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B(C)S
Put an end to the politics and start a 16 team playoff immediately. Ohio State is simply not a very good football team, they have not played in three weeks and pretty much played nobody all season long. As for the teams who have played lately, West Virginia blew a huge opportunity Saturday and Missouri went from a title game to the Cotton Bowl after losing to Oklahoma (Kansas gets the BCS slot although I could have sworn I saw Missouri beat Kansas 7 days ago?). Following college football this year I just kind of got the feeling that LSU would go to the big one even with 4 losses and I'm pretty sure Les Miles would have stumped for it.

Too many behind the scenes chats and personal opinion goes into this. I am not sure that they don't have the right match up this year, but why does LSU get the nod over Oklahoma who has beaten Missouri twice? Why is that Hawaii is never spoken of as undefeated team? The Rainbows would have gone 11-1 with the Buckeye's schedule for sure. The system is broke and it needs some fixing. If nothing else we would rid ourselves of these coaches pleading with the on the field reporters after the games -- unwatchable.

Eli quickly turns it around
Giants win big one 21-16 and take back control of the wild card race. Eli was just as awful as last week through over three quarters in this one but was able to save the day and his neck with a couple of solid drives to end the game. Eli's second throw of the game was a pick, followed by a fumble as the Giant's were driving, and rock bottom hit as threw a horrible ball for an end zone interception.

Credit the defense for keeping the team in this game with some key stops and a very good running effort led by Derrick Ward's 154 yard day. Unfortunately today we have learned that Ward has broken his leg and is out indefinitely. As painful as these game have become with the turnovers and even considering the injuries, at 8-4 things could be a lot worse.

Hall of Fame Classic
Uconn plays no defense and loses to a very active Gonzaga club 85-82 in front of a nice crowd in Boston. Calhoun was too annoyed to even talk specifically after the game about an effort that left a good number of the Uconn faithful, who made the trip up the Mass Pike, scratching their heads. I was left too irritated to even stay for the BC and Providence game that turned out to be a very good one with PC blowing a huge lead and then winning in OT in front of a mostly cleared out gym. Good event though, hope they do it next year...Nice bottling up all the hatred of Uconn, BC and PC fans in one building.

One lasting impression, Boston is not what you would call a good college sports town. I had to ask a bartender to put on the ACC Title Game (that BC was playing in) in football during lunch at our hotel and then had to ask someone to put the BC basketball after the Uconn game at a bar directly across the street from the Garden! Gonzaga had more fans in the Banknorth than BC it seemed.

Notes..Randy Edsall has pulled his name from consideration for the Georgia Tech job and will ink a new contract in the near future, most likely that was what this was all about. Good for him he deserves it and for Uconn (the newly crowned Big East co-champs) holding on to him is huge..Nearly froze to death but went to the Uconn/South Florida NCAA 3rd round soccer match yesterday afternoon in Storrs. The Huskies hammered a talented top 20 USF squad 5-0 and will play Virginia Tech this weekend at home for a place in the final 4 as they continue their quest for a 4th NCAA soccer title in school history..Kudos to the Bryan brothers, Roddick and Blake for taking home the Davis Cup for the first time since 1995..Pettitte is coming back and Sox/Yanks battle for Santana continues, apparently Jacoby is back on the table..Wake accepts invitation to play Uconn in Charlotte's Meineke Bowl..PGA tour vet, Frank Lickliter, appears to be in position to win the PGA Qualifying Tournament that concludes today, top 25 and ties will receive a 2008 PGA card..Congrats to West Hartford's Liz Janangelo on capturing her LPGA card yesterday, the Duke grad has the game to be out there for a while..