My Saturday Opinions

I never believed in the looking ahead excuse. I always felt that you should be looking no further than the team that you are playing next. That was the attitude I always had when I was a wrestler and so I never expected any other athlete to be looking ahead. But this week I could be proven wrong.
Oklahoma had been dominating their opponents all year. They had a streak of 50+ point games going for them. And they then go up to Colorado, a game that OU should win, and in the fourth quarter they fall apart and lose the game. Could this be an example of Oklahoma looking ahead next week to their rivalry game against Texas? I don’t know, but this hurts and nearly destroys their chances of playing in the National Title game. I say nearly destroys because I think that there may only be one team that goes undefeated this year.
Texas might be looking ahead as well. They haven’t been dominating the way that Oklahoma has been, but Texas is favored in this game. At the half Texas is trailing Kansas State 24 - 14. If Texas loses this game, that takes a lot of the excitement away from the Red River Shootout next week. It will still be a match up between two top 25 teams, but no longer will it be a match up between two top ten teams, if Texas loses. OU may not fall out of the top 10, but they probably should.
LSU may have been looking ahead to next weeks battle with Florida for the first half of their game with Tulane. But then the Tigers stopped looking ahead at the half and turned on their offense. I didn’t like the decision to have Perrilloux switching drives with Flynn. I know that they want to give the young QB some experience, but with the game still in question, I thought it was a poor decision. Although, we’ve seen this happen many times in a Gary Crowton offense.
I’m not happy with they way that ESPN has decided to broadcast their games. On ABC in the east for the early game, people we forced to watch a game between Uconn and Akron. I couldn’t think of anything less relevant. Ok, so Uconn happens to be 5 - 0, but I don’t expect that to continue too much longer. I just don’t like their regional broadcasting choices.
The Big 10 continues to baffle me. Penn State loses to Illinois. But after last weeks performance, I dropped Penn St. from my top 25. I suppose that Illinois could win the Big 10, but I think that Michigan will.