The Trojan Skirmish

The Trojans--too much potential for a host of different jokes, but I won't stoop to that level. As Urban had said, the Men of Troy could have been a problem. Similar to Hawaii early last season, they had had good years and might have made it close, but for a lack of depth. And talent. And the Florida coaches' ability to adapt to a strange defense. It appears that Troy put in a brand new defense for this game, and it--and the downpour early--kept the Gators off balance in the first quarter. But these guys weren't good enough to keep it up and UF's 28 second quarter points let us all breathe easier.

The Gators margin of victory (we were #1 last week) fell to 7th highest, but was second only to BYU for teams playing BCS (formerly known as Division 1) teams. It appears I was mistaken when I said UF had the highest margin of victory last week--that honor (?) went to Air Force with a 72 point win over an FCS (formerly known as Division 2) team, and the winner over non-FCS teams in point spread was.... Tennessee. But c'mon . . . Western Kentucky? Division 1 by lack of quality control more than anything. Oh, well, wait 'til next week!

Now that the offense took off the handcuffs, Tim got to showcase his more customary game and made a strong argument that as Tim goes, so go the Gators. Four (or five) touchdown passes, one running TD. He could have had another easy one, but gave it to Rainey--what a leader! If the idiotic Heisman voters who put TT 3rd on their ballots had to judge the candidates by only what they did in the first half, he would have won it going away. If Tim stayed in the whole game, or even through 3 quarters, he would have rewritten all the record books already. His stats would be eye-popping. But Johnny B needs the playing time for next year, and the only numbers that really count are the final score in the national championship game.

Another great effort by the defense to keep the Trojans from scoring (well, that almost rises to the level of a joke). We can give up field goals all day long, but I wonder how many games into the season we'll go before the opps score a touchdown. A long way, we hope. It would be more than could be reasonably expected for to shut out the Vols. But it would be G-R-E-A-T.

Stars of the game:


Tebow (of course)



Rainey (some nifty running)



Brandon James caught a touchdown




Moody got some game time (and didn't fumble)

Cooper (I have to say he is winning my admiration, grudgingly after last year)




And, of course, the D. Still no touchdowns against any squad.




Let's all hope for a fantastic game next week . . . 63 to 0 would be about right. Just enough.

Oh, yeah. . . almost forgot. The Bumper Sticker of the Week is:

I never thought I would miss Nixon.