OPEN THREAD, WEEK TEN

Whenever I’m flipping through the games on GamePlan there is inevitably one broadcast that makes the Lady Jerkwheat say “Why the hell does that one game have such a terrible picture?” That game, of course, always belongs to Jefferson Pilot and The Daves.

I’m so excited that The Daves have the call on Arkansas/Tennessee next week…

LSU over bama by 3
Oregon wins big
UF spanks Vandy
BC goes down

Tons of great storylines today, Sabanbowl, the death of Callahan and Fran, Ducks and Devils, and can the Shipmen end the streak against the Domers?

Today’s lineup for me:

1. Wisconsin at #1 Ohio State
2. Michigan at Michigan State
3. LSU at #17 Alabama
4. Arizona State at #5 Oregon
   Florida State at #2 Boston College

Not a bad day of games…provided the right teams win.

watch this folks

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I’d also like to thank the good people of Haverty’s for giving me a delivery window of 2-6 and ensuring that I never have to leave the house today and can bask in foobaw glory.

eh.
Forgot the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRASJYvELFg

wish I had fireworks that worked like that.

I can has Bunda!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCdqjvOojRY

I haven’t seen enough Pac-10 football to really pick a winner inthe Ducks and Devils game, but my gut is telling me that Ducks win this time at home-wouldn’t surprise me if the Devils pull out the upset.

That said, if the Ducks win they are in the driver’s seat in the Pac-10 with only Arizona, UCLA, and Oregon State left on the schedule.

Arizona still has a date with USC, but also only has UCLA and Oregon State.

Honestly, I think the winner of this game, if they win out, could very well be in the NCG. Especially if BC or Ohio State stumbles.

By “fireworks” he must mean “eight blasting caps.” That sounded like an IED going off.

#8
Bunda!!! Post of the day right there!

I think Oregon may be one of the best two teams in the nation at this point. Oregon by 14+ today. LSU may be the other top 2 team, but I may re-evaluate that if my boys can beat them today. Roll Tide!

Ya know, I’m as ready to hire a new head coach as the next guy, but blowing up your tickets to Darren McFadden’s last game in Fayetteville is just…well, I don’t even have a word to describe it.

You know what I love the most? Besides myself? Yahoo streaming my Homecoming game for free. If I can get it to work. twitch I also like long walks on the beach, short declarative sentences, and having to get up while it’s still dark to watch the early games. Oh, wait. No, I don’t. at all.

BUNDA!!!!! Motherfuckers!!!!!!!!

Jerkwheat, they’re also naming the field after Broyles today.
I know some people are a bit upset about that.

Also, the fact that the motivation to go watch Razorback football has now been divided down to simply “going to see McFadden play” speaks volumes.

(long sentence alert)
I just love how the learning curve for technology is basically gone so that basically anyone can post themselves blowing up their Florida Middle School tickets presumably way out in the sticks with some kind of homemade bomb with a mini-mushroom cloud.

MAKE THEM STOP!

How much is Florida paying ESPN to endlessly slurp the balls of the football program?

“Even though they’ve lost three of the last four, Tebow may still get the Heisman.”

“This team will defnitely be in the top four next year.”

Orson, I know Musberger draws his breath from Tressel’s knob, but this is getting ridiculous.

Am I the only one picking this up? Am I just being blinded by my conflict of interest? Does Florida stand in relation to ESPN as Notre Dame does to NBC?

Frank may have overstayed his welcome but there is no Arkansas football program if there is no Frank Broyles. Those wonderful facilities don’t exist. He has certainly stayed too long and his legacy has been tarnished in the eyes of a lot of people, but he absolutely deserves to have that field named after him.

I’m glad I don’t live there anymore or I’d likely be screaming at full volume at way too many people.

1. - that was beautiful….sniff.

Why oh why must ESPN put me through two early Big 10 games? I’ll be watching Kansas destroy Nebraska at 9:30 Pacific, thank you. There’s something compelling about Callahan’s Last Stand.

Bunda, Bunda, I want the Bunda…man that’s so key. Am I a weirdo for being reminded of Schindler’s List when they showed the woman in red hot pants against everything else in black and white? Worse yet, that it was still sexy?

My main game watching of the day will be Navy/ND because Im getting free pizza and beer from my Apt Complex because they are showing it on the big screen down here in Annapolis.

Will also be watching some 8pm games.

Kid Trying To Burn Ant With Magnifying Glass: “Dang, can’t get enough heat!”

Joe Paterno walks over: Here kid, use these…

Paterno hands boy his +25,000 prescription glasses

….

Sheer heat force burns hole to hot magma of Earth’s inner core

Jerkwheat, I partially agree except for the facilities. I think those facilities correlate with the economy in NWA.

There’s a reason that Tyson indoor track center sat there, unfinished for so long and it was because of a hissy fit that Broyles was having with the Tyson’s. They almost pulled funding.

Needs some wagers on the Saban Bowl,
Alabama fans vs TAFKAtOSU…
Alabama wins….tOSU has to give props to Alabama

LSU wins…Alabama fans on this EDSBS have to agree in principle w/ half of what tOSU post, no matter how ridiculous…

#20
Or use the scene from “The Day after Tomorrow” where the sunlight simply microwaves the earth in San Francisco, that would be about right….

Tango Borracha looks eerily similar to a certain Spencer Hall.

I agree that the growth of NWA has absolutely contributed, but Broyles has a history as a pretty good fundraiser and has kept the department running well financially. It’s a damn shame that the mess of the past 2 years is overshadowing the good that he has done.

They destroying of tickets still pisses me off though. I went to games in the 80s when we were a very good team and in the 90s when we were a terrible team (moved away in ’97 so my appearances have been intermittent since then) and all I ever cared about was simply going to see my team play. Those tickets are already bought and paid for – go give them to a youth football team or something and let a kid experience his first college football game.

This is the best day ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsy7nUr5G-Q

KU/Nebraska has been pretty entertaining thus far

Mangino will start to threaten to eat some people if he has to punt again. That’s what’s with the scoring.

