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Saturday was a wild ride in college football and the new AP Poll reflects the shake up complexion of the day’s results.
1Alabama rolled over Kentucky 48 – 7. Texas A & M had a battle at Ole Miss, finally prevailing 41 – 38. They needed a final drive in the fourth quarter with time running out to kick the game winning field goal. Johnny Manziel was brilliant but had two costly turnovers. He also gave Aggie fans a huge scare when he went down clutching his left knee but was able to return with a brace on it and played like it was a non issue. Much credit to Ole Miss, they hung with them and defense remains a problems for the now 7th ranked Aggies. UCLA is truly once again relevant, they have likely the number one QB recruit for next year’s NFL draft and they took care of California, 37 – 10 and move into the AP top ten at #9. Virginia Tech continues to hang tough with their top five defense and took care of Pitt, 19 – 9. The Hokies moves up in the AP Poll from #24 to #19. Wisconsin thumped Northwestern, 35 – 6 and Wisconsin finds itself now a ranked team at #25. Previously ranked at #19, Northwestern has now dropped from the rankings. UGA fell to #15 after their depleted team suffered a loss to Missouri (now ranked at #14). Much concern for Mizz going forward without starting QB James Franklin who suffered that separated shoulder and is out for the season. Stanford (no, not my Cardinals!) fall to #13 after that loss to Utah. Stanford and Oregon were the two Pac 12 teams I really felt had a shot at the National title. Oregon remains right there, ranked at #2, with 5 first place votes. Oklahoma fell from #12 to #18 after being shot down by Texas in the Red River rivalry. FSU moves up from #6 to #5 and sets up a great showdown next weekend between the two ACC Atlantic powers, #3 Clemson and #5 FSU at Death Valley in Clemson, SC. The game will be the featured game, 8:00 pm EST on ABC and College Gameday will be in Clemson, SC, for the second time this year. How about the ACC!
Speaking of the ACC, Georgia Tech lost to BYU 38 – 20 and yes, it was ugly and it was painful to watch. It is always a bit insulting when a team schedules you for their homecoming game and that is exactly what BYU did. They returned the favor as GT had them for homecoming last year in Atlanta, and lost! Without regurgitating all the negatives of this game and loss for the Jackets, I will say I do not get the negative Vad Lee (GT sophomore QB) talk. Really? They had at least six, maybe seven false start penalties, he was constantly running for his life and/or getting sacked. And, he threw numerous passes that were beautiful and dropped. One guy does not a game lose, folks. I do not have the solution for them, I truly hope Coach Paul Johnson and his staff can come up with one, and soon!
Current AP Poll top ten is as follows: 1 Alabama (55), 2 Oregon (5), 3 Clemson, 4 Ohio State, 5 FSU, 6 LSU, 7 Texas A & M, 8 Louisville, 9 UCLA (welcome back to relevance) and 10 Miami.
In tennis news, Novak Djokovic outlasted J. Martin Del Potro to win the final of the Shanghai Masters 1000 event, 6 – 1, 3 – 6, 7 – 6. Nole sure does not react well when the crowd cheers against him, he seemed a bit “touchy” about the huge crowd support for Del Potro. Hey, it happens, but he won and it is back to back titles for Djokovic in China for the second year in a row. Now, can Federer win his hometown tournament in Basel after announcing that he and coach Paul Annacone were going their separate ways? That gets underway in another week.
Until later…
