THE WEEKEND RECAP TO COME. FIRST, YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE.
We’ll talk about the bizarre weekend in due time. First, see the nightmare image conjured up by the weekend’s oddest and most persistent rumor, courtesy of Paul Westerdawg. Blame him if you dare to click through and witness the horror of the Ol’ Ball Coach in the Miami milieu. (SFW, but NSIYJABYWVE.*)
Not safe if you just ate because you will vomit explosively.













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Championships are won by defenses.
Unless Michigan and OSU are playing in the game.
Comment by Cruzer — November 20, 2006 @ 5:28 pm
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Do you think the Michigan faithful could handle losing to OSU twice in one year?
Comment by Drogue — November 20, 2006 @ 4:22 pm
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Blah Blah Blah
All this jibba jabba about no way a top SEC team gives up 39 points. Puh-lease.
Sorta like Georgia last year in the Sugar Bowl.
SEC will get smoked royally in each bowl game where it faces a Big Ten team. Take that to the bank.
Comment by weegipup — November 20, 2006 @ 3:52 pm
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About the OSU/MI game: Two bitter rivals battled it out for everything on the line. The offenses held nothing back. Both defenses had trouble stopping anything.
To argue that LSU and other SEC teams could hold the OSU/UM offenses down is valid because they have been solid on defense all year, but that doesn’t mean they would beat either of those schools.
The irony of the whole thing is that the SEC is playing Big Ten style football this year - defense and smashmouth football which leads to low-scoring and anemic offenses (Florida running it up on Western Carolina doesn’t count). Why complain about all the points? It was Super Bowl like entertainment. Look at the ratings. It was the most watched game in 13 years.
I am a Michigan fan and I would love another shot at OSU for the Championship but only if Michigan ends up being the #2 team because all the other remaining teams left in the hunt lose. It really makes no sense to argue against a team whose only loss was on the road at the National #1 if all that should transpire.
It was a great game to watch and if it happens again, I’m all for it.
Comment by Jeff — November 20, 2006 @ 2:07 pm
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If the tOSU/UM game was such an “instant classic”, why aren’t tOSU’s and UM’s games against Illinois and Ball State classics? They at least played defense.
Sorry, with all the national frenzy and media fellating of these two schools I’m getting a little bent out of shape. And then you add Burp Kerbtweet’s random musings of a re-match to the exclusion of any other potentially deserving team by ESPN fiat and I’m beginning to get really pissed off…time to go kick, er, walk the dog. See ya.
Comment by sb — November 20, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
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KBJarvis —
Maybe shellshocked? When Wells smacked dead into the line, I thought he was done. Instead, he spun right off the hit and bulled through Michigan’s vaunted front seven. No way in Hell those d-backs were stopping Wells. When he can hold onto the ball, that guy is money in the bank.
I’m not sure I’d call either defense awful–but the score was almost exactly double what I had expected on Friday. I really do look forward to either tOSU or Michigan matching up with any SEC team–I think differences in the style of play between the Big 10 and the SEC make for really, really good football.
Or, Maybe those offenses really are that good? Why is that concept so difficult? Anybody??
Comment by Miller — November 20, 2006 @ 12:48 pm
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Dear Miller,
Sure, the offense may’ve been good. But it takes a truly awful defense to make that possible. Watching Wells run straight through the middle of the Wolverine’s D-line and then on past the linebackers (apparently they went the way of the Red Sea and parted) only to come to…wait for it…no safeties over the top and no sign of a CB for miles of green-gray grassland…any time a back can go essentially untouched for 56 yards between the tackles without seeing a hint of defender…well, that would just have to imply the defense was terrible (or perhaps on an extended mental vacation)
Comment by kbjarvis — November 20, 2006 @ 12:11 pm
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One more thing….who photoshopped Spurrier’s head on Orson’s body??
Comment by baconboy — November 20, 2006 @ 11:47 am
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As far as defense goes, I was struck by the lack serious hitting put on by the OSU/UM defenses. There were some good hits now and then, but compare those defenses to the Auburn/LSU game…there is no comparison. That might have been the most physical football game I’ve ever seen. After Saturday’s game I thought to myself, “if those are the two best defenses in the Big 10, then the offenses in the league must be crap.”
Comment by baconboy — November 20, 2006 @ 11:16 am