Was watching Gameday this morning and when Corso predicts LSU to beat Bama he holds up a corndog! Damn, gotta be one of the funniest things Corso has ever done!

When they cut to Rece Davis and Holtz, does anyone else expect to see Holtz knitting or something? I do…it really looked like that a minute ago.

How the hell any recruit ever chooses Pitt is beyond me. Honestly…..it boggles my mind. Their coaches suck, their fans….wait, they have no fans….and the part of Pittsburgh where Pitt is located, Oakland, makes Cleveland look like Manhatten.

Kansas might put 60 up on the “Blackshirts”

This is just horrendous defense.

>>MAKE THEM STOP!

How much is Florida paying ESPN to endlessly slurp the balls of the football program? <<

It’s yet another reason that, other than actual games, I do not watch ESPN’s college football coverage. I’ve quit watching Gameday because it’s so predictable. I used to be able to tolerate Corso’s idiocy and Herbstreit’s smarminess. No more.

I prefer Lincoln Financial’s Daves to the Gameday crew.

I’m sure he’ll pull it out, because he always does in conference, but the Sweatervest just grabbed a chair in the boathouse.

Do the BADgers have any bullets?

Kansas has 300 yards of offense and 35 points in the first 20 minutes against Nebraska.

Even WAC defenses do better than this. Just unbelievable to watch how awful this collection of defensive “talent” is.

If BC – VA Tech was the game where offense went to die, Nebraska – Kansas is where defense collapsed on the sideline with a badly loosened sphincter.

Children re: Mangino: my five year old daughter saw the broadcast cut to Mangino, and said with a tone of wonderment: “That man is really fat. Seriously, Daddy, I think he’s the fattest man on earth.”

Jonathon Stewart might have big calves (see pic above) but Percy Harvin is surely a monster of cock.

Further commentary from the Kindergarten end of the couch on Mangino: “I wonder why he wants to be that fat. Everyone should know that it’s not healthy to be that fat. Does he know that French fries make you fat?”

And my friends wonder why I’ve given up on watching college football games during the day.

Wish I could be seeing the bball game at Kansas.
Iowa -NW tied at 14, and my god Wisky is beating OSU.
Whew

On the bright side, it looks like Timmy Tebow will make it through a week without crying.

At this point, KU is just making up for years of 70-7 type whippings. There’s a lot of pent up frustration that’s going to be poured out onto the Huskers today. I bet Mangino goes for 70+ against them today just to make a statement.

I can’t STAND Pam Ward. She just said Andy Brodell (Iowa WR) is not playing b/c of legal issues. Actually, Pam, he tore his hamstring but I’m sure his family appreciates you labeling him a criminal on national television.

gators angry. commodores dead in the water at halftime.

Kansas has doubled Nebraska! Keep this up and Mangino eats very well tonight!

Oh, and an interception.

Maybe Osborne should take the helm at Nebraska for the second half.

The pinkshirts are about to give up 50 in the first half.

“Kansas might put 60 up on the "Blackshirts"

This is just horrendous defense."

Hell, they may put up 100!

Looks like K State forgot to take their power towels to Ames, oh, and Kansas just scored again.

Mangino keeps this up he’s gonna get carried off the field.

snicker

DACOACH O ISAGONNABEWHUPPINUP ONNNAHIS ALMAMATERTUHDAY

The next person who mixes up Arizona State and fucking Arizona gets his throat tele-slashed.

NEWS ALERT
Callahan fired at halftime, Osborne reportedly seen wearing headset in locker room.

RE: 8 Bunda video

I almost didn’t recognize Orson without the bucket hat and the Florida print shirt (a la June Jones), but when I saw that hairy chest, I knew it was him.

Holly,
  Where on yahoo will you get the homecoming game?Let me know please.

Tebow just let us know that he is in fact a cyborg and he has oiled his right shoulder this week.

Wisconsin quickly remembers that they are indeed Wisconsing. The Big10 has no bullets for roullette.

I did not intentionally misspell Wisconsin. Damn.

Alex, go to yahoo’s sports section and you’ll see a link to the games they are broadcasting. I’m watching the UF/Vanderbilt game on my computer right now (I live in Texas and don’t get the LF channel – but yahoo broadcasts the LF game of the week every week. Next week is Ark vs. Tenn)

42-10 for florida…is Herban Meyer ever going to pull Tebow out of a game so that he doesn’t get hurt? I know the kid is good and all, but for f’s sake Portis must really suck.

shoot I meant cameron newton, not josh portis. I’m a dumbass.

Bill Callahan about had it with these f*cking hillbillies…

Kansas has just scored a touchdown on their 10th straight possession. 10 straight!

Nebraska’s record against Kansas is 70 points. KU has 68 in the 3rd quarter (!). Mangino might try and hang 100 on the Huskers today.

Holy crap.

USF runs a kick back for Touchdown. 100 yarder.

Mangino is hoping that Callahan will be fired and get placed on an all-you-can-eat buffet near town.

I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Callahan is fired this week. He’s already a lame duck, might as well make it official.

I’m pretty sure that Tom Osborne has the press release announcing Callahan’s firing already typed up. Kansas is simply having their way with Nebraska. It’s 2nd and goal, and KU is looking to put up points 75 and 76.

TD Jayhawks.

Kansas 76
Nebraska 31

The Nebraska fans are probably at Callahan’s house right now packing his shit into a U-Haul.

1. More like at Callahan’s house burning it down, I’d imagine.

And in another thriller, Notre Dame and Navy are tied at 14 in South Bend………yawn.

Kansas should start to get some respect after today’s performance, they have to be included in the national championship talk now. Either that or Nebraska has the worst defense in the country.

USF/Cincy is entertaining…somewhat.

If you’re already on the hot seat as a coach, it’s not exactly the best way to go, allowing 70+ points.

Hell, that was what finally got Gary Barnett fired.

Kansas should be in the title talk AND Nebraska is the worst defense in the country.

