Distraction

As you can tell by my title, I have issues focusing on anything that I should be doing to be getting A's in my classes this semester.

BY THE WAY. I now am guaranteed to get at least a 62% in genetics. My first, or second, depending on French, guaranteed D. I can get no lower than a D, and it's not even November yet.

By the way, "Rocktober" my ass. I think it's funny that everyone here is all ga-ga over baseball only to get crushed. That's why football is so much greater. It's do or die every week.

I mean, seriously, look at what's been going on in college football. Teams work hard all season to get to a respectable ranking and then get kicked in the ass and plummet. Connecticut, for example is #13 in the BCS rankings. Seriously, how long do you think that's going to last?

Everyone's saying that if OSU and BC run the table, they get into the national championship. I say not so fast. There are still 2 undefeated teams that have a legitimate claim to getting in. I seriously think that ASU deserves the #1 ranking if they can run the table. Having big wins on legit teams like CU (who, by the way beat Oklahoma and Texas Tech and held Kansas close), California (who beat Oregon [but they're only minorly legitimate]), Oregon, and USC (who everyone says is legitimate, but the losses to Stanford and Oregon show otherwise) versus Ohio State whose only real win would be against Penn State. Michigan has no validity, since they lost to both Oregon (ooh, look how important that game is now) and Appalachian State. Seriously??? If ASU runs the table it totally deserves #1. Now, the question becomes what if Kansas can run the table? It would have wins against Missouri and probably Oklahoma on its resume, two top ten teams. No other program could claim that. But then again, KU has had too many close games-look at CU and the last ten minutes of the A&M game. I don't have any faith in Boston College, so I won't go into that.

I see no way how any SEC team can run the table. No way. Not even LSU. They're going to trip up somewhere.

The thing is we really don't have a "CONFERENCE OF THE YEAR" sort of thing. Every time one conference starts looking up, someone crashes. Had Louisville had a good year this year, I would be tempted to crown the Big East, but there's just something suspicious about a conference that has Connecticut as its top team.

The Big Ten is frankly a joke this year in my opinion. OSU is sort of off by itself in legit land, but look at the rest of the conference. Not good peeps.

The SEC is too even. Everyone is knocking the other out of contention. Florida has no shot at a repeat now. The only team with a chance is LSU, and considering how close they had to play against Auburn, Florida, and Kentucky, I can't see them emerging from the SEC mire unscathed.

The Big 12 is a bit interesting, because for once the North division looks legitimate. Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, and Colorado all look legit and Oklahoma and Texas should never be forgotten in the South. I don't think this year, but next, a Big 12 has a chance to win it all.

The Pac-10 may be the conference of the year, depending on whether Oregon and ASU win out. These two are clearly the class of the league.

Now I've been looking at the BCS standings, and look at Hawaii. #14. There are 4 more games left in the season, I think, and it only needs to climb two spots. Now consider this, #12 Michigan has to play #1 OSU and #13 Connecticut WILL fall at some point. That's two spots there.

Plus there are ACC, Big 12, and SEC championship games to consider.

Actually, if any team is really going to break in, I think it might be Boise State again. They're up to 22, and still have 4 games to go. The game between Hawaii and Boise State will determine who goes to a BCS bowl, I think.

All of this is JUST college football. Anyone looking at pro?
Of course, I'm doing that too. I watched the Lions and Bears yesterday and I think the Lions have defintiely turned a corner, and may actually play in a playoff game. I wished I could have seen the Saints game instead of the Pats-Redskins blowout. I think that NO has definitely turned a corner too. Definitely playing good enough now to win the NFC South and be really competitive for Super Bowl representation.
Yeah, everyone next week is Pats-Colts gah gah, but I think a sleeper game of the week is going to be played in New Orleans. Jags vs Saints. IF that's on, I'm totally watching it.
I'm going out on a limb here. Based on what I've seen this year, this is who I think is going to the playoffs:
AFC: Indianapolis and New England get byes. Winner on Sunday takes all.
Pittsburg and San Diego win their conferences.
Jacksonville and CLEVELAND are wild cards (look at the rest of Cleveland's schedule, the last 6 games are VERY winable).

NFC: Dallas and whoever wins between Detroit and Green Bay get byes.
New Orleans wins its conference
If Warner and Leinart can get healthy again, Arizona wins out in the west. If not, then Seattle gets by on the seat of their pants.
Wild Cards: Loser of Detroit-Green Bay and New York.

I go no further than that.

Actually to be honest, pro football is a little more exciting to me right now than college, and it's normally the other way.

But I'm seeing some REALLY good stuff out of Cleveland and New Orleans right now. Really good things happening there.

Who cares about baseball when there's this much going on in football, which I think can now officially be called "America's Sport".

Seriously, people the Anuna CD is hot. I saw them on TV and was not too impressed, but listening to this CD, they've got some GOOD stuff.

Except for my biochemsitry quiz this Wednesday, this week=BIOLOGY GRE on Saturday. Holy crap, I'm nervous. I reviewed all of the Molecular and Cellular Biology requirements and all I need to review later in the week is all of the cycles.

I need to take a practice test to see how well I can do on it.

To work!