Red & Blue Sportsball

All is not well in the sports universes I follow. Bucs Julio Jones spent Sunday making the Bucs' defense look like a joke, with 12 catches for 253 yards, and the Atlanta Falcons ran down the Bucs, 34-20. At least Jameis Winston will be back at QB when they head to Green Bay to play the Packers on Sunday. Since Aaron Rodgers is still hurt, that might be a game the Bucs can win. At 4-7, it's probably too late to try and claw back into the playoff picture. I don't know if you want to risk re-injuring Jameis if there's no shot at the playoffs. I'm sure Koetter wants to save his job, but if Jameis gets seriously hurt as a result, Koetter absolutely will be fired for risking the franchise's future. Thunder The OK3 inexplicably beat Golden State the night before Thanksgiving (which I admittedly did not expect), then proceeded to resemble the team I thought they were, and lost their third straight game tonight against the Orlando Magic, who broke their own nine-ga...

Hi, gang. A quick look at the  CFP rankings  and some Thanksgiving picks before we get to the main conversation: RANK TEAM RECORD PREVIOUS 1 Alabama 11-0 1 2 Miami 10-0 3 3 Clemson 10-1 2 4 Oklahoma 10-1 4 5 Wisconsin 11-0 5 6 Auburn 9-2 6 7 Georgia 10-1 7 8 Notre Dame 9-2 8 9 Ohio State 9-2 9 10 Penn State 9-2 10 11 USC 10-2 11 12 TCU 9-2 12 13 Washington State 9-2 14 14 Mississippi State 8-3 16 15 UCF 10-0 15 16 Michigan State 8-3 17 17 Washington 9-2 18 18 LSU 8-3 20 19 Oklahoma State 8-3 13 20 Memphis 9-1 21 21 Stanford 8-3 22 22 Northwestern 8-3 23 23 Boise State 9-2 25 24 South Carolina 8-3 NR 25 Virginia Tech 8-3 NR Basically the same as last week in the top 10, except that Miami rightfully jumped Clemson. Why Clemson is still ahead of the Sooners though, I have no earthly idea. A quick update on Baker Mayfield: Sooners coach Lincoln Riley announced on Monday that  Baker will not start on Saturday  against West Virginia and w...

Week 12 was mostly a dud in the college football world. There were only a couple of upsets in the top 25 this week (cue Oklahoma State fans screaming into the void), but there was at least some news to talk about. But if you're reading this, there's probably one specific game you care about. #4 Oklahoma 41, Kansas 3 Looking at the box score, it looks like what you'd expect to happen when the #4 team in the country plays a 1-9 team, but this one got weird from the coin toss. Sooner Twitter went all "You done messed up now!" towards KU for the handshake snub, but I honestly didn't have a problem with it. I didn't think there was any beef between Baker Mayfield and the Jayhawks before the game, but KU seemed intent on creating beef where it didn't exist before. The game stayed chippy all afternoon, with Kansas taking some, um, liberties in trying to take down Baker. That was a blatant late hit by Hasan Defense, and should have been called t...