SATURDAY OPEN THREAD

White boys and gang signs….ga-ga-ga-gang signs.

One of the biggest indictments on the Big 10’s weakness as a conference is the fact that the Zooker will be Coach of the Year.

I am still beyond amazed that all those, “Notre Dame alums” thought that your ND guest column article was legitimate.

There is gullibility and then there is stupidity.

Assuming these people have spent 5 seconds on EDSBS, how did they not come to the conclusion that said article was a satirical work?

And, to think, I once believed ND to be a bastion of academic excellence.

Yeah, not so much, now.

Oh, and go ACC Catholics and go Heels! Carolina is going to bring it, but, sadly, will lose a close one to Cocks. Or a the Cocks will win comfortably. Whatever…

Afterwards, Butch will sleigh Spurrier in a viser-off.

I, the Carolinas, am in your AD’s office, state of Florida, stealing all your coaches who fail in the NFL after success at your schools…

I have to work on the above.

1. -

That could work as a more sophisticated version of the LOLCat – say, the LOLCat that sips Courvoisier, wears a monocle and speaks in a Cockney accent.

Ah, Zook — on his way to building a second national championship team, perhaps?

National Championship Teams Built
Zook 1
Meyer 0

During the 1st quarter of the Texas-Iowa State game, everyone’s favorite terrible announcer, Dave Lapham, just announced that Iowa State WR Todd Blythe got “face raped” after a face mask no-call.

Then he said it again.

Maybe ESPN should call today’s slate of games “Face Rape Saturday”….

Well, that was an enlightening interview with Hank Goldberg in the UM-GT game. Did he say anything even remotely interesting? Does he ever? Can he give me the name of his bookie?

Goldberg gave a couple of horse tips—he’s normally pretty reliable.

“Independent” 71 page report on Hoover High coach Russ Propst posted on Hoover school board website. Still culling for juicy nuggets.

http://www2.hoover.k12.al.us/Documents/FinalReport.pdf

Can UT spend a little f-in’ money and get white uniforms that a) match the white on the helmets, and b) aren’t see-through? I’m tired of seeing the Longhorns’ junkholders, thank you very much.

Today’s top TIVO screen capture moment:

The Miami fan with a perfect version of the “U” shaved into his chest hair. And I do mean, PERFECT!

O.K. Swindle, what’s this sudden man crush you have on [NAME REDACTED] lately. I read on that OTHER site the actual name itself. Come to think of it, where is Orson and what have you done with him?

Okay, going back to the GameDay crew, when did Stanford beating USC surpass a D I-AA team that Vegas wasn’t even taking bets on beating Michigan?

Orson,
GFotta apologize for my brother not calling you about tickets last week. he had sold them byt the time I got in touch, but it was douchebaggery on his part. Don’t hold it against me.

F

#2—Butch will give the OBC a run for his money today.

#3—A “ha ha ha, that was hilarious” cat?

1) I’d bet $$ that the Zooker pic was snapped after a half hour of him running around in socks and sliding on his wood floor.

2) Can LSU overcome contracting Pepatitis from Holtz?

3) Orgeron, get the fucking Rebbas out of the basement, goddamnit!

Nebraska LOL

#12, Spurrier will put up 41 on Carolina, and take a picture in front of the scoreboard. Sorry, that’s just how he rolls.

Just for old time’s sake.

Um, calling a face mask “face raping” during Texas-Iowa State is probably inappropriate.

Assuming the Cornhuskers don’t turn it over for a third time before the half, Oklahoma State will have to settle for 236 rushing yards through two quarters.

15 of their last 16 plays have been rushing attempts gaining 132 yards and scoring three TDs.

Stupid Nebraska and their stupid non-option offense. Isn’t about time to fire that bum Callahan and hire Paul Johnson? Oh, and give him some money to hire a DC, the black shirts have been MIA for almost a decade.

Face raped…wow, just…wow

The Fightin’ [REDACTED]’s may be returning to form against what has previously been an awful, awful Iowa squad. I think Orson has been working a jinx on them.

Taylor Bennett looking like a slow, crappy version of Tebow today – has 2 rushing TDs on the day…now has 3 rushing TDs to 2 passing TDs on the season.

So… uh… how bout this Iowa team? Gotta love the Big Televen.

Wow, [offense redacted] just gave it to [name redacted] deep in Illini territory with a chance to clinch the game, or at least make it a 7-point lead.

The Big Ten really IS a cripplefight this year.

Ouch…penalty on Illinois negates an 83 yard TD pass. Better and better indeed.

hahahahahaha ineligible receiver downfield? really? God I love hating this conference.

Memo to ESPN:
(to be read by the great Stu Scott)

A man, embattled, rattled
Shaken by events from his past
He relents, hoping, dreaming
While the sunshine state weeping
Banished, fired, tired
Shamed, packs up his bags
Changes his game
And treks to the Big 10
To clear his name
At long last, as we sit
Flabberghast
This man, leads Illini
To victory, sweet victory
A man we all mistook
As a loser, a villain
Behold, the legend of
Ron Zook

Ratings Bonanza!!!

