The Race Is Off And Running

Tonight Big East Football began the process of selecting their represetatives for the up coming playoffs and after the first ballot Fike, Rocky Mount and Hunt are leading the ballot. The second ballot will be next Friday night and in this race you get to keep your votes as the ballots head toward five rounds. The battle of the unbeatens Fike has proven this year to be a quick starting team and they did that again tonight as they jumped to a 19-0 and 26-7 before the Firebirds of Southern Nash made a run but came up short in Wilson 33-27. Fike is now 7-0 while the Firebirds lose for the first time this year and drop to 6-1. I don't know whether this game was a game that Rocky Mount 6-1 played down to the level of Nash Central 0-7 or the defenses were just so good or what. Between both teams Rocky Mount got one first down in the second half and then got a second on an off sides penalty late in the game while running the clock out. Nash Central never had a series in the second half that took more than three plays before a punt. Rocky Mount scored in the first on a Micah Varnell field goal which was matched early in the fourth quarter at 3-3. A nice kick off return and a long pass play on their first play after the kickoff would score the only touchdown of the game. If you are really into official stats any scoring play of more than 11 yards is credited with a first down so for the second half Rocky Mount had three first downs to 0 for the Bulldogs. Hard to watch for those that were there. Northern Nash did everything they could to get ready for Hunt but in the end the team that knows how to win managed two second half scores while Northern Nash could not and Hunt wins at Death Valley 14-7. Randy Raper loses his first conference game in three years while Northern has still not won a conference game working on two years plus. What can you say. RMA 64- Arendell Parrott 0. Looks like RMA really does want to go far in this years state private school playoffs. In other action SWE 36 North Pitt 22. Nice win for the Cougars on the road. Tarboro 51- South Creek 8. I 'm sure the Vikings put the breaks on in this one. next week Big East games have Hunt at Rocky Mount, a battle for first place..... Northern Nash at Southern Nash and this will be a battle that neither team can afford to lose. Fike and Nash Central. Fike will be watching the Hunt/Rocky Mount game.

College Football Another Week Game Day

So far this college football season I have been able to pick three out of every four college games on our weekly pick-em. 33-11 heading into another week of interesting games. UNC,FSU,Miami and Wake forest are all off so will not have a chance to miss these games. We start with Georgia Tech at BYU. Interesting game in Provo Utah. Both teams comes into the game 3-2. Just due to the travel I'll take BYU. 31-28. Boston College At Clemson. BC is not a bad club but this game is in Death Valley. I would hope Dabo has the Tigers understanding that if they even want to be in the National Championship talk they can't slip up anywhere. Clemson 42 BC 22 Duke host Navy. This game the loser may have 40 points by the games end. The wishbone or what ever kind of option offense you want to call the USNA offense Duke has struggled to stop anybody this year but they have had two weeks to prepare. Navy 45 Duke 38. ECU at Tulane. Like Clemson for the Pirates this is a game they can not let slip by them if they want to be Conference USA Champs. The Super Dome is a place just in it's size can make you a gawker instead of paying attention to the game. ECU 31 Tulane 20. Pitt at Virginia Tech. Pitt can score and the Gobblers can't. This game will be a matter of how good is the Tech defense. When it is over and Pitt has 20 or less then Va Tech can count on their defense for rest of season. If Pitt rumbles for 40 Tech won't be around in the conference championship games. At this point nobody has shown me the Tech defense is not for real. VAT 24 Pitt 17 Virginia at Maryland. Boy didn't that 63-0 shellacking Florida St laid on Maryland feel good for the whole conference but this is another week and Virginia is in town. Maryland 35 Virginia 17 Syracuse at N C State. State's already 0-2 in conference and I bet Mitchell plays a couple of series this week. Pack needs this one badly. Pack 28 Cuse 24. North Carolina Wesleyan at Christopher Newport. NCW 1-4 and Chris Newport 3-1. Seems as if CN is always near ther top in conference play and this is a tough draw for the Battling Bishops. Newport 31 NCW 13