What Have We Learned This Week?
• There is no question now (and really never should have been) that TCU can play with the “Big Boys”. It was a close win, but a win nonetheless. And though Andy Dalton and the offense get a lot of deserved credit for what the Horned Frogs do on the field, the performance of the defense on New Year’s Day was impressive. A Wisconsin team that had been very hot at the end of the season, scoring 48.2 ppg in their final 7 games (all wins), was held to just 19 points in the Rose Bowl.
It’s a shame that this school felt the need to ignore geography and join the Big East just to get a chance to play for a national title.
• The Big Ten started off 2011 with a complete thud! Oh-fer five on Jan.1. Wow.
Hey, Nebraska, how inviting does that league look right now? Well, I suppose with the loss to a mediocre Washington team in a rematch it makes you feel right at home.
If you’re a Big Ten fan, you have to feel at least a little better about the fact that Ohio State finally got over its fear of the Big Bad SEC and won a bowl game against them for the first time in school history.
• In an effort to make the final week of the season mean more than just a week for playoff-bound teams to rest their starters, the NFL set up the schedule so that all of the Game 17 matchups would be between division rivals. It was a good decision.
Yes, there were games in which first-stringers (read here Dallas) took on second- and third-stringers (read here Philadelphia). But it also gave us the Seattle/St. Louis matchup for a division title and the final playoff spot in the season’s final game. And likely will bring more intrigue in future seasons if they decide to stick with this format.
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