The Wide World of Sports* (10/14/14)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

MLB Playoffs

American League: The surprising Royals lead the Orioles two games to none. Monday's game three in Kansas City was rained out.

National League: The Giants and Cardinals have been fighting a battle of one run games. They are tied 1-1 heading to San Francisco for game three.

To tell you the truth I haven't watched very much of any of the games so far. I have had to look up their scores and everything afterward. I don't know if it's the stations or the times that the games are on or what.

NFL

Meh. The Falcons got beat by the Bears 27-13. Like I said, meh. At least I can get a lot of Viggle points by checking into the games and playing some of the predictions for more points.

NCAA Football

Well, this is what the Top 25 looked like before Saturday:

1 Florida State

2 Auburn (23) 5-0 1459

3 Mississippi State (2) 5-0 1320

3 Ole Miss 5-0 1320

5 Baylor 5-0 1258

6 Notre Dame 5-0 1186

7 Alabama 4-1 1060

8 Michigan State 4-1 981

9 TCU 4-0 979

10 Arizona 5-0 951

11 Oklahoma 4-1 904

12 Oregon 4-1 888

13 Georgia 4-1 854

14 Texas A&M 5-1 731

15 Ohio State 4-1 534

16 Oklahoma State 4-1 527

17 Kansas State 4-1 486

18 UCLA 4-1 460

19 East Carolina 4-1 344

20 Arizona State 4-1 325

21 Nebraska 5-1 283

22 Georgia Tech 5-0 235

23 Missouri 4-1 212

24 Utah 4-1 206

25 Stanford 3-2 143

Anyway, the new Top 25 now looks like this:

1 Mississippi State (45) 6-0 1480

2 Florida State (12) 6-0 1415

3 Ole Miss (3) 6-0 1413

4 Baylor 6-0 1317

5 Notre Dame 6-0 1228

6 Auburn 5-1 1144

7 Alabama 5-1 1068

8 Michigan State 5-1 1015

9 Oregon 5-1 1014

10 Georgia 5-1 981

11 Oklahoma 5-1 935

12 TCU 4-1 917

13 Ohio State 4-1 648

14 Kansas State 4-1 626

15 Oklahoma State 5-1 620

16 Arizona 5-1 590

17 Arizona State 4-1 459

18 East Carolina 5-1 449

19 Nebraska 5-1 402

20 Utah 4-1 305

21 Texas A&M 5-2 264

22 USC 4-2 258

23 Stanford 4-2 223

24 Clemson 4-2 188

25 Marshall 6-0 148

 #2 Florida State and #5 Notre Dame play this weekend. 

I told you Auburn was an illusion. Bama "wins" against Arkansas 14-13. We look like crap and stayed 7th. Bama still plays two teams ahead of them in the polls though, Mississippi St and Auburn. Roll Tide anyway. Just keep on winning.

*Upset predictions for no logical reasoning

Arkansas beats #10 Georgia

Tennessee beats #3 Ole Miss

I don't know why.

The Wide World of Sports* (10/07/14)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

MLB

I love me some baseball and October means one thing: playoffs! Go Braves! Oh they had a horrible year? Never mind. They did fire their GM though and their hitting coach resigned (thank God!).

American League: The Royals won their one game wildcard playoff against the A's to advance to take on the California Angels (you can change their name all you want, I will always call them this). This was not exactly Mike Trout's coming out party as the Royals swept the Angels in three games.

In the other match-up we have the Baltimore Orioles against the Detroit Tigers. Bullpen explosions hampered Detroit and they just never seemed to get things in gear with their great starting pitching. They went and got swept too y'all.

So now it's down to Baltimore vs. Kansas City with the winner going to the World Series.

National League: The Giants won their wildcard game against the Pirates. They now play the Nationals and as I write this they are up two games to one.

The big series is actually the Dodgers and the Cardinals. Both aces, Kershaw and Wainwright, were shelled. The Cards surprising lead this series 2-1 also.

NFL

Meh. I am a Falcons fan so that's all I really care about (and I don't even care that much). I do keep an eye on the teams from Florida though, but that has not been very pretty.

The Falcons can't win on the road and are currently 2-3, but in second place in the division. Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa are a combined 3-11. Ouch. They need more Bama players.

NCAA Football

Well, this is what the Top 25 looked like before Saturday:

1 Florida State (27) 4-0 1416

2 Oregon (13) 4-0 1405

3 Alabama (13) 4-0 1387

4 Oklahoma (7) 4-0 1357

5 Auburn 4-0 1272

6 Texas A&M 5-0 1206

7 Baylor 4-0 1149

8 UCLA 4-0 975

9 Notre Dame 4-0 972

10 Michigan State 3-1 944

11 Ole Miss 4-0 906

12 Mississippi State 4-0 848

13 Georgia 3-1 788

14 Stanford 3-1 643

15 LSU 4-1 636

16 USC 3-1 560

17 Wisconsin 3-1 502

18 BYU 4-0 450

19 Nebraska 5-0 445

20 Ohio State 3-1 298

21 Oklahoma State 3-1 246

22 East Carolina 3-1 237

23 Kansas State 3-1 216

24 Missouri 4-1 145

25 TCU 3-0 109

Then a lot of upsets happened, including one I am not even going to talk about (Ole Miss? Are you freaking kidding me?). Anyway, the new Top 25 now looks like this:

1 Florida State

2 Auburn (23) 5-0 1459

3 Mississippi State (2) 5-0 1320

3 Ole Miss 5-0 1320

5 Baylor 5-0 1258

6 Notre Dame 5-0 1186

7 Alabama 4-1 1060

8 Michigan State 4-1 981

9 TCU 4-0 979

10 Arizona 5-0 951

11 Oklahoma 4-1 904

12 Oregon 4-1 888

13 Georgia 4-1 854

14 Texas A&M 5-1 731

15 Ohio State 4-1 534

16 Oklahoma State 4-1 527

17 Kansas State 4-1 486

18 UCLA 4-1 460

19 East Carolina 4-1 344

20 Arizona State 4-1 325

21 Nebraska 5-1 283

22 Georgia Tech 5-0 235

23 Missouri 4-1 212

24 Utah 4-1 206

25 Stanford 3-2 143

There's still a lot of season left to make it into those four top spots for the NCAA's first ever playoff at the end of the year. To paraphrase Dory, "just keep winning, just keep winning..."

Auburn is an illusion y'all. Don't buy it.

Roll Tide anyway.