The week of a lifetime, 2 college football games, 8 states, and a visit to Graceland

Hello college football fans, relocated to Chicago, Illinois in one week, on the way I visit 2 stadiums, the first one was by chance, eating BBQ in Waco, TX at Rudy’s,I  notice alot of TCU and Baylor fans eating at the same place, imnagine that. They told me to come to the game, which I did, found parking, got a ticket, and was sitting with the Baylors Women Cross Country Team, which they won there 1st meet of the season, my hats off to the lady bears . I was sitting by the entrance  where theBaylor Football Team was going to comeout, and like about 3000 students ranout to form a wall of yellow shirts for the Baylor football players to runout, never seen anything like it. The fireworks have begun,as Baylor jumpout on the first kickoff with a sprint down the field with the first score. TCU came back on the kickoff to almost scoring, as the punt return was tackle by the 15 yrd line of Baylor, on the next few play TCU ended up in the endzone. Long story short, Baylor was winning by a big margin, TCU came back to take the lead 48- 47, and Baylor was in distraught of the comeback, but the cool handed quarterback Griffin lead the Bears down the field for a game winning kick by Aaron Jones on a 37 yard field goal thru the goal post. TCU tried to respond but was intercepted by Mike Hicks as he put the game away.  As I made my way out of Waco I went down the street to Texas Stadium in Arlington which was a fun match as LSU beat Oregon 40-27, which was a even contest throughout the game, the 3 turnovers by Oregon seperated the score between the ducks and the tigers. Special teams prove to be the winner in this game.Driving into Baton Rouge I ran into a tropical storm Lee, which came out of the gulf, heading up the freeway 49 as I was driving to Baton Rouge, I had to pull off the freeway and get a hotel.  I finally rolled into Baton Rouge, La, stopped by and said hi to all, my older brother John and his wife Kristy, and my two nephews Adam, and Eric, Eric is battling with cancer, he is feeling better, John and Kristy are there by his side consistantly, and the nurses at the Our Lady of the Lake are doing a good job. I made my way up the 55 freeway, and stopped off by Memphis,TN, spent the night and went to Graceland the next day, had a great time in Graceland. Memphis has some of the best BBQ in all of the south, stopped by Beale St as I headed out of Memphis, lots of jazz thats for sure.  I finally made it in to Chicago, what a trip that was. Well signing off, looking forward to a great weekend of football, cheers.

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