There are 120 Division 1-A football teams, and there are four stats that characterize a team's offense: rushing yards, passing yards, total yards, and points scored. Looking at these quantities per game played, Notre Dame's ranks are 120th, 114th, 120th, and 120th. For the season, ND has amassed (-14) rushing yards: overall, they've gone backwards 14 yards when running the ball! Navy has fewer passing yards than ND, but they lead the nation in rushing to compensate. ND has scored 13 total points, and 7 of those were scored by their defense on an interception return! Can they beat anyone this year? (I was going to say Duke, but then I checked and they actually beat Northwestern last week for their first win since 2005). Blah.
Meanwhile, the Tigers are still alive, and if the Yankees could just disintegrate, they'd make the playoffs. It's still possible, but I'm not too confident.
Solution to the Problem of the Week mentioned in the last post: the North Pole is the obvious location, but then there's an infinite number of places to start near the South Pole. Lines of longitude stretch from the North Pole to the South Pole, so they're all the same length. Lines of latitude (like the equator, the Tropic of Cancer, and the Arctic Circle) have different lengths, though - they get shorter as you get closer to the poles. So, if you start one mile north of the line of latitude that is 1 mile around (you're near the South Pole) , you will go a mile south and then do a complete circle when you go one mile east. Going one mile north again brings you back to where you started. You could also start a mile north of the line of latitude that is 1/2 mile or 1/3 mile or 1/4 mile around and still end up where you started.
Finally: I've decided that I like the idea of Pumpkin Ales and Oktoberfest beers more than I actually like the beers. They're fine, and I like collecting their bottles, but there are plenty of other beers that I like better.
The end!
13 years ago
4 comments:
Maybe you should start cheering for the UK wildcats instead of ND. They're the ultimate underdogs, making a comeback under the leadership of a potential Heisman-winner, in the second-toughest league in the nation.
I would say focus on your current school but they have a schedule whooping on 10/27...
There's always Ohio State, too! I'd brag about our 3-0 record, but that only includes wins over Youngstown State, Akron, and Washington.
But, you know, then again, it's THE Ohio State University, the greatest university in the history of the world.
And what's this smack talk about Pumpkin Ales? I've considered changing my favorite style on BeerAdvocate to it. There's New Holland's Ichabod, not to mention Southern Tier's Pumpking and Weyerbacher's Imperial Pumpkin Ale.
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