The Week That Was

Hello everyone, a lot to cover as this is the most wonderful time of the year on the sports calendar.

College football had a crazy weekend as ranked teams and favorites fell all over the place. It started on Thursday with USC losing to Oregon State and was finished with an exclamation as Alabama destroyed Georgia between the hedges. I found it funny reading articles online about how Georgia is now out of the national title chase. Did people not pay attention to last year? A 2-loss team in LSU was the national champion. If all of the upsets Saturday were any indication, it is likely to be just as crazy this year.

As for my college football weekend it was bittersweet. Notre Dame romped Purdue and allowed more haters to come out. Somehow Notre Dame's early season schedule of mostly Big Ten teams is too easy, whatever. Oh and that great coach they fired, Ty Willingham, is now 0-4 this year at Washington.

Nebraska was disappointing in their loss to Tech. The defense still looks atrocious and Tech was obviously the better team. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini is just getting started though so patience will be needed.


The biggest story in the NFL was the Redskins going to Dallas and upsetting the Cowboys. I told anyone that would listen that Vegas favoring the Cowboys by double digits was ridiculous but even I didn't think the Redskins would actually pull off the victory. The offense continues to look impressive, the defense hasn't lost anything without supposed genius Gregg Williams coordinating them and there is no doubt that DC is Horny for Zorny!


It is almost October which means it is time for the Major League Baseball playoffs. The AL Central is still undecided between the Chicago White Sox and the Minnesota Twins. The White Sox need to beat Detroit today in a makeup game, then the winner of a play in game between themselves and the Twins will meet the Tampa Bay Rays in the 1st round. I am going on record and predicting a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Chicago Cubs World Series with the Cubs ending their championship drought. Below is how I see the entire playoffs shaking out:

American League

(1) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim over (4) Boston in 5 games
(2) Tampa Bay Rays over (3) Minnesota Twins (White Sox will not run the gauntlet) in 4 games

(1) Angels over (2) Rays in 6 games

National League

(1) Chicago Cubs over (3) Los Angeles Dodgers in 4 games
(4) Milwaukee Brewers over (2) Philadelphia Phillies in 5 games

(1) Cubs over (4) Brewers in 6 games

World Series

(1) Cubs over (1) Angels in 7 games