This is at least 15 years old and yet still relevant to the present day...and very funny.

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I haven't bought a game in ages so I did not feel guilty when Empire: Total War went on sale on Tuesday. I think it will eventually be a fun game, but it is going to take a long time to to figure out what I am doing. It is not as complicated as the Europa Universalis games but it still has a lot going on.

I am playing a game as the Russians on a supposedly easy level and I am doing okay but I am putting out fires all over the place. Ottomans, Crimean Tatars, Georgians, and some groups I have never heard of are making the Ukraine and Don basin a tough place to call home. Thankfully the Swedes have left me alone as 80% of my army is arrayed against the Turks.

It was very strange how parts of the game last night was similar to the OSU-Texas game. Had OU capitalized on redzone opportunities in the first half, they win that game. When they couldn't score twice in the redzone, I had a feeling OU was going to lose.

I really don't like SEC teams (except Georgia, I like them for some reason) so I am not happy that another SEC team has a BCS title. However, having OU go 0-5 in their last 5 BCS games and 1-3 in title games should get the damn media off of OSU's back for little while...at least until USC nut stomps OSU again next year.

It is really sad how much talent OSU had on its team this year that was hamstrung by a mediocre OL and a so-so DL (although the DL got much better toward the end of the year). OSU WRs were not superstars and did not strike fear in defenses hearts, but they should not have had to with Beanie in the back field. A true freshman at QB will limit what you can do....oh well. while Pryor is only a freshman, he really needs to work on his passing. His short and medium range passes have absolutely no touch on them. There would a couple of times a FB or TE was WIDE OPEN and he skipped the ball into the ground. The screen pass to Beanie, while complete, was ugly..ugly..ugly. He almost put it in the rafters.

I also hope that OSU's young WR turn into the studs I think that they might be. Devier Posey, Lamar Thomas, Dane Sansenbacher....could be really really good. Jake Stoneburner a 6'5" 230 lbs WR who red-shirted this year is supposedly good but I think he will end up at TE. I am also hearing really good things about Chris Carter's kid who will be a true freshman next year. He is not a burner but he is big 6'3" and has great hands. He definitely has the genes.

Still, I have to give Tressel credit. The coaching job in the Fiesta Bowl this year may have been his best job in years. The team was competitive from start to finish and would have won the game barring a broken tackle. Nothing to be ashamed of.

I just realized that even Vanderbilt gets to play a bowl game essentially at home. Got to love the SEC. I think it is in the Constitution that Southerns are not allowed to leave the old Confederate states unless they are being extradited.

I just read where HBO greenlighted a pilot for A Game of Thrones, Book I of George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice. It is just a pilot and not an order for a whole season. Still, that's pretty cool.

Supposedly, the idea would be to do a whole season for each book. Assuming, it gets picked up, I would be shocked it if made it more than one or two season considering ROME only got two seasons.

Now, if Martin would just finish the next book, I will be happy.

That is why I love college football. You just never know what is going to happen.

On another note, Tressel may have trouble in recent years in big games but he does not lose games to unranked scrubs like Pete Carrol consistently does. Oregon State was a 25 point underdog this year and Stanford was a 41 point underdog last year and both teams beat the USC Prophylactics.

USC will probably win the PAC-10 this year. However, I doubt USC will be able to jump a one loss Big 12 or SEC team considering how weak the PAC-10 has looked this year in non-conference games.

This also means OSU might meet USC in the Rose Bowl. Of course, Penn State might have something to say about that. Since Penn State beat Oregon State 45-14 a few weeks ago, you have to wonder how good JoePa's team is this year. I wasn't giving them any credit because they hadn't played anybody yet. The Oregon State win looks pretty good right now.

The Buckeye DL was average. The Buckeye OL was average. They both met great lines...and that was the difference. No pass rush on Sanchez and you might as well have charged USC's DL rent for camping out in OSU's backfield. I don't care how good the rest of the team is. If you lose the battle up front, you are screwed.

Boeckman is an average journeyman QB. Give him a good or great line and he will produce (Penn State 2007), give him a average to bad line and he won't. He can't carry a team by himself....of course very few QBs can (Vince Young, Peyton Manning, etc.)

SEC speed and USC speed is somewhat of a myth. OSU DB were actually quite good in the game against USC as the Trojan receivers were not running by them. However, there is something known as "Big Speed" (Javaris Moss, Glenn Dorsey, etc.), which OSU lacks and hasn't had since Will Smith and Darrion Scott were there. DBs can only cover for so long.

If RichRod does get his system and players humming in Ann Arbor, Tressel is toast. he won't have the athletes on the DL to compete.

I just spent the last hour or so in a dentist's chair getting a chipped tooth fixed. It is the first time that anything like this has ever happened to me. Thankfully, it was one of my bottom front teeth and it didn't cause me any pain or discomfort. It only felt strange, very strange.

I kept thinking about what people did before we had the ability to fix chipped teeth. No wonder Washington had wooden false teeth.

The Big Ten and Pac Ten suck. There should be a play-off.