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TOP TEN REASONS TEXAS WILL BEAT ALABAMA
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Many of you may disagree with the following TOP TEN reasons why I believe the Texas Longhorns will defeat the Alabama Crimson Tide in the BCS Championship game (you’ll see). I don’t think ANYBODY will disagree that 25% OFF all Distant Replays Branded Texas & Alabama shirts is a bad deal! Just enter code TEXBAM @ checkout for your discount. Here ya go…
1o. Tommy Nobis, the most underrated linebacker in NFL history (should be in the Hall of Fame!) and one of my very favorite people, played for Texas.
9. The Longhorns have a cooler uniform.
8. I am an old Baltimore Colts fan. Joe Namath beat my Colts in Super Bowl III. Joe Namath went to Alabama. I’m still bitter. Also the Texas quarterback is a Colt.
7. I’m a Georgia Bulldog Fan. You’d think I’d pull for the SEC.
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Nope…Georgia only.
6. Since both teams have been in existence (Texas 1893, Bama 1892), they have played each other 8 times. Texas has never lost. They will keep that record intact.
5. 1977 Heisman Trophy Winner Earl Campbell is my favorite running back of all-time. Yeah, he went to Texas.
4. Mean people suck. Nick Saban’s a meanie. He made Timmy Tebow cry!
3. Texas mascot “Bevo” has been called “the toughest-looking animal mascot in sports” Bama mascot “Big Al” is a cuddly lil’ ol’ elephant.
2. Texas was ranked # 2 to finish the regular season in 2005, and a slight underdog when they ended up winning the BCS Championship by ending USC’s 34 game winning streak. # 2 ranking and slight underdog is where Texas is now. It’s De ja vue all over again.
1. My boss loves the Longhorns. I love my job. HOOK EM HORNS!
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MUSIC TO THEIR EARS
Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining my Distant Replay’s long time customer, and good friend Hunt Archbold, at the Georgia Tech-Wake Forest football game. He knows very much about sports, and that game was a good way of soaking in his knowledge. Today I had the pleasure of sharing libations and College Bowl banter at one of his (and soon to be one of mine!) favorite watering holes, Mr. C’s in downtown Atlanta. I knew I had to post a blog today about those very Bowls, and found Hunt’s insight inspiring. So inspiring was his slanted angle on these games, that I decided to steal them for myself!! So after a few spicy Bloody Mary’s, and a few shots of Patron, I cajoled Hunt into signing an imaginary “release,” wherein he agreed to allow me the use of his words, in which you are now about to enjoy. So that’s enough of my yackin’ - check out these pearls of wisdom:
HUNT & SARAH AT THE GAME
Hi folks, Lil’ Grunt here. No rants about religion, war or politics this week. Just bowl winners so you can win your office pool and take home the big bucks. Don’t bother with the rationale concerning these guaranteed locks. Just have faith and understand that this is what I do, and I do it for you.
NEW MEXICO BOWL: Wyoming-Fresno State. Fresno and the surrounding area produces about 60 percent of the world’s raisins, and raisins keep you regular, right? PICK: Fresno State
ST. PETERSBURG BOWL: Central Florida-Rutgers. Two teams named Knights, but I’ll take the golden ones over those of scarlet, because frankly, I don’t give a damn. PICK: Central Florida
NEW ORLEANS BOWL: Middle Tennessee State-Southern Mississippi. Former Golden Eagle punter Ray Guy should be in the NFL Hall of Fame; plus, he won a Super Bowl with the Raiders at the Superdome. PICK: Southern Miss
LAS VEGAS BOWL: BYU-Oregon State. Old Brigham Young had 55 wives, about the same number of mistresses Tiger Woods has. PICK: Oregon State
POINSETTIA BOWL: Utah-California. My sweet little nephews live in San Diego. PICK: California
HAWAII BOWL: SMU-Nevada: Aloha, June Jones. Mustangs in a bowl for the first time in a quarter of a century. PICK: Nevada
LITTLE CAESARS PIZZA BOWL: Ohio-Marshall. We are Marshall, but they are Ohio, with the most haunted college campus in the country. Boo! PICK: Ohio
MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL: North Carolina-Pittsburgh. Tar Heels found their mascot because some fullback in 1922 ran like a battering ram. But neither had a mustache. PICK: Pittsburgh
