Toid's Roundup
October 27, 2002 by Toid
Paaa-thetic. I just now realized I didn't write an article last week. Sorry about that one, I must have gotten distracted or something by the storm that came through Boulder. But I'm on top of things so far this week, (notice it's 8am on Sunday, so I haven't had that much time to GET BEHIND, but let's not go there and just let me give myself a pat on the back for being up and awake on Sunday morning) and I am writing an article this week...so here goes.
Notre Dame. I hate them. In fact, I despise them. This is my article and I'm writing it how I feel and now how I'm "supposed" to. If you love Notre Dame, then write your own little article to make yourself feel better because Notre Dame doesn't seem to be getting any love. Ok, I will admit that Notre Dame has a decent team this year. But the problem is, they only have one receiver. Take out Battle-boy and it's up to the quarterback Holiday to run the ball (hopefully forward) the rest of the season. I also will admit that Notre Dame has probably the best defense in the country. It's hard to think otherwise because the defense won the Irish's first three games while the offense was lost somewhere looking for their pot of gold. I wrongly picked FSU to win yesterday, and I will publically announce it right here that I was wrong. I chose FSU for two reasons. One, I wanted the stupid bonus point cause FSU was 5 spots or more lower than Notre Dame, and two FSU had two weeks to prepare for this. I think the Hunchbacks could beat Miami if they played head-to-head, as there are only two or three teams I could see them losing to.
Iowa. I must admit that before I met Ted, I didn't have much interest in Iowa, but for me it seems when one of your football watching friends has a team they like cause that's where they come from, or for whatever reason, you get more interested in that team as well. Just like Oregon, I didn't really care much about them before evangelistic Gugals, but now I think I could pass any Social Studies test that had absolutely anything to do with the state of Oregon. In fact, I think I could be a tax attorney there, but that's an inside joke. However, 90% of the readers reading this story will get it. Oh wait, that's just cause I click on my own articles like 10 times a week. Nevermind, back to Iowa. All four analysts (we would be professionals, except we aren't payed) sniffed out the upset over Michigan. I would like to see Iowa-Iowa St play again. I think Iowa would win this time. Or did they win the first time? No, they didn't. Can you tell this article is one big stream of consciousness? That's what I'm going for here, cause I don't like proof reading, editing, or checking facts.
For Halloween I want to be Lee Corso, so I can get the crap beat out of me.
BCS. Since I didn't write an article last week, we are going to get a double dipping today, and I'm just going to continue writing about everything I feel necessary to rant about. I think the BCS is ok. Notice I didn't say good. Notice I didn't say great. Notice I didn't say playoff. Heh. :) But, *ahem* it really does make the entire year like a playoff. The OU-Texas game was a playoff. The Virginia Tech-Miami game will be a playoff. In fact, even the Air Force vs. No Respect game was a playoff. And actually, it's not so bad, because it's in the middle of the season, and not whos hot come playoff time. However, I would absolutely love to see the top 8 teams go at it in a playoff. The BCS is here because of money, and people give the computers a bad name, but just think about how much more interesting it is to wait every week for the BCS poll. If there wasn't a BCS poll, and there would be a playoff at the end of the year, all you would look for are the top 8 teams (not as exciting as watching computers spit out all these decimal numbers only to be added up, subtracted, fractioned, integrated, summed, and yeah, see Gugals intro to Fuzzy Math in previous articles if you really want to know) but my point is, that with the BCS, it's more legit than just having some Grand Poohbah assign teams to bowls and everybody can blame some computer instead, even if they don't do the best job. So, in the end, I'm content with the BCS, but I think I would also be content about a playoff system.
Nebraska. I'm glad to see them become bowl eligable and win a game on the road. I think they realized things can't get much worse in Nebraska Football terms (as they already are experiencing a nuclear winter in Lincoln) but I reckon' they just didn't want to play Boise St like CBS-Sportsline had them projected to play in a bowl game. Haha, can you imagine? Nebraska-Boise St.
Well, I guess that about does it, this week most the analysts had really remarkable stats. Gugals set a new record by going 9-1 w/ 2BP's and Aaron went 9-1 with 1BP (Tulsa won the Pillow Fight of the Year), and the race to crowning the Toid.net analyst of the year award, catapulting that analyst with contracts, huge sums of money, cars, girls, fame, air time is heating up....oh wait. Well maybe there will be the Toid.net trophy. If MTV can turn popcorn into a trophy, I think I can turn a coke can into something cool. Haha, just kidding. For now, as Gugs would say...I'm out.
