Thoughts on Saturday

After BC got my hopes up before crushing me in the last two minutes, the weekend would only get more frustrating. The Texas Longhorns have to be the single most infuriating team in the country. This was true two years ago, but this year they're pissing off their own fans. For all the talent and support that this program has, they continually disappoint and underachieve. Now, reading the previous sentences, you would think that the Horns had lost yesterday; after the game I had to be reminded that we had won. Aside from the Baylor game, the fourth quarter of the TCU game, and the OU game minus the fumble, comfortable moments during football games have come few and far between. Here are reasons:

• The Longhorns have become the "cool team". While it's nice to see people from coast to coast in beautiful burnt orange, it seems to have a negative effect on the players. The level of cockiness on this team is ridiculous, with the players prancing around like they're the 90's U. It's this attitude of invincibility that led to all those pre-season arrests.
  
• We're massively overrated, every year. Pre-season rankings have a lingering stench on all college football seasons, and all they seem to do is cause disappointment. It's pretty obvious now that we never had any business being ranked in the top ten at any point. We have top ten talent, but we are by no means a top ten team.
• Greg Davis eats puppies

• For real.

• We don't have any kind of power back. Charles can't run tackle to tackle, yet we keep trying to jam his skinny ass through there. All he needs to do is watch footage of how well that dancing in the backfield stuff has worked for Reggie Bush so far in the NFL. However, it should be noted that Charles' game on Sunday was an absolute classic. About midway through the fourth quarter, I turned to my friend at the game and said, "Wow, I bet Charles ends up with over 150 yards." Well, he ended up with 290 and I'm an idiot.

In other college football news, check out this play from Trinity College yesterday. You probably saw it on ESPN all day, but watch it again and check out the play-by-play, masterfully done by Jonny Wiener. Jonny was a guy who I grew up with and now does the Trinity football broadcasts. It's pretty neat.

Boston leads 1-0 in the fifth. Looks like I'll have a clean face tomorrow.