Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Weekly top 25, possible NSFW edition

The second full weekend of college football brought a surprising amount of good games for so early in the season. Sad to say but i think we are looking at a down year of college football in that there are a lot of average teams that can beat each other at any time. That being said there is some movement in the top 25 this week and i must say there are a lot of teams near the bottom who i don't think are very good.
  1. LSU
  2. USC
  3. West Virginia
  4. Oklahoma
  5. Florida
  6. Texas
  7. Ohio State
  8. Cal
  9. Penn State
  10. Louisville
  11. Nebraska
  12. Rutgers
  13. UCLA
  14. Wisconsin
  15. Virginia Tech
  16. Georgia Tech
  17. Arkansas
  18. Boston College
  19. Oregon
  20. Clemson
  21. Tennessee
  22. South Carolina
  23. Georgia
  24. USF
  25. Cincinnati

FWIW, Brandy Taylor is a huge Buckeye Fan.
Anyways, regarding last weeks game with Akron there were decent signs of improvement in my opinion. We looked better but there was a ton of corrections that still need to be made to be a championship caliber football team. I was actually much less upset about the effort against Akron than i was against YSU. I think the rain which fell heavily for the first quarter had a greater impact on the sloppy play than people are giving it credit for. So with that my thoughts from last week......
THE GOOD
  • The D-line set a strong tone up front and the defense on the whole dominated. This is a very good thing and i hope that they are starting to develop an attitude that represents a silver bullet defense.
  • The kicking game looked very solid and at least that's one less thing to worry about.
  • We won. We won at home. We took care of business. I'm stretching here I really thought there was some other good stuff but nothing really stands out.
THE BAD
  • 5 fucking turnovers? is that serious? 5 turnovers against anyone and you are lucky to win.
  • The O-line. Their play was better but I still don't see Boone or Rehring dominating the way they should be. I think song of the long runs broke late in the game were a result of akron being tired.
  • shitty short passes. I hope these are just the result of being careful early in the season but they were pretty much awful all game. The short dump off to Nicol isn't going anywhere and it's not going to go anywhere all season. Brandon Saine made a great catch on a throw that could have gotten him killed.
  • Todd Boeckman's arm strength. I was concerned about this last week and am now even more concerned. 2 picks on terribly underthown balls, this is not a good habit.
anyways i'm pretty pumped for this week's game. I don't think its going to be as close as I have heard some people suggest recently and think the bucks can get a pretty easy victory. Regardless, it will be a nice test on the road and i expect to see the offense open things up a bit or at least perform much better. I'll say a final score of Ohio State 34- Washington 9

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