As my buddy Joe and I always joke, if Notre Dame was suiting up against an all Jesus team, aka a team made up of 55 Sons of God, Lou Holtz would probably still pick Notre Dame to win by a touchdown. So of course this weekend when I'm watching Sportscenter and they have him and fellow old man Corso making predictions, Lou picks ND to beat Michigan. Not that big of a deal, Michigan is a big question mark this year, but of course than Lou says that Notre Dame will win 11 games this year. This is the same Notre Dame that lost to a service academy last year. And just when you thought the douchy homerism was going to end ESPN asks which BCS school is going to be the biggest surprise team in the country. Any guesses to whom it was? I'll give you a clue it was another team he coached. If you guessed South Carolina you would be a winner. Next up on Lou's prediction watch, the Jets win the Superbowl, NC St. wins the ACC, Arkansas dominates the SEC West, Minnesota wins the Big...
Yesterday was one of the most entertaining opening days of the NCAA Tournament of all time. It provided grand upsets. It provided overtime thrillers. It mixed in some buzzer beaters and closing second winners. It was essentially everything you could ask for from 16 games and perhaps more. So why would CBS be disappointed in yesterday's outcome? Well take a look at the slate of games on Saturday and tell me which game if it was on in mid-January you would have to watch? Of the 8 games on Saturday's CBS slate only one consists of two teams from a power conferences and even that game is much less appealing to CBS than a Texas vs. Kentucky showdown would have been. The rest of the games will probably be entertaining but they certainly won't be drawing any large market non-diehard NCAA Tournament fans to the TV. I'm pretty certain CBS wishes the games were provided the same drama but the big teams that got upset, like Georgetown, were moving on to the next round.
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