EMERALD BOWL: Boston College-USC. What a gem of a clunker this is. PICK: USC
MUSIC CITY BOWL: Kentucky-Clemson. Sure, they’ve got thoroughbreds, but did you know the Bluegrass State is also home to the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the United States? PICK: Clemson
INDEPENDENCE BOWL: Texas A&M-Georgia. The first live, play-by-play broadcast of a college football game occurred at A&M’s Kyle Field in November 1921. PICK: Georgia
CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL: Wisconsin-Miami (Fla.). They say Paul Bunyan, who as an infant needed three storks to deliver him, is buried in Wisconsin’s Rib Mountain. PICK: Miami
HUMANITARIAN BOWL: Bowling Green-Idaho. The dude who back in the 1920s gave Bowling Green its nickname wrote: “Like the athlete, the falcon is a bird that goes through a long period of training before battle.” Sure, just like Michael Vick. PICK: Bowling Green
TEXAS BOWL: Navy-Missouri. Always liked Tim Conway (and Ernest
AT MR.C's WITH EHTEL
Borgnine) in “McHale’s Navy.” Dorf, not so much. PICK: Missouri
HOLIDAY BOWL: Nebraska-Arizona. Before they became the Cornhuskers, Nebraska used such nicknames as Bugeaters and Mankilling Mastodons. PICK: Arizona
ARMED FORCES BOWL: Air Force-Houston. Love me some Phi Slamma Jamma, but the name of this contest tells me the fix is in here. PICK: Air Force
SUN BOWL: Stanford-Oklahoma. Like Curly McLain sings, “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’.” There’ll be much sunlight in El Paso. PICK: Oklahoma
INSIGHT BOWL: Iowa State-Minnesota. The Golden Gophers are from the Big Ten, but the Love Boat’s Gopher (Fred Gandy) served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. PICK: Iowa
CHICK FIL-A BOWL: Tennessee-Virginia Tech. It’s the Peach Bowl. And it always will be. PICK: Virginia Tech
OUTBACK BOWL: Northwestern-Auburn. Aubie is one of just three collegiate mascots in the Mascot Hall of Fame. Whee! Let’s roll Toomer’s Corner. PICK: Auburn
GATOR BOWL: Florida State-West Virginia. Gonna be some crying at this one for Bobby. PICK: Florida State
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CAPITAL ONE BOWL: LSU-Penn State. Pete Maravich is still the men’s college basketball all-time Division I leading scorer with 3,667 points. And he only played three seasons and didn’t have benefit of a three-point line! PICK: Penn State
ROSE BOWL: Ohio State-Oregon. “Animal House” was filmed on UO’s campus. May I have 10,000 marbles please? PICK: Oregon
SUGAR BOWL: Cincinnati-Florida. Of the 18 documented fatal alligator attacks in the U.S. since 1948, 17 have occurred in Florida (and Tim Tebow cried for them all). PICK: Florida
INTERNATIONAL BOWL: Northern Illinois-South Florida. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson and Krusty the Clown, is a UNI graduate. PICK: South Florida
PAPA JOHN’S BOWL: Connecticut-South Carolina. Connecticut has the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index and median household income in the country. PICK: South Carolina
COTTON BOWL: Mississippi-Oklahoma State. Archie Manning’s uniform number, 18, is the official speed limit on the Ole Miss campus. PICK: Oklahoma State
LIBERTY BOWL: Arkansas-East Carolina. The estimated population of 4 million feral hogs causes an estimated $800 million of property damage a year in the U.S. PICK: Arkansas
ALAMO BOWL: Michigan State-Texas Tech. The Alamo doesn’t have a basement. Can you say adobe? PICK: Texas Tech
FIESTA BOWL: Boise State-TCU. The “horn” of the horned frogs is a curious
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triangular prolongation of the edge of the upper eyelid. It is not hard nor sharp, as it is only a flap of skin. PICK: TCU
ORANGE BOWL: Iowa-Georgia Tech. In 1855, Iowa became the first public university in the United States to admit men and women on an equal basis. PICK: Georgia Tech
GMAC BOWL: Troy-Central Michigan. Troy, Ala., is where I first tasted the mixture of vodka and Coke. Boy, was that bad. And so is this game, with Horns-Bama just a day away. PICK: Central Michigan
BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Texas-Alabama. According to the Nielsen Company, adults in Austin read and contribute to blogs more than those in any other U.S. metropolitan area. Wonder what they’d have to say about this? PICK: Texas
Happy times … and oh, wait, maybe I should’ve done these against the Vegas line, as well.
