Hack’s gonna be liveblogging the Cocks/Dawgs game Saturday, so if you’re like us and raising your chances of testicular cancer by watching the game with the computer on your lap, give him a visit.
Barring another Chinese spam attack decimating our server, we’ll be liveblogging around noon EST for the ND-Michigan game and for the South Carolina-Georgia Game at 3:30. We’re likely going to be in a weird space emotionally watching our mentor get plowed by UGA, so we’ll need the emotional support. Or just come by and heckle our tears, you heartless bitches. We’d be around more, but the necessities of human contact will keep us from watching football all day long. Have you ever seen that Twilight Zone episode where bookworm Burgess Meredith dreams of reading all day long without interruption, and then gets his wish when a nuke goes off while he’s in a bank vault, leaving him alone with all the books? We’re like that with college football if left to our own devices, so some human interaction is necessary.
Time enough at last to watch the SMU-TCU game!
PICKS
We went 1-3 last week… (more…)
Columnist and EDSBS reader Corey Long of the Lakeland Ledger thinks Josh Portis, the freshman prodigy qb who followed Meyer to Florida after committing at Utah, could already be pushing Chris Leak for the starting position for the Gators. Peep quote:
“Josh Portis is dynamic,” Meyer said after Saturday’s game. “We’re going to get him ready to go. We’re going to play him a bunch.”
Darwinian thinking has officially arrived in the Gator Nation. If Leak continues to struggle in the run game, watch the survival of the fittest play its ugly way out.
Brian at MGoBlog has fired a salvo at our west coast sophisticated blog bretheren at HeismanPundit and College Football Resource which can be seen here and here . Response to date has been limited by server trouble. We here at EDSBS haven’t been this entertained at a back and forth since this rumble took place in San Diego:
Pat Forde took a shot at the college football system that can rank Oklahoma over the team that it lost to… at home.
Reason 623 why the system stinks
The Dash is trying to figure out how TCU (25) could beat Oklahoma in Norman, how the Sooners could lead for exactly zero minutes and zero seconds, how the Sooners could be outgained by 59 yards and outdone in possession time by nearly 10 minutes … and still be ranked ahead of the Horned Frogs in both polls.
Does Bob Stoops (26) have pictures of the voters or something?
But at least the Frogs are in the AP poll (at No. 22, compared to the Sooners’ 18). In the latest example of why the coaches’ poll is the more fraudulent, TCU is in ARV territory (No. 27) while Oklahoma is No. 15. Yo, coaches: you don’t need written permission from Myles Brand to drop a team — even a big-name team — off your ballot. Loosen up and vote ‘em where they belong on a week-by-week basis.
Well, Pat, you will find no such abomination on our blog poll ballot this week (even if we went a little “flap jack nuts“)
Oh, we’ll be watching it. Don’t misunderstand our apprehensions about the Texas-Ohio State game. It’s not the teams, since both feature elite athletes playing collective asses off, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Matchups like this tend to bypass the frilly-collared, ascot-wearing offensive football dandy-part of the brain and go directly to the deep, lizard-brain base pleasure of watching “BIG MAN HIT BIG MAN THING GO SNAP!” part of the football fan’s soul.
The queasy apprehension we feel in the pit of our stomachs isn’t from eating some of the shrimp we bought out of some dude named Lamar’s trunk a few days ago–where else are you gonna find shrimp for three dollars a pound in Atlanta? No, mild cramping and subsequent nausea is what you’ll experience when someone offers you a matchup between two mean-ass programs coached by Mack Brown and Jim Tressel and just dares you not to try and watch it.
In short: picking between the two stinks. Reminds us of another contest…
Just hold your nose and pick. That’s happened before.
As a matter of principle, we here at EDSBS.com don’t like either coach. Reasons follow:
Mack Brown.
REP: Recruiter and cupcake eater… (more…)
than voting for your favorite college football cheerleader. Check out Athlon’s contest and do your civic duty and vote.
Our musings over who should replace Trev Alberts in one of the top 6 jobs in America got such a great response from our loyal and hysterical readers that we had to pull out some of our favorites.
EDSBS Contributor Solon provided us with this suggestion we are embarrassed we didn’t think of first:
I can’t believe you didn’t suggest Ric Flair, longtime Gator fan and definitely the greatest of the speechgivers among the wrestling community.
Fowler: So who do you think is going to win the national title this year, Ric?
Flair: USC! To be the man, you got to beat the man! Whoooo!
Ric Flair also would keep the female demographic, as Ric was noted for having, if I am remembering right, “40 women in every city.” This one’s a no-brainer.
Notre Dame will take Navy behind the woodshed… Woooo!
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A former instructor at the University of Houston was convicted of stealing money from the university yesterday and sentenced to three years’ probation. Who’s the instructor? The same guy serving as the primary source for SI’s “Houston is fucked” story alleging at least 25 improper grade changes for athletes.
The most obvious scenario here is that Houston scrutinized the books and retaliated for the whistleblowing by nailing the prof for the pittance–$1,500–he stole from the university. (From our experience at universities, there’s plenty of profs stealing way more by simply being on the payroll. Call them the Peerless Prices of the academic world.)
The more interesting suggestion–one that the article, in all fairness, doesn’t dodge–is that Brown is a wobbly source caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
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