After a week of duds in football, this weekend is a good one to put off doing that honey-do list and eat really unhealthy foods and watch some football. Here's why:
1. Big Ten Showdown-Nebraska travels to Ohio St. which shapes up to be a good one. I think if you wore blue to the Horseshoe, I know you will standout. The difference in this game will be which quarterback can complete more passes because both defenses are pretty good against the run.
2. Pac-12 Track Meet-Can you name a team that is more fun to watch than the Oregon Ducks? They play fast, and faster and just exploit teams with their speed. Speaking of speed, Nick Saban is complaining about the spread and how it puts team at a disadvantage. "I just think there's got to be some sense of fairness in terms of asking, 'Is this what we want football to be?' "
"The team gets in the same formation group, you can't substitute defensive players, you go on a 14-, 16-, 18-play drive and they're snapping the ball as fast as you can go and you look out there and all your players are walking around and can't even get lined up. That's when guys have a much greater chance of getting hurt when they're not ready to play."-Saban on his radio show this week.
What Saban is doing here is planting a seed about his team and not being able to match-up against teams and their speed. Saban also knows if he wins out and Oregon wins out they could face each other. What he should know the that bigger should always win out but if Oregon or any other team who runs the spread offense correctly, can keep scoring points, his offensively challenged team may not be able to keep up.
Can you tell he is a Belichick disciple? Stop the whining and line up and play ball. If you want to compete and you are such a defensive genius Saban, then study the tape and expose their weaknesses. Auburn did it and I'm pretty sure you can figure it out.
3. Geno Smith vs. Texas D-That's all you can say about this game is if Texas can hold West Virginia to 35 points they may have a chance to win. This game is huge for Geno's Heisman hopes because this is the first defense that he will see with a few potential pro prospects. If Smith can play well and lead his team to victory over Texas, then the Heisman race might be over before November.
4. SEC Doubleheader-No.4 LSU travels to No.10 Florida and No.5 Georgia heads to No.6 South Carolina, enough said.
5. Purple Shout-Out Part II-Northwestern Wildcats are 5-0 and face Penn State tomorrow and if they win tomorrow and next week they could be hosting Nebraska and be in the top 15 in the country. Kudos to the Fighting Fitzgerald's.
NFL thoughts tomorrow......
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