I blame it on Gary

Well, the good news is nobody cared about our game yesterday especially after an embarrassing loss. With all the upsets, and great match-ups it was an exciting day of college football, with the biggest winner being Alabama, holy cow what a display. Hopefully for Gary and Cheryl they can keep it up! Great game guys :)

Results from Travis and I's attempts to pick these games were a little bit better for me.
Travis 7-6
Phats 8-5 (Overall 39-15)

Observations
Alabama looked good in the first half, and looked like they lost focus in the second which usually happens when you're up that big. I hate to admit this, but I found myself rooting for Georgia in the second half when it looked like the Dawgs were going to comeback, I love those kind of stories. I will say this about Bama, I have no idea how but they get some of the best calls in the world, I wish my Boilers got half the calls they get! I think a couple of those roughing calls were cheap at best, and on Georgia's homefield! Good for you if you can get the calls more power to ya. This is all Alabama Nation needs though to get bigger heads than they already have, they were voted one of the most arrogant fan bases in the country(Cheryl excluded!)

Oklahoma is the best team in the country, yep I know I said that about USC, but I don't see the Sooners losing to a bad team like the Trojans did. If they slip up it will be vs. one of the tough Big 12 teams they have to play.

I have changed my mind, the Big 12 is the best conference in the country and I put the SEC slightly behind them. Although I still think Texas Tech is massively overrated, but maybe Florida was too? The weakest is easily the ACC, and I don't think that even Topolk can argue in their favor anymore. When your supposed best team loses to Navy that's a problem, and I was sorry to see Clemson lose to the Terps. Tough year for the ACC, whoever their champ plays in a BCS bowl will be licking their chops.

When I lose at something whether it be a tennis match, or my Boilers, or anything the best thing for me is to get right back and play again to wash that memory away. Thankfully this was not Purdue's last game, unfortunately the next one is top 10 Penn State, ought oh! Our defense was GOD awful yesterday, on a day when our offense actually played well, our QB almost threw for 400 yards, but still left too many points on the field. If our D was that bad against a pathetic Irish team, I am not sure what Penn State will do to us this weekend. However, I am the optimist and will be there rooting on my Boilers! Unlike some of our fans counting down the day til our top 15 basketball team takes the court.

Non Football Related
Excited that good TV starts again! Although I watch WAY too much tv, I am glad to have back all my favorite shows and not having to watch reruns. Nothing else going on here, after a slow week last week for homecoming, this week will pick up.

Phats