It’s that time of year again. You know the time. The college football season is over. We have a new champion, and thank God it isn’t Ohio State. I’m not saying I dislike Ohio State, its just that……well, I dislike Ohio State. But more on that later. I’ll give my thoughts and observations on the Orange Bowl, the BCS Championship Game, and I might throw in something about Hawaii for all my Hawaiian fans out there.
First, let’s talk about the Orange Bowl. I have to say that Aqib Talib deserved the MVP of the game. I figured they voters would be dumb and give it to Todd Reesing, but they actually proved to be a little smart. I’m not dissing Reesing, who had a very good game, but Talib deserved it. The interception for a TD was the first score of the game and entrenched the momentum with Kansas.
In fact, the whole Kansas defense played amazing, netting three turnovers that resulted in 17 points. Of course, the Virginia Tech offense is woeful. VT did the right thing by benching Brendan Ore for the first quarter, but he is really there only offensive weapon. Look at there quarterbacks. Glennon is spotty and Taylor is too young. I got swept up in VT because of the quality of competition in the ACC. I love the ACC, but it just wasn’t that stacked this year, and VT looked good by comparison. VT got by on good defense and good special teams. If you can hold your own in both these areas, you can beat VT. That is exactly what Kansas did and that is exactly why Kansas won.
Now, on to the BCS Championship Game, where LSU decided to add a degree of difficulty to there victory. First, they pretty much spot OSU the spread, and then decide to let them stay
within striking distance the whole game. Every time they had a chance to run away with it, they took there foot off the pedal and let everyone sweat a little. I will admit I was a little worried when the score was 10-0 and the LSU offense looked like a wounded duck. Then once the LSU defense started to contain Beanie Wells (what grown man has the nickname “Beanie”?) they put the game in Todd Boeckman’s hands, and that’s not a good place. Sure, if you have the play action working and your offensive line is holding, it’s all good, but Boeckman didn’t have the time he was used to. This was exemplified when Boeckman got absolutely wrecked (see picture) by Ali Highsmith on a 4th down play. Part of this was due to the great coverage by the LSU secondary.
We can’t forget the offensive play of LSU. Matt Flynn was a great leader out there, which was probably the reason Perrilloux only saw the field once. Jacob Hester once again proved that white guys can be running backs. Plus, Flynn spread it all over the field, hitting 8 different receivers. Ohio State just looked overmatched when LSU went into the spread formation, especially with LSU’s first touchdown, when LSU stacked one side of the field with four receivers, than Flynn hit Dickson on the weak side when he was wide open. But, let’s not give all the credit to the LSU offense.
Some of the credit needs to go to the Ohio State defense. They played horrid at times. The best example was on Early Doucet’s 4 yard touchdown reception, where he broke like 57 tackles to make it into the end zone. My mother could have tackled him. Plus, there were a bunch of really stupid personal fouls, five in all. The worst was at the end of the first drive by LSU in the second half. Ohio State was only down 24-10 and had just stopped LSU to open the third quarter, and during the punt, the punter gets roughed, yet the OSU player somehow misses the ball. I’m still not sure how he missed it. Boom, 15 yard penalty and automatic first down. LSU then scores with the Doucet TD mentioned above and go up 31-10. They should have just ended it there, but LSU decided start trading touchdown’s with Ohio State, giving there fan base a collective coronary.
Were the two games fun? Sure, for two separate reasons. The Orange Bowl was fun because I got to see Kansas actually beat a quality team and I got to see the Patriot’s first round pick (here’s hoping) streak down the sideline for the first score of the game. The BCS Championship was fun because I got to see Ohio State lose, and that’s always fun. That pretty much wraps up the whacky and wild season in college football. This means I get to write geeky articles about TV and the NFL until the soccer season starts (I can almost see the Duchess shaking her head).
First, let’s talk about the Orange Bowl. I have to say that Aqib Talib deserved the MVP of the game. I figured they voters would be dumb and give it to Todd Reesing, but they actually proved to be a little smart. I’m not dissing Reesing, who had a very good game, but Talib deserved it. The interception for a TD was the first score of the game and entrenched the momentum with Kansas.
In fact, the whole Kansas defense played amazing, netting three turnovers that resulted in 17 points. Of course, the Virginia Tech offense is woeful. VT did the right thing by benching Brendan Ore for the first quarter, but he is really there only offensive weapon. Look at there quarterbacks. Glennon is spotty and Taylor is too young. I got swept up in VT because of the quality of competition in the ACC. I love the ACC, but it just wasn’t that stacked this year, and VT looked good by comparison. VT got by on good defense and good special teams. If you can hold your own in both these areas, you can beat VT. That is exactly what Kansas did and that is exactly why Kansas won.
Now, on to the BCS Championship Game, where LSU decided to add a degree of difficulty to there victory. First, they pretty much spot OSU the spread, and then decide to let them stay
within striking distance the whole game. Every time they had a chance to run away with it, they took there foot off the pedal and let everyone sweat a little. I will admit I was a little worried when the score was 10-0 and the LSU offense looked like a wounded duck. Then once the LSU defense started to contain Beanie Wells (what grown man has the nickname “Beanie”?) they put the game in Todd Boeckman’s hands, and that’s not a good place. Sure, if you have the play action working and your offensive line is holding, it’s all good, but Boeckman didn’t have the time he was used to. This was exemplified when Boeckman got absolutely wrecked (see picture) by Ali Highsmith on a 4th down play. Part of this was due to the great coverage by the LSU secondary.We can’t forget the offensive play of LSU. Matt Flynn was a great leader out there, which was probably the reason Perrilloux only saw the field once. Jacob Hester once again proved that white guys can be running backs. Plus, Flynn spread it all over the field, hitting 8 different receivers. Ohio State just looked overmatched when LSU went into the spread formation, especially with LSU’s first touchdown, when LSU stacked one side of the field with four receivers, than Flynn hit Dickson on the weak side when he was wide open. But, let’s not give all the credit to the LSU offense.
Some of the credit needs to go to the Ohio State defense. They played horrid at times. The best example was on Early Doucet’s 4 yard touchdown reception, where he broke like 57 tackles to make it into the end zone. My mother could have tackled him. Plus, there were a bunch of really stupid personal fouls, five in all. The worst was at the end of the first drive by LSU in the second half. Ohio State was only down 24-10 and had just stopped LSU to open the third quarter, and during the punt, the punter gets roughed, yet the OSU player somehow misses the ball. I’m still not sure how he missed it. Boom, 15 yard penalty and automatic first down. LSU then scores with the Doucet TD mentioned above and go up 31-10. They should have just ended it there, but LSU decided start trading touchdown’s with Ohio State, giving there fan base a collective coronary.
Were the two games fun? Sure, for two separate reasons. The Orange Bowl was fun because I got to see Kansas actually beat a quality team and I got to see the Patriot’s first round pick (here’s hoping) streak down the sideline for the first score of the game. The BCS Championship was fun because I got to see Ohio State lose, and that’s always fun. That pretty much wraps up the whacky and wild season in college football. This means I get to write geeky articles about TV and the NFL until the soccer season starts (I can almost see the Duchess shaking her head).
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