1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Thursday “COLLEGE PLAYOFFS-GOOD-BAD-SAD”
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“BOWL GAMES–SOMETHING TO REMEMBER”
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The New Year’s Holiday Bowl games will be something to remember, both good-bad and sad.
FIESTA BOWL…Penn State bludgeoned Boise State, but the Broncos showed great heart to keep rallying back. But in the end, the Nittany Lions defense put a lid on star RB-Ashton Jeanty, and challenged BSU-QB-Maddux Madsen to beat them thru the air. He was game but he did not have much of a run game, and Penn State moves onto the next round. Their offense can be spotty and that might be a problem. But the Lions defense roared.
PEACH BOWL…From a blowout to a bounceback. Texas stunned Arizona State early, but the Sun Devils came back and nearly beat the Longhorns vaunted defense, driving the game into overtime before Texas hit a big pass play to end it all. What a day for Devils RB-Cam Skattebo, some (254-APY), running, receiving and throwing a halfback option pass. What grit ASU showed. It was Texas that was on the ropes and nearly lost a game, they had a (24-8) lead in that went double overtime, before they won
ROSE BOWL..The Oregon Ducks got hit by a stun-gun of big plays and had no answers for the Buckeyes. Brilliant freshman WR-Jeremiah Smith ran open all day. QB-Will Howard was razor sharp. The OSU defense got after Ducks QB-Dillon Gabriel, and the rest is history., a (41-21) trashing of the former #1 ranked and unbeaten Ducks. A 500-yard outburst by the Buckeyes big play offense delivered a nationwide message. OSU had big plays TDs of 42-43-45 and 66-yards in the beatdown. The number one ranked and unbeaten guys wearing Green are gone from the playoffs. They outscored alot of people all year long, the defense gave up lots of yards this past fall. This time they could not recovery nor cope with all the weapons the Ryan Day-Chip Kelly led offense had in their tool box in Pasadena.
SUGAR BOWL…They will play on Thursday with a heavy heart, Georgia and Notre Dame, some 28-hours after the deadly terrorist attack in the French Quarter. Just awful. Guns, mental illness, terrorists who are radicalized. And this from an Army veteran with grievances. A sad commentary on a country with sick people, with access to guns, and a Congress that can only offer ‘Prayers and Thoughts’, rather than solutions to gun licensing, red flag screening and more. Yeah, Prayers and thoughts this time…till the next time.
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This was an attack with a rented truck. Like Germany earlier in December and the deadliest attack from 2016 in Nice. Don’t ignore the Cyber Truck bomb in Vegas. These attacks are committed by people who will find a way to kill. There are enough gun laws already. Not one would have stopped these attacks.