Stanford, Oregon State, and... Washington?! Saturday, September 19, 2009

There's a lot of great NCAA FBS games on today, but I found myself just staring at the bottom of the screen, constantly looking for the latest USC-WASH update. Once Iowa finished off Arizona, I got bonus coverage from ABC and I watched Washington do a great job on a long pass to get into field goal range, placing the win firmly in their grasp.

The next play they went conservative but ended up getting three yards anyway. Incredibly, LB #52 Luther Brown got up and... CELEBRATED??? He's either incredibly selfish or stupid. You might even have to be both considering they were about to lose PLUS he had to think a 3-yard gain was a good "stop" in that situation. Wow. Just wow.

Now the only question is, what's worse? Losing lots of games to great teams (with the last couple being very close)? Or beating the rare ranked team that you play while losing once a year to a nobody? Ohio State has been mildly overrated and has gotten a little unlucky. They are 0-4 the last two years against top-5 teams, but three losses came in the last minute and they're undefeated against everyone else. But USC is either lazy, disrespectful to teams in their preparation, or just plain chokers.

Not having Barkley today is no excuse. The Huskies were OH AND TWELVE last year.

Congrats to Washington.