Somehow the “Whataburger Whataplay” play of the game was a Nebraska TD catch. A great catch, to be sure…but Kansas has 11 touchdowns in this game. Was not one of them worthy of Whataplay consideration?

What’s with Nebraska going for 2? Just so they can say KU didn’t double them up?

11:30 a.m. Magic Football Genie visits spandex-clad Nebraska fans in Platte Center and says “Hey, your team is going to score 39 points against the #8 team in the country this afternoon!”

That was my thought. “Hey, let’s get the deficit under 38, and we’ll have a moral victory!!!”

Uh, no, Bill. You’re still getting your ass kicked.

Callahan to SMU?

76 points given up is a Nebraska all-time record – breaking the 70 TT hung on Callahan a few years ago.

No way he keeps his job.

// No way he keeps his job. //

What, by midnight?

Other scores of note…..

Oklahoma State is leading Texas 21-0 in Stillwater in the 2nd quarter.
NC State beat Miami 19-16 in the Orange Bowl.
Michigan is leading MSU 7-3 and the Maize and Blue are first and goal at the 5.

Jesus Christ, Callahan’s been anally bored so completely that he’s not going to make a sound for a month when he farts.

THE SOMEDAY BIG EAST COMMERCIAL IS THE SINGLE FUNNIEST THING IN HISTORY. watch cincy/usf game just to try to see that damned commercial…i am sending gophers down the tubes of teh internets to fine the youtube for a link…tears…utter hilarity…

Cincy putting 31 on USF in the first quarter…wow.

Cincy looking to put up 124 against USF. How the hell did the Mountaineers lose to them?!?! Oh yes, thank you Rich Rodriguez, I remember now.

The day games today are absolutely abysmal. Right now I’ve got Mich-Sparty, USF-Cincy, and ND-Navy but I’m watching CBS pregame.

USF = pretenders

I think we need to investigate the Punters of the Big-12. Something tells me they all got together and kidnapped the Blackshirts pre-season.

“Soooommme day, Rutgers is gonna challenge for teh big east title….Someday, USF is gonna compete for braggin’ rights in F-L-A…..Someday, Louisville’s gonna join the Big East and become a national power…..Someday we’ll the Big East will go FIVE FOR FIVE [OMG FIVE FOR FIVE LOLZ OMFG CREAM] Cincy and UCONN?? they’ll surprise some people….Syracuse and PItt will build on their great traditions…..Someday, West virginia will be one of the BEST teams in the country….Someday is HERE LOLCUM”

Fire Callahan now and get a jump on a new coach. Or don’t… see if I give a s__t!

Always appropriate to put 70 up on the cornsuckers….

1. Big John- You know the selection is shit when we settle for the CBS pregame. Fucking NBC and their Notre Dame bullshit.

The Big East is well known for its wretched commercials. I love how at the end of the one in question, they chose a drunk, sweaty, 12 year old boy to represent WVU fans. Great.

Oh well, at least we don’t have to watch the goddam Heisman commercial w/ Brohm, Rice, Slaton, and White anymore…that one made me want to poke my own eyes out by the midway point of the season.

UCLA-Arizona: a surprisingly entertaining edition of the “Coaches’ Hot Seat Bowl” for the week.

Jorge,

A drunk Tim Brando is better than watching grass growing on ABC, paint drying on espn, and old people fucking on NBC.

Is that what you call the ND-Navy game?

I literally have no programming on ESPN right now. Apparently Cincy-USF is “not available” in my area. WTF? Why not? I have Dish Network and live outside of Boston. Can anybody explain this?

I’m on CBS pregame, too. Even a warmup to an SEC game is better than most actual games from other conferences (that means you, Big 10).

saban looks nervous….

saban looks like a tool

A little behind the curve but I just heard the little Saban thingy. Nice job Orson! What great mood music!

Last year Callahan made the mistake of saying, “This entire staff is in high demand across the country.”

Hmm…yeah, Billy. Everybody wants to schedule teams with your staff because it’s a guaranteed win. What a douche bag.

WTF, LSU….

Down goes Dorsey!

The Westwood One Radio dude with the DEEP VOICE does CBS voice work now. How annoying.

What do you think the Manginos are doing for a celebration dinner?

What, no pat on the head for Indiana like the one you give the retarded kid who finger-painted his parents having “relations”? Bowl-eligible, baby! I can’t wait to go to Detroit in the middle of December.

Whatever it is, it isn’t sashimi.

Boston Frog,

I have Dish in ATL, and the USF-Cinn game was on ESPN Alternative, but it was blocked in regular ESPN. Maybe you can get it on the ESPNA.

I looked in Calahan’s, when to go for two “book.” for what to do when down by 39, in the fourth quarter, but the algorithm and equations were far to confusing to me, so I decided that they should try for a safety. Is that what they did?

I think Kansas ought to charter a cargo plane and fly to Amarillo for a celebratory stop at The Big Texan Steak House where Mangino will win nine free 72 oz. steaks, one for each Jayhawk victory thus far.

Afterwards for dessert he’ll put a local Cici’s pizza out of business.

Stupid Navy is going to let ND off the hook.

But I think ND still loses 1 of the next 3, if not 2 of them.

Its official….Charlie Weiss is a F_cking idot….

Even Callahan Knows that you kick that ball instead of going for it.

Navy’s Vela just supermanned Evan Sharpley on 4th and 8. Nicely executed aerial assault.

Ram Vela just went Roy Williams on Evan Sharpley when Charlie Weiss tried to go Les Miles.

It was freaking awesome.

I hope Navy is better at sailing ships than they are at football. A loss to Notre Dame is an embarassment to our country.

Orson,

Next time your talk to Verne could you ask him how many LSU starters Nick Saban recruited. I can’t seem to find that info.

Looks like Callahan, with one foot out the door in Lincoln, passed his Coaching Herpes on to Charlie Weis. Even Ty Willingham never did anything that fucking idiotic.

What are you guys talking about? It’s Ty Willingham’s fault that Charlie Weis didn’t kick the field goal there. I mean had Willingham recruited during his final year….

#89:

+5 for you. Genius.

