Blogging on New Year's Day

Happy New Year!

Football-wise it started with trying to finish watching Iowa-Michigan in the B1G championship.  Iowa played Michigan very tough; in the first half the only real difference was the Semaj Morgan punt return.  So what happened in the last quarter and a half?  I still cannot answer that.

Michigan/Corum wasn't gaining much on the ground.  The tight ends were contributing, but that is too familiar for Iowa.  Instead, they went to a possession game with Cornelius Johnson and it worked.  McCarthy had more pass attempts than usual.

Iowa surrendered three fumbles, which was a bonus.  The game was won and lost relatively early on:  without mistakes, turnovers, or a fluke play, Iowa was not going to score.

OMG, Cade McNamara sighting!  Of today's early games, Iowa-Tennessee was the one I most wanted to watch.  For Wisconsin-LSU the ESPN banner taking up a quarter of the screen was too much; thank God for Fox.  Wow!  LSU won despite trailing by about two touchdowns most of the game.  And I was just getting ready to write Brian Kelly has to regret leaving Notre Dame.  He did have a Heisman winner.

Iowa is going to lose very badly--worse than against Michigan.  Liberty could not hold up against Oregon.

Just an hour left.  The Vrbo Fiesta Bowl doesn't have that huge distraction of unwanted promotions at the bottom.  What the hell is wrong with Disney, ESPN, and ABC?  

Michigan is the better team.  The offense is multifaceted and the defense is vicious.  They had the better season. Alabama has had championship teams in the past.  

I don't like this word or the phrase:  Michigan is being disrespected.