Yes, you still have to execute when you’re put in a situation, but there is absolutely no way that an 11-5 team should have ever been made to go on the road 2000 miles away to play at the home of a 7-9 team in a playoff game. The fact that the NFL still privileges winning the division when there are so few division games (only 6 out of 16 – less than 40% of the schedule) is ridiculous in the extreme, and if there are no changes to the playoff system before next year, it will prove once and for all what a garbage organization the NFL is – assuming, that is, they don’t lock out the players and prove it anyway.
That, plus – where to start? Vandy pisses away a 14-point lead and loses to South Carolina? Stanford wins the Orange Bowl? Auburn a field-goal favorite to win a national championship? There is no God. Not in sports, anyway.
All right. Puke and rally. There’s still dinner out on the town yet to come…