Saturday, January 01, 2005

the intermittent masculinity of jeremy freese

Today I'm hanging out in the abode of a colleague who is out of the country and left me with custody of her digital cable. When I was mentioning how New Year's Day is my favorite holiday, I forgot the college football part. Earlier, I watched beloved Hawkeyes upset the favored Louisiana State Tigers in the Capital One Bowl. Then, I began watching Texas and Michigan play in the Rose Bowl. I missed most of the middle of that game, however, as some channel surfing during a commercial break resulted in my being sucked into a TBS showing of You've Got Mail.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Iowa was hardly an underdog to LSU, at least not to anybody with any sense who followed the college football season. They were underrated all year, and survived a very tough conference schedule with only one loss. LSU was only ranked as high as it was because it won the BCS title last year -- the opposite of Auburn's problem, which was that they started with a low ranking, so they were kept out of the title game this year, despite having a very strong case for being a better team than either Oklahoma or USC. Frankly, I was surprised Iowa didn't beat the shit out of LSU.

jeremy said...

Anon, you should have put big money on your pro-Hawkeye intuitions, as Iowa was a 6 or 6 1/2 point underdog going into the game.