Picks for the week

Here are my picks for the week...have I mentioned how excited I am about the season starting??

Southern Miss vs South Carolina- S Carolina
Pitt vs Utah- Pitt
USC vs Hawaii- USC
Miami(OH) vs UF- GATORS
Samford vs FSU- FSU
Louisiana-Lafayette vs UGA- DAWGS
Purdue vs Notre Dame- Purdue
Louisville vs Kentucky- Louisville
UConn vs Mich- Michigan
Richmond vs UVA- UVA
Oregon State vs TCU- TCU
UNC vs LSU- HEELS
Boise St vs Virginia Tech- VT

Preseason TOP TEN!

Hello everyone! Wow it feels good to write on my blog again. The main reason it feels so good is because this means that college football is back! I do have to admit I am going to be sad to watch Florida Tebow-less, but I am still pumped that the season has begun! I wanted to start by giving my preseason top ten. Let me preface this post by saying this is not how I think the season will end, but based on the fact that none of the teams play in preseason games, we can only assume how teams will be based on last year. (Just another reason the BCS is not a good system as no one really knows anything about teams but the preseason poll is applied to the BCS calculations! ha) I have to give mad props to the non automatic qualifiers for making it into my list. I will probably write about the non AQs because I still don't believe they would necesarily make it into the national title game with a hard schedule day in and day out, but I do believe they deserve a top ten ranking for now.

I am so excited about this upcoming year. I don't feel like there is a team that will run the table, which means this season will be full of upsets and crazy game winning field goals to save the season. I am ready to be stressed!

TOP TEN
1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Florida
4. Boise State
5. TCU
6. Texas
7. Iowa
8. Nebraska
9. Virginia Tech
10. Oregon

What should I write about next? Any suggestions? I am going to try my best not to scream at the BCS, diss the Pac 10/12, and I will keep my Tebow mentions to a minimum!

Realignment-REALLY??

I know it has been forever since my last blog post, and to be honest I thought I wouldn't be posting too much during the summer as not much happens in college football during this time, but I couldn't help but post something about all of this realignment talk. As of now nothing has happened, thank goodness, but I just don't understand why anybody would want to go to another conference. I know the main reason why so many teams could be realigning is money, and well let's face it, money seems to rule a lot, but it just doesn't make sense. Here is my take behind the real reason people want to go to another conference....

To preface this paragraph, remember that I am extremely biased. Needless to say, I truly believe the reason that these teams want to go to another conference is because they are sick and tired of hearing that their conference is second to the SEC. If Texas and Oklahoma were to enter the PAC-10, then they have an incredibly good argument that they are the toughest conference. Would this then make the SEC try and get other teams, say from the ACC or the Big East? It just seems like a total domino effect for all of these conferences and I just don't see the real advantage to any school. What I DO understand are teams like Boise State or even Notre Dame looking at going into a different conference because this would make getting into the BCS national championship game a lot easier. What I DON'T understand is why Texas and Oklahoma would want to separate from their conference and rivalries like Nebraska and Missouri.

What attracts me to college football more than the NFL is the tradition. When Tebow went to the Broncos, I had to research who the major rivalry was to the Broncos(because now I am a HUGE Broncos fan!). I don't much care for USC as I have expressed before, but I do know there rivalries are with Cal and UCLA. I don't just know this because of the football rivalries, but because of the soccer, water polo, and volleyball rivalries. Why change something that is obviously working? What if the SEC comes after North Carolina(especially after we beat LSU on the first weekend of the season next year) and they don't go after Duke. The SEC doesn't care nearly as much about basketball as the ACC, but they would offer a lot of money to UNC if they really wanted them and it would be a hard offer to turn down. Would this separation of UNC and Duke take away from one of the greatest sports rivalries ever? Probably. Texas versus Nebraska? I won't be as interested. Money does rule a lot in sports, so if this realignment does happen, it will be a sad day for college football and it will be a very sad day for me!

Draft Time!!

With the draft starting tomorrow, and may I add I am pretty excited that it is primetime, I am very excited about finding out who is going to pick whom. More than ever, I am going to watch this NFL draft. The obvious reason I am going to watch this draft is to find out which team I am going to be cheering for these next few years(wherever Tebow goes, of course!). Secondly, I am excited to see how the trades that have happened or are going to happen will affect the draft. While I don't really care THAT much about the NFL, I do care about how the Steelers are going to deal with Rothlisberger, or will Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb be teammates again, or will anyone pick up Pacman Jones(oh wait, I REALLY don't care about that!) Needless to say, with all of the drama that has happened this offseason, I am guessing Chris Berman and his crew will have plenty of filler while we wait FOREVER for each team to make their pick!

As promised, I am going to give my top five draft picks. Now, this is who I think is going to be taken first, not necessarily who I think are the top five best players!

St Louis-Sam Bradford
Detroit-Russell Okung
Tampa Bay-Eric Berry
Washington-Ndamakong Suh
Kansas City-Gerald McCoy

How wrong or right do you think I am???

It's Springtime!

While I sit here watching the opening day of Major League Baseball(watching the Braves beating up on the Cubs, for now), I can't help but think of what a wonderful time of year it is. I love spring time for so many reasons. Like I said, MLB has begun and for the first time in a long time I am excited about the Braves, thank you Jason Heyward. Living up in DC allows me to enjoy the cherry blossoms that make the Potomac look like a clean body of water for a couple of weeks.... The opening day for Women's Professional Soccer is this weekend, Go FREEDOM! And of course, there is spring football!

Being a Tar Heel normally makes the spring time a sadder time of the year compared to say, SEC schools. We are normally on the end of the celebrations on Franklin Street after winning the national championship or at least beating Duke at Hansborough Indoor Stadium, but unfortunately, this was not that year. Instead, all I hear about right now is people planning on tailgating this weekend for the UNC football spring football game. I remember back to my freshman year and going to what was then the "infamous" spring football game. I walked right into the stadium and amongst the hundreds(mostly family members) I sat down and wondered if there was a possibility of making it to a bowl. I don't even think they were selling concessions that day.... Now with all the commotion about our spring football game, I am hoping for more than just a bowl, I want an ACC championship! Is it too much to ask for on April 5th? Is it too much pressure to have the game being televised(thank you ESPN) and the predictions flying off the experts tongues that maybe this will be UNC's year? Let me just say two words...Marvin Austin! He's like a skinnier mount Cody that can run faster but still scare the living daylights out of any running back or QB. I say bring on LSU on opening day and bring on the ACC! I wish I could be at the spring game, but I do know I will be watching. If it can't be autumn for regular season college football, then I say let it be spring so I can go ahead and start scouting and getting excited for what is going to be another fun-filled football season(well at least I hope so, and probably so do all the UNC basketball fans)! Plus, my WPS season will fill the void of a college football-less summer so I am pretty excited about the spring, especially April 10th!


Here is my question for the spring...we need a new pack of players that "competed" for the heisman last year like Tebow, McCoy, and Bradford. Who are they going to be? Will it be more of running back year this year as we have Mark Ingram returning as the heisman trophy winner? Will it finally be a defensive person's turn to win? Give me your thoughts and let the scouting begin!