Team Speed

Finally CFB had something to offer.  Heading into October the matches gain steam as the pretenders fall to the wayside and the contenders re-introduce themselves after a stretch of powder puff scheduling that only Lane Kiffn would enjoy.  To soon!  The mighty Lane was axed early Sunday morning hours after the Trojans fell to Wazzu.  How he got any of his past jobs on limited to no success is beyond me.  Doing little with more is now his calling card.  Will be interesting to see where he lands?  Get ready for months of the USC will hire so and so rumors for the next four months.  A big name will take over in Tinseltown, we will have to wait until the season is over to find out who.
Notre Dame was plagued by some early turnovers en route to losing at home to Oklahoma by two touchdowns.  More of the same with the Rees era.  Ugh!  Everything isn't on Tommy but Golston right about now would be a pleasure.  F-ing academics.  The game really was all about the team speed on both sides of the ball by Oklahoma.  Sooner defense hawked the ball showing unreal flash in pursuit.  Oklahoma backs showed burst in gaining the edge.  Could the Sooners be back on the national stage after being overhyped for years?
Georgia versus LSU was a shootout.  Looked Mountain Westish.  Welcome to the SEC aerial years.  Frankly, I am enthralled and disappointed at the same time.  Quarterback play was top notch.  Murray and Mecklenberg each elevated their play in Athens.  Yet I still yearned for the old smash mouth 23-19 SEC era.  In the end the homer Dawgs took the game before a sea of red.  Each team now has one loss.
Oklahoma State is done after losing in Morgantown.  Yuck.  Tired of them anyways.
Alabama, Ohio State, Stanford, and Oregon each won and remain atop the polls.  They seem to be the contenders this year.  Oregon and Stanford will play eachother knocking one out of title contention.  Ohio State looks like it will breeze though the BIG 10.  Leaving in all likelihood three undefeated's at the end of the season.  The Oregon/Stanford winner should get a shot at Alabama for the National Title due to stronger conference play.
All right hopefully the above paragraph reverse jinxed it all, and chaos will ensue through the rest of the season.  I am so tired of the inevitability of CFB.  PARITY PLEASE

Week Three Aftermath: Too Early For Conclusions?

Last weekends NFL slate gave all of us some shocks.  Mind numbing WTF moments.  Colts over Niners and Fins over Falcons were the headliners.  Now it is time to jump off the cliff of reason and come up with some conclusions that are sure to be proved dubious as the season unfolds.  Screw it i'll just give some pinions.

AFC

Denver: dominant so far, should have the conference lead wrapped up by mid November

Miami:  are these guys for real?  Tannehill! Really!

New England:  this has been exhausting being at Pats fan, a brutal 3 and 0,  Is chemistry developing between Brady and the no-name receivers corps?  I think Brady has shown Cutleresque body language and his shine is gone,  Belichek's hubris in regards to personnel decisions have also become a concern- no veteran options at WR,  as  always I will shout and turn on them every second play this Sunday evening, GO PATS

Kansas City:  looking good but for the love of god use Bowe more he's on my fantasy team

Pittsburgh: wow the era is over

Indy: dreams as big as Irsay's ego

NFC

San Francisco:  Aldon Smith should not have suited up on Sunday.  Maybe karma got them for that move last weekend.  Kapernick has looked below average.  Sign a receiver?  Looks like it all is coming apart by the bay.

NY Giants:  this hurts, the season is over.  No lines or backs.

Washington:  another awful situation.  why did 3 rush back?  Will he ever be the same?  Anyone can pile up yardage in garbage time! It's over!

Green Bay, Atlanta:  Both will be back in the playoff hunt.  Rodgers is no longer the wunderkind quarterback.  Just don't ask me who is.

Seattle:  see Denver


NOTES:  I enjoy all the scoring, the passing offences, etc, but the rushing totals need to be back on par.  Balanced offence is more entertaining.  Look at the totals thus far from the leading running backs.  Unreal.  The fantasy pundits big boards had backs atop the charts for the drafts.  Kinda weird that no one else has noticed the trend thus far?  Maybe the year always starts this way.  Gotta run the ball in cold climes later in the season  guess.

Answers

Well, this weekend in college football is a ....?  A stinker.  Ughhh!  Little of relevance today on college campuses throughout the US.  The big programs are paying lesser rans hundreds of thousands of dollars to quash them, padding their win totals, and us the viewing public are supposed to accept the blowout pageantry that is early season football.  Yikes.  Oh well guess its Alabama versus the field anyways.

One good game could be Arizona State versus Stanford.  The Cardinal have a high ranking, have played no one as of yet, and feature a running back (Gaffney) who took a year off to pursue baseball dreams.  Is he or Stanford the real deal?  We will find out tonight.   Are the Sun Devils ready to climb the ladder and enter the national focus or will they shoot themselves in the foot as they have in the past?  Will Oregon be challenged tonight?  Answers please.