LSU’s thugery might just cost them this game. What a bunch of idiot savages.

Hadden seem happy that this is going to 3rd OT, probably because this will end up being the highest rated ND game this season.

Hoopinion: I cede the floor to the coach of the University of Nebraska.

Coach Callahan: “We are doing everything that we can. There really are no other options if you are referring to coaching changes. We don’t have any options at this point. We are just going to do the best we can. We are just going to go home and get ready to play Kansas State. We are just going to keep working. As coaches we are just going to keep working, coaching, and motivating. We need to help the players get through this because this is a tough time for us. We are going to do everything in our power to help the kids out.”

Oh no, Navy found out about the forward pass!

I see why we can’t get out of Iraq….the military can’t pull off fake plays….WTF was the RB option about?

that was a bs PI call on Navy.

MIDS WIN!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

Anchors aweigh, motherfuckers.

And the collapse of Weis is truly complete.

Charlie Weis = Idiot

You could have kicked it, you stupid fat F_ck. Now you’re bantha Poodoo

42 yards to win. Weis fucking blows.

FEAR THE GOAT, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

/Navy brat

Well done, Navy.

My friend Kristen, an AP reporter in Annapolis, just pointed out to me that for the first time in 44 years, state > church.

Beat Army!

Way to go, Navy! AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

Some asswipe has ‘Honk if you sacked tebow’ stickers up on ebay. Only 358 days till sweet revenge. Screw them, they will lose to KY and Auburn and maybe Tech and they will go to the toilet bowl. Richt got lucky. Tebow doesn’t deserve THAT.

Navy just made my Saturday.

May Paul Johnson coach forever.

That offense is beautiful.

This LSU / Alabama game is really getting interesting.

Why do I have to watch Cincy / USF on ESPN? Gah.

GO NAVY

Oh coach callahan. do not set foot in lincoln again. Ever. Just quit now. WTF? Kansas? Kansas really??? 78? Honestly?

FUCK LSU!!!! Les Miles, please keep calling Screen Passes from your own fuckin END ZONE!!!!!!!!!!!

100 cocktails for the Middies!

LSU is trying to gift wrap the game for Alabama. We will gladly accept any and all gifts from Matt Flynn.
And, oh yeh, Michigan, get ready for your next genius “Michigan Man” Coach!!! Blocked Field Goal, and, oh yeh Fuck LSU!!!

Anchors aweigh, Weis.

Go Navy!! Hooray Armed Forces!! U-S-A!! U-S-A!!

No matter what anyone thinks about what conference is most badass—you have to admit that the SEC consistently puts up 5 star games as far as entertainment value is concerned.

I can only think of about 3 or 4 ESPN or CBS games that haven’t been great from that conference this year.

Comcast, in it’s infinite FUCKING wisdom, has decided that I should watch fucking USF-fucking-Cincy instead of the best game of the day, the game between two top five teams, the game involving my alma mater.

I called to complain but they hung up on my three separate times.

I have never been so profoundly angry at a company.

fuck!!!!! espn is sticking with the cincy-usf crapfest instead of oregon-asu. they’ve stuck oregon on espn classic, which isnt included on basic cable in my area. my only joy now is waiting for ND mongoloids to blame the navy game on willingham.

Guys, the worst part about The win, is that going downtown in Annapolis won’t be amazing tonight, despite the win. Damn non-party school! GO Mids! Great win and fun the watch.

#136

I think that’s an ESPN decision. They show an out-of-market ABC 3:30 game on the Worldwide Leader every week.

Erick, the ASU-Oregon should be on as soon the Big East nonsense is over.

100 cocktails to someone who posts the vid of Henne tripping over the goalpost going to the locker room

Brian,
I don’t know about whether the Middies party or not, but I really like d’town Annapolis. There are some good places to lift a brew.

Dear Charlie Weis,
Suck my balls through a straw you ignorant, arrogant, fucktarded piece of rotted cumbag motherfuckstick assbrain. Snotnosed yeast infection rotting up the sidelines with the mind bending suckitude of a thousand crackwhores Wilfred Brimley bukkake party would be a fucking festival compared to the shit sandwich you feed ND fans every saturday. Piss out my ass. Fuck off you non field goal attempting sack of shit. PISS OUT MY ASSS!!!!!

Since I’m not getting ASU/OU yet either, allow me to ask: how many losses does it take before Grothe shaves the half-assed mohawk?

I think they called a penalty on LSU for playing one too many commercials during a commercial break.

Derrick Harvey had a great game on the ground today!!

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/gamecenter/live/NCAAF_20071103_VANDY@FL

By the way, the Oregon game is on FSN for some reason. As I am watching it, I am amazed that the blackshirts had time to fly to Eugene to help out ASU.

As for Charlie, the only thing I was thinking when he decided not to kick the FG near the end of regulation was that he must have had a large position on that -3.5 that was available earlier this week.

1. - if you’re on the west coast, you get ASU-OU and ESPN shows Rutgers – UConn.

I’ll check back in on this game after halftime, when ASU usually decides to play.

Actually, I am in Chicago… Which only confuses me more as a game is allegedly being broadcast on two different networks not owned by the same company.

I am not complaining, though.

LSU is handing this game to Lord Saban…I hate this…

For the record, the University of Oregon should not be referred to as OU. That’s Oklahoma, kids. Not difficult.

1. - well, sorry…

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned yet that Lee is suspended for tonight’s FSU/BC slopfest. Only Weatherford has to deal with the Nah’eastah now. Oh, and a couple of freshmen who haven’t thrown in a game since high school. This could be entertaining.

I love the smell of corndogs in the morning…Smells like….Victory. Fuck y’all!

Why is a school called “the University of Oklahoma” and not “Oklahoma University” nicknamed OU anyways?

1. - My apologies… Is U of Dark Lord Phil Knight appropriate?

I think LSU forgot to oil up that chainsaw.

So do you just call Oregon “O”?…I live out here in Portland and most people call it the U of O…or just plain Oregon…this LSU-Al game is making me ill

#150

My apologies as well. I’ve got to stop drinking with LukeBellotti before I post.

