OFFICIAL College Football Top 25

1. Alabama - Coming off bye week. Now they're on top.
2. Texas - Impressive against Oklahoma. Now they get Missouri.
3. Penn State - 7-0. Should crush Michigan in Happy Valley.
4. Oklahoma - Can't fall too far. Hosts Kansas State.
5. Southern Cal - Beat a good Ariz. St. 28-0. At Wash. State Sat.
6. Florida - Beat LSU 51-21. Gainesville will be party central.
7. LSU - Lost to Florida at the swamp. At South Carolina.
8. Missouri - Lost to Oklahoma State. Huge game at Texas Saturday.
9. Texas Tech - 6-0. High scoring Red Raiders visit A&M.
10. Oklahoma St. - Upset Missouri. Hosts Baylor in homecoming.
11. BYU - 6-0. I would pay to see the Cougars at TCU.
12. Georgia - Bulldogs host Vandy. It should be a dandy.
13. Ohio State - They are winning ugly. Big test at Mich. State.
14. Michigan State - Best 1 loss team in the country?
15. Utah - 7-0. Beat Wyoming 40-7. Entertains Colorado St.
16. Vanderbilt - Upset at Miss. St., at Georgia next. Ouch!
17. Virginia Tech - Coming off bye week. Big game at BC.
18. North Carolina - Beat Notre Dame. Letdown at Virginia?
19. Ball State - 7-0. Fighting Letterman's host Eastern Mich.
20. Boston College - Nice win at NC St. The Hokies visit on Sat.
21. Massachusetts - Beat Northeastern. Richmond Spiders next.
22. Saint Anselm - "The Streak" is over! At So. Conn. Saturday.
23. Framingham State - 3-3. Blew 28-7 lead. At Westfield next.
24. Natick High School - #6 in Boston Globe poll. At Wellesley.
25. Dennis-Yarmouth - Beat Somerset. At Plymouth So. Friday.

Thought For The Day

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- George Sheehan -

Congratulations

Congratulations to our friend Julie for finishing the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

Thought For The Day

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
- Cadet Maxim, United States Military Academy -

Thought For The Day

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams whole heartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.
- LL Cool J -

How Do You Act When The Pressure's On?

How do you act when the pressure's on,
When the chance for victory is almost gone.
When Fortune's star has refused to shine,
When the ball is on your five yard line?

How do you act when the going's rough,
Does your spirit lag when the breaks are tough?
Or, is there in you a flame that glows
Brighter as fiercer the battle grows?

How hard, how long will you fight the foe?
That's what the world would like to know!

Cowards can fight when they're out ahead.
The uphill grind shows a thoroughbred!
You wish for success? Then tell me son,
How do you act when the pressure's on?

From "The Winners Manual" by Jim Tressell
Head Football Coach at Ohio State University

Poem For The Day

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.

For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Whose judgment upon you must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life,
Is the guy staring back from the glass.

He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed your most difficult, dangerous test,
If the guy in the glass is your friend.

You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,
And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum,
If you can't look him straight in the eye.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears,
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.

- 'The Guy In The Glass' by Dale Wimbrow -