Hog Wild Homecoming!

Sooooo-weeeeee!
Talk about dodging a bullet! There is no way we could win that game with 4 turnovers in the red zone and 6 sacks. And yet....we did.
What is lost in the hype about the Arkansas onslaught is the fact that the Gator D, though it had some lapses--take away two plays and the yardage given up goes down by almost a third--held the Hogs below their season average. And if you look at the Arkansas-Alabama game, you'll see that 'Bama was 2 plays away from having a mediocre day against them. And Auburn...wow, don't get me started. That Arkansas team is darned good. And yet, UF beat them in almost every phase of the game except turnover margin. (Check the box score... http://www.gatorzone.com/football/boxscore.php?gameid=7533)

And Ryan Mallet....what a talent he is. Even if he does look like a guard at a Russian Gulag. Some of those passes he made were spectacular. Surely our Tim Terrific, with his 6 sacks and 2 fumbles must have looked palsied next to the Wunderkind of the Wasteland? Not exactly. He obviously outran the Ryant the Giant, but lo and behold, he also outpassed him by 5 more completions and 31 yards! Tim had 255 yards passing and, if you don't subtract from his total the yards he lost when sacked (clearly passing, not running--what a dumb way to keep stats), he was over 100 yards rushing as well. Not to mention (I will anyway) that he, once again, picked the team up, put it on his shoulders in the 4th quarter, and carried it down the field on the winning drive. I might be crazy, but I think this could have been (should have been) Tim's Heisman-clinching game. Let's wait, shall we, because I suspect he may have a few more of them left in him this season. Boy, do we hope so.

It seems the win under such adverse circumstances wasn't enough to keep the Gators #1 in all the polls--the Crimson Tide captured the top spot in the AP poll. Just goes to show you what sportswriters know. There's not a more worthless, good for nothing bunch of ignoramuses living off of expense accounts in any part of the world--unless you count Congress and everyone associated with the White House. The geniuses were impressed that Bama beat Carolina by 13 points, even though they were lucky to get out alive, and the outcome was still in doubt until the last 6 minutes. If SOS hadn't been so in love with the fade route--3 times in a row!--twice!--South Carolina would have been ahead at that point. But, hey, the BCS has it right (who would have thought that could ever be said?!?!), and in the end it will all be settled on the field come December--it doesn't matter a sportswriter's fart until then. We assume that both teams will win out, and the championship game will be another donnybrook, with the winner again playing for the crystal trophy. Hopefully against the crybabies from Texas, so we can shut them up once and for all. I can't wait.

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