Spent three years at Navy while on active duty—HUGE win for that program. I’ve been hearing about that streak since 1991.

DEEDEE MAO!!!!!

http://cid-26e8f133418722aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Callywhacker/S7300049.JPG

see above

Kansas just scored again.

76 cocktails to Lawrence Ross.

Juice Williams just had a 47 yd td pass. I guess the gopher D is as advertised.

How can five replay officials give you four different calls on whether or not a pass is complete? Aren’t there two choices? Is the third option drink?

Team redacted just ran a reverse to a TE for +29 yards. Tim Brewster, the big ten loves you… Never leave.

156: Of course those are fine. I use both. Mostly “Oregon” out here in the last of the Pac-10-negligent unwashed goons.

Does anyone know the name of the 13-year-old girl that is punting for Bama?

166—true that about the unwashed goons outhere. It’s hard out here for a SEC fan…the stadiums are so small….

What in the hell did LSU just do? that was so fucking stupid….

Boy, that’s some nice special teams coverage, LSU.

In 2007

Saban is 0-2 when opposing coaches close practice the week before playing him.

He’s Undefeated when, and looking good tonight, when they don’t

Just saying

76-39…just imagine if Mangino had been sporting Velvet Love again. They would’ve put 200 on us.

Call us Culbertson vs. GaTech.

Dear CBS,

More shots of hotties like the blonde twins wearing the Bear hats, please. Thanks.

Zone Left-

The FIRST option is always drink.

I got half a stalk, courtesy my remote control: Missouri Golden Girls and LSU cheerleaders.

Nice job in almost muffing that punt, ’Bama #28. I bet if it were a stereo he would have hung onto it like it were the 3rd sacred stone from Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Nice Nice D by ASU…

No “dickheads” wearing Pats jerseys so far, but plenty of people wearing Red Sox swag.

Did I mention that LSU’s thugery might cost them?

Les Miles… don’t abandon your balls.

Need a TD for a push…

Should the de facto ‘best team in the country’ really be giving up 34 to the crimson tide?

I think that guy who does those not-creepy-at-all Alabama paintings just put his fist through his canvas.

Come on LSU…hold ’em and let Lord Saban go DOWN

Alabama Crimson Turnstiles

Alabama’s student section is warming up their cup/bottle throwing arms.

LSU gives the game to Bama and Bama says, “no thank you, really I couldn’t.”

“You’ve got a great team. Good luck to you.”

Heh. What a bitter bastard.

Great win by LSU, but they’re going to have to up the style points to keep up with Oregon and Kansas.

Miami Husker @ #172

Might you mean “Cumberland”?

RIP Logan Young, let me lick your tears of unfathomable sadness.

Holy Fuck, the LSU game is a sorry affair. Neither team looks like it has a goddamn clue how to play football. No special teams, shitty gimmick plays, dropped passes, stupid fumbles. Alabama neither picks up the blitz nor do they adjust to a hot route. LSU did everything wrong and commit 10 billion penalties and somehow still wins? What the fuck is this shit?

Poor Nick Saban

I’m f-ing sick about that fumble.

LSU won but they looked mind bogglingly undisciplined doing it. Talent can make up for all other shortcomings.

Saban is going to lose some, obviously, but Bama’s not making it easy on anyone any more.

Good effort team.

AZTiger
That’s hilarious.

It actually brightened my spirits. Thanks.

anyone else annoyed that instant replay has pretty much killed off the diving catch in football?

LSU reminded me of Auburn against MSU and USF.

Shot itself in the foot, then when that stopped bleeding, shot itself in the other foot. When that stopped bleeding, they went hunting with Dick Cheney.

Somehow they pulled out the win, despite Les Miles’ coaching.

Looks like the battery died on Cap’n Dennis’ golf cart.

Jetlagged, drunk and generally ….effing SEC!!!!

Saw Gotterdamerung last night in London and that was like a thinly sliced carpaccio appetizer to the LSU/’Bama maincourse filet.

Gold-grasping, evil little Nicky fits the part of Alberich to a T…or…an A.

1. Yes, you’re correct. My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

Update: Kansas just scored again on Nebraska.

There are a lot of “investment” commercials on during this college football night games. I think it’s the Illuminati preying on college football fans suspended in an alcohol-induced presence.

I blame the Jews.

#210: They’re gonna score more often than Chest Rockwell.

“What do you squat?”

I’m watching the Boston College-FSU game on ABC, and the “playa” shit has got to go. Whoever the clown is rapping during the commercials, I have to turn on the Closed Captioned just to understand what the hell he’s saying…and I live in Miami.

Go figure.

First, no bunda on Friday.

Now, 43 fucking years wasted. Oooh, Bluto. I’m scared to run the ball on the scout team.

In my lifetime, the following happened: ND lost to Navy and KU hung 76 on Nebraska. On the same day.

The topper? I am rooting like hell for the fucking Noles.

You know what Vegas fears – it fears gamblers wearing oversized LSU hats.

Callahan: Excels at Mediocrity

I just heard ESPN hooting about “largest crowd ever to see college football in the state of Oregon… 59,000”

hell, that’s just attendence at a good semi-final high school game here in GA and in Ala…

west coast football… about 40 years behind the rest of the nation in attendance…

Why is it that when Southern California was pulling wins out of their ass in 2005 they were just getting really lucky, but when LSU pulls wins out of its ass in 2007 it’s because of some nebulous “emotional toughness” and “grit”?

This just in: Matt Ryan is a douche

Cory Boyd just juked #30 of UArk 3 times in 1 play.

219

Nah, he’s just setting ’em up for a big comeback like last week. The Heisman voters love drama.

Observations on the LSU-Ala game…

Any idiot who tries some trick play when he is 4th and short and then gets a penalty will eventually be run off of the campus for incompetence. Saban would have beaten UA about 35-10 if the teams were reversed.