1. - [OFFENSE REDACTED] for the Hawkeyes? Cocktails to you — again, Kirk Ferentz is college football’s version of Norv.

My dad called earlier to say he just discovered that he gets the Big 10 Network on his satellite package, and thus could watch Northwestern (alma mater) to his heart’s content.

I told him less painful ways of slow suicide exist and that he was better off increasing his cigarette intake to two packs a day rather than watch the Big Televen.

So I’m partaking in the Coach O v. Saban meeting of the minds and I’m so confused as to why my “Info” on the digital cable from Comcast says “Undefeated Alabama looks to keep rolling …” etc. I’m gonna assume it’s Lincoln Financial’s or the Dave’s mistake.

Addition to my previous comment: Northwestern is losing to Minnesota by two touchdowns. Slow suicide, indeed.

Arrellious Benn is apparently not going to allow [NAME REDACTED] to lose.

Zooked!

Ugly!!

But McGee certainly will. Nice end zone pick, there.

ha ha. HA HA HA HA. Redacted loses to Iowa. Give another angel its wings.

[Rank Redacted]

[TEAM REDACTED] goes down!

Congrats to OPS and Jebus, but man oh man the teams in this conference outside of OSU are sucktastic. Does UM move back into the top 25 this week?

oh my god. Iowa is rushing the field. After beating Illinois. The apocalypse has come.

#22, you mean a guy not good enough to beat out Reggie Ball for the starting job sucks? Who would have thought that?

#36: I think we’re running out of teams to put in the rankings, so yeah, Michigan probably gets back in.

Big O,

Wish I would’ve run into you guys at Baton Rouge last weekend. I felt like a sheep amongst wolves. Proud sheep though. Damn…wife & I took a beating for wearing Gator colors.

Comment reply to Zook photo above: ’’He’s gone Gay on us".

Zook Sucks!

A classic Zook game.
Our spread option offense isn’t working, let’s keep running it until the last three minutes of the game.
He also accepted a penalty on what would have been a 4th and 5 and Iowa promptly completed a 30 yarder for the first down.
Kind of saw this one coming.
Iowa – “I see white people”

If the “Fire Saban” sentiment was going moderately strong before today, what happens if they lose to Ole Miss?

Yeah, BigDog, [name redacted] is the better coach. The Gators are worse off without him. What a joke.

Proof of Iowa State’s suck: they just gave up a 44-yard RUSHING touchdown to Colt McCoy.

In the second half, JPW is making the Ogre’s D look like the ’85 Bears.

Who would ever imagine that Mr. Redacted’s team would choke down the stretch? And in record time.

John Saunders just explained what “croomed” means…guess he’s been reading college football blogs?

1. — Irwin, did I say they were worse off without him?

Well, UF fans will never really know because they fired him before he had a chance to coach the national championship team that he built. That’s right: this guy you all so gleefully refer to as [name redacted] built that team. Zook’s biggest crime against the Gator Nation was simply being the guy who followed Spurrier. But keep in mind, so far, Meyer hasn’t done any more for UF than Larry Coker had for Miami at this point.

Overs. For the second week in a row. I love it.

Zook’s biggest crime against the Gator Nation was simply being the guy who followed Spurrier.And you know, that whole losing to Mississippi State thing.

#41: Chan Gailey is a stubborn old coot who wouldn’t make a sensible change if it meant getting rid of those gosh darn kidney stones.

I mean, we’re talking about a guy so predictably steady that I was able to predict eight straight plays on one drive.

Let me say this: When Florida loses my chest hurts and my heart then proceeds to burst forth giving life to wherever it is that it lands. But, beyond the hokey dokey….Zook….there I said it, I’m starting to sweat a little, but at least I’m able to say it now. The healing has started…I think.

Question: How many of you would take OBC back now instead of Meyer? I would, without taking a full three seconds to think about it. Although we all must remember that all the great Spurrier teams lost at least once and usually more.

I remember the T-shirt that said, “Steve Spurrier doesn’t think he’s God. He is God.”

That’s kind of like saying John Blake built Stoop’s Oklahoma championship team. What you’re saying is what we already know – he can recruit, but he can’t coach worth a damn. And Mr. Tebow and Mr. Harvin have a rebuttal for your “Zook built that team” argument.

#53
It wasn’t the whole Miss St. thing. It also had to do with two straight loses to Ole Miss. How does that happen? It has to do with kicking the shit out of Miami for most of the game and then pooping it all away. I think the fact the he’s not the best water skier hurt him as well.

Mississippians, deadbolt your doors: the Orgeron will be on a rampage tonight!

and, having spent the morning gazing into the hellmouth via the glory of the internets, i now can head to the hills with that glow of victory and the side effect indigestion you get when it was WAY too close again.

“I, the Carolinas, am in your AD’s office, state of Florida, stealing all your coaches who fail in the NFL after success at your schools…”

OH NOES! Ur in our Swampz, stealin’ our Coachez?

gosouth: Locking the doors will only further anger the Orgeron.

@45

the only people with “fire saban sentiment” are haters from other schools. i.e. you.

