Saturday, December 30, 2023
As the year winds down, the college football bowl lunacy continues to ramp up.
Many of the on-line, so-called "experts" are having a field day roasting the losers of two of the big New Year's Six Bowl Games played on Friday and Saturday.
They want to roast both the Ohio State and Florida State squads after poor showings in their respective games.
They conveniently don't mention how the numerous NFL opt-outs and Transfer Portal entrants disrupted both of these teams as well as many others this bowl season.
We'll start with an Ohio State Buckeyes team that averaged 32.8 points per game in the regular season. Among their defectors were their starting QB and best WR, an All-American slated to be drafted early in next Spring's NFL Draft.
OUCH!
The reference here was to the University of Iowa who was 10-3, thanks to their stout Defense, in the regular season despite only scoring 16.6 points/game.
Missouri Tiger (11-2) - 14
Ohio State Buckeyes (11-2) - 3
The Buckeyes' Head Coach Ryan Day has done a splendid job in my opinion at Ohio State since taking over in 2018 going 56-8.
His success alone is cause for many to take jabs at him after only scoring three points against Missouri.
Then there was today's Orange Bowl between the #6 Georgia Bulldogs (12-1) and the #5 Florida State Seminoles (13-0) . . .
DOUBLE OUCH!
The pre-game reports were that only eight of the 'Noles 22 starters were playing in the game.
The final score further proved my point that the NFL opt-outs and the Transfer Portal simply waters down the bowl season even more.
Florida State had averaged 37.0 point/game before the Orange Bowl debacle.
It's almost time for
"The Granddaddy of Them All!"
It is the #1, 13-0, BIG-10 Champion Michigan Wolverines vs. the #4, 12-1, SEC Champion Alabama Crimson Tide squaring off in Pasadena, California.
This should be a great rock 'em-sock 'em game!
The cheapest tickets listed on StubHub today for the Rose Bowl go for $626 each.
The Rose Bowl's 1922 construction
and the Rose Bowl in 2022
Michigan's simplicity of uniform
design is something that I like
Then there is the Sugar Bowl played
in New Orleans, Louisiana
It is the #2, 13-0, PAC-12 Champion Washington Huskies vs. the #3, 12-1, BIG-XII Champion Texas Longhorns.
This one should be a barn burner, too.
I'd love to go but I can't
The cheapest tickets listed on StubHub today for the Sugar Bowl go for $148 each.
If they had been that cheap a month ago, I probably would have gone.
I had chores to do today for Laurie.
Taking all of the Christmas ornaments
off the tree was done early
Ornaments were . . .
. . . EVERYWHERE!
Laurie is in charge of neatly packing them all away until next year.
We also have large ornaments hanging from our large tree in the front yard that I needed to bring down safely.
It was while doing this task that I discovered . . .
. . . these mushrooms growing in
the front yard after our recent rains
Edible? Who knows.
On to the NFL . . .
The Los AngelesRams (8-7) at
the New York Giants (5-10)
on Sunday
This is certainly no time for the Rams to stumble on the drive to the playoffs.
The Fearsome Foursome of my youth . . .
Left to Right are DT Merlin Olsen (HOF), DE David "Deacon"Jones (HOF), DT Rosie Grier and DE Lamar Lundy.
. . . would NEVER have gone for
these color rush uniforms
As tough as the Fearsome Foursome was, they were not the meanest athletes in the Los Angeles of my youth.
That honor went to brushback
pitcher par excellence Don Drysdale
Any batter daring to dig in at the plate against him better have had extensive health insurance.
Those were the days . . .
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