The number of penalties LSU ran up was incredible – again, undisciplined players are a direct result of piss poor coaching. Only the extreme quality of atheletes at LSU kept them in this game, then JPW not securing the ball on 3rd down was just plain bad luck. Bama deserved to win this game more than Auburn deserved to win 2 weeks ago.

ESPN stating that Oregon is the best 1-loss team is complete and utter hogwash. Let’s see…..toss Oregon into the meat grinder that is the SEC… turn knob to “eviscerate”… allow them to play Tenn, Ala, Fla, Auburn, LSU, and then maybe SC… hummmmm… how many wins for Oregon there?….. maybe 2? …. 3? I really wonder…hell I would put them up against MissState’s defence at this point in the season and give Croom a good shot at beating them

fuck Oregon… and good riddance to ASU… fucking pretenders… go hang out in the room with Rutgers, USF, UConn and BYU…

can you tell I like to drink liquor on Sat night? dang right I do

Goddammit!
Fucking SEC referees!! Going in to stab the LSU heart with a diving catch and its over-motherfucking-turned????Are you shittting me?
And then have Sarah Jessica Parker-Wilson just hand over the game to LSU on the 10 yrd line with 1.30 left to go????Are you fucking kidding me? LSU , my God, tried to give the fucking game away…..and between the refs and SJPW and his comedy act that is the QB of Alabama…..we scratched and clawed to stay in the game and we give it the fuck away???? LSU you better win the fucking National Championship and ENJOY it because it is the last one you will see for the next 10 yrs while you slink off to obscurity, Goddammn motherfucking son of a whore motherfucking dicklicking ass ramming motherfucking goatloving retarded motherfucking inbred Goddammn Michigan soon to be coaching yankee motherfucker, I hope we MANGINO your asses next year when it counts……
Good luck in the National Championship Game….
Bama Nation…..you’d better not lose….we didnt fumble on the 10 yrd line for yall to get waxed by Tennessee in the SEC championship…..

#218, you must remember a different 2005 season than I do, because all I remember is the endless, endless threepeat and dynasty talk about USC, right up until The Vince Young Game.

Wow Futbawl Fan, such profound reasoning. Oregon wins two or three games in the SEC? Because the SEC is so much stronger than the Pac-10 this year, which is why the only head-to-head matchup saw Cal pound the snot out of SEC-East front(ish)runner Tennessee?

 What are you on, and where can I get some?

Oh and I am calling in to this EDSBS live to really let you know how I fucking feel!!!! Godddammittttttttt!
My boss is a fucking LSU douchebag!!!!
Goddammitt!!!!

224, I’m pretty sure I was referring to people who actually know what the fuck they’re talking about, as opposed to the WWL.

How is it possible that a team that plays in the SEC has ever won the National Championship? At least you know they deserve it when they do. Come to think of it, when is the last time an SEC team lost in the National Title Game? <>

Chaos Corrupts mind, hears loud buzzing noises, cuss words sound pretty, Frazier breaks another tackle, AHHHHH!

Erik@218:

Perhaps it’s because LSU is pulling wins out of its ass against really good teams, while Southern Cal was coming from behind against 7-5 Arizona State, 8-5 Fresno State, and a Notre Dame team coached by a man now generally agreed to be the Dumbest Man Alive.

223: I’m partial to Sarah Jessica Parker Wilson Phillips Engelmeyer Schmidt myself.

Everyone please extend tolerance and sympathy to our Alabama brethren. Pants around their ankles, they were poised for a wall splattering Sabangasm…only to be denied release!
The severe abdominal and groin pains that follow such trauma often produce unhinged comments and Slingblade style facial tics. Other symptoms include delusions of future grandeur.

Erik…. do you really think Tenn is that bad at this point in the season? Corso has a response for that kind of reasoning my friend… “…not so fast…”

Funky thing about college football is that teams like Tenn/Michigan/Auburn can come out and stumble early yet jell by 3-4 games into the season into much better teams.

Tenn seems a bit up and down… big loss at Ala followed by big win over GA? hard to understand. All I can say is Cal has lost to some pretty sorry teams so far, and Tenn has beaten some pretty good teams.

bottom line, I was being kind of polite about Oregon winning 2-3 games out of the 6-7 I mentioned… when welterweights fight they rarely cause serious damage but when you step in the ring with heavyweights you can often walk away limping… after Dixon gets about 2 concussions from Dorsey or Groves he would be tossing up dingers like the peanut boy at Bobby Dodd stadium… and Oregon would be 5-4 at this point in the season

1. - The play in the SEC is the main argument against a playoff. I’m convinced the SEC would win about 80% of any NCAA Foozeball Championships if a playoff were implemented.

Oh, and DMAC should win the Heisman.

Total Freak of Nature.

#223

I love it when you talk dirty. Is that a pelican in your pants or do you have balls the size of Les Miles’?

Erik & Doug – SC was loved by the mouse!

Just returned from the emergency room – nearly had to have my heart restarted after that game. Now I own my own defibrillator!

Umm… LSU gives up 34 to Alabama and that = awesome???

Seriously? Really?

I love the SEC as much as anyone, but this year, their strength is in the middle of the league not the top. LSU is very good, but not like one of the great teams in the past few years.
But I would take the SEC’s #3-#11 teams against any other conference’s like teams.
I think Oregon is as good if not better than whoever you want to put up there as the #2 SEC team and could beat LSU (as long as it’s not a night game in Baton Rouge).
But when you run from UCLA-Stanford, those are some pretty bad or underachieving teams.

238,

I would not be surprised if Oregon and possibly even Oklahoma leapfrog LSU. It’s been a while since they’ve had a dominant victory.

RE #178: Haley Lafontaine. Miles pissed her off during the recruiting process, so she decided to go out of state.

1. . . . sorry was stil trying to shake the Tommy Frazier Images out of my brain. Yeah, depends on the format but you may be right about SEC dominating a playoff, but there are good teams all-over the country, it’s just unfortunate for SEC teams that the whole conference is superb.

1. 239…

Agreed.

#239, there is no team in the country this year that would escape the SEC without a loss.

