Wow. It is Saturday morning. We are a little more than an hour from the Big Noon Kickoff in the eastern time zone.
Speaking of east, my dear wife, Carrie, and I had a great time of it in New England this past week? Do people still say that outside of speaking of the Patriots Football Team? New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire we drove across three of those and made The Berkshires in Western Mass. home base. The Boston papers are ready to gut the New England team including Coach Belichik. Mac Jones is frying like a hot hamburger right now. Anyway. Driving through western New York is a treat. Bills fans may be the best in the NFL for my money. The area itself is so far removed from anything you have been conditioned to think when you hear the words New York. There is little urban about it. Little towns are dotted with Bills flags. Two high schools had Go Bills! featured on their electronic signs. I doubt I will get there, but I would love to attend a game in the old Orchard Park Stadium before the new one is built. We pass the exit for the place each time we go through there. At that point, we still 291 miles from Albany. That and one more hour will get us to Hancock, Mass.
That is where I find newspaper heaven still exists.
You can go into a grocery store in these parts and decide which or all of no less than seven newspapers you want to read. AND THEY ARE STILL WORTH READING.
We didn’t come here for a newspaper dissertation. On to the FOOTBALL!
Last week 12 winners 2 losers
Season total 68 winners 16 losers
I will say it again. As good as this is, I will make up for it during the bowl season when you really don’t know what kind of team will show up.
I know. This is not a college football picture. Last night I looked at two high school football games in person. One was North Harrison at Providence. That was a disaster. North lost 35-0 in a game that was called to injury at halftime. That was a first for me. So I moseyed over to Clarksville and watched Crawford County and the Clarksville Generals. Both teams were 0-8 coming in. I was worn out, having driving east of Cleveland to Depauw earlier in the day. I left at halftime of that one. Clarksville won 48-34.
The photo? I just miss kickers.
Alabama beats Arkansas…The Tide Rolls at home.
Georgia beats Vandy… The Bulldogs should score 40 before the half.
Rutgers beats Michigan State… It is in Piscataway. A place named perfectly.
Florida beats South Carolina…This may be a stretch in Columbia.
Maryland beats Illinois…The Terps rebound this week after the loss in Columbus.
Washington beats Oregon…And the Michael Penix, Jr. legend continues. Get that grip ready for the Heisman, Michael. You’ll be the first Hoosier to ever win it.
Tennessee beats Texas A&M…in Knoxville and those Vols are FIRED UP!
Iowa beats Swissconsin… I will take a loss before I pick the Bucky Badgers.
Louisville beats Pitt… At Pitt. Doesn’t matter. Not this year. The magic of college football is still real.
LSU beats Auburn… I think it was in this game in the late 80s when Tommy Hodson threw a TD pass for the Bayou Bengals and the ruckus in Death Valley set off the seismographs in the LSU Geology Department. Look it up.
Marshall beats Georgia State…Go Herd!
North Carolina beats Miami…The Tar Heels are working on a dream.
Kentucky beats Mizzou…Playing at UK. Mark Stoops gets grilled for speaking the rights this week. And Paul Finebaum in turn started talking like it was 1975 and Bo, Bear, and Woody were still here. In the Southern Parlance, “Do What, Paul?”
USC beats Notre Dame… A game that lives in lore that I make every effort to watch each year.
Enjoy the games and take care of each other.
Speaking the rights.
Danny Johnson