My thoughts by Paul M. Dugan

I hope everyone ok when wall street has been taking a big hit for the past three weeks or so. Sorry have not been on the computer lately because I had too much stuff on my computer to sort out. I was away to Cleveland, OH & South Bend, IN and Chicago, IL to visit family & friends without a UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame Football game involved in this trip. I took lots of pictures on my trip to. As soon as I came back from my lovely weekend I had to write some checks for some bills to take care of. My parents & I had lovely weather all the time on the trip just to let you know. In three weeks I will be taking class to get certifed on a program called "Microsoft EXCEL" on the window's platform. I am already using EXCEL on my mac (apple) pretty good at that. About a month ago I bought a new Wii (Nintendo) game called 2008 ncaa college football game. One game I love playing is fifa soccer 2008 to see match up's to see if real games really pen out during

Here is the first bcs rankings for college football season: BCS Standings - October 19, 2008 BCS Explanation | About the BCS | Past Winners | bcsfootball.org Week: 1 Other Polls Index USA Today Associated Press Harris Poll Legends Poll BCS standings ESPN.com Power Rankings ESPN.com Bottom 10 ESPNU Allstate Standings Harris Poll USA Today Computer Rankings BCS TEAM RK PTS % RK PTS % A&H RB CM KM JS PW % COMP AVG BCS AVG PRVS 1 Texas 1 2838 .9958 1 1522 .9980 25 25 25 25 25 25 1.000 1 .9979 NR 2 Alabama 2 2692 .9446 2 1436 .9416 24 24 24 24 24 24 .960 2 .9487 NR 3 Penn State 3 2631 .9232 3 1413 .9266 21 20 21 16 18 15 .750 7 .8666 NR 4 Oklahoma 4 2357 .8270 5 1218 .7987 17 23 20 23 22 22 .870 4 .8319 NR 5 USC 5 2327 .8165 4 1264 .8289 14 22 16 19 16 17 .680 10 .7751 NR 6 Oklahoma State 8 2046 .7179 8 1083 .7102 23 16 23

Well, I will be away this coming weekend for a special event so I will let you know what it is after I get back. Just to let NOTRE DAME Football fans know that they are not playing this coming weekend. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am up to 114 friends/family on facebook that I really know. I got some poster frames to put in some really cool posters I have gotten when I went to some ND Sports event for the past years. It's really cool to do this finally. Take care

Here are the new college football polls: Oct. 12, 2008 Rank Team (first-place votes) Record Points Last week 1. Texas (44) 6-0 1,505 5 2. Alabama (14) 6-0 1,452 4 3. Penn State (3) 7-0 1,416 6 4. Southern California 4-1 1,198 9 5. Texas Tech 6-0 1,195 7 6. Oklahoma 5-1

AP Top 25 for college football 1. Oklahoma (51) 5-0 1,608 2. Alabama (13) 6-0 1,537 3. Missouri (1) 5-0 1,487 4. LSU 4-0 1,444 5. Texas 5-0 1,374 6. Penn State 6-0 1,287 7. Texas Tech 5-0 1,163 8. USC 3-1 1,137 9. Brigham Young 5-0 1,103 10. Georgia 4-1 1,014 11. Florida 4-1 977 12. Ohio State 5-1 931 13. Vanderbilt 5-0 833 14. Utah 6-0 815 15. Boise State 4-0 677 16. Kansas 4-1 623 17. Oklahoma State 5-0 565 18. Virginia Tech 5-1 485 19. South Florida 5-1 392 20. Auburn 4-2 236 21. Wake Forest 3-1 205 22. North Carolina 4-1 196 23. Michigan State 5-1 161 24. Pittsburgh 4-1 121 25. Ball State 6-0 97 Others Receiving Votes Wisconsin 96, Tulsa 85, Illinois 81, California 80, Northwestern 78, TCU 70, Georgia Tech 59, Kentucky 49, Florida State 36, Notre Dame 6, Fresno State 5, Arizona 5, Oregon 4, Boston College 3. Dropped From Rankings Wisconsin 18, Fresno State 22, Oregon 23, Connecticut 24.

Oct. 5, 2008 Rank Team (first-place votes) Record Points Last week 1. Oklahoma (60) 5-0 1,524 1 2. Missouri 5-0 1,404 3 3. LSU (1) 4-0 1,398 2 4. Alabama 6-0 1,339 4 5. Texas 5-0 1,305 5 6. Penn State 6-0 1,203 6 7.