Sour Grapes never tasted so good
Troy Smith, Heisman winner. 4/14 passing for 35 yards, 0 tds, 1 int, 10 rushing attempts for -27 yards, 1 fumble lost, 5 sacks.
If you didn't see the game it just looks like there are numbers missing, like there should be more digits in there. If you watched it all, you would know that Smith was in negative yardage for most of the game. You also never got enough of those sour candy worms during childhood.
As a Notre Dame fan, I couldnt have hoped for much better, as I have no love for either team. College Football can be such a bitter world, it seems you can only root for teams that have never slighted yours, and everyone's done something to ND. The only teams I feel like I can pull for aside from the Irish are the likes of Boise State and Rutgers, teams without a history. So if you are a vindictive College Footbal fan, or live anywhere near Ohio and have had to deal with obnoxious OSU fans, you got exactly what you wanted last night. If you have moved past your bitterness or just wanted to see a good game, man, what a debacle.
If you were bitter that Brady didn't win the Heisman, you certainly got your dose of Schadenfreude. So all those media members who voted Brady Quinn 3rd in the Heisman race are now forced to doubt everything they so pompously proclaimed. It seems to happen every year now, doesn't it? 82 yards of offense! Can you imagine the media outcry if this had happened to Notre Dame? We were an upset away from exactly that happening. If USC doesn't lose to UCLA, ND likely would have played Florida in the Sugar Bowl, and we would have lost even more badly to Florida than we did to LSU. At least we made a half of it.
If UCLA doesn't upset USC, Florida never even gets into this game.
As I've said before, back when I used to do video posts, pressure up the middle and bad O-Line play will make any QB look bad. Take ND's O-Line and put them in OSU uniforms. Smith wouldn't have a had a chance to win the Heisman.
The more I watch College Football, the more I feel like I don't know anything at all about any team until I see these teams play each other. In a timely fashion, not two months after the season. Until you see teams play each other, how can you ever decide who is better, and who should be ranked higher?
The entire College Football system is ridiculous. Even a plus-1 system wouldn't be good enough. Who would Florida play in the next game if there was a plus 1 game? USC, Wisconsin, LSU, or Boise State? You can make a case for any team, and we still wouldn't know who the best team was.
Also, it seems that we can't watch a game now or highlight program without hearing about a record breaking performance. Now that we've entered the era of a 12 game regular season, none of these records mean anything. So what if Colt Brennan threw for 55 td's, he had an extra game to do it. I don't want to hear about Charlie's 10 game win total. This team didn't perform any better than last year's team. With their 12th game, ND added Army to their schedule. Without that game, the Irish would be 9-3 again this year, and that banner in the Gug should still be hanging up, because that's still not good enough.
