Some College Football Thoughts

Yesterday was a big day of upsets in college football starting with Vanderbilt defeating number 1 Alabama in Nashville and including number 4 Tennessee falling to the Razorbacks in Arkansas. The day also included number 9 Missouri getting easily handled by Texas A&M, number 10 Michigan losing to Washington, number 11 USC losing to Minnesota, and number 22 Louisville losing to ACC newbie SMU. Some more observations include:

- Not saying - just saying

- College football stat of the day

- If you were wondering what happened to Vanderbilt's goalpost after the 3-mile treck through Nashville to the river.

- We also have to include this crazy last play of the UConn-Temple game.

- Nick Saban with some good life advice that just apply to coaching

- Strange day for Notre Dame fans. They easily beat Texas A&M in their season opener and the Aggies handled Missouri but they beat Louisville last week and the Cardinals lost to SMU. Meanwhile the team to beat them - NIU was losing to UMass 13-7 at halftime. Imagine if that held up? What a day of rollercoaster finals.

- As good as the football was those suffering from Hurricane Helene were never far from people's minds.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I've made this observation before but I'm dubious that the Chinese economy is as robust as some may believe. Economic growth requires innovation and innovation requires freedom. With the crackdowns on freedom (see Jack Ma or all of Hong Kong) will also come a drastic reduction in innovation (you can only steal so much intellectual technology property). There is also an aging population and not enough children. If I had a company doing business with China - I'd be getting my capital out of the country... Still blows my mind that this is a real photo... A person at age 20 should read the top 50 classic novels of all-time and repeat the exercise every 10 years for the rest of their life... Not sure if there's any truth to the rumor that Holy Cross is trying to schedule UConn as next year's homecoming opponent... Michael K. Williams, Omar from The Wire, found dead of an overdose at age 54. Way too young... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Heh Heh

- Worth revisiting: Scott Adams - A message for children about climate change.

- Herman Hesse on the Magic of Reading 

- You can't fire me - I retire! Randy Edsel out at UConn at end of season. Losing to 1-AA Holy Cross will do that to you I guess.