If anyone would like to take a brief pause from talking politics (I can’t imagine why) it is once again Saturday.
Naturally the McGehee household is interested mainly in the game tonight wherein Mississippi State invades Tuscaloosa and loosens some tusks (#HailSt8 #WeBelieve), but of course I’m given to understand there are some other games today.
It’s not on TV in the Atlanta media market, that I’ve been able to find*, but Texas Tech — which humiliated B Moe’s WVU a couple of weeks ago and bounded onto the rankings — goes to K-State home turf to see if they can humiliate another high-ranked school. I may be able to watch it online at ESPN3.com. Any K-State fans here should make their bets with Mike LaRoche.
Then there’s Oklahoma and Notre Dame, I think OU is at home for that one — if I’m wrong I believe leigh can correct the record.
Anybody else with games they’re interested in should check in below.
*Update: I was wrong about the Texas Tech game, it’s on my local Fox station right now. But I missed the first half, @#$!!
As I don’t have a dog in any college football hunt, I tend to turn on the games featuring the highest-ranked teams, or those games that look pretty close.
Correct. OU is at home this weekend. The place is packed with tailgaters.
Prepare to be slaughtered, Irish.
Yipes! It’s a mite windy in Jacksonville today.
Gotta like the look of Ga’s 1st half running game today, their passing game not so much.
I have this thing where I like to turn on a game (any game) and doze off on the couch with it on.
Unless both teams are wearing red, then I have to find another game.
Blamed if I know why that is. Maybe because I graduated from BYU (blue) whose chief rival was UofU (red).
More likely it’s because I prefer that the two teams have contrasting colors. That UCLA vs. UofU was just about perfect, what with blue, yellow, red, and white being represented. It looked very nice.
I also appreciate Tennessee citric orange and North Carolina baby blue (unusual), plus Oregon’s lovely dark green with yellow. (Though they should have named their team “Mallards” or “Mergansers” or “Cormorants,” retaining the imagery of the local waterfowl but avoiding the absurdity of the name.)
And, as always, I cannot endure that bland, narrow N on the Nebraska helmet. The font is all wrong for the negative space that surrounds it. And they just got new helmets with the same sickly N.
People, some traditions really do not deserved to be honored. Like the Wretchard case, a bad decision made in the past should not be perpetuated throughout the generations.
You may now proceed to remember that Cheers episode wherein Diane bet on football teams by criteria such as team colors and which city had the better ballet company.
And won every week.
Prepare to be slaughtered, Irish.
They beat my Cougs a couple weeks back in a heartbreaker. GoooooOU.
OU’s colors are crimson and cream. I’ll let you know what happens. ; )
Looks like Oregon finally put the third string in. Colorado sighs in relief.
woohoo halftime just started
USC 21 AZ 13
Should’ve been 21-16, Darleen, but the refs blew a call and took 3 off the scoreboard. Ratfinks.
After a dismal start, 0-21 Nevada Wolf pack early in the second quarter, my Fresno State Bulldogs, soon WAC champions, made it 14-24 at the half, and now in the forth enjoy a commanding 42-24 lead.
Darleen, early next season we come for USC. Be afraid, be very afraid(unless we have the same refs as last time we met).
– You didn’t miss much McGehee. So far its been one of thoes games where everybody in the stadium, including the refs and the hotdog venders, seem to be somewhere else, or wish they were. They’ve even had a sideline interference penalty.
– You know, one of those games.
BBH, I just got back in front of the TV in time for the 4th quarter. Tech looks downright snakebit.
Oh well, K-State is riding high and maybe I’ll get to root for them against Bama in the BCS Championhip game.
Whenever the hell that is.
…unless, of course, MSU humiliates Bama so badly tonight they go into a slump for the rest of the season…
What an embarrassment. But it’s typical Tech; they just can’t win the big game.
Uh-oh.
And dead. That’s no way to carry a football Mr. Reed.
Oh how they have rallied! AZ 39, USC 28. Lane Kiffin, glad to see your Wiki page is correct!
Heh. Arizona beats USC 39-36. I’d hate to be Kiffin’s Wiki page later on today…
– I couldn’t even follow the Buskeye game on any of the online radio stations, nada. Those bastards at ESPN really know how to control the broadcasting game.
serr8d
[sticks out tongue, blows raspberries] Hurrrumph …
– Tweeeeeeeet…..Whistles Darleen for illegal use of cuteness…..half the distance to the ‘goal line’ – still 1st down.
And it’s a good thing I’m not a betting man. I’d have lost my ass this afternoon. Hope the Red Raiders have better luck against UT next week.
49-32. Go Fresno, win the WAC!
It isn’t that I might not have taken any bets, it’s that with what I have riding on the MSU-Alabama game I may need to keep that barrel and those Kleenex boxes.
Gah! I hate to see the other team score first. Still, we knew this one was going to draw blood.
…and that was a nice return, if you overlook the near turnover.
:headdesk:
OU’s colors are crimson and cream. I’ll let you know what happens. ; )
Yeah, but ND (North Dakota, obviously) is navy and gold, so they can be on the field together without making me crazy.
A wicked combination of ineptitude on offense (3 and out! 4 and out! Interception!) and really poor (and curiously one-sided) officiating meant Penn State’s defense was on the field for the entire friggin’ game. I wanted to explain to the commentators that the Suckeyes’ offensive line wasn’t really that impressive; by the fourth quarter, the Plum Township Marching Band could have opened lanes against our exhausted Lions.
Ah, well. It ain’t like we had Bowl hopes anyways.
TD! Yes! This game was not supposed to be a nail-biter.
Leigh!
ND isn’t supposed to be wining this. Make it stop!
I’m trying, di. Apparently swearing at the teevee and insulting the QB’s mother isn’t doing the trick.
Well, it looks like the remainder of the Big 12 season will be a fight between Texas Tech and Oklahoma to determine who goes to the Cotton Bowl and who goes to the Alamo Bowl.
Mike, our teams suck. This is bogus.
Yep, we need to find a way to blame Diebold and/or Dick Cheney.
It sure ain’t lookin’ good for the MoTown boys.
Victory March
I guess we’ll be able to keep the #HailSt8 hashtag at least another week. Though #LookingFor9 will take on added urgency.