Roll Tide BITCHES

About the worst thing that could happen there. UNC was given a gift from Mike Davis, and they pretty much give it right back. Holding, botched snap, interception—just terrible execution from the entire offense.

56 Herb — you don’t think Florida was on Tebow’s radar already? And vice versa? Although I admit that I don’t know the whole story about how he was recruited and what other schools he was considering and blah blah blah but I’m sure somebody here will let me know.

Nebraska’s AD and coach are gone, baby, gone. Getting rung up 38-0 gets people fired.

Nebraska “refused to surrender the Big 12 to Texas and Oklahoma”? Mission accomplished — we surrendered it to Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma State.

Steve Pederson refused to gravitate to mediocrity. Instead, he gravitated all the way through it to incompetence.

#66, that’s just God’s way of punishing you for giving up on the option. You see how He’s treated Notre Dame, and those are His boys.

#65: Tim Tebow grew up a Gator fan. He had posters of Danny Wuerffel on his wall in high school. His family’s mailbox was a mock Gator helmet. Florida was on his radar back when Zook was the defensive coordinator.

Does someone want to tell USC and Wisconsin that they’re supposed to be playing football right now?

Is Wisconsin’s defense always this bad? I know Penn State’s offense isn’t this good.

Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers!

GO STATE!

I wonder if Callahan’s resume is as big as his lame playbook.

It’s also nice to see the SEC and Pac 10 take some time off from the knife fight, to come together and agree that the Big Televen SUCKS!

The canned music after every big play is beginning to get to me. Where’s the band?

1. - Yea we all are not happy about taylor’s stats but thats what happens when you combine poorly thrown balls with terrible wide receiving.

I can see Nebraska and A&M getting into a slapfight for the rights to Paul Johnson of Navy at the end of the season.

I know Verne is a good guy, but I am just waiting for the day that he bitch-slaps Gary Danielson and says, “shut the F up! You don’t know everything you arrogant bast@rd!”

I know Fearless Leader Bill Callahan is now cruising the animal shelters in the Lincoln area, trying to fill a bucket of kittens.

Aside from the coaching staff sucking out loud, the real culprit behind Nebraska’s rise to the shittiest team in the country is the athletic director Steve Pederson. That inept piece of shit has destroyed a great program and polarized the fan base. Most people will simply say, “it’s only a game.” Granted, this is true — it is only a game. BUT…having been born and raised in Nebraska, football is the only thing we have. It’s a state identity. So it is more than a game.

Just wanna add, I was at the Iowa vs. Illinois game in the student section and I and some guys STOPPED the other half of Iowa students from rushing the damn field. The students here must be morons. Also, [Offense Redacted] is hilarious. Go hawks

USC looks bad, but McKnight looks like he could be scary in a year.

70. Yes, Wisconsin is that bad. But OSU might be the best team in the country. Watch out Les

78
Hard to take OSU seriously after what happened to them last year.

Don’t look now, but Tommy Kilborn is making a game of it in South Bend. Team came alive after Jimmy Clausen benched.

Maybe instead of telling the students not to rush the field after a win ND should have told the players to act like they’d been there before if they scored a touchdown.

78

What does last year have to do with anything? If tOSU isn’t a contender it isn’t a contender, but last year is utterly meaningless. Or does a lopsided SEC victory in one game visit generations of suffering and ineptness upon the woebegon vanquished? Uh huh.

The Rocket has the worst TV voice ever. God it’s painful listening to him—and ESPN paid him to talk on camera!

Penn State 2008 worries me a little, folks.

Rich Brooks thinks this is bullshit!

1. - yes, McKnight will be scary next year - he just ripped off another 50+ yards.

Urban Meyer may have brought the spread to Gainesville, but as he clearly demonstrates in the photo above, [Name Redacted] brought the “Dirty Patel” to the World. (A ’stache swipe, with the matching caste dot on the forehead – double the digits, double the fun)

Big Dog – OSU should scare you for next year as well. Only the FB and R Tackle leave from the offense. Only one OLB from the defense. Even the kickers are all back…and State Penn will have to go to Columbus next year.

Arizona just downed an 82 yard punt on the SoCal 1 yard line. Not that that is an impressive kick, or anything…

Mike Stoops is a goddamned moron. He’s let the clock roll down to under 1:30 left and hasn’t used any of his timeouts.

1. - McKnight had to scramble back about 30 yards and he still couldn’t go near it.

Rugby-style kicking, getting the distance.

Spurrier must have been laying the full 7….why else go for a FG there?

Yeah, as much as it hurts, tOSU has a whole lot going for it right now. If recruits get to see them play (thanks BTN) they might really start getting good.

Also, I saw a guy wearing a Fuck Michigan shirt in public. In February. In San Diego. I hate Ohio

Wow…even more puzzling than how UNC got back into this game is how many opportunities we missed. The Tar Heels still have things to be proud of in this game—the defense did not allow a single first down in the second half.

Zone Left – Don’t blame Ohio for that shirt in San Diego. In Ohio, the shirts sold say “Muck Fichigan” so that, when worn in the state up north, the locals there won’t know they are being insulted.

