Lubbock, home of Texass Tech and my ex-wife. No wonder I can't stand the place! ;)
Has anyone else picked their NFL teams yet? I don't see any other picks.
For my upsets this week, I am going with Detroit over Philly, Jets over New England, and Giants over Indy.
I also picked Jacksonville over San Diego because SD looked so bad last week.
What games do you think will be the upsets?
Wait. What.
Lemme re-read that...
The Lions will beat the Eagles? Have you UTTERLY LOST YOU MIND!?
I mean I hate, like HATE, the Eagles, but Detroit are the poster child of Eternal Fail
LOL- well, everyone has to have their day in the sun and this game is home for Detroit.
So I think they'll come through with a stunning victory.
OK- while Detroit is losing as I write this, they didn't get blown out. At least they made it somewhat close.
There is still 3 minutes left in the game.
EDITED: 1:30 left and it is 32 to 35.....Come on Detroit!!!
I can't believe the Vikings let Miami beat them and Cincy looked so bad last week, there was no way I could choose them, but they came through. (4 turnovers Baltimore? Really?)
GR I am looking forward to this week's last place trophy and I think it should involve spanking and Ines Sainz.
So either Oklahoma sucks, or Air Force is better than people are giving them credit for? If Oklahoma sucks then Free Shoes University must really be rotten!
I'll take 3-0 over 0-3 any day of the week, regardless of how we got there!
Plus, got to love the Jets putting a serious hurting on the Patsies! Next week, we squish the fish!
@TJ - Air Force tends to keep games really close, even when they're outmatched; they just seem to know how to hang in there. Now that we're out of Lubbock (big sigh of relief), the Red River Rivalry is shaping up to be a pretty interesting game. I really miss making it to Dallas for that one.
And the Cowboys officially suck - my loyalties are now completely focused on the Horns this year.
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How about that? Christmas came early for UCLA with a win over Texas (at Texas, no less).
Can you imagine how many people lost their ass in Vegas today?
Tom- next week Texas plays OU- so either your boys will play a very angry Texas team or maybe they just ain't that good? Thoughts?
Jade Ed, OU will be playing a Texas team that has been overrated (and finally exposed). If folks thought they were going to compete for the national championship this year, they were delusional. Its a rebuilding year, the defense is stout but the offense is still trying to get it together.
TX looked like crap yesterday. I wasn't expecting them to be great this year, but they're making way too many idiotic mistakes to even stay in the top 25. The defense against UCLA's running game looked awful, too; OU will run all over us if Muschamp doesn't change something.
Jade Ed: I like our chances this weekend. Texas got stomped (was thrilled to see that score!) but I don't think they'll be able to rebound against OU (at least I hope not!) OU is doing just enough to win, but they're showing great resolve. Last year these games went against them, and the chips are falling our way this year. I hope it keeps up.
Oh, and Arkansas ... nice way to throw that game away! Idiots! You HAD Alabama, dead to rights!
Saturday's game showed that UT's offense cannot step up to help out when the defense is having a bad day after they have been bailing out their sorry asses in every single other game this year.
And this week's game shows that Texas is just not gonna be good this year. Seriously, could we have screwed up more against OU? I'm scared to death of Nebraska in 2 weeks, and I'm not sure how we'll handle Baylor at the end of the month. I'm just praying for a bowl game at this point...maybe the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl or something.
We looked rough this week, but hat tip to TJ's OU. They were pretty solid, except for when Jones just dropped the damn ball, but he had the wherewithal to knock it out of bounds.
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