Saturday, January 06, 2007

Football

Its been a while that I had updated my blog. As the holiday season is over, I am trying very hard to get back to routine of five work days and only two days for weekend. Thought of having no long weekends till labor day also makes me feel bad. Anyways, need to get back to routine.

Well as the January brings new year, football season comes to an end. What an year this is for both college and pro football. Being a SEC guy, will sure hope florida wins BCS championship. NFL had all the twists and turns with mannings downfall in the last few games, T.O's regular rants, amazing story of eagles turnback after they lose Mcnabb, Saints comeback from Last year, Mangini being the coach of the year and Ladanian's amazing success. Well to cap of the season story of Nick Saban's return to college and that to SEC makes me wait more eagerly for next year. This is going to make SEC more tougher with florida, arkansas, auburn, tennessee and LSU already having great teams. Just think how this conference would be with Saban's tide and spurrier's gamecocks trying to repeat their coach's success with BCS championship.

While such competition in SEC makes college football great but it would make difficult for a SEC team to go into BCS championship game as chances of remaining undefeated is going be very tough. On a side note, it makes me wonder how my Wildcats are going to play next year. They had a great season this year but louisville had more wins and best ranked this makes top recruits from kentucky go to UL. Let see how Brook's team is going to play next year.

On NFL side, unfortunately teams I followed along with my job, Bengals (Home team) to Steelers (my first client) to Buccaneers (Second client) and Panthers (Current place) didnt make to playoffs. Now I need to pick the team thats going to make it to super bowl. My picks would be Ravens Vs Chargers for AFC champioship and Saints Vs Eagles for NFC.

Lets see how this would turn up. Before I sign off, congrats to Wildcats for winning the bowl game. Also I lost in the semifinal of my fantasy league but was champion in the regular season with 11-3 record.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

True..this has been a great season. Wildcats did do pretty well this season but next year I am not sure...
Pretty sad about Bengals not making it to playoffs. I would prefer Eagles win Superbowl.
Also sad that football is coming to an end...which means U will start watching basketball and I won't like it.

Anonymous said...

Oh great - Can you move to new england???
Jokes apart - I agree with your assesemant of SEC - both in football and basketball the SEC is a tough conference. So it sucks that in football everygame counts and these teams pay the price for having great competitors.
And for the wildcat win - it was the best they played this year. We are an average team and with brooks we will remain an average team with no imaginative plays. Sadly all the good players are recruited to UofL (and for good reasons). I am not holding my breath next year for UK .. we will see... I am looking forward to see USC play next year - they are going to be some good team :)
It is going to be exciting month with some good football games in the making.
Best game so far has been the Boise State game - just awesome ..
Hope the Gators put up a fight tomorrow.

Suresh said...

The way gators and LSU won their games show how dominating SEC is and also should make BCS guys think about being in a tough conference should matter more than being undefeated.

Yup boise state game was great but unfortunately I missed it.