Roundup -- Tough Weekend All Around
11/12/07
W-K-R-A-P in Cincinnati
The Uconn Huskies were returned to earth on Saturday afternoon in Cincinnati. The last undefeated team in the league went down in a game that never seemed very close -- in fact, it was utter domination by the Bearcats. Connecticut, which had been relying on a strong run attack of late, only carried the ball for 22 yards and were never able to gain any sort of momentum.The Huskies were taken to task in all three facets of the game and appeared to be much slower than their fired-up opponents. Cinci QB, Ben Mauk, had himself quite an afternoon -- throwing for 3 TD's and rushing for one as well. "It was disappointing that we had our worst effort of the season," UConn coach Randy Edsall said. "But it's difficult to win when you don't win the battle at the line of scrimmage. We knew they were a physical team."
Uconn stayed in the AP (#25) and BCS (#23) and were removed from the USA/ESPN polls. The Dogs will look to regroup against the visiting Syracuse Orange this Saturday and if successful a BCS face-off game still looms in two weeks down in Morgantown.
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Cowboys fly past Giants with Romo and Owens
"Annoying" may be the best way to describe yesterday's game in East Rutherford. The crowd was into this one from the start and the Giants seemed poised to make this a good contest, but the combination of TO and Romo was just too much. Romo hit Owens on two of his four touchdown passes and Dallas opened a big lead in the division by ending the Giants' six-game winning streak with a 31-20 victory.Tony Romo is a very good QB and Owens is the best receiver in the game -- I hate (in a sports kind of way) them both -- but that is the truth. The Giants, who have now fallen 2 games behind Dallas and actually 3 since they would lose the tiebreak, can now focus on the wild-card. Eli Manning, who was typically neither very good or bad, is still left searching for a defining win in a Giant's jersey. The delay of game penalties in your own stadium are at the very best puzzling and that has to come to an end -- Dallas may have the talent to compensate for stupid penalties but New York does not. The G-men will look to rebound in a battle of 6-3 clubs next week at Ford Field in Detroit.
1 comments:
The Boss
said...
November 13, 2007 at 5:19 PM
Let the slide begin. I don't think the Giants should lose to the Lions, but they could. And that's enough for me right now. Honestly, if Romo wasn't so mobile the Giants would have been all over him and the game would have been different, but he killed them with his feet. And how in the world was Sam Madison (age: unknown) supposed to guard him. That was just a terrible idea.