Track Town Pizza

Oh how I miss my home. Track Town Pizza is located across the street from my beloved UofO. It's delicious. They are known for their BBQ Chicken Pizza but I'll stick with the traditional type Pepperoni or Meat Lovers any day. Anddon't even get me started on the Hawaiian.



One of my fondst memories of returning to Oregon was back in the 90's. My High School, the Eagle Point Eagles was headed to the state championship game. A couple of my old buddies and I got together and made the trip to Autzen Stadium to watch the game. We went to Track Town Pizza before and after the game. We were about 1/2 way through our first pitcher of beer when we realized this was the 1st time we had drank together (legally). Since I moved away realitively close to my graduation I turned 21 away from home.

NCAA 2008 Playoffs Round 3

Yesterday could have been another great day in college football. IF, that is, we had a playoff.

#3 Texas Longhorns defeated the Boise State Broncos

#16 Oregon Ducks defeated the Florida Gators



#3 Texas Longhorns set to play the #16 Oregon Ducks next Saturday.


#4 Oklahoma Sooners defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes

#5 USC Trojans defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions


#4 Oklahoma Sooners will play the #5 USC Trojans next Saturday.



If you'd like to see how many different variations of these brackets can happen you can go to ESPN here. You can go through this bracket a few times and see different outcomes. The bottom line is no matter where the upsets are there are 5 GREAT weeks of college football.

And as I've stated before. We can still have the other 26 bowl games (currently there are 34, a 16 team tournament will lower that number by 8).

Support the Cause

My biggest problem with all these arguments about whose the best team is that it will ever solve anything.

I'm fairly certain I cannot convince any Texas fan that OU was better this year.

If TX had gone to the Big 12 Championship I'd say the same thing.

You can say this about AL fans and/or FL fans.

OU and FL, maybe next year this happens to you. Would you rather play this game or have a play off and shut those TX/AL fans up? (again, I'd say the same thing to OU and FL fans if things had gone the other way.)

And what about USC's defense? They are pretty damn good.

When I ask to support the cause it's to talk about playoff. Can't TX and AL fans agree with FL and OU fans here? Wouldn't a playoff been fantastic this year????

And to the 1 person who still lives in UT... Wouldn't your guys have liked a chance to play in a tournament that may result in a National Championship. I'll tell you what, I'm hoping Utah wins.


Email your friends, call in radio shows. I'm not looking to plug this dinky blog, just want some playoffs. WE NEEEEEED PLAYOFFS!

More $%&^# proof the BCS sucks?

Point #1 -

Even some of the most avid college football fans don't know about theother divisions football teams. Sure we know that Apalachian State pretty much rules and they did beat Michigan. But outside of that not so much. I'll admit I don't really follow it until the time of year that they reach the playoffs.

In Division 2 football Minnesota Duluth (#7 Rank) and Norhtern Missouri(#3 Rank) are playing. This division does their playoff a little funky but Neither of these 2 schools received any of the 4 (YES, 4) number 1 seed positions. If the BCS were in Division 2 the teams plaing for the title wouldn't be in there.

How does division 2 rank? It's a media poll. Same as the AP poll in the big league. So if the guys who pick the schools in Division 2 don't get it right,what makes anyone think they get it right in the big league?

They don't, that's why the system sucks!


Point #2 -

In Division 1 we are also watching a playoff. Not what we all think of as Division 1, the old Division 2 now that Division 1 is the BCS. Anywho.... We are watching Richmond vs Montana. These 2 schools received 1 of 8 'at large' bids because neither team won their conference.

ALABAMA and TEXAS fans should be paying attention here.

So in Division 1, they have a playoff? And, they send the top 16 schools? And, And, the two teams playing for a TRUE championship didn't win their division? So does this mean that the team playing best at the end of the year isn't always the best team out there? If a team looses 1 game they are not necessarily a bad team?

Good thing that only happens in those other divisions!

Point #3 - I've made this point before.

If the BCS was instituted in the NFL 6 of the last 8 Superbowl Champs would not have even been in the game. Eli and Peyton Manning would not have had an opportunity to win the MVP in their games. (although Peyton would have went in a different year, just not the year they actually went)

Here's where I posted more details about that. Click me


Point #5 - Another 1 I have brought up before.

