Preview of the Big Games Today!!!

Well Legarret Blount ensured this season got off to a firecracker start with his negative 5 yeard rushing per...oh I mean his sucker punch and awfully suspicious roid like rage. With Oregon out of the way , Boise has to beat, well no one to get an undefeated season and enter the BCS "whine zone". Great.

So far the football itself has been pretty substandard. Here's to hoping the following 3 big games on Saturday get hte ball rolling rightly...

Georgia at Oklahoma State.

Let's see, Georgia was supposed to be the cat's pajamas last year - they weren't. So now, without Matthew Stafford, who is in He...Detroit, and Kno Knowshawn, they are supposed to get it done on the road against an improved Oklahoma State team? Well, they might do it. Really, the pressure here is on Oklahoma State. I give the nod to the Bulldogs - not because I want to but because my hunch tells me so.

BYU at Oklahoma

Check the scoreboard bulbs in Jerry Jones new fandaliscious scoreboard at his kabillion dollar stadium because these two teams are going to light it up. BYU has the offensive guns to keep pace with Oklahoma. Still, it is Oklahoma. I give this one to Boomer Sooner

Bama at VT

This is an interesting match-up from the coaches on down. ALabama is coached by Nick Saban, who is the best and brightest football mind in the galaxy (just ask any Bama fan! Just don't ask them what they thought of St. Nick when he was at LSU). Frank Beamer is Steady Eddy - always churning out a team of capable players, wome of whom live on "the edges of the law", who tend to win all the games they should and rarely win the big games they should have a chance. This year, I like Frank's chances better though.

When people have considered this game they harken back to a year ago, upon whence the mightily hapless Clemson Tigers got pounced by Bama and the dreamy John Parker Wilson. As much as VT has a bad big game rep, they are no Clemson. Let's table that for no - just trust me, it won't be one of "those". If that doesn't suit the skeptic, the next comparision goes to VT's disasterous trip to Baton Rouge in 2007 (when LSU won the national title). Again, not a great comparision to this year if for no other reason than VT was put into a deep, deep hole early in htat game because Frank Beamer simply could not bring himself to admit that the love affair with Sean Glennon was little more than a desparate clinging to the past.

This year, we have two pre-season top 10 squads, one of which is coming off a coming-of-the-ages, sickly sweet regular season that was topped with the poo-poo icing of getting blasted by Florida in the final half of the SEC title game and humiliated by BCA-buster Utah in the Sugar Bowl. VT, on the other hand is coming off a season in which they , by the grace of the Big East, finally won a BCS bowl game. As the time for tonight's kick-off drew near though, it appeared that fielding a full squad for either team was going to be the biggest challenge of the day. Swine flu in Tuscaloosa, shootings, ACLs, player stupidity... Well, what we have is VT without it's break out all-star tailback and Bama with a gaping hole at defensive end. THe realy story though is Tyrod Taylor, VT's mini-vick that has a good win/loss record but no clear connection to it with his mediocre QB numbers, and his rival under center for Bama, junior Greg McElroy, who's taking about 7 snaps in his Bama career but was an all-world high school QB in Southlakes, TX. While little is known about McElroy, what IS known about Taylor is not necessarily all good. SO pay attention to QBs tonight - the respective defenses are going to pound the crap out of each one. The team who's QB makes it out alive will win. I'll actually stick with Tyrod for this one - unlike the kid glove treatment JP Wilson received last year by the paper Tigers of Clemson, McElroy is about to get his teeth knocked in. VT 17 Bama 10.

GO HOKIES!!!!