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By Richie Weldon
Each week this article will
focus on some of my predictions and insights for the coming
week and discuss some of my previous, faulty predictions.
The article will also feature pictures of a different
college football stud that defines the term “Eye Candy”.
Angles
I got to admit, this week’s
recap article is going to be hard to write as I wasn’t in
front of the TV watching games as much as I’d like due to a
small matter of a wedding for a good college buddy of mine.
I did manage to catch a few games at the ESPN Zone in Disney
World, but the only audio feed was from the Iowa State at
Iowa game.
So what happened this week?
We found out further proof that Al Groh at Virginia needs to
be fired. ASAP. It appears that the Fighting Irish are
more hype than bite this season. Rutgers is now three games
from making a second bowl game in a row. And the Pac-10
officials are a bunch of clowns.
It’s only a few more weeks
until the first round of the BCS standings comes out. You
all know what to expect: One of the unbeaten teams is going
to be ranked lower than a one-loss Texas or LSU team and all
that controversy is going to start anew. Which unbeaten
team is going to cause the most noise? My money would be on
West Virginia. The Mountaineers are high in the human polls
but I really do not think the computers are going to like
them much at all. Looking at the rest of West Virginia’s
schedule, only Louisville is currently ranked. The other
teams remaining on West Virginia’s schedule might be playing
well, but without playing a few ranked teams, the computers
are just not going to like WVU enough to push them ahead of
the one-loss teams.
This week there are a few
interesting games being played. In what could be the
penultimate game leading up to Al Groh’s firing, Virginia
travels down to Atlanta to take on a stinging Georgia Tech
team on Thursday night. Look for Reggie Ball to have a
great night under the lights against a rather weak UVA
defense that’s given up two more touchdowns (five) than its
offense has scored (three) in the first three games of the
season. Colorado is going to start the season 0-4 after a
beating between the hedges in Athens. Rutgers should easily
move up to 4-0 after taking care of business against I-AA
hapless Howard (0-2). Aren’t these just all great match-ups
so far?
Saturday afternoon, some good
games come on the air. Iowa State goes down to Austin to
take on the Texas Longhorns and Penn State travels to the
Horseshoe to take on Ohio State. Those should be good, fun
games to watch, but I think the more intriguing game is
going to be Arizona State at California. The outcome of
this game will likely decide and lock-in the #2 team in the
Pac-10. Both teams are evenly matched in offense output and
defensive abilities. Cal did get spanked by Tennessee in
Week 1, but that game seems to be “first game jitters” as
the other two games the team seems to have gelled. Look for
a pretty close game, but Cal, playing at home, will barely
edge out Arizona State, perhaps by three or four points.
Dangles
Last week my picks were only
good for a 1-2 showing. Somehow Washington was able to pull
off what I’d call a pretty good upset in beating Fresno
State 21-20. Only if I wasn’t on the road and was in
Seattle to see that game! Dang! Illinois also allowed
Syracuse to not go winless for an entire year, getting beat
31-21 by the Orange. The one pick I got right was Wake
Forest beating Connecticut, but I thought it would be a high
scoring game and not 24-13.
In my preseason Top 25 I had
Nebraska going on the road to beat USC. One of these days I
will learn to never bet against Pete Carroll. That man
knows his football and almost always has his team ready to
play and rarin’ to win. I’m getting concerned about having
picked Iowa to meet Auburn in for the national title game.
The Hawkeyes are not beating teams as solidly as they
should. Auburn still seems to be a good bet, especially
after that great game and a 7-3 victory against LSU on
Saturday.
Perks
 Tyler
Palko, Pittsburgh’s veteran QB, was looking too good during
the Panthers losing effort against Michigan State not to
make this week’s Perks. Usually guys with longer hair don’t
do it for me, but Tyler … yeah, he’s got it going on and got
it going on good! The pictures I’ve found on the web don’t
do him justice one bit. You really need to watch a Pitt
game to know what I’m talking about.
Don’t forget, if you spot a
stud while watching any of the games, let me know who he is
so he can be included in that week’s perks!
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