Creek Vs. Musket – Regular Season Review
The bowls are looming in the near future like giant mountains kissing the sky. Creek and Musket have concluded the regular season with the tightes race ever rcorded in the competition. In preparation for bowl season, Musket has been eating buffalo wings at least once a week and repping 12-16 oz curls until the arms burn with firey intensity. Creek has been covering miles and miles, albeit in a black Lincol Town Car with 30″ spinners, the grueling pace is still unparalleled. Now the two prepare to face off in the post season.
The bowls games will be broken into 4 rounds of picks: the first ten bowls (Dec. 19-27), the second group of ten bowls (Dec. 28-31), the rest of the non-BCS bowls (Jan. 1-6), and the BCS bowls. Musket was the regular season champion and gets two freebies in each of the first two rounds. The catch is that Creek gets to pick which bowls will be those two freebies. There is no tie-breaker, such a situation would result in co-National Champions.
Both competitors have reviewed their season prior to laying down the bowl picks:
Musket’s Recap: (19-6) There was an extremely rough start to the 2009 Creek vs. Musket season (2-3 start). However, in this system it is better to lose early. Taking a mid-level Big East team like UConn over the assaulting Bearcat offense was a bad pick in hindsight. No one would have considered Rachel Dratch for the lead role role in ‘Nine’, but the UConn pick was similar in magnitude. That first week also yielded bad pick when Stanford beat Oregon. That was the first week I really gave Stanford a sliver of notion, low and behold the Cardinals became a significant figure in deciding the PAC 10 champion, though Andrew Luck never played to his coach’s sky-high standards of the best quarterback in college football.
It was all downhill from that first week’s speed bump. The Musket lined up big plays and shot them down with pin point accuracy. The Sportscenter highlight reel of a run included two undefeated weeks which helped propel the Musket into the lead. Those weeks involved some risky plays not lost on Les Miles’ or Bill Stewart’s chancy minds.
Picking a Houston the Nutt game is like playing Russian Roulette in the Cambodian Jungle, but his tendency is to win a huge game near the season’s end. This season’s huge win was against LSU and the Musket collected on it. Another big play included taking Jaw Juh over Jaw Tek. There was really no technical rhyme or reason, just a gut feeling that Jaw Juh was hungry for a win and Jaw Tek was already aiming for the ACC Championship game. Another game to note was the Civil War where the Musket took Oregon in what may have been the most electrifying college football atmosphere of the season. A grand win was earned for both the Ducks and the Musket.
The Musket capped the regular season with a 19-6 record. The big plays were running hot until a 3-2 final week cooled the barrel a little bit. Still, only one week (the first) yielded a losing record, meanwhile there were two weeks in a row tallying a blazing 10-0 record. Vegas hates to see those types of numbers.
Creek’s Recap: (18-7) After a solid start, I let up on the Musket a bit. That’s like Bob Gibson letting up on Mickey Mantle, the results are disastrous. Sure, I made a few foolish picks, some that I flipped a mental coin, but only one that I feel really ashamed of. Nope, not the Duke pick. I will never get the image of that Duke cheerleader wearing nothing but the Blue Devil mask and some great pom poms, Miles Davis playing in the background and the creative use of the pyramid out of my mind. That is worth losing a pick every week for the rest of my life. I would pick Tech over the Dawgs again. The one truly bad pick all year, the one I did not feel in any way, was Pitt over West Virginia. I knew it was wrong, I knew UWV would beat the Stache and I betrayed my not so secret fantasy – Pioneer Girl. That is unforgivable. I think I deserve a 1,000 lashes with the tail of a raccoon hat or to at least be tickled senseless by buckskin fringe for that one.
I did go against one of the guiding principles of college football – never count on The Rt. Rev. to do anything that makes any sense. So, I clench my teeth and bet on the worst coach in the SEC, Les Miles. Some others came as a result of the same kind of scenario. Chip Kelly doesn’t show up for Stanford, so I pick Mike Riley. All in all, it was a good few weeks. Congratulations and a hearty Roll Tide to Musket for a comeback worthy of Greg McElroy. His only really dumb pick was his last one. Those boys never had a chance.