Edsall? Edsall?

Where you at, shawty? Feeling the Groh-mentum just yet?

LSU in a dogfight if you’re not watching….27-27 with about 3:00 left.

Mike Stoops is stupider than Ron Zook. His clock management and their play calling on their final drive was the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen.

All of Northern California must be on the edge of their seats right now.

Donnie Avery

13 catches for 346. And the 4th quarter is upcoming.

I missed the question —

What did Bonnie Bernstein ask Paterno that made him walk away from the interview?

From the D-1A NCAA record book:

RECEIVING
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game
405—Troy Edwards, Louisiana Tech vs. Nebraska, Aug. 29, 1998 (caught 21)

Mmm….ain’t no party like an SEC overtime party.

Stagecoach

I’ve seen them in Ann Arbor too, but seriously, how can you look at anyone in a shirt like that and not think he’s creepier than a skinny dude wearing a sweater vest.

Miles has balls of steel trying a 58 yarder. That should have gotten blocked.

Verne…

#84

I hope you are right. Outside of Conner and the thankful departure of “Andy” Morelli…we bring em all back. This game could be a glimpse of 08, or Morelli got a good fortune cookie last night.

“Les Miles is right again!”
— Gary Danielson, after LSU misses a FG that was out of their kicker’s range, bypassing an opportunity for a hail mary

How was he right, Gary? The play failed.
Also, how can you talk with Les MIles’ cock in your mouth?

1. - C’mon Jebus, if color commentators are skilled at anything it’s talking about so-called genius coaches while orally blowing them at the same time on air.

1. “Coach, does it make your 200-year-old prick hard when your players show you film of themselves raping dorm chicks?”>

The 40-yard lob probably would have failed, too.

did they pack enough taffy for multiple OTs?

More free football…

#109: So why bother trying?
 
My point is, he failed and Danielson said he was right. He wasn’t.

1. 109-

It worked 5 years ago, but many don’t remember since espn, cbs, et al haven’t mentioned it this week.

“while orally blowing them at the same time on air.”

orally blowing them? How else would you suggest they blow them?

1. - I’m not condoning it. I’m just saying verbal fellatio is one of the few skills Gary Danielson has.

1. - my addled brain was looking for some way to express fellating someone verbally and failed at that time.

I think Rich Brooks thought that delay of game was bullshit.

C’mon Jeebs, I usually agree with you, but I think you’re a little too anti-Danielson here. I think he meant that Miles was right to attempt a FG instead of trying a long pass (which Danielson himself had suggested), since his kicker in fact had the leg.

1. and #113 — because your odds are better with the kick if the kicker has the range.

Les looks angry. Maybe he should eat something. Low blood sugar has been linked to mood swings.

STUFFED!

So long to #1, LSU!

Holy crap!!!!

The gorilla just got it’s chainsaw chopped off

WOW!!

He didn’t have the range. I think he proved it.

Also, timber!!!!

Should been you, Spurrier.

Les will be spending the evening in a truck full of taffy Mangino-style to drown his sorrows.

Wooooohoooooooooooo

LSU – Nice cup of coffee at #1. Now shut the fuck up.

Jebus — He DID have the range — the kick was long enough!

And BTW — good job Kentucky!

And Cal is #1??

Good ole Les Miles! God how I would love him to go to the Woolverqueens. Now just sit back and watch the misdirected wrath of SEC homers unleashed on Cal and tOSU for the sin of not playing in the SEC.

So if Florida beats Kentucky, does that mean that Mississippi State is the best team in the SEC?!

131

Allow me to be the first. Big 10/Pac 10 suck.

It doesn’t matter though, because Cal and tOSU will have at least one loss before this season is over. Unfortunately, I’m not sure USF will…

#129: Really? Why’d they play the overtime then?

MOTHERFUDGEPOPSICLES

Cal HAS to pull out the win now. A world in which Ohio State is the one team in the top 15 NOT to lose a game is a world I don’t want to live in.

Based on UCLA’s wild inconsistency, they’ll probably beat Cal next week at the Rose Bowl.

God I hate Ohio State.

1. They played the overtime because the kick was wide left. It had the distance but he missed it.

well Ohio St will definitely be top 2, Cal is still playing and its 7-7 in the 2nd, I think the bigger point is South Florida is #3 in the polls now. Unless Cal loses, then its a tOSU-South Florida 1-2 punch. And everyone is complaining about the Big 10 being a shell of itself this season.

And how can I forget Cincy? 11/3 Cincy-South Florida for the Big East title

Wow college football is awesome

140 – couldnt agree more based on a coiple of points…

a) the home team in the Cal/UCLA series has won the last 7 games. Under Dorrell, UCLA plays a lot better at home, something like 12-2 in the last 14
b) looks like Pat Cowan is going to start at QB, same guy who engineered the win over USC last season
c) Karl Dorrell is the black Steve Lavin. He wins JUST enough to keep his fucking job.

Would not be surprised if the Bruins stunned Cal.

LSU fans will soon see the real Les Miles which we have seen in the Big XII for several years. He excels at mediocrity. Just watch.

