Bad Beat Weekend

In two ways:

First, I had a card game Friday. I came in third, but the bad beat came down to the last two players in the last hand. Mike had Q-2 and josh had 10-2. the flop came up Q-2-6, so Mike had two pair and Josh was crushed with only having bottom pair (QQ-22 vs 22). The only way for Josh to win the hand and the game, was for the turn and river cards to both be 10's. Basically, a 1% chance of winning. The turn came up a 10. Now he had a 4% chance to win. Low and behold, the river was another 10. Wow. I have never seen anything like that happen before.

Now, the bigger beat: M*ch*g*n getting beat at home by Div 1-AA Appalachian State. WHAT!!!???!!! On one hand, it is always good to see M*ch*g*n lose and even better to see them humiliated by a team they should have dominated, but this is really a bad blow to the Big Ten conference. One of its power house teams was beat by a team that isn't even programmed into the NCAA 08 football game. Granted, App State is the two time defending champion of the Div 1 AA conference, but they shouldn't be able to beat any Div 1 school, right? I can imagine all of the tears and cries for Lloyd Carr's head on a pike up in Ann Arbor. What does this mean for the rest of the Big Ten? Well, it is possible for the Wolverweenies to regroup and come back strong, but if their defense doesn't gel, the Big Ten race could come down to OSU and Wisconsin. Fine by me. Still, I always like to see UM do well so that The Big Game at the end of the season has more meaning.

As a side note, OSU won their opener against Youngstown State by alot. they didn't look too fancy, but there were few mistakes on either side of the ball and the new QB, Boeckman didn't make any bad mistakes and looked good on several plays. The running game could have been better, considering they were going aginst a Div 1 AA team themselves. Still, it was a starting point for the season and the next few games should be smooth sailing. Hopfully, the Buckeyes will take away a lesson from UM's bad beat: just because you should win a game, doesn't mean you will.