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FSU may or may not get by Florida, but Alabama vs FSU would be a bloody mess with FSU coming out on the wrong end of it.  They're a good team that looks great in a bad division.   Alabama is a great team that looks even better in the toughest division in college football.  And as a Pac-12 guy, it pains me to say that.

In any case, I'm simply rooting for as much BCS chaos as possible. 

Sounds cool.   Looks like a steel drum tipped upside down.

It's the Cubbies, man.  Just wait 'til next year.

Practice a lot.  Then practice some more.

That's an outcome of the new collective bargaining agreement.   Teams wanted to limit the amount of money that they were having to pay to top draft picks, and since that only effects rookies and means more money under the salary cap for veterans, the players union agreed to it.     Basically, if you get drafted into the league, you get a four year deal, it's worth a certain amount no matter what, and you have no right to re-negotiate for three years.   

They have also gotten a whole lot more punitive on rookie hold-outs. I'm fine with that.  Call it the Eli Manning rule. 

Anyway, yeah, Wilson is pretty underpaid right now.  That's not a secret, but it's also not because the Seahawks are cheap.  They have a reputation for taking care of their players.  They did for Red Bryant and Cam Chancellor when their time came.   It's just because he's a third round pick, and that is what a third round pick contract looks like under the new CBA.   He has to play under that for one more year, and I have full faith that the Seahawks will take very good care of him when it comes time to talk about his contract.

Yep.  The Seahawks are playing without their two starting tackles, but what this showed was that there is absolutely 0 depth at that position.  You and I could play better than the backups did.

I know what the draft is gonna look like, though. 

I generally do, but the media is a significant factor in deciding who gets to play in the "national championship" game.   I'm glad this is the last year of the disaster.

It's not really even the polling.  It's their attitude about it.  The Hokies have a pretty dismal post season record, an equally dismal record against ranked opponents, and they're all shocked SHOCKED whenever they get beat.  And they do it every year, like Mike Vick is still playing for them or something.

I never ceased to be amazed at the lengths the media goes through to pump up Virginia Tech.  The get gut stomped by Alabama, then win six in a row against the weakest schedule in history, and all of a sudden they're #16.

Right now they're getting beaten at home by Duke, though, so that makes me laugh.

I can't remember half the words to half the songs I write.  I have a music stand.  We have two music books. The white one, which contains our set lists.  And the blue one, that contains all the songs we don't quite know by heart, but still play.  The goal is to get the blue book down to nothing, but we keep getting older.

My pinky is almost useless. I'm working on it, though.

Back in the day, Sports Illustrated did a "Top 3 in Sports" story, where they listed the top three things in various sports categories.   Top 3 outfielders, top 3 NFL teams, etc..

For Top 3 College Football Coaches, they listed

1.  Don James
2.  Don James
3.  Don James

The guy was awesome.

I would be remis if I didn't say something about  the passing of Don James this last Sunday.  That guy basically built Husky football. He is the guy that gave us Nick Saban, Gary Pinkle, and Warren Moon.  We called him "The Dawgfather" for a reason, and his shoes have yet to be appropriately filled.