football, what else?

Current Mood: indecisive

Purdue has accepted an invitation to the Motor City Bowl on Wednesday, December 26th at 7:30 pm at Ford Field in Detroit, MI. They will be facing the Central Michigan Chippewas, who finished 8-5 overall as champions of the Mid-American Conference over Miami (OH). This may sound familiar as Purdue beat Cent. Michigan earlier in the year, 45-22 on Sept. 13th at Ross-Ade Stadium. Not exactly my favorite option, especially since it's a repeat, but maybe we'll actually win our bowl this year. *rolls eyes*

Other NCAAF bowls I am interested in:

Sunday December 23, 2007

*Hawaii Bowl, 8:00 pm
(24) Boise St. vs East Carolina
Here we go, Boise St.! Let's see some trick plays!

Tuesday January 1, 2008

*Capital One Bowl, 11:00 am
Michigan vs. (9) Florida
I hope Michigan loses!

*Rose Bowl, 4:30 pm
(13) Illinois vs. (6) USC
The Rose Bowl is classic, and I usually root for the Big Ten. This one is for Mrs. Kuzma.

*Sugar Bowl, 8:30 pm
(10) Hawaii vs. (4) Georgia
I, for one, recognize that Hawaii was the only unbeaten team in the BCS. Show 'em how it's done, guys.

Monday January 7, 2008

*BCS Championship, 8:00 pm
(2) LSU vs. (1) OSU
I was pretty shocked OSU rose to first place after all the other losses, but go Bucks!



And now, NFL...

The giant matchup of the NFC ended with Dallas over Green Bay, 37-27. It was a great game, but I was a little worried that Favre left with an injury. Still, Aaron Rodgers played well as a backup, and Brett should be okay to start this weekend. I honestly feel the Packers lost because of injuries at defense, but they should still cruise into the playoffs! I was also really happy to see Tony Romo handle the spotlight well. Jenny and I showed up to BW3's about 40 minutes early and it was SRO, so we went next door to the River Rock Grille. The wait staff ignored us until minutes before kickoff, and the food was not very good...but the fans were great! Pretty much everybody was really into it there, and acted classy on top of it. My only real beef with the evening was stupid NFL network and its hoarding of key games. Not that I have tv to watch anyway, and it was nice to get out and watch the game like some people, but still. Green Bay is 10-2, facing the 4-8 Raiders this week.

Seahawks beat the Eagles, 28-24. This one made me a little sad, because I thought Eagles backup QB A.J. Feeley had some magic. Looks like he needs some more practice, and that's cool.

Jags fall to the Colts, 28-25. That's two games behind to their division leader, so that pretty much locks up that. I think I read that Indy has won that division every year since it was formed except for the first. Crazy! Tony Dungy has my respect for consistency, if nothing else.

The Detroit Lions (I almost typed "Detroit Loins", which made me giggle) promised at least 10 wins this season. They fell to 6-6 with a lopsided 42-10 loss to the Vikings. Sorry guys, the Pack owns the NFC North, and now you've got to try and keep the 11-1 Cowboys down this week.

Poor Dolphins. Their "best shot at winning" this year, and avoiding 0-16, was supposed to be this past week vs. the 2-9 Jets. They lost 40-13, and still have to face the Bills, Ravens, Bengals, and the Patriots. There's a good chance they won't win any of those, either.

Cardinals "won" over the Browns, 27-21. I use quotes because if you watch the replays, I'm pretty sure the Cardinals' final TD FTW came from a bad call. Still, apparently Kurt Warner (Cards QB) is a beast? Eh, whatever keeps the Browns down...

Bad Saints lost to the Bucs, 27-23. I'm gonna go ahead and blame Reggie Bush and coach Sean Payton for a botched trick play. I love trick plays, but when you're up late in the 4th, you gotta hold onto the ball first and foremost. They are now 5-7 (after going to the playoffs last year) and face the 3-9 Falcons on Monday Night this week. Even the Bad Saints should be able to put this one away.

Eli Manning is anything but 'unstoppable'.

WHAT THE FUCK, RAVENS? Patriots squeak out a win over Baltimore, 27-24 on Monday Night. You've got a weak AFC North team on center stage, and they were leading most of the game vs. "the perfect team". Suddenly the imploded in the fourth quarter, with bad calls, penalties, a painful time out that blew a key stop, and finally a beautiful hail-mary heave that stopped on the two yard line. *sigh* If a crappy team like the (3-8) Ravens can almost beat the (12-0) Patriots, the Steelers (9-3) should really have a chance at keeping them from going 16-0 this weekend.

And, heading for some sweet draft picks are my Cincinnati Bengals. Unless they win their remaining four games (unlikely), the Bengals will finish their 16th losing season of the past 17. That's after a 24-10 loss to the Steelers, snapping a weird AFC North road-team winning streak at the Steelers' home field. Judging from their opening drive, I thought the Bengals would at least keep this one close, but instead Palmer had a palsy and the Steelers woke up. They are now 4-8, facing the suddenly scary 3-9 Rams this week. I will be so pissed if they lose to the Dolphins.


And lastly, fantasy football...

All six teams are in our playoffs. Week 1 of 3 - Quarterfinals.

Bill and Cooper have first round byes. Jenny faces Bradley, and I am projected to win over Sis.

Technically I earned a wild card spot with a 5-8 record in the regular season, good for 4th place. I lost my final game, and I was NOT happy. I had unproductive days from a few of my stars, but I think I did pretty well overall. Cooper, my competition, had three 0 point players and STILL beat me. Lookin' forward to next year...