January 4, 2006
PICK THE ROSE BOWL SCORE, WIN CONSERVATIVE ENLIGHTENMENT:
Once again, everyone gets to participate, whether or not you signed up for our contest. Please post your guesses below. The winner will be determined the same way as last time.
Let's keep the general game info short and sweet: Southern Cal is a heat-seeking missile which is playing in their own backyard and has two Heisman Trophy winners in their backfield. Texas is a heat-seeking missile which has Superman taking their snaps. To hear the gurus tell it, this is an astounding matchup between two unbeaten, all-galaxy teams. This is stupendous. This is exciting.
This is just like last year.
Whichever way the game turns out, however, the winner of this contest will receive a free copy of Russell Kirk's conservative masterpiece, The Roots of American Order. This means that a few weeks from now, when your wife asks you who is winning the Super Bowl ("Cubs or Pirates?"), you can tell her: "Honey, please pipe down, I'm reading about the magnificent contribution that William Blackstone's writings made to the development of American common law." No other conversation-stopper works quite like that.
Have fun!
Posted by Matt Murphy at January 4, 2006 12:00 AMDespite my pessimism expressed above and the fact that I despise the Longhorns, I'm going for the Upset Special because I think Vince Young is upset about not winning the Heisman and you don't want to face this guy when he's angry (you don't want to face this guy, period).
USC's "defense" let Fresno State hang 42 points on them at home and Vince Young can potentially score that many by himself.
Here's a note of interest to readers of this blog: USC is surrounded at all home games by a bevy of celebrities who show up largely because, like attendance at Lakers games, it's the glitzy thing to do. Meanwhile, President Bush is a Texas fan.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about how USC is the best team in college football history. Here's one vote for making the talking heads shut their yaps on Wednesday night.
Texas 38, USC 35.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at January 3, 2006 3:20 AMDo we have to provide a long rant to support our choice? I'm not going to.
USC 45, Texas 28
Posted by: Brandon at January 3, 2006 7:27 AMUSC 24 Texas 15
Posted by: Ali Choudhury at January 3, 2006 7:52 AMTexas 27 USC 23
Posted by: Paul Cella at January 3, 2006 8:16 AMAccording to Tuesday Morning Quarterback, Texas has angered the football gods by running up the score on its opponents. Therefore:
USC 28
Texas 10
Texas 35 USC31
Posted by: jdkelly at January 3, 2006 8:56 AMUSC 51, Texas 45
Best game of the year as advertised.
Posted by: Matt Cohen at January 3, 2006 9:43 AM38 - 24 texas
Posted by: coach toe at January 3, 2006 10:06 AMNow that my Ducks have proved they were never worthy of all the "BCS dissed us" bitterness in the first place, might as well shun their Pac-10 foes as well:
Texas 31, USC 27
Posted by: John Resnick at January 3, 2006 10:07 AMGo Bears!
Posted by: Sandy P at January 3, 2006 10:33 AMI am not a Texas fan, but I really despise USC...
Texas 42 USC 41
Posted by: Bartman at January 3, 2006 10:59 AMI can't see how pounding Colorado 70-3 is significantly more unsporting than pounding UCLA 66-19. Texas 28, USC 17.
Posted by: Random Lawyer at January 3, 2006 11:29 AMUSC 45 TU 24
Posted by: b at January 3, 2006 11:31 AMUSC 34 - Texas 31
Posted by: Patrick H at January 3, 2006 11:34 AMTexas 45
USC 31`
USC 49
Texas 38
Shouldn't you have written "Who's winning the Super Bowl, Cubs or Penguins?" to be thorough?
P.S. On the first, She Who Is Perfect In All Ways lamented to me about the lack of Bowl games. I didn't mind, it saved me from being stuck with the kids all day.
Texas 11
USC 8
6 -6 tie before they go into soccer mode.
Texas 28
USC 20
Texas 35 USC 31
Posted by: BJW at January 3, 2006 1:52 PMWell, maybe some of those USC stars will be looking foward to their NFL paychecks:
Texas 45, USC 36
Posted by: Mike Earl at January 3, 2006 3:20 PMTexas 42, USC 34
Posted by: AC at January 3, 2006 3:30 PMUSC 42 TX 20
Posted by: oj at January 3, 2006 6:57 PMTexas 45 USC 42
Posted by: pj at January 3, 2006 7:10 PMUSC 34
Texas 23
via the closed-eyes random touch of the keyboard method.
If this proves successful, I'll try the closed-eyes random selection of dominos method for the Super Bowl.
Posted by: Dave W at January 3, 2006 9:42 PMUSC 28
Texas 13
Texas 31 , USC 28
Picked less from any confidence in Texas than from some sportswriters' smug insistence on the "inevitability" of USC. Typically such talk will lead me to uncritically support the opposition - how I dislike The Experts.
Posted by: John Barrett Jr. at January 4, 2006 3:28 AMUSC 35 - TX 31
Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at January 4, 2006 6:54 AMUSC 45, Texas 38
Posted by: Nicholas Gatto at January 4, 2006 3:21 PMtexas 28 usc 24
Posted by: Trace at January 4, 2006 6:26 PMTexas 70 USC 63
24 25
Posted by: bbbbb at January 4, 2006 6:29 PMTexas 7 USC 0 haftime
Texas 35 USC 28 Game
USC overrated. There only player is Reggie bush. Texas just deosnt have one player that does everything
Posted by: trace at January 4, 2006 6:44 PMMatt:
You and I both called Texas by 3! Wonder of random selection, my method worked...sort of.
Posted by: Dave W at January 5, 2006 2:15 AMDave W:
You'll surely never read this, but boy, do you need to get your eyes checked.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at January 11, 2006 12:22 AM