The Blue Workhorse

Last week, almost every favorite won. This week…college football became a world of upsets.

The craziest part: besides Georgia’s loss to Alabama, the six other upsets were all by teams outside the Top 25! Who would’ve expected an Oregon State squad that lost to Stanford and was hammered by Penn State to upend USC or Wisconsin to blow a 19-point lead to a Michigan squad that hasn’t had an offense all season?

Another week means another re-evalution, and thus, we give you our new The Blue Workhorse College Football Top 25 after Week 5. Some things to note from this week’s rankings:

* With all of the upsets, there is not a single team that is in the same position as last week.
* After a week hiatus, Oregon and Fresno State return to the Top 25.

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Last week, I was fortunate enough to get a hold of 5th row seats to the Florida/Tennessee game (thanks to Andrew and the Shelbyville crew). Unfortunately, that meant I was unable to make my weekly college football observations. This week, I tried to make up for it, however.

I watched as much college football as I possibly could this weekend. I tried to flip back and forth between the several games that were televised throughout the day on Saturday (as well as Thursday night’s game).

There were some huge matchups and some true battles, but this weekend will be known for all of the upsets (six Top 25 teams lost to unranked teams). Here are 49 observations about certain players and teams from 10 of the games I was able to watch:

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After a little bit of a delay, this week’s much anticipated Sports Blog NFL Power Rankings have now been posted by our buddy James over at NE Patriots Draft. As happens each week James, The Sports Dollar, My Sports Rumors, World of Isaac, and our site have ranked each of the 32 NFL teams.

With the Cowboys still the unanimous #1 selection by everyone, the Giants undefeated, and the Eagles coming off a 15-9 win over last week’s #2 Pittsburgh, could it be possible the beast conference that is the NFC East could have the top three teams in the Sports Blog Power Rankings? Find out where your favorite NFL team ranks this week: Sports Blog NFL Power Rankings.

In the mean time, here are our rankings for the Sports Blog NFL Power Rankings. Unlike, the other individual sites, we have multiple opinions combining to form our rankings as each of our four writers rank the teams, which combined form The Blue Workhorse NFL Power Rankings: Week Three.

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The 7-11 PM (EST) time slot on Saturday had the best collection of games on national television since the midday (3:30-7) slot on September 16, 2006 when #3 Auburn won a 7-3 battle with #6 LSU, #12 Louisville blew out #17 Miami, #11 Michigan put it on Brady Quinn and the #2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and #18 Oregon scored in the last minute to beat #15 Oklahoma.

That September day was a great day to be a college football fan. Along with these four games, there were 3 other games that featured matchups of two teams in the top 25. While there were only two top 25 battles this weekend, both games (LSU/Auburn & Wake Forest/Florida St) were featured in the evening along with a big-time Pac-10/SEC battle between Arizona State and Georgia.

The favorites won in each of those games, but East Carolina and Oregon weren’t as lucky as both were upset.

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In the Sunday Sports Selection series, we showcase a sports-related product (gadget, book, film, equipment, etc.) that we have enjoyed and think you may find of interest as well.

In honor of the final home games that were played in historic Yankee Stadium, this week’s Sunday Sports Selection is something that we obtained on our trip to New York City earlier this summer.

While we were in New York for our weekend at Yankee Stadium, we wanted to get souvenirs from our trip as every tourist on a trip wants to do. But we weren’t looking for a “I Heart NY” shirt or a miniture Statue of Liberty. No, the main attraction of our trip was Yankee Stadium, so we were intent on getting souvenirs that were Yankees related.

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Ten years ago, there was no Tampa Bay (no longer Devil) Rays feel good story in the American League East. No, on this day 10 years ago, the Devil Rays were a mere 45 games back with a 61-91 record.

There wasn’t even a pennant race as everything had already been signed, sealed, and delivered at the top of the division. The Red Sox had a respectable record (86-66), which would be good enough for a five game deficit this season. However, in 1998? Five game deficit? Try 20!

That’s right. Boston was 20 games out of first place September 18, 1998 even with 86 wins.

How?

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This week’s Sports Blog NFL Power Rankings have now been posted by our buddy James over at NE Patriots Draft. Along with James, The Sports Dollar, My Sports Rumors, World of Isaac, and our site have ranked all 32 NFL teams.

After their wild 41-37 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles (last week’s #3 team), the Dallas Cowboys are again the unanimous #1 selection. Pittsburgh is again #2, but there definitely has been some shuffling beyond the #2 spot. Find out where your favorite NFL team ranks this week: Sports Blog NFL Power Rankings.

In the mean time, here are our rankings for the Sports Blog NFL Power Rankings. Unlike, the other individual sites, we have multiple opinions combining to form our rankings as each of our four writers rank the teams, which combined form The Blue Workhorse NFL Power Rankings: Week Two.

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I’ve been reading a lot of good articles as of late and haven’t exactly found enough time to write about them myself. With that being said, I still think these articles are just too good to go by without me passing them along.

Therefore, here is the inaugural edition of the Wednesday Workhorse Links (yea, I need a new name, but that’s the best spur of the moment creativity I currently have):

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