WOW! Crazy game. Triple overtime, the Cardinal come from behind to edge out the Trojans.
Fun week at Pacific Rim with Miss Smith (huge USC alumni/fan) leading into the game. Ben setup 5 different Stanford shirts for each day of the week. Each morning, Ben's teacher Mrs. McGowan would send Ben on a "special errand" over to Miss Smith's room, each time with something about Stanford in the delivery.
Pics of the week here.
The boys and I were camping with the Aztecs (Indian Guides) at Del Mar Beach all weekend, but fear not - I had the infrastructure lined up to watch the game from there (5pm ABC prime time game). Babcock's 3G MiFi, feeding my laptop, HDMI out into my 19" office tv, audio out from there to the Bose speakers, slingbox the game from Johnson's home tv to my laptop via WiFi.
Tie ball game, with 3:08 left, Luck throws a pick-6, I was thinking it was over. Should have had more faith. He took them 95 yards in the ensuing drive and scored a TD (this drive included the controversial helmet-to-helmet hit by the USC guy against Owusu, keeping the drive alive on an incomplete 3rd and long). After we scored, USC had a minute or so to drive and score, and had the controversial last play of regulation where they tried to call timeout with no time left (they claim there should be 0.5 seconds). Going to overtime. In OT, both teams scored TDs in their first 2 possessions, then in the 3rd, Stanford went first, scored a TD and had to go for 2, and converted it. Then 2 plays into USC's possession, the full back fumbled into the end zone, where The Cardinal fell on it to win the game. WOOT!
Camping at the beach all weekend with John Johnson and Mark Plasch. Had to throw down a bet. Gave JJ 7.5 points (per the spread), and only betting $1. Turns out Stanford wins, AND covers the 7.5 since they had to go for 2 in the 3rd OT.
Check out College Game Day, from USC Saturday morning. Lee Corso's pick: TREE. (here's the pick)
