The Week That Was

Hope everyone had a nice weekend, a lot to get into.

College football calmed down a bit this weekend, only real upsets were South Florida and Fresno State losing at home to unranked teams. Notre Dame improved to 4-1 with a victory over Stanford. They only received 6 votes for the Top 25 which is ridiculous but the national media won't be able to ignore them anymore if they can win at newly ranked North Carolina this weekend.

As I expected Nebraksa lost to Missouri, what I didn't expect was for them to be embarrassed in quite the fashion they were. Bo Pelini has a lot of work ahead of him as apparently Bill Callahan recruited a bunch of scrubs on defense during his time in Nebraska that not even Pelini can make play better. There was some controversy coming from the game based on Missouri QB Chase Daniel's assertion that a Nebraska player spit on him before the game. If true that only adds to the embarrassment that Saturday was for the Cornhuskers.

As for the NFL the rise of the Washington Redskins continued as they were able to win back to back road games in the NFC Beast. The win over Philadelphia was more impressive than the win over Dallas. The Skins were missing 4 starters on defense, trailed 14-0 after a horrible missed call by the referees for block in the back by the Eagles, and despite all of that were able to win. The Skins rushed for over 200 yards, mostly behind Clinton Portis, and Jason Campbell continued to play mistake free football. The fact that the Skins have gone 5 games without an offensive turnover is an amazing accomplishment. The next 3 games should be wins for the Skins but they can't get ahead of themselves as people looked at their last 2 games as sure losses just a few weeks ago.

I made an attempt at predicting the MLB Playoffs and so far have fared miserably. The Cubs choked and were embarrassingly swept by the Dodgers, the Brewers couldn't hit and lost to the Phillies. The AL playoffs have Game 4's tonight as both the White Sox and Angels try to keep their seasons alive. I was sure the Angels would finally get over their Red Sox hex. Last night's victory kept them alive, they will need a strong performance from John Lackey tonight to try to stretch the series to a Game 5.