Up All Night?

Sorry for the late post today but I was away from my computer all day because the moving people arrived with about 5,000 pounds worth of stuff from our New York apartment. At this moment, there are approximately 200 cardboard boxes in our new place and I'm pretty sure The Fiancee is buried under packing paper somewhere. Hopefully I can locate her at some point.

I'm particularly tired today, too, because I was up till 1 a.m. last night watching the unbelievable Fiesta Bowl game in which Boise State blew a big lead, came back and then upset Oklahoma in overtime on a straight-up old school Statue of Liberty play. Seriously, the only other place I saw that work was on blacktop at Chatsworth Elementary School back in fifth grade, yet Boise pulled it out on the biggest play of their season. Not bad.

Apparently Urban Meyer wasn't able to stay awake for all the drama. At his arrival press conference in Phoenix earlier today, he was asked about the game and said: "I hate to say this, I fell asleep and my wife kept hitting me. She said it was the greatest football game she ever saw. I saw some of the coaches of Coach Petersen and Boise State. I followed them closely when Coach Hawkins was there and what a great game. To go for two at the end, I thought that was great. That's what makes the Bowl games so special."

Would Urban have the guts to pull off a play like that? I'm not so sure. Then again, he did try that fake punt in the Arkansas game, so who knows? Here's what I'm sure of: When a coach like Ohio State's Jim Tressel has almost two months to prepare, a team better show up for the game with some new tricks in its playbook. Maybe the Gators won't be running Statue of Liberty calls, but I'd be shocked if they didn't have something funky ready to go to try and throw the Buckeyes off.