Weekend Review: Week 3

NCAA
Spread: 10-9
Season: 24-28-1

Notes from the weekend:
1) What a difference a week makes. If you look at my write from last week, there were several teams looking to make a run at conference titles and possibly finish undefeated. Well... Miami, Cal, Ole Miss AND Penn State all lost, and all 4 looked terrible in their losses. The only BCS conference contender who held tough was Cincinnati. Tony Pike continues to dominate as Cincinnati rolls. He seems to get better every week. At this point, it is close between him and Houston’s Case Keenum for best QB in the country.

2) I expect #4 LSU to be the next top 10 team to be knocked off. They travel to Athens to take on the #18Georgia Bulldogs next Saturday. #7 USC is on upset alert again this week at #24 Cal.

3) Injuries are the biggest story of the year so far, as they are contributing to several upsets. Sam Bradford. Dez Bryant. Now, who knows what will come of Tim Tebow’s concussion. Will his decision making be affected? Will he be less inclined to run? Will he start having sex? So many questions to ask at this point.

4) The media is banging on Javid Best right now for his performance this weekend and should not. He had nowhere to run every single play. Also, he got 1 touch in the second half because they were down and had to throw. Right now he is still a Heisman candidate.

NFL
Spread: 9-7
Season: 27-21
Picks: 11-5
Season: 34-14

1) Every weekend I pick against the Jets, and every week they have burned me. Rex Ryan is the real deal as head coach (that fat tub of lard).

2) Brady looks a little more Bradylike, but he is not quite there yet.

3) The Steelers defense is a much different animal when Polamalu is not playing. That just goes to show how incredible he is.

4) New Orleans has a dangerous running game to go along with their incredible passing game. They look like the 2007 Patriots.

5) Teams I predicted to have a down year (shown here):
Miami: 0-3
Carolina: 0-3
Arizona: 1-2
Denver: 3-0

Only Denver is having a good season so far. However, they have beat Cincy on a fluke play, Cleveland and Oakland. Their next 8 weeks go as follows: Dal, NE, at SD, at Bal, PIT, at Wash, SD, NYG. They will be 4-7 after that run.

6) Peyton Manning is better then he has ever been at quarterback. It will go down to the wire between him, Brees, Peterson and Rivers for MVP.

Good weekend in gambling for me:
6-point tease: NYG (-.5) and Green Bay (-.5) WON
Parlay: Chi (-2.5) and Indy (+3) WON