Boi From Troy posts his top 25 for the season. We have no complaints, especially with his especially fair top ten, save this one: what’s a Boi From Troy college football article without a little prime manbeef, huh? We’re straight, but as creatures of habit, we get used to certain things, and one of them is pics of shirtless, hairless studs with our Boi articles. To compensate, we give a little prime rib for one of our most prized demographics, the gay college football fan:
How you feelin’? HOT! HOT! HOT!
Instead of replacing the AP Poll with something edgy yet transparent and credible like the mgoblog-organized Blog Poll, the BCS brain trust has played it safe and added the Harris Interactive College Football Poll. This poll will consist of 114 voters and will begin ranking teams on September 25. Like the coaches poll, only the final ballot will be made public.
For those of you Penn State fans who are big fans of the World Series of Poker, you are in luck. Former Penn State quarterback Zack Mills is one of 1,884 players still alive in the World Series of Poker playing out now in Las Vegas. Mills qualified after playing 12 hours straight to win an online tournament on pokerstars.com. Don’t worry Joe Pa, I’m sure he picked up his gambling habit after leaving Penn State.
Blue Gray Sky, as usual, sums up something better than the rest, this time in a tidy wrapup of USC’s offseason coaching changes.
Pappy Bowden thinks DUI and resisting arrest are just fine, evidently. Oh, and domestic abuse? Ditto. We’re thinking of jacking his mailbox, doing donuts on his lawn, and seeing how forgiving he’d be in court with us. (”But honestly, Bobby, we can run a 4.48!”) Kevin weighs in with a rare and accurate editorial comment.
Dadgummit, I really like Bowden as a coach and love the program he’s built at Florida State, but I think there has to be some point at which you say - if you end up in handcuffs, you’re going to miss some games. Even if the charges against Sims are expected to be dropped, don’t you have to take some action when a scholarship athlete sits in the back of a patrol car?
No, Kevin! You don’t! Even when a starting linebacker smacks up his girlfriend, you can just hide under your hat and demur, sentencing him to the bare minimums under the school’s code of conduct. Silence on DUI? Just fishy. Silence on a player slamming a 5′2″, 118-lb. woman against the floor repeatedly? Vile. Indefensible. Somewhere Tom Osborne is thinking of Lawrence Phillips dragging his girlfriend down the stairs…
Bowden: nothing to see here…
We’ve been accuses of wearing jean shorts by Westerdawg, a charge we vehemently deny. Dresses? Yes, on occasion. Ridiculously tight pants? Jams? Seersucker suits? One collarless shirt in 1997? Guilty as charged on all counts. But…”jorts?” Never! Or at least not since ‘93.
Westerdawg, in addition to granting our wishes for a Tennessee fan cover for NCAA ‘06, goes a step further and links to a mighty tribute to the jean short, the “Real Man of Genius” ode to “jorts.” (For still more on the wonderful world of jorts, click here.)
In some places, mediocrity and losing to Wyoming gets a coach fired, or at least chases the drinking buddies off the coaching payroll. At UCLA, it gets you PR help.
Evidently, it’s fact: the ‘71 Huskers are the greatest program of all time. We see the results with some degree of comfort–it’s interesting to see instinct validated by analysis, even if there’s obvious problems with the methodology. (There’s gotta be, if only because we don’t remember the ‘98 Vols being anywhere close to as dominant as either the ‘04 Trojans or the horrid, “destroyer of worlds” Unicrons that were the ‘95-’96 Huskers.)
Unicron and Nebraska ‘95-96: Planet-eating bastards from hell.
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We don’t stray from College Football much–it’s cold and scary out there–but occasionally someone accomplishes something which we simply cannot deny bestowing the mark of greatness upon, something so transcendently insane we’re forced to share it with others. Danny Way, an American skateboarder, combined the following things in one event:
1. Two 120-ft high halfpipes.
2. A skateboard.
3. The Great Wall of China.
The results are indescribable, so watch them for yourself to believe. A mountain biker died trying to do the same in 2002; Way makes the jump five times. Watching an American do this over the Great Wall leaves us with only one possible response: America, Fuck Yeah!
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