Sunday, November 23, 2008

Week 13 Highlights Including Oklahoma's Blowout and Ohio State-Michigan

Sam Bradford of Oklahoma was jumping around and giving high-fives to fans all night long as the Sooners blew out previously perfect Texas Tech. Bradford threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns, and DeMarco Murray and Chris Brown combined to run for five scores as Oklahoma brought a huge end to the Red Raiders' title bid.

In other news besides large blowouts of #2 teams - Ball State out of the MAC escaped Central Michigan to remain perfect at #17 and in hopes of BCS play. And take a look at this: underdog Georgia Tech ran up the score on #23 Miami, beating them 41-23. Florida also did some running up the score, as they ran right over Citadel 70-19.

Possible BCS buster Utah beat Brigham Young to clinch a perfect regular season and a MWC title win. If Utah remains in the top 12 after the conference title games, they will automatically receive a berth to the BCS, possibly screwing up other matchups inside the big bowls. Just look at Hawaii last year - ranked #10, perfect season, came into the BCS, and then got dominated by the Bulldogs. It wasn't even a good game.

And, last but not least - Ohio State has never dominated Michigan as it is doing right now. Yesterday afternoon, the Buckeyes won their fifth straight game against the Wolverines for the first time ever. OSU's Chris "Beanie" Wells ran for 2 TDs and 134 yards to lead Ohio State over Michigan 42-7.

And here's what I laughed at: eight-loss team Syracuse beat Notre Dame in South Bend this weekend! How did that happen? Notre Dame has never lost to an eight-loss team ever, especially at home. Recently fired coach Greg Robinson managed to make a statement here. A lot of bowls were interested in Notre Dame, but that interest might go way down after this.