2018-19 NCAA Football (Week 9)

Games I watched (some of):
(9) Florida 17-36 (7) Georgia
Not close. Thought this was similar to Georgia's over LSU the week before: UGA's offense just kept grinding while the other side just kept spinning its wheels. Georgia broke it open in the 2nd half but realistically it never felt like Florida was in this game.

(12) Kentucky 15-14 Missouri
I didn't see any of this game but I listened to it on the radio while watching the Gamecast. The 1st half was a typical one for UK fans and most of the 2nd half was, too, with one difference: man, UK's defense is really good and they held Missouri to zero 1st downs in the 2nd half (yup, zero). UK's offense is hamfisted at best but the D kept it close enough for a special teams TD to make a huge difference. A miracle final drive pulled out the W as Missouri went down in a most Kentucky-like fashion. (Funny: the Gamecast flaked out on that last untimed down, it couldn't comprehend that even though there was no time on the clock, the game was not over--ESPN even changed the records of the teams and the SEC standings, while I'm sitting there going, 'No, dude, there's still another play left!) Does Kentucky have a chance against Georgia this week? Ehh, I'm not seeing it. They'll need a lot of UGA turnovers to keep this one alive, otherwise UK just does not have enough offense to outscore Georgia.


Top 25
Handled their business
(2) Clemson, (3) Notre Dame, (7) Georgia, (8) Oklahoma, (12) Kentucky, (13) West Virginia, (14) Washington State, (17) Penn State, (23) Utah

Bad Beat
(9) Florida (they were ranked a little high, they're not as good as Georgia)
(18) Iowa (Penn State at home is still a tough out, even when the Nittany Lions are playing wounded)

Not so good
(6) Texas (I thought they were ranked a little high but I also thought they'd get it done at Oklahoma State)
(15) Washington (the scoring dried up in Berkeley, not a good look against a down Cal side)
(16) Texas A&M (the SEC West is a meat grinder, A&M got ground)
(19) Oregon (ouch! Destroyed at Arizona, I think Oregon has been as up and as down as anyone all year long)
(20) Wisconsin (their anemic offense was not enough to sneak past Northwestern)
(21) South Florida (got rolled at Houston)
(22) North Carolina State (gave up a lot of points in Syracuse)
(24) Stanford (they should probably be better than Washington State, especially at home, but this Stanford team is hardly vintage)
(25) Appalachian State (rolled by Georgia Southern, not good)


Next week's interesting matches:
(6) Georgia @ (9) Kentucky
(13) West Virginia @ (17) Texas
(14) Penn State @ (5) Michigan
(1) Alabama @ (3) LSU