I didn’t watch all of any game. In fact, I confess that I missed parts of the Ags opening drive to stick with the end of Georgia’s win over LSU. LSU at Georgia was clearly the […]
Not all wins and losses are the same
It can be argued that a win is a win and a loss is a loss, and from the point of view of calculating standings it doesn’t matter how you win or lose. But the aesthetics are not the same, and the loss at the Alamo or at Thermopylae are remembered very differently than the […]
Almost perfect day of college football yesterday
Stanford, Wisconsin, Texas A&M all won Texas, USC, and Notre Dame lose Mitigating factors: it’s early, and wins were against weaker opponents. couldn’t watch the Badgers, didn’t ppv for the Ags Cardinal and Aggies wins still leave concerns about future success. For the Ags, the future is next Saturday, when Alabama comes to town with […]