That was one good looking LSU defense. Blowing a 13 point lead is quality work. If that was the best team in the SEC I don’t believe that the top teams in the other conferences (except maybe the Big 12) are quaking in their boots.

I think it is about time for people here to start talking about why a two loss SEC team should be in the MNC discussion. There are only three one loss teams left – USCe (plays Tenn and FLA), KY (plays FLA, GA and TN) and LSU (easiest schedule, only really plays AU).

Of course, I don’t think any team is going to go undefeated this year, but the SEC is already close to being out of the MNC picture.

Dorrell=lavin

never a more true statement, and I’m sorry. Who’s on the short list to replace Dorrell?

Whoever is the black Ben Howland.

It ain’t Sylvester Croom, I can tell you that much.

Sylvester Croom is the only guy who has the ability to make MSU even more laughable.

Auburn vs Arkansas on 1

Georgia vs Vandy on the deuce

Is this really necessary? What would be the reactions if it was MSU vs Indiana and Minnesota vs N’western on clogging up the airways?

ESPN, committed to curing insomnia nationwide.

143 – the one hope is that they recently had a huge meeting with the big donors for the Pauley Pavilion renovation, and apparently the AD was told by the majority of well heeled boosters who attended that he wasn’t getting a dime until something was done about the football program. The ND loss was the tipping point, not just that they lost but how they lost.

lot of rumored candidates, including Chris Peterson at Boise State. But who knows. Dorrellavin might just shock the world next week.

#147

If it were MSU-Indiana, I’d be balls-deep in a bottle of vodka 3 minutes into it.

#142, unlike Bill Callahan, who sucks at mediocrity. He can’t even pull that off.

On a side note, is there anything more annoying than the coach who only seems to put in a real week of work when his job’s on the line? And you get the feeling he was playing golf all week when his team comes out looking completely unprepared against some scrub team.

Callahan is done, right? It has to be over after today

Nothing like a little SEC Caveman football to make a body feel good.

Arkansas and Auburn: Setting the Forward Pass Back 30 Years a Game.

I think the UK win deserves a siren on the front page.

1. & #151

Judging by his defeatist tone the last few weeks and the heat reining down from the now-publicized boosters (courtesy: Coach Fran for opening this Pandora’s Box), he (Callacan’t) and the entire staff are out at the end of the year. The fan base and boosters want Callywhacker and co. out. The real issue is how to get pederass AD Steve Pederson out. Pederson’s plan for success reads like Chinese Algebra. Besides, Pederson looks like the bastard child of a llama and Beaker from the Muppets. That alone is reason enough to have him strung up and nutted. Sadly enough, the only sports program which has enjoyed continued success under Pederson’s reign at Nebraska is the volleyball team. Not taking anything away from them, but Volleyball ticket sales don’t build chemistry labs and computer centers.

eric y: Way to go Wildcats! Sammie was not happy about this, though.
http://drjaywhitlow.blogspot.com/

#149

As am I, albeit with a nice Cote Rotie. In any event, that was exactly my point.

Oklahoma vs an undefeated Mizzou (who nobody has yet seen)? An undefeated Cincinnati vs a Louisville team that scores a bazillion points per game (and loses half of them)? Nope, no space available, we gotta show 4 SEC teams that have no chance of even winning their league and nobody cares about.

Yes, that 3-0 @ halftime Auburn – Arkansas snoozer is so much better…

I’d rather watch Vandy play Ole Miss than any Big Ten game.

Hey Miami Husker

Maybe you should take a run Ferentz. According to OPS and Jebus, the crew seems to be unwanted in Iowa City these days.

By the way, as bad as the big televen is this year, it is still better than the pathetic ACC. Anybody getting excited for that BC vs USF/Cinnci championship game yet?

Holly Rowe is flat out sexy!

#156

You actually LIKE boring football? I’d rather watch that than Auburn-Arkansas “…setting back the forward pass 30 years a game.”

Kudos to #152 for that line.

Yay, Vandy’s our [three-point, heart-attack-inducing, frighteningly comparable] bitch again!

Here’s to losing to Florida by less than 20!

#157

Time to get a new seeing eye dog.

Has no one realized that Oregon State just took the lead at Cal in the 4th quarter?

Holy crap

1. — Watching the run being well-defended is one of the great joys of football watching; I detest watching games that bear a greater resemblance to basketball on grass than football. Low scoring snot-bubble hit-filled slugfests are the best form of football there is.

PS— I was #152, too.

Tiger bait….

OSU 28 – Cal 21 with 6:30 to go. OSU even has the ball in Cal territory.

Can somebody please explain this season to me?

okay so i’ve been doing something weird…

a few hours ago, a giant chasm opened up in my backyard. it started spewing forth, among other things, sasquatch, winged, flying pigs, and an army of unmentionably horrid Beings from the Netherworld, all of whom were carrying forged knives and halberds. i had to battle them away, siccing my dogs on them and firing numerous rounds with my shotgun. then, after i had secured the back door against the onslaught, i noticed that the giant ship’s compass in my dining room had REVERSED itself.

any thoughts as to what, exactly, the fuck happened tonight? i was playing golf all afternoon….