Besides being an all-around man’s man, and stand-up guy, Hunt is also the sports editor for Atlanta’s weekly Sunday Paper, and I highly recommend you peep his popular column, “Hunts Grunts”
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SORRY LIL' GUY
With Oregon beating Oregon State last night in a classic Civil War (clinching the Pac -10 title), and the right to play Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, let’s take a look at what’s left on the menu:
The # 15 Pitt Panthers host the # 5 , and undefeated aerial attack of the Cincinnati Bearcats for the Big East crown. Pitt is coming off a heart-wrenching, last second home loss to West Virginia last week, while a non-hobbled Tony Pike threw for six scores in the Natti’s thumping of Illinois. I think both trends will continue with Tony Pike continuing to put up big #’s, as Pitt loses again at home. Cincinnatti 38, Pitt 24.
The # 22 Nebraska Cornhuskers take their 5 game winning streak into Cowboy stadium to face the undefeated # 3 Texas Longhorns for the Big 12 title. Colt McCoy can smell a Heisman, and Mack Brown wants to smell the Roses again as he did in 2005, and I don’t think any team but Florida will stop them, especially not Nebraska. Nebraska has the tough defensive line, but Texas is too determined to face SEC champ in title game, and will crush them. Longhorns 42, Cornhuskers 14
BUZZ KILL
A rematch of an earlier season thriller, in which the # 10 Georgia TechYellow Jackets spotted the # 25 (AP) Clemson Tigers 24 points before holding on to win, will face off again in Tampa for the ACC Championship. The game features the ACC’s #1 and # 2 recently voted top players of the year, in Clemson’s C.J. Spiller and Georgia Tech’s Josh Nesbitt. Both teams suffered losing blows against in-state SEC rivals, South Carolina and Georgia last week, which perhaps takes a little shine off the luster for the ACC overall. Regardless, both offenses have the ability to put many points up in a hurry, and I predict a high-scoring nail-biter again. Georgia on my mind in this one: Yellow Jackets 41, Tigers 38.
Here we go again. # 1 Florida vs. # 2 Alabama for the SEC Championship at the Georgia Dome. This will be the second year in a
BYE-BYE BAMA
row that both teams come in ranked # 1 & # 2 in the BCS & AP polls. The Gators have won 10 of 17 SEC crowns since the game began in 1992 (5 over Bama), and won’t be denied again. BAMA has had too many close call victories, and Heisman hopeful Mark Ingram is showing signs of slowing down a tad. On the other side, Florida has been a consistent machine, and Tim Tebow is plain indestructible. With all due respect to Ingram and McCoy, et al, Tim Tebow will win his second Heisman, this game, and the National Championship. Florida 28, Alabama 24.
BOISE STATE BRONCOS GET MY BID..FOR COOLEST DISTANT REPLAYS TEE!
These BCS busting Broncos with the blue turf, won’t have the chance to win a National Championship this year. Even if they win out against New Mexico State this weekend to remain unbeaten, and get a probable at-large nod (Texas needs to beat Nebraska in Big 12 title game) and end up in the Fiesta bowl (probably against Iowa?) and win that, it still won’t be enough to bring them a title. Tough to have a legitimate champion with 6 teams in the top 10 all undefeated (Insert BCS/Playoff debate here), but that is the reality.
BCS BUSTIN' BRONCO
Did you know that Boise State has averaged 40 points a game FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS?!?! That is simply ridiculous. They also notched a nation leading winning percentage of 84.4 (108-20) in that same time period. Lastly, they showed they could play with the “big boys” when they dumped Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl (they were undefeated that year and ended up ranked # 5).
BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL
Is there any consolation to having all of these great records, and not a crack at being # 1 for the Broncos? Well of course there is!! In the eyes of Distant Replays, records and rankings don’t always matter as much as how cool your team uniform and logo’s are! The Tennessee Vols had a pretty bad year, but that didn’t stop us from praising the Davy Crockett logo tee (http://blog.distantreplays.com/2009/11/20/i-love-this-distant-replays-tennessee-volunteers-shirt/). Missouri was a disappointment overall, but the “Truman the Tiger” football mascot tee makes them a runaway winner! So don’t despair Boise State. Take solace knowing that your “Buster Bronco” football mascot tee is the coolest Distant Replays t-shirt to date!
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