The SEC championship is tonight, and it is time to get your game-face on! These hype videos make me wanna put on pads and a helmet and pulverize someone. Does anybody else feel that way after watching one of these?

By the way, I love that this one features Reid’s goal line interception against Alabama, the crying Alabama fan, and Saban losing it on the sideline—three of my favorite highlights from the season. Classic!

(HT: Steve Hayes, a.k.a. Cajun Roast Beef)

This post is dedicated to my dad—who taught me long before Bob Costas—that “hot doggin” in the endzone is tasteless and wrong.

(HT: Chris Cowan)

Mea culpa. I confess that I’ve gone a little overboard with the sports blogging lately. The excess induced one of my fellow elders to entreat me to go back to writing about theology. After that reproof, I took the first of twelve steps, and I admitted to myself that I had a problem. I committed to reign it in and save all my sports-pontification for one post on Saturdays. Well, my restraint was good while it lasted because I’m reneging right now with this post. It’s not every year that one’s team is on the verge of playing in the national championship. So if you all would bear with me for just a little bit, I would be much obliged. We will be back to regular programming soon enough.

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Fans of college football are eagerly anticipating the BCS standings that will come out on Sunday night. These numbers are important, and there is a lot at stake in this week’s rankings. My prediction is that LSU will be number one, that Alabama will be number two, and that the teams will meet each other in the BCS championship game. I think that’s pretty much everyone’s prediction at this point.

Still, everyone knows that in college football the only stat that matters is the final score. So while we wait to see how the BCS rankings shake-out, let’s take a look at how LSU and Alabama have done in final scores this season. Continue Reading →

My Louisiana Tech Bulldogs started the season at 1-4 but went on from there to win the next seven games in a row. With their win over New Mexico State tonight, they finish the season at 8-4 and clinch the Western Athletic Conference championship. This is their first conference title since they entered the WAC ten years ago.

Tech will be playing in the San Diego County Poinsettia Bowl on December 21. This is the fifth bowl invitation in the history of Tech football, and it is the first since the Bulldogs’ victory or Northern Illinois in the 2008 Independence Bowl.

How ’bout them Dawgs!

I confess that I had a pit in my stomach going in to the Arkansas game. The Hogs always seem to give LSU trouble at the end of the year. Arkansas had beaten LSU three out of the last four times we played them, and before kickoff I felt like anything could happen. When Arkansas went up 14-0 in the second quarter, I thought, “Here we go again.” Continue Reading →

Okay, I confess. I wrote my last post before College Game Day was over and all the upsets were complete. With Oklahoma, Oregon, Clemson, and other one loss schools still out there, it seemed unfair to give Alabama a second shot at an unbeaten LSU. But that was before the top one-loss schools completed their stinkfest on Saturday. Continue Reading →

If Alabama is trying to make a case for a rematch with LSU, they did a poor job tonight. They gave up 21 points to Georgia Southern, a school that is not even in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the NCAA. Alabama is a great team, but they did not look like it tonight. Continue Reading →

The Broncos were 1-4 before Tim Tebow took over five weeks ago. Since Tebow has been starting, they have gone 4-1 to improve to 5-5 on the season. He’s turning their season around, but he’s not doing it with passing. He was only 9 for 20 in the air tonight for 104 yards, and yet it doesn’t seem to matter. He’s all heart and grit, and the guy just knows how to win. That game tonight—especially the finish—was just amazing. Watch the game winning touchdown above.

As I mentioned when he started this run, Tebow still has a lot of folks rooting against him. They are not simply rooting against him on the field; they are cheering for his demise as a Christian man. And it is the latter that we all should be most concerned about. Tebow has been hanging tough so far. From his work ethic and commitment to excellence to his consistent Christian testimony, he has honored Christ. I hope and pray that the Lord would sustain him in this faithfulness.

ESPN.com recently did an extended feature on Les Miles and his family. The life of a college football coach is typically dominated by the job. Consequently, these coaches are notoriously terrible family men. They simply don’t have the time to do it all. This story from ESPN.com takes a look at how Miles is measuring up as a family man. Here is an excerpt that gives the gist of what this article is all about: Continue Reading →