MWC has another good day

Air Force laid a beatdown on another respectable opponent, making that 4-0 on the bowl season. The MWC has had its 5th place team beat the 3rd best WAC team with Wyoming over Fresno State in OT, its 4th place team demolish the 2nd place Conference USA team with Air Force dropping 47 on Houston and intercepting Case Keenum SIX TIMES, its 3rd place team wacked Pac 10 6th place finisher Cal with Utah's freshman QB leading the way, and its 2nd place team showed the Pac 10 a thing or two about stopping Jacquizz Rodgers and 2nd place Pac 10 finisher Oregon State as BYU dominated for about 50 of the 60 minutes. 3 of the 4 teams the MWC defeated in bowl games was ranked in the top 15 at some point this season. Not bad.

In the mean time, the Pac 10 dropped yet another game. At least this one was respectable.

How about the Naval Academy? Nice job handling Mizzou: maybe the Tigers ought to join the Big Ten so they can learn what it takes to stop the run. My thoughts on why Air Force and Navy have been so successful these past few years while Army has continued to struggle: every play, 11 guys hit 11 guys. Nobody takes a down off and no defender is left untouched on any given play. They may be smaller, but they are tougher, they keep coming at you, and they hit you EVERY PLAY. Army has lost that toughness as they adopted a pro-style O for a few years there. They are back to the triple option again and had some success this season, maybe next year they'll get over the hump as that attitude comes back.

I was 4-1 on my picks today, with my lone miss being Tennessee. Big oops on that one. The underdogs continue to impress, however, with a 3-2 record today, taking the overall record to 11-9. Tomorrow I'm predicting a 2-3 finish for the underdogs. I think Northwestern upsets Auburn (the Big Ten always wins ONE against the SEC) and LSU beats Penn State (I can't believe LSU is the dog in this game...), but West Virginia handles the Florida State Bobbies, Oregon holds serve against a physical Ohio State team, and Florida does what it was supposed to do all season.