Anybody else think it’s odd that the number 2 team in the country is playing on the channel formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network?

Now I understand. Auburn – Arkansas is a much more interesting version of the game than, say….LSU – Kentucky. Got it.

#156

Grizzard’s immortal thoughts on the OSU-Mich game:

“It’s sort of like watching two mules fight over a turnip. I mean, who cares?”

Grizzard = another dead hillbilly.

well now this is getting interesting again

Some hillbilly just turned on his TV and is wondering why Bull riding isn’t on

OMG CAL. what a dumb ass

Aaaaand the dumbest fucking play in the history of quarterbacking just lost the game for Cal and made Ohio State the #1 team in the country come tomorrow morning.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss . . .

Final – OSU 31 & Cal 28

Cal loses. Wow. Wow. That was an uppercut to the testicles.

Check that—Cal’s QB just jumped off a redwood

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

sweet baby jesus, he drove the entire field and made one boneheaded play…really got to feel for the kid, but Fuck

Mike Gottfried just declared South Florida to be #1 in the country now.

Someone please arrange for electric blankets to be delivered to hell….

1. tOSU
2. USF!!
3. BC!!!
4. Horsemen of the Apocolypse

Cal doesn’t get in a position to tie or win without the effort of their substitute redshirt frosh QB on the last drive. But then he made a bad decision.

48 years without a Rose Bowl, Cal fans. Don’t make those Pasadena reservations yet.

A loud ominous “ha-haaaa!” from Nelson the Simpsons bully was just heard in Toomer’s corner.

1. Ohio State
2. Boston College
3. South Florida

Do I have that right? I need a beer.

Dear God in Heaven, please move USF over tOSU.

Dear God in Heaven, please move USF over tOSU. (Oops, or Boston College would work.)

Well that wasn’t dull.

When Cal fans talk about taking over from SC, getting upset at home probably wasn’t what they had in mind.

Aaaaand there’s the bullriding.

Actually, I think it is:
1. OSU
2. USF
2. BC

Arkansas, just let Awburn get back in the game.

Fuck.

Another Saturday, another day of madness.

I hope everyone realizes that a playoff system would sap a good bit of the joy out of days like today.

That is all.

And Cinci goes down.

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

My liver hurts.

Fuck pig

Warthen>> Agreed 100%.

1. tOSU
2. USF
3. BC

Oklahoma will make the championship game.

This Buckeye fan would much prefer they would be undefeated but ranked about #5 at this point of the season.

Ahhhhh…in the Penis Bowl, Cox beats Dick. There, I said it.

I just saw Jimmy Hoffa walking down the street.

#193

Could we agree on undefeated and #2, just in case numbers 2,3& 4 in your scenario run the table?

Ohio State is the best team ever in the history of college football ever forever in the universe ever. while all you jerks are busy losing to stanford and auburn and oregon state, we are beating the shit out of kent state and northwestern, burning their homes, pissing on the ashes, and defiling their women.

is Ohio State the best team in the country? will we go undefeated? will we win the NC? no, probably not, and also probably not.

but in the 2007 college football championship of Not Losing to Shitty Ass Teams (presented by Sears and Allstate), we win. the end

Prediction – a two-loss ‘Bama teams hops undefeating Ohio State for a BCS title game spot vs. USF based on their Sabanawesomeness. Our favorite EDSBS contributor’s head explodes.

Or it’s just USC vs. Oklahoma in a redemption bowl.

actually, days like today are why we need a playoff. that is all.

Hoffa was probably walkingf to his bookie’s place. Looking to get down a couple large on the BCS National Championship Game. I’m guessing he favors Brown and the points over Morehead St.

Raise your hand if you work with or live near a USF graduate. Use that hand to punch them out before they get a chance to open their mouth.

Skynet has gone live…

Ron Prince needs to watch some old tapes of Bear Bryant humiliating sideline reporters. He’s far too cordial.

bup bup bup-

I got a

O H !

K-State goes into halftime in formation? Do they have some sort of under-the-table deal with the US Army?

USF fans are annoying because they are another team that uses the metal horns. But it’s humorous because they’re all coming out of the woodwork and you always think “huh, never knew you went to USF.”

hollaback on that with an I-O, good buddy

The idea of OSU and USF in the BSC finale makes me smile

Just remember this about USF “fans” – unless they have something with this logo:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/SFl_2707.gif

they are not a real fan.

Life as a Cal fan. The day you play to be #1 in the country, your starting qb can’t play due to injury and you have a redshirt freshman out there. Still, the kid played great right up until the last play.

Are you you prepared for the new paradigm, where Boston College and South Florida compete for the BCS title.

I say that because Ohio State is the next to fall. No powerhouse shall go unscathed in the Year of the Upset.

#188: Agreed. These last few weeks would have been much, much less fun if there was a playoff system.

Er…
Um…
Hmmm…
I’m lost.

Is anybody else starting to think this is like a NASCAR race where somebody takes the lead because everybody else pits before him? But you know he has to come in sooner or later? This season is fubar.

