Gators Bite Dawgs

Florida needs to retire number 11 in honor of QB Kyle Trask. He's the second best QB in the country, behind Clemson's Trevor Lawrence. Dawgs lost their 3rd string QB Bennett, two receivers, and three safeties, yet kept the score to 41-28 until the Gators tacked on a meaningless field goal near the end of the game. Florida's win ending Georgia's three game win streak.

Notre Dame has started out the game like UGA did, like Boston College did last week. The Irish benefitted from two close calls: (1) the fumble return called a TD instead of down at the one yard line and (2) the incompletion being called a fumble. Represents a possible ten point swing. Both the Clemson backup QB DJ and UGA backup QB De'Wan Mathis could use more touch on the ball. 

The press talked about how great Ohio State was to beat Penn State last week. Today mighty Maryland led the Nittany Lions 35-7 after three quarters, a beatdown worse that the Buckeyes 38-25 score. Terp QB Taulia Tagovailoa went 18/26 for 282 yards and 3 TD's, a performance similar to OSU QB Justin Fields last week. Perhaps Tagovailoa should win the Heisman Trophy. Right now it's Fields' Heisman to lose, with Clemson's Lawrence and Etienne splitting votes.

My top twenty Masters picks, and Reid's. The second number is the player's world rank. I considered Speith and Michelson and Zack, looked at Bubba and ruled out Brandt and Howell III.

1. 06 Bryson DeChambeau Reid = 1

2. 02 Jon Rahm Reid = 3

3. 03 Justin Thomas Reid = 4

4. 04 Collin Morikawa Reid not listed

5. 12 Brooks Koepka Reid 13 

6. 07 Xander Schauffele Reid = 6

7. 09 Patrick Cantlay Reid not listed

8. 14 Matthew Wolff Reid = 8

9. 17 Tony Finau Reid = 7

10. 16 Tommy Fleetwood Reid not listed

         11. 05 Rory McIlroy Reid = 2

12. 18 Louis Oosthuizen Reid not listed

13. 15 Adam Scott Reid not listed

14. 08 Webb Simpson Reid = 11

15. 11 Patrick Reed Reid = 6

        16. 19 Matthew Fitzpatrick Reid not listed

17. 32 Tiger Woods Reid = 17

18. 01 Dustin Johnson Reid = 9

19. 27 Justin Rose Reid = 10

20. 20 Hideki Matsuyama Reid not listed  

More of Reid's picks… 

12. 44 Bubba Watson

14. 75 Jordan Spieth

15. 123 Zack Johnson

16. 84 Brandt Snedeker

18. 60 Phil Michelson

19. 99 Charles Howell III

20. 28 Matt Kuchar

Man after 5 pm Friday I went constantly ever since, up to now. Left work. Stopped at the closest Publix. Bought a cake. Was thirsty but couldn't find the right Gatorade or Powerade. Then my normal route home. Had to stop for gas. Was 6:25 before I got home.

Picked up Ceil and headed out. Stopped by Publix for ice cream. 75 south to Northside to MLK to Stafford Street by 7:35. Anna and Okie were home, then MC arrived with the Antico pizza. Will came in from work, started a fire out on the deck, then took a shower. Then we ate, out on the deck.

As we ate Okie kept going behind the shed and bringing out progressively bigger sticks. By the end of the evening he was dragging out huge logs. He was very pleased with himself. Will regaled us with tales from the ER. He's had a rough week and was ready for a restful weekend.

We didn't leave until after 10:30 and it was almost 11:30 before we got home. Was up before 5:30 and back at work by 6:45 for physical inventory. Chickfila biscuits. The funeral for Anna's classmate was this morning. Anna wasn't looking forward to it. 

Worked until 11:30 and got a haircut on the way home. Then I cleaned up out the gutters, finishing right when the GA/FL game started. Kept busy folding clothes and doing laundry during the first quarter.