Red River Rivalry and more…
As I’m sure you’ve heard, this weekend is the big Red River Rivalry game between Texas and Oklahoma. Whereas this game has been a great game in years past and has had national title implications the last couple years as well as this year, I tend to think Texas wins this game by 14. They are still upset that they were left out of the Championship game last year even after beating OU (which I still think was the right decision, by the way) and I think the revenge factor, injuries for OU, and the OU offensive line will be the difference. I’m a little concerned that they haven’t dominated their weak competition so far, and for that reason I see OU taking an early lead and then Texas charging back and dominating the second half.
ND-USC – I don’t see this as big of a game as everyone else. I still haven’t quite figured out what everyone sees in Notre Dame that I’m missing. I see this as a blowout. Probably a 17 or 21 point win for USC. Don’t get me wrong, I still see at least one more loss for USC this season, but not the Irish.
TCU has looked really good so far this year and I feel like they should be getting a little more respect. I’m looking forward to the upcoming BYU-TCU game. I won’t be surprised if they run the table and break into the BCS, they are playing better than Boise State and are very well coached. I would be surprised to see them slip up and not give every game their best. Iowa is a very dangerous team too that is not getting much respect and flying under the radar right now because not many pollsters picked them to do well.
I think we should get rid of the over celebration penalty in college football. It irritates me. These are young kids who aren’t getting paid and 99% of whom are not going to be playing in the NFL. They can and should get excited when they’ve made a big play. Taunting should still be a penalty and it pains me to see a player celebrating a sack or tackle for loss when his team is down by 30, but a touchdown in the closing minutes of a game or big play to ice the game, you should be able to celebrate that. Another uncool rule in college football, pass interference. I hate it. It’s so vague and subjective. Unless it’s just completely obvious, let’s not throw the flag. I don’t like refs bailing out offenses for bad play calling and inability to make plays. It gets called so often, every time there is a play on the ball the receiver is begging the ref to throw a flag. Shut up, you didn’t catch it, the defender made a play, leave it at that.
I’ve never been one to blame the refs for costing a team a win because in the end, you should make the plays to win the game and a bad call here or there shouldn’t cost you the game. But the refs can change the way the game is played over time, and I feel like they have with pass interfence. We need some clarity on the rule and it shouldn’t be called nearly as much.
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