Look at the NCAA BB Tournament. A little thing they call March Madness. In Basketball they pick 4 different #1 teams. How many times sinc ethe Tourney started have all 4 #1 teams made it to the final 4?????? Once, last year. So if the4 top teams in a sport don't ever (or 1 in about 30 years) make it, what makes us think we can just choose the top 2 football teams?

We Can't!!!

Did the BCS get it right?

NO. They did not.

Keanu Reeves will win an oscar for best actor before the BCS gets it right.

How can you have all these good teams, just pick 2 and get it right? Every week there is an upset. As the saying goes....THAT'S WHY THEY PLAY THE GAMES.

Did anyone think that Florida would lose to Ole Miss?
Did anyone think USC would lose to Oregon State?
Did anyone think Penn State would lose to Iowa?

There are upsets each and every year. Going undefeated is tough and everyone shoul understand that all these teams are beatable. To say that anyone or any computer can pick the clear top 2 teams in the country is ridiculous.

At one point this season everyone was raving about Mizzou, saying that they may not punt again all season they were so good. Now they have 4 losses.

The ACC has an automatic bid to the BCS, where they have systematically lost 8 straight games.

Does ANYONE outside of the state of Utah think they will beat Alabama? (maybe if they were playing Oklahoma they'd have a change.)

I hope Texas creamates Ohio State.

USC will beat Penn State bigger than anyone thinks. (That pains me to say, I love Joe Paterno and have always admired Penn State.)

Absolutely not, they did not 'get it right'. They won't next year or the year after that. On the BCS selection show on Fox Charles Davis said he loved playing in bowl games. He's full of crap. If you are a player and you compete, you want to compete against the best and play to win. Not some random bowl game. Not that you cannot enjoy yourself in the bowl game but if the players on TX,AL, USC, Penn State, Utah, Boise had a choice I'll bet 99% woud want to play in some playoffs and have a chance. The other 1% are kickers!

2008 NCAA Playoffs Round 2

Round 1 was a great week and round 2 is looking even better. There are a lot of tough match ups this week. Prepare to make a big plate of nachos and wings to invite your friends over. You'd better have more than 1 TV in your living room or man cave. (all rankings are based on the AP end of the season pre-conference championship games)

#2 Florida Gators VS #16 Oregon Ducks - on ABC at 7pm est

#3 Texas Longhorns VS #9 Boise State Broncos - on ESPN at 1pm est

#4 Oklahoma Sooners VS #10 Ohio State Buckeyes - on ESPN at 5pm est

#5 USC Trojans VS #6 Penn State Nittany Lions - On ABC at 1pm est


If you want to see how we got here you can check out the Round 1 Results or the Round 1 Match Ups at the links given.

Who wouldn't want to see all these games????

For those of you who absolutely love the bowl system and think that a playoff would ruin everything, not to worry. You can catch the St Petersburg Bowl featuring South Florida VS Memphis game on ESPN OCHO at 2:30pm or the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl featuring Hawaii (what, really, Hawaii in the Hawaii bowl) vs Western Michigan at 7pm est. I'm sure those will be riveting games! Me, I'll stick with the playoffs.

2008 NCAA Football Playoffs Round 1

Last week I posted what the tournament bracket would look like. This week we'll take a look at how those game would have gone (in my mind) and what's on tap for this coming week.

This is all, of course, IF we had a playoff. Now, you certainly can disagree with my picks, who I say wins the games andall of that. What I hope you agree with me on that all these would be great games and December would be a hell of a month of football if we had a 16 team playoff. If you think I'm crazy with some of my upsets, just plug your team back in there and look, no matter how you slice it there would be some great matchups for us to enjoy.

#1 Alabama VS #16 OREGON DUCKS - Ducks win 45-28

#2 Florida vs #15 Georgia Tech - Florida wins 35-21

#3 Texas vs #14 Oklahoma State - Texas wins 24-17

#4 Oklahoma vs #13 Cincinatti - Oklahoma wins 59-13

#5 USC vs #12 Ball State - USC wins 49-3

#6 Penn State vs #11 TCU - Penn State wins 28-17

#7 Utah vs #10 Ohio State - Ohio State wins 31-14

#8 Texas Tech vs #9 Boise State - Boise State wins 45-42

What a great week, couple of blowouts and a couple of upsets.