A team having a down week this year in the SEC will get you a L unless you’re playing Ole Miss. You cannot play 8 games without having a couple of down weeks.

Tim Brewster is in the process of nearly getting us Callahaned by [Name Redacted], and I couldn’t care less. FSU/BC is a good game, LSU/Bama was a great game, and Glen Mason is no longer the coach at Minnesota.

Some AD is going to look at this Minnesota team and think “Glen Mason really is a great coach. Let’s give him a job.” I will laugh at that AD until he is fired in 3 years. Caveat emptor, bitches.

Why don’t we just simplify the process for SEC fans and just give the National Championship to the winner of the SECCG like Nixon did with the winner of Texas vs. Arkansas.

Coach Fran to Callahan: “Excuse me, is this the line to file for unemployment?”

246: We won’t complain.

McFadden has some J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS.

I haven’t been watching McFadden because of FSU-BC but the stats are undeniable.

248 -

So you won’t mind giving the NCAA Basketball title to the ACC Champ every year by the same thinking, right?

John, you need to quit watching that crap and watch the best back to play CFB since Vincent Jackson.

He just ripped an 80 yard run and blew by the secondary. They had angles.

McFadden is still Humanity Advanced. And Houston Nutt is still crazier than a sack of rabid weasels — going for two when the margin is 13?

251 – Uh, we can give that to the SEC too. But there is already a playoff, so we can keep it like it is.

Oops. Never mind me. The lead is 12. Maybe I do need that Lasik surgery.

AZTiger,
I don’t disagree with that statement. Sure, if Oregon played in the SEC they might lose a game or 2. Guess what- LSU has a loss and they are at the top of the SEC. But I think people that think that Oregon or Ohio St suck because they don’t play in the SEC are idiots.

For example, if you did a round robin with these teams:
LSU, Ohio St, OU, BC, Oregon, UConn
I don’t know who wins, but if you go with these teams:
Auburn, Purdue, Texas, Wake, Cal, Rutgers
I like Auburn’s chances over any of those teams. Cal could win, Texas has the ability too, but I think Auburn wins most of those games. Likewise with lower tier teams:
Vandy, Minn, UNC, Washington, Syracuse, Baylor
I think Vandy wins all of those games.

Arkansas has over 500 yards rushing.

I think I speak for the rest of the SEC when I say, “McFadden, please go Pro.”

Darren McFadden is bringing a tear to my eye tonight

Upset Alert: Florida State needs to hang on for six more minutes, and our long national nightmare will be over.

I speak, of course, of the possibility of Boston College going to the BNC game.

Who is the QB in Garnett and Gold and what has he done with Drew Weatherford?

I hope he does this next week in Knoxville.

McFadden – 323 yards.

Holy.

Fucking.

Shit.

The bottom line on the SEC debate is…
If a team in the SEC plays as poorly as BC played for the first three quarters in the past two games, they’re not going to be able to come back in the fourth quarter they way they did last week, and are in the process of this week.

Okay, I can’t guarantee this, but I was just watching sportscenter talking about the Cincy-USF game and I swear Neil Everrett said, “If they had a camera trained on Jim Leavitt he’d be all out of kittens.” A reference to EDSBS’s post about Lloyd Carr strangling kittens? Did I hear that wrong? Was he referencing something else?

Final Box Score – Mcfadden with 358 yards of total offense.
 
1 pass for 23 yards, 1 INT (2 point conversion).
34 carries for 335 yards, 1 TD.

He accounted for more offense than most teams did this Saturday.

WOOOOO! PICK SIX! MAO! MAO!

Down goes BC.

Exactly 263
To all the Heisman voters..This is a very simple process. It is an individual award, not a team award. Just give the little guy to the man who is obviously the best RB on the year. Dixon definitely also deserves a looksie.

DiDi Mao BC!

Aaaaaaaaand… BC takes the pipe.

thank god for FL ST

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, oh my soul. Geno Hayes picks Ryan for the TD, Ryan’s Heisman hopes just got a spike in them, oh yeah, and Boston College is cooked.

It’s a good night. Two more pretenders knocked off.

268: McFadden is the best back in the SEC since Vincent Jackson. There is no other player in the country better than him at their position.

BC’s loss means that the Pats are going to get klonged by Indianapolis tomorrow, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen are each going to tear their ACLs, and police will find a case of BALCO’s finest in the trunk of Curt Schilling’s car.

1. Doug —

Anything about the Celtics? Seems that the media up there has already crowned them.

Doh! Never mind Doug — missed the Garnett and Allen comment. It’s late.

Did Lou Holtz just spit his dentures out?

Did I really see that?

#265
I heard it too. definitely “all out of kittens”

Dear God,

Does anyone else get a mental image of a giraffe on quaaludes when Blake Mitchell tries to get out of the pocket?

#278

I think that was Cosgrove’s manseed. He actually was defending a defensive coordinator that gave up 76 points….to KANSAS!

Oh, and now he’s defending Weis. I thought he wasn’t willing to save drowning friends.

76 is bad even in arena ball. And 6-man.

I can’t imagine being a Michigan State fan. No lead is safe.

The Spartan’s fans must just love getting their heart ripped out for every big game.

To the SEC is almighty crowd:

Please list me significant out of conference wins for the SEC:

By my calculations, the SEC has exactly one.

LSU beating Va Tech.
If you want to stretch it, I might give you Georgia beating Oklahoma St.

On the other hand, the conference has lost the following games:

Alabama lost to FSU (who isn’t all that good despite winning today)
Auburn lost to USF (who doesn’t look all that good anymore)
Tennesee lost to CAl (who doesn’t look that good right now)
Mississippi st. was killed by West Virginia (and remember MSU has beaten 2 prominent SEC teams)
Ole Miss has lost to Missouri

South Carolina struggled with UNC
Georgia struggled with Troy
Auburn struggled with Kansas St.
Alabama struggled with Houston
Ole Miss struggled with Memphis
Ole Miss struggled with Northwestern St.

So I’m wondering how anyone can say that the SEC is a juggernaut when they have proven absolutely nothing this year.

