Archive - November, 2009

Les Is Never More

November 23 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2009

So let’s work this one by the numbers. 1. Down by two scores, so you quickly get a TD with less than two minutes to play. 2. Successfully recover an onside kick. 3. 4th and 26, desperation play as the clock ticks down, pass to the five-yard line, one second on the clock 4. Field [...]

California Dreamin…

November 17 1 Comment Category: NCAA 2009

Last weekend might have not been the most exciting college football weekend ever, but the results of some games certainly will have a dramatic effect on the BCS bowl landscape. It’s always too soon to start predicting who will go where, since one little field goal can change everything, but some teams are certainly in [...]

Don’t Mess with BYU Chicks

November 10 1 Comment Category: NCAA 2009

If there’s ever anything that is consistently true about college football, it’s that no team is ever safe. Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at the win/loss column for this week — we’ll start with the losses: Iowa Michigan Notre Dame Kansas Oregon Cal Penn State Oklahoma And the respective wins: Indiana Purdue Navy [...]

Making a Statement

November 01 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2009

My son is 19 months old (that’s just more than a year-and-a-half for the mathematically challenged) and enjoyed his first “real” Halloween this year. At his school, a.k.a. daycare, they did a parade of costumes in which each class would march through the other classes showing off its costumes in hope of spurring envy and jealousy from [...]