Snow and Football

After cursing and getting all of the snow out of our rented dumpster, I ate some lunch and watched some football.

Of course, for me, the highlight was watching Navy beat Army 26-14. The game started with Navy turning the ball over on downs at the Army 30, only to watch the Black Knights drive it for a touchdown, which came on a reverse play.

Navy answered and it was 7-7 at the half.

Navy opened the second half with a long drive to take a 14-7 lead, and then the defense took over. Army missed a field goal and got the ball back. An interception gave Navy the ball near midfield and Navy cashed in with a field goal to go up 17-7.

Then Navy returned an interception for a touchdown to go up 24-7, and then added a saftey (quarterback sacked in the end zone) to go up 26-7.

The Black Knights didn't quit though, and scored on a pass with 2 seconds left in the game to give the final margin.

The total yards were close; Navy had a 275-253 edge, with 264 rushing yards. But the turnovers did Army in.

I then saw the USC-UCLA game. I saw USC take a 9-7 lead near the end of the first half; little did I dream that UCLA would pitch a shutout in the second half.

UCLA drove to the USC 5 but had to settle for a field goal, and ended up getting another one.

The fired up UCLA defense did the rest. I suppose that the Bruins got tired of hearing how USC was a lock for the BCS championship game.

I think back to the UCLA-Notre Dame game and I said at the time that I thought that UCLA and Notre Dame were more or less of equal ability. I say that win looks much better on Notre Dame's resume now.

On the other hand, playing Cal, Notre Dame and UCLA back to back got the better of USC. They could only get "up" so many times.