Let's Go Bucks!

Living for the Weekend...

Perfect time for a long weekend followed by a short week. I certainly hope you stayed up to see UCLA's thrilling victory over the Tennessee Volunteers. I'm waiting for the excuses to come flying as to how an SEC team lost to a mid-level Pac 10 team starting its third string QB.

Speaking of said 3rd string QB; I cannot say enough about Bruin QB Kevin Craft, he started off very well 4/6 only to then throw 4 INTs in the remainder of the 1st half, including a Pick-6 to end the half. It looked like the Vols had finally seized momentum heading into halftime with a 14-7 lead, but the fact that the lead wasn't bigger with 4 huge turnovers benefitting them, I had a hunch that Neuheisel's Bruins would make things interesting, and interesting they did make it. UCLA cut into the Vol lead immediately with a 43 yd FG and in last half of the final quarter took the lead 17-14. Tennessee was then able to drive down and retake the lead 21-17 forcing Craft to start a drive with under 2 minutes remaining. He lead the Bruins to retake the lead with only 27 seconds remaining. The Rose Bowl erupted, it was awesome, everything college football should be, to add even more intrigue the Vols were able to drive down, and tie the game at 24 a piece to send it to overtime! The Vols won the toss and deferred, forcing UCLA to play offense first, when they managed only 3 points I'll admit my certainty of a Bruin victory started to fade dramatically. UCLA's defense made an amazing stand forcing the Vols to take the 3 points and go to double OT.... "Not so fast my friend" Tennessee Kicker Daniel Lincoln missed his 3rd kick of the night giving the game to the Bruins.

There certainly is a disappointing slate of games for this upcoming weekend:

Ohio University @ OSU
Georgia Tech @ Boston College
Miami (OH)@ Michigan
Central Michigan University @ Georgia
Cincy @ Oklahoma
Oregon State @ PSU
Ole Miss @ Wake Forest
WVU @ East Carolina
Texas A&M @ New Mexico
USF @ UCF
Northwestern @ Duke
Minnesota @ BG
Miami @ Florida

There isn't a single match-up of ranked teams which is disappointing but week 1 and week 3 will help make up for it.... Predictions to come later this week