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Sunday, October 02, 2005

Saturdays are the Greatest Days

Conference play FINALLY got started yesterday in the Big XII, with the Horns and Vince Young beating Young-lite and Missouri convincingly. Oklahoma looked pretty good in their win over Kansas State. Once again, this sets up a week of trash-talking, nail-biting and overall panic (and that's just from me) before next Saturday's Red River Shootout Rivalry. Personally, I see this as the only real test during conference play aside from rivals Texas A&M and Texas Tech.

In other games outside the Midwest, congrats to Arizona State for giving up 35 points in a half as well as the game to USC last night. (Also, congrats to my local ABC affiliate for showing an almost-meaningless Iowa St.-Nebraska game instead of USC-ASU. They must really know what the local sports fan wants to see...)

Seriously, what's up with Penn St. and Alabama? Could this be Old Man Coke-Bottle's last stand? Could this mean that the SEC isn't as good as everyone says? Does this mean I can stop asking questions now?

posted by Greg at 12:45 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Norman Rose said...

i think this is the year... or does saying that jinx the horns?

11:50 AM  

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