WEEK SIX: THE ORDER OF BUSINESS
Tons going on this weekend, so we push the old ladies down and cut to the head of the line.
Going to Baton Rouge. Momma, that’s a bad place, according to Mike Oher, but we’re ready to take our whippin’ and watch the drunken hordes of LSU fans with our own bleary eyes.
NEED TICKETS. We need tickets, of course–email us if have two to sell at face. If you supply us with face value tickets, we’ll give you a signed copy of the ESPN Guide to Psycho Fan Behavior, which comes out next week. We need two: one for us, and one for our kind host. We realize this is like asking someone to mail you a leprechaun, but it’s our last hope. Planning is for sissies.
In case you doubt the quality of the ESPN Guide to Psycho Fan Behavior, regard the following diagram from the stirring chapter “How to Steal a Mascot” and consider yourself converted to the way of the Psycho Fan.
Seriously, there’s lots of pictures, and it’s the most bathroom-compatible book ever written. PURCHASE PURCHASE PURCHASE!!!
We will be tailgating. This will involve a headbutt from reader Ragin’ Cajun Rebel, who is about to discover that nifty little metal plate in our forehead the hard way. Who says severe head injuries don’t have an upside? If you want to meet and greet, please email us at the standard harumphharumph at the yahoo type address to get in contact with us.
Specious picks! We’re making some weekly sandwiches for the Sporting News under a really bizarre pseudonym now. Enjoy some completely unscientific deli meat while you’re browsing today.
Enjoy your weekend, and come talk to Verne on Sunday. If you don’t hear from us by Sunday on EDSBS Live, we’re dead in a bayou with a smile on our face. Our guest (if we live) will be Verne Lundquist of CBS. Stop by the site and hit the EDSBS LIVE! banner on the right side of the screen just before 7 p.m. EST.
In the meantime……we’ll have Ladies on for liveblogging. Boobs! Football! Pull up the laptop and get sedentary, people. Blood makes the grass grow, but it doesn’t have to be yours, viewer. Let some fine scholarship athletes do all that mess for you this weekend.
If you’ll excuse us, we’ve got a party to get to in Baton Rouge. We’ve heard the host is…a bit quick to anger if you ask him about who built the digs.
Who made this? Huh? ME! Not Nick Saban! ME!”
Filed under: Blog Buddies, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Southeastern Conference by Orson Swindle
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Last shot since I have to change my pants after the UH game. I believe it was pre-insanity Al Davis that said, “Just win Baby!”
The Buckeyes have not beaten an SEC school during the regular season either. tOSU may just have been a glimmer in his test tube father’s eye when the Tide defeated the Buckeyes in the season opener in New Jersey 16-10 back in 1986. Oh yeah, the starting QB for Bama was Mike Shula.
While I am strolling down memory lane, who was the player for Clemson that Woody Hayes punched in the face for intercepting a pass from QB/Gambling Icon Art Schlichter? The instant replay kept playing the punch over and over and over while announcer Ara Parseghan (pardon the spelling but he whipped our ass too many times such that I have a mental block) said “I don’t know what started the fight?”
Comment by JPG — October 8, 2007 @ 11:40 am
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Saban may be overrated , but he aint underpaid, which in my book, as long as someone is gullible enough to pay you, you should be smart enough to cash their checks. Therein lies the genius of Nickolai Augustus Sabanov. He is a Soviet spy. I know it. So precise and detailed oriented, he’s a commy bastard with a process or too loose.
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — October 6, 2007 @ 1:41 pm
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2003 Cal - unranked
2003 FLA - 24/25
LSU defeated - AP 3, 7, 7, 13, 24; USA 3, 6, 6, 14, 25
USC defeated - AP 6, 9; USA 7,9
Ranked SEC teams: 5
Ranked PAC10 teams:2
tOSU, your opinions are sophistry and teleological. You have an answer that you seek to find support for instead of looking at the facts and coming to the correct answer.
The Sabans record in the coming years may prove out your opinion that Saban is overated (I happen to share that opinion). But the arguments you are making are dishonest, incomplete and inaccurate. Most important, they can not prove your theory that Saban is overated. Only time will tell.
Comment by Unhappy Monkey — October 6, 2007 @ 11:16 am
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“Someone mentioned defense. USC beat Auburn at Auburn 24-0 in week 1 and LSU beat Auburn at LSU 31-7 in week 8.”
Go back and look at those games. USC Auburn was 10-0 at the half. They kept their starters in the whole time. LSU got up 31-0 mid 3rd quarter and sent in their scrubs. No, USC wasn’t the better defense. They gave up over an extra 100 yds per game. Heh.
Comment by BJ and The Bear — October 6, 2007 @ 11:16 am
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#122
I’ll agree with that - USC and LSU should have played each other - plain and simple.
Comment by The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes — October 6, 2007 @ 11:12 am
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#117
In 1998, Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin tied for the Big Ten Championship. Ohio State beat Big 12 Champion Texas A&M, Wisconsin beat PAC 10 Champion UCLA, and Michigan beat 9-2 Arkansas.
In 1999, Michigan lost to 2 Big Ten teams and was not the Big Ten Champion and still beat SEC champion Alabama in the Orange Bowl. Michigan State lost to 2 Big Ten teams (Purdue 52-28; Wisconsin 40-10) and still beat SEC runner-up Florida. So 2 teams that did not win the Big Ten beat the SEC Champion and SEC runner-up.
No one seems to remember that for some reason? That little run between 1997-2002 where 2 Big Ten teams won undefeated National Championships and beat conference champions to do so; the nice year in 1998 when 3 teams split the Big Ten Title and went on to take care of business in the bowls. 1999 when we dominated the SEC champion and runner-up. Pretty nice run for a shit conference that’s always overrated.
Comment by The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes — October 6, 2007 @ 11:10 am
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“All happened in the last week of the season and in the bowl game.”
An arbitrary criterion that I’ll think I’ll reject. I’ll substitute it with another one: my order included a neat place for USC themselves, rather than simply their opponent. Sorry but this is asinine analysis. A beat B beat C beat D. You can really produce all sorts of nonsense with it.
Michigan was no more a worthy MNC opponent than OU despite being a weak conference champion. That extra loss takes them out of the equation. LSU and USC both played the wrong teams.
Comment by BJ and The Bear — October 6, 2007 @ 11:04 am
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USC - LSU Common Opponents 2003
Auburn:
USC 24-0 at Auburn
LSU 31-7 at Home
Margin of victory USC 24, LSU 24
Arizona:
USC 45-0 at Arizona
LSU 59-13 at Arizona
Margin of victory USC 45, LSU 46
Comment by The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes — October 6, 2007 @ 10:53 am