Where We Stand Now

What a weekend of college football!! Wow! This past weekend (and Thursday night too) demonstrated, if any further demonstration was necessary, why college football is not only superior to the NFL but is the greatest sport in Ameirca. Forget baseball. Forget NASCAR. Nothing matches the excitment, unpredictability and pagentry of college football. No dogfighting allegations to distract us. No overpaid, ego-mad players to fixate upon. Every game is sudden death and truly anybody can beat anyone else on any given Saturdy if you don't bring your A game on every single play. You gota love it! As for the Dawgs, I'm feeling better every week. We got ourselves in a tight spot in the first half against Ole Miss but caught a break. Once it was ours, however, we poured it on. My sense is that even if we had gone down by 14 we still would have won the game through superior speed and talent, not to take anything away from Ole Miss's strong effort. The break we got was the one that was missing during the South Carolina game. That's all we needed then to have won that game. Gamecock fans have been pretty pumped up about that victory, but let's be real. They won a game against a young, inexperienced Bulldog team early in the season by four points. That's exactly what happened and nothing more. I give them credit for that, but an interception here or a fumble there, a missed tackle somewhere else and we could have just as easily won that game too. In other words, despite the problems and the obvious need to keep improving we could very easily be sitting at 5-0 and ranked in the top 10 with a legitimate shot at the national championship, especially after this weekend. And, because we are so young I am still feeling very, very good about the future. Go Dawgs!