Weekend in Review

Well, once again my NFL picks didn't work out very well. I was on a roll the first half of this season, but the last few weeks have been dark days. While I knew that picking the Lions was dangerous and that calling for the upset in Pittsburgh was likely a mistake, I sit here this morning wondering how on earth Denver lost to Oakland and what the heck happened to the strong play that Feeley showed against the Pats? I didn't get to watch much this weekend, but from all accounts, A.J. handed the Seahawks the game.

In more interesting football news, the top two ranked teams in college football managed, for the second week in a row, to both blow their National Title hopes on the same day. This, of course, left the BCS with a total lack of any teams who have distinguished themselves as legitimate contenders. Rather, there is a wealth of teams who never quite managed to step up and prove that they deserve a shot. There's just one undefeated team left after the regular seasons are all finished, and they aren't being given a shot. Hawaii's non-conference schedule was unusually weak (partly their own fault, but also a bit unlucky that a team like Washington stunk this season) and their strength of schedule ranking killed their shot at climbing into the title game. But if not this year, then when will a non-BCS conference team climb in? No BCS teams proved themselves worthy, why not give Hawaii a shot? They at least went out and won all the games they were supposed to win. Not like OSU or LSU who are in. Not like USC or any of the other teams who remain ranked ahead of them. I'm hoping that Hawaii goes out to the Sugar Bowl and beats Georgia up. If they can prove themselves against one of the real contenders on new year's day, it might at least finally drive some change in the BCS to determine a less artificial National Champion. We can only hope.