Better Bettor

With four stars in the bank as Saturday began, I felt pretty good.  First game of the day for us was Hawaii at Army, a game I watched concurrently with the Northwestern blowout of  Illinois State and a great battle (for the first half) at Gainesville between the Gators and USF.

The hopes and dreams got squashed pretty quickly for the one star, as Hawaii shredded Army on the opening drive and then ripped off a couple more scores with little apparent resistance.  I'm thinking "it's the Army!  It's their job to defend".  Nay-nay.  We bet Under 52, and the two of them were tied at 28 partway through the 3rd quarter.  After they pushed it to 56, as if to vex me, the two teams proceeded to go scoreless for well over a quarter.  You guys couldn't have played a little D a little sooner?  Final: Rainbows 31,Army 28, one star loser.

Saturday evening, I got tired of watching LSU stumble around in the first quarter andd decided to go out for a while.  The big screen in the basement at Empress shared the news that the Tigers got untracked and gave Vandy a proper whipping and put two stars on our board.  Merci beaucoup, mes amis. 

No one wants to watch New Mexico get clobbered any more,
so the Lobos will be using hot referees to try to attract fans. 

That left 3 stars dangling in the breeze over New Mexico stadium.  The answer, friends, is a resounding yes, New Mexico IS that bad.  Worse, maybe.  Gave up 3 TD's from bad kicking team plays.  Special teams my arse, nothing special about them.  Then NM's QB started slinging the ball to the wrong color shirts.  Then they started fumbling.  Tommy Tuberville's Texas Tech team, on the other hand, was only too happy to continue to pound the living daylights out of the Lobos.  Leading 52-17 with under 2 minutes to go, TT was still throwing the ball.  No matter, as the Lobos had given up.   Put UNM coach Mike Locksley up real high on the Head Coaching Job Dead Pool list.  Outscored 124-17 in their first two games, yechh!  This was a bad choice by yours truly, 3 stars down the old crapperoo.

All in, 6 plus, 4 minus, so we win a little.