AS a UF graduate and a USF Grad student, I cannot stand the kids on campus telling me to look at the polls. This season is Bull-Shit, what next, democracy in China? Stable Central American Governments? Dogs and Cats living in Harmony?

i wouldn’t know what a NASCAR race is like, but since i assume you’re an SEC fan, i’ll take your word for it

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The Buckeyes can’t lose. We beat Kent State, Youngstown State, and that powerhouse Akron. It’s too bad we can’t take down Walsh, Malone, and Rio Grande this year too.

Not as SEC fan, but you’re on the right path.

May your highly ranked team never play on “Versus”

Last week it was USC, this week it was Cal.

Or should that be, “May your highly ranked PAC-10 team never play on Versus.”

I need more vodka.

the university. of south. fucking. florida. i’m ill. what disgusting people. oooh what, will there be some big intra-state rivalry now? with UCF? itll be like the red river shootout only in the i-4 corridor. and everyone can fucking tailgate at dinosaur world.

they’re a joke. gators are collectively rolling their eyes.

Bup Bup Bup….I will marry you……..

KE…….I O…..

BTN did wonders for Michigan.

M — don’t worry, USF doesn’t want to continue the series. However, if they drop UCF in favor of Bethune-Cookman, that would be an I-4 series, too.

Subcommandante……er, whatever….where are you in our time of chaos?!!

1. vegas_buckeye: Don’t forget that a month ago, Versus broadcasted then ranked #11 UCLA against Utah, which ended in a 6-44 blowout of the Bruins by an unranked team.

VERSUS CURSE.

Next and last high profile game on Versus: Trees vs. Bears. Look for Stanford to have a losing season in which they nevertheless manage to topple the highest-ranking Pac-10 teams (Cal and USC), both on VERSUS!

I bleed orange & blue but every dog has its day…bulls get some too

Now that I think about it, it seems to be a problem with the new networks — USC and Cal lose on Versus, Michigan loses on BTN.

And why isn’t TBS doing college football this year. I miss my weekly Big 12 Mismatch of the Week.

“And coming up after Everybody Loves Raymond, Oklahoma and Rice!”

1. — The Big 12 mismatch of the week was on payperview at 11:30 this morning. Sorry you missed it.

whatever. in the spirit of [NAME REDACTED] i guess the “university of south florida” bulls just gotta do what they can do when they can do it.

Slate.com’s Josh Levin: “The Florida game was one of those nights, and even if LSU doesn’t win the national championship—or, God forbid, loses to Kentucky—it will remain one of those nights.”

God, indeed, forbids.

Ok, Holtz just put Kansas at #2. (Insert senility joke here.)

Chuckling at the Dinosaur World comment.

Holtz compares Callahan to Ken Lay. Why don’t you just say he tortures puppies?

Mark May – “somebody has gotta be the scapegoat…not gonna be Callahan, just signed an extension”

Oh really? You can’t fire a guy the year after giving him an extension? Mike Shula begs to differ.

Chuckling at Holtz comparing Nebraska to Enron. Said Callahan was like Ken Lay saying everything will be alright in a couple of weeks.

Geez, Albino, I hope it’s not that bad. Better days lie ahead.

Auburn Defense:

We’ll kick anybody’s ass…just as long as our offense doesn’t turn it over.

suck it gatosr

FIRE NUTT!

I’d like to personally thank Kentucky and LSU for reducing the number of people who watched the second half of the Gamecocks-Tarheels game.

#168

I hope Grizzard doesn’t mind you showing the world he is a college football ignoramus.

BIg 10, Big 12, Pac 10 teams beat each other up and they call it parity.

SEC teams beat each other up and they say it shows their superiority. Tell that to Wisconsin and Penn State, 2006 Bowl Games.

SEC – Super Ego Conference. Better luck next year.

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Screw that, I don’t talk to old bowl games, I talk to old MNC games!!!!

But seriously, what does the BCS poll look like tomorrow? Here’s my projected BCS top 5:

1. tOSU
2. USF
3. Oklahoma
4. S. Carolina
5. LSU

sorry, forgot BC, put them at 3, drop LSU to 6

My projection of the pollsters’ rankings (not necessarily my rankings):

1. tOSU
2. BC
3. LSU (least bad loss of all the contenders’ losses – don’t think that they’ll get punished too badly)
4. USF
5. OU
6. S. Carolina (can’t possibly put them above LSU, right?)
7. Kentucky
8. Oregon (how bad is Cameron Colvin feeling now?)
9. W.Virginia
10. USC

Um so after today we will be getting a playoff. That is all.

You can’t go Oregon over Cal…unless QB Longshanks decides not to gut it out next week vs Coach Radio’s B-Ruins @ the Rose Bowl next week

Well at least my Bears get to play one game at the RB every other year…just never on Jan 1

Regarding the “face raping” that Todd Blythe got — Eric Crouch begs to differ.

http://www.huskerpedia.com/images/twist2_si.jpg

I’m betting Oklahoma and OSU for the National Champisonship (NC). OSU has a weak scedule, but if they’re undefeated, they’ll go to the NC, even if they don’t deserve it.

