The Blue Workhorse

My selections last week were pretty good. I only missed two games. Of course, I did miss the big one. I thought Texas Tech would at least put on a better showing in Norman.

This week, however, I’ve got all the winners with a couple of unexpected upsets during Rivalry Week:

(all rankings from are from The Blue Workhorse College Football Top 25)
#3 Oklahoma at #12 Oklahoma State

There will be Bedlam in Stillwater this year. This year’s rivalry game may have the most riding on it in the history of the series. Oklahoma comes into the game with the apparent advantage and fast track in the Big XII South. With a win, the Sooners should be have the advantage in the BCS standings and, therefore, win the tiebreaker between themselves, Texas, and Texas Tech.

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Last week’s predictions may have been my best effort thus far: I told you to pick Texas Tech in a game Vegas thought was even; I said Texas wouldn’t cover a 12 point spread; I told you Georgia and Penn State would escape Top 25 matchups; and I even gave you the spread for the FSU/VT game when I said Florida State would win by two scores. (They won 30-20.)

I even let you know USC would win unimpressively, Kentucky couldn’t win in the swamp, and that the heartland (Oklahoma, Tulsa, and TCU) would put up a bunch of points. Now I did miss some games at the back end of the Top 25, but there has been so much movement in the bottom half the past couple of weeks that I don’t know anyone who could have predicted that whole mess.

So what kind of predictions do I have this week? Probably not any good ones, but here they are:

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I watched several of the college football games that were televised throughout the day on Saturday. There were some good games, some blowouts, some close calls, and another upset for East Carolina.

I didn’t get to watch much of the late games because I had to go to work, but here are some things I observed about certain players and teams from the games I was able to see:

* East Carolina is no joke. They are a physical squad that wasn’t afraid of West Virginia or their high powered offense. Just like last week against Virginia Tech, they were tougher than their BCS conference foe.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end, Jerramy Stevens, has repeatedly broken the law throughout his high school, college, and professional career, and yet, he has also repeatedly been given more chances.