Chronicles of a Hangover - NCAA Football is Back Baby!

College football is back and here to stay until bowl season. Yeeeeha. To celebrate Mr Pettiford's end of resit exams and because it conveniently coincided with the NCAA season starting, I broke the bank Friday and drove to Aber for a night out. If you don't believe me about the breaking the bank bit, just imagine me walking up to town with 37 £1 bags of coppers and 7 £5 bags of silver to cash in at the bank. Thank god for my over sized whisky bottle savings jar. It allowed me to make good time and get to Aber to join some of the boys for a night out. Somebody told me cheap red wine was a good idea? My body didn't think so the day after. A summer of hardly drinking left me weak and battered on the living room sofa come Saturday. Looking a lovely shade of green and barely being able to eat I had a fun hangover day sitting watching the Baylor - TCU game with Steve and Barbie.

Now week one of college football is usually labelled cupcake week as most teams schedule weak warm up games to get themselves primed for the grind of the season. There were a couple of games between ranked opponents. Boise State brought the hammer and beat fellow ranked Georgia 35-21. Could this be a championship year for the broncos? Having seen LSU pound early BCS favourites Oregon in the Cowboy Classic, who knows? LSU proved once again that a tough and fast SEC defense can beat the speedy Duck's spread. With costly penalties and turnovers proving the main difference, a massive dent into Oregon's BCS hopes was dealt in week one. Both these games were fun watches, but the best game of the weekend also included the biggest upset.

Unranked Baylor entertained highly ranked and previous seasons Rose Bowl champs TCU. Lead by Robert Griffin III and Kendall Wright they stormed to a 50-48 win in what showed the true beauty of college football. Electrifying offense that was shown by RG3 throwing for 359 yards and 5 TD's, as well as making a crucial third down catch on a trick play. Wright had 189 yards and 2 TD catches on the day, as well as throwing a TD and completing the pass that Griffin caught. Running back Ganaway pounded his 240 pound frame into TCU's previously stud defense all afternoon for 120 yards. An almost heroic comeback from TCU gave them the lead with 4 minutes to go, but only for it to be snatched away as RG3 led Baylor back up the field for the game winning kick. A superb game, that really made my hangover day worthwhile. Even if i struggled well into Sunday to recover. A good weekend capitulated by the first super Sunday. Oregon losing was a bad point, but NCAA on the whole, roast beef and apple crumble cake made it all better. Roll on the rest of the season as the NFL starts next week.

Peace out, take it easy. My return to Aber is imminent.