LSU has a very tough schedule. If they win out, they will go to the NC over Oklahoma. But I think they’ll lose again.

USC looked horrible today. Besids the fact that many blue chippers haven’t panned out, they really have been decimated by injuries on both sides of the ball.

If USC were to win out with wins at ASU, Oregon, and Cal, which is highly unlikely, they would still have a shot at the NC, as fu*ked up as that may be.

I’m really enjoying this season.

Kansas, BC, and USF could also end up in the title game if things shake out right.

Growwler – Good point. I had a hard time guessing how low Cal would drop.

How much will the blog poll diverge from the AP poll this week?

Wow…. wow.

This season is nuts.

I don’t want to sound like a ridiculous homer but was the officiating in the ND/BC game as bad as I thought it was? Granted, ND got stuck with a borderline holding call at the end, but the officials were calling roughing the passer on BC anytime Claussen or Sharpley’s feelings were hurt, there was the “helmet hit” on Tribble after his helmet went into the recievers armpit during a tackle, they called an INT incomplete after the ground caused a fumble….

And of course they were ACC refs.

Bet you forgot I had a Byrum-one, get one free coupon here in this vagina. Found it whilst clearing room for the Woodchipper.

Here are the combined schedules of your new top 3:

Youngstown St.
Akron
@Washington
Northwestern
@Minnesota
@Purdue
Kent St.
Wake Forest
N. Carolina St.
@Georgia Tech
Army
Massachusetts
Bowling Green
@Notre Dame
Elon
@Auburn
North Carolina
West Virginia
@Fla. Atlantic
UCF

If you forgot the names, and looked solely at the schedules of the remaining unbeatens, USF is a consensus number 1.

This season makes no sense. Even my own team. I wouldn’t be surprised if we went into Red Stick next week and won by 30 or lost by 30. I have no idea anymore.

#195

Good thought. Just didn’t want to bring out all the Buckeye-haters too early.

Yeah, take that Vandy! Fuck yooou!*

*I realize that writing that is like trash talking the crippled kid in high school. But that little bastard ran over our foot in the cafeteria with his wheelchair last year, so WE HAD TO DUNK ON HIM TODAY!

One fact from yesterday perfectly sums up this entire crazy college football season: Illinois was upset.

#244

Exactly. And that’s a fact that it took (of all people) Mark May to bring up on ESPN last night. Meanwhile Herbstriet was dropping USF down from 4 to 5 and Corso was ranking as many big name teams he could find. Between May and Rece Davis, it was nice to see someone bring some intelligence to the discussion, and none of this “well I was on the sideline and Oklahoma looked good.”

Man, fuck USF!!!! If these d-bags from fuckin’ Tampa get a shot at the MNC I will never watch college football again. I don’t even care if they are undefeated, either. I don’t even care if they clearly deserve to be in the MNC. I don’t even want to bring reason or rationality into the debate, period! Fuck them and their stupid ass community college. USF, go the fuck away!!!! Every time I see a USF fan on TV I throw up in my mouth a little bit. Please, someone out there MAN UP and hang 70 points on these idiots so we won’t ever have to talk about them again!

#243

No, SEC fans simply have a sense of humor-or at least we used to.

This shit’s about having fun, man. If you can’t take a little joke about your conference then you’re missing out on a lot of what makes places like this so great. This place is a lot more fun for those who keep their panties unwadded.

1. Warthen, I can take a joke and do think football is about fun, but don’t try to pretend all the SEC superiorty it just joking.

Here is how you get to the MNC game. Take care of your business. That is all.

xhook, that could have been avoided by, I don’t know, JOINING A DAMN CONFERENCE.

AP Top 25
 1. Ohio State (50) 7-0 1,599
 2. South Florida (11) 6-0 1,503

What the hell is going on?

Just glancing at the the remaining schedules, I don’t see anyone going unbeaten except maybe USF. And several of the top 1-loss teams have games remaining with other 1-loss teams (BC, VT, Cal, USC, Oregon, Oklahoma, Texas Tech), not to mention S. Carolina and Kentucky’s remaining game with UF and the conference championship games.

How many teams will end up with fewer than 2 losses?

#258

That is the single most cogent comment I have seen about this season.

I see not so much upsets as I see college football having reached relative parity, where there are no true great teams but rather only lots of good teams who can beat anyone on a given Saturday.

First: “Name Redacted’s” team beats two very highly ranked teams (Penn St. and Wisconsin) to go 5-1…..Then his team loses to Miss. St., I mean Iowa, the very next week. Same ole same ole. You know, in three years it never did get “better and better”.

Second: Does anyone other than me think that LSU’s “all world” defensive line is a trifle over-hyped? For two weeks in a row, they were handled pretty well by the Gators’ and the Cats’ O-lines. Whatever happened to that Heisman candidate? Ummmm…. What’s his name? Dorsey something or other?

Third: Hey Coop. Re your comment. “Afterwards, Butch will sleigh Spurrier in a viser-off.”

Oops! I have to go now. My reindeer and “slay” await.