Edumacation: Week 4 NFL/Week 5 College

• By Ted on Monday, October 5, 2009
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College Football, Week 5

 

1. Miami is very good: No one is going to confuse the 2009 Hurricanes with the 2001 Hurricanes, but the last team to have to open a season with four Top-20 opponents was the 1978 Rice Owls. Miami laid an egg in Blacksburg but otherwise has looked pretty solid. You could make an argument they belong in the top five right now, no?

2. The best team in the country right now might be Alabama: They just steamroll people. Does anyone really think Ole Miss is still a threat this Saturday, even though they’re hosting? (Texas is probably No. 2, although they really haven’t played anyone worth a damn.)

3. Oklahoma’s season has become “spoiler:” The most relevant the Sooners can be now is by beating Texas in Dallas in two weekends. 

4. LSU/Florida might be interesting: LSU played a pretty boring football game, then gained some life at the end—on the road—in beating Georgia. If they can somehow carry that all the way till Saturday at 8am, when they’re home, with an uncertain Tebow… well, combine Point 2 and this point, and Alabama might be atop the national polls and the SEC on Sunday afternoon next week. 

5. High-offense teams always lay an egg eventually: Remember all the excitement over Texas Tech last year? Oklahoma beat them by over 40 in mid-November. Everyone hopped on the Houston bandwagon. UTEP—the same school that got rocked by Texas—then beat the Cougars by 17 on Saturday night. (Met a guy at a bar in Baltimore who had that game, by the way. He won six grand. Wow.)

 

NFL, Week 4

1. The Saints are good: If Gregg Williams’ defense keeps dialing it up like they did Sunday, that team can make some noise in the NFC playoffs. Still not sure they could beat a completely healthy Giants team—especially if the game was at the Meadowlands—but they look damn fine, like Jessica Alba before she made The Love Guru.

2. Rookie QBs make mistakes: New York media is absolutely asinine. One week this kid is “San-chise.” The next week he’s “Ain’t-chez.” Ever heard of a learning curve?

3. VY might get another shot: The Titans won 13 games last year. They’re 0-4 this year. Seems as good a time as any to let the all-time Rose Bowl hero get another crack at pro success.

4. The Rams are worse than last year’s Lions: They have basically one option on offense—S-Jax. They could easily lose all 16 games. If they do, could “Spags” last only one season? There are a ton of SB-ring-wearing coaches unemployed right now.

5. Fear not, Chiefs fans: You guys might go 2-14 this year, quite easily. However, that D—Tamba Hali, Glenn Dorsey, Tyson Jackson and someone you’ll get in the 2010 Draft (Suh?)—is going to be sick as all get out in three years. Patience, grasshoppers.