You can say all you want that Tennessee is “better” now, but are they really only better now that they’re playing other SEC teams? Perhaps.

Brian – wait for the bowls. The SEC will slaughter it’s opponents….again.

1. 274

NAzTiger – I agree with you.

New AZTiger,

When you don’t have an argument, you just say…just wait. Sounds like ND fans right now. Just wait.

And they don’t always dominate in bowls. Remember they were only 2-2 against the Big Ten last year.

1. My point is merely that If you are a good team in another conference, you may have to worry about 1 or 2 teams stopping you from winning your conference or going undefeated where as in the SEC you probably are going to have 6 games or so that you have to go through that will make or break your season.

287: Uh, OK. ND is talking about some remote timeframe in the future. I’m talking December/January.

1. SEC waxed the #1 Big-10 team last year, and the #4 SEC team lost by 3 points to the #2 Big-10 team last year. Correction, earlier THIS YEAR.

And, last time I checked, no SEC team lost at home to a 1AA team this year, and certainly no SEC team that LOST AT HOME to a 1AA team isn’t in the running to win the SEC.

Solution to challenge: attack the Big-10. I’m shocked! I’ve never seen that line of argument before!

Are you saying that the SEC’s aforementioned 1-4 in big OOC games this year didn’t happen, or doesn’t matter?

Brian,
you are an idiot, using ole miss as a comparison is like saying that shot of love makes mtv look like a good music chanel, ole miss is the duke/baylor of the sec… its a piss poor comparison… i hope whatever shitty school you went to taught you how to effectively use comparisons but i kinda doubt you went to college…

Say what you will about the quality of the teams in the SEC. You can’t argue with how many incredibly entertaining games there have been.
Alabama-Arkansas, Alabama-Georgia, LSU-Florida, Florida-Auburn, LSU-Kentucky, Florida-Kentucky, Georgia-Florida, LSU-Auburn, LSU-Alabama. These were 9 epic games. I am struggling to think of 3 that even come close to these in any other conference. Botom line, better teams make better games!

@292

Nevada-Boise State was better than every one of those games save Alabama-Arkansas. If better teams made better games, we wouldn’t have so many national championship blowouts.

But Jim-bo, I thought the whole argument was that the SEC was oh-so-profoundly deep, top to bottom, and that any game was a potential upset!

I’m so confused now!

Glad I go this whole How good is the SEC thing started with comment #228 Brian and Erik are both idiots. If you can’t recognize this is the best conference the country has seen in years then you should just start watching the CFL . . . exclusively. Ole Miss is the only team in the 12 team conference that probably won’t be bowl eligible at the end of the year. By the way Brian, aka the Genius. Mississippi St. had the 7 point win vs. Northwestern St, not Ole Miss. If you are going to attempt to make an argument, then at least sound like you know what the hell you are talking aobut.

Our SEC games are alot more interesting than 90% of the games that are out there. Who gives a fuck about the Big Least? Cincy crushes USF who crushed WV?
Gimmicky at best. 200 lbs guys up against 200lb guys isnt as impressive as 335 guys who can move like 175 lb guys, try those collisions week in and week out, and many Big Least teams will be on their 2nd and 3rd string, just due to wear and tear. Guess what?
cant wait til LSU beats the hell out of whoever is unlucky enought to face them. They have real NFL talent level players who will just obliterate anyone who comes up against them. You take Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia and turn them loose on any other conference and I’’ll take my chances.
LSU vs Ohio state? Please be a worse massacre than last year’s Fla game…..Michigan vs Florida> please….florida waxes them again. Alabama vs Rutgets or USF——both get fucked up, Georgia vs, Cincy? Dogs kill em….Just like tonight, LSU vs Ala, very physica, at one point LSU had 3 defenders oftt the field..

I would have killed myself months ago had it not been for you SEC spewing dumbfucks. Really? The SEC tears it up? I’m not pro-douchebag (The Artist Formerly Known as who gives a fuck really pisses me off). But… COME ON!!!! You dipshits need to realize the entire country plays the same game. Props to the team that played in the Championship Game. The rest of you? You were taken to the shed where you may have been accosted. I pray you bellowed and alerted those sworn to protect you that adult on child sodomy was on the menu. Please realize CBS does a beyond exemplary job of magnifying the complete lack of defensive ball that that conference continues to play, or not play, or fuck it. You may be the end all, or you may be the end, like caboose, or ass of college football. Before we asphyxiate ourselves with our own cock, lets compile a resume worth noting. Until then, please, shut the fuck up. You Mason-Dixoners confuse home games with the rapture and that is all kinds of annoying. I sincerely wish you the best because I understand what a media flavored blowjob can do to a team, and any asshole can tell when there is more harm than good. Humble pie, fuckers.

all i have to say is that, there is a reason that cbs pays for exclusive rights to the best sec game

Brian. The answer to your question is that the deny reality. Like the ghosts in “The sixth sense” they only see what they want to see.

Oregon is clearly better than any team in the SEC this year. ASU and USC might be as well.

Wow, Pelican Pants. You didn’t predict LSU would slaughter OSU like I thought you would. Admirable restraint on your part. Or, in a typical fit of southern rage, you left out “it would” between “please” and “be a massacre”.

Look, I’m sorry you guys are a few breaths away from being irrelevant to the national title picture yet again. Sure does suck playing in THE BEST FUCKING CONFERENCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE FUCKING PLANET AS WE FUCKING KNOW IT, FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK SEC IS ALMIGHTY breaks into tongues.

Please. All of your teams are bowl eligible because they fattened up on Northwestern St., Tennessee Tech, and Western Kentucky, and squeaked out a few wins against mediocre SEC teams that alternate between defense-less (Kentucky, South Carolina, Florida) and quarterback-less (Auburn, Georgia, Alabama). Great nonconference BCS wins you’ve got there, against might Virginia Tech and…. who else of any note? An Okie State team that got blown out by Troy? What about Georgia beating that same Troy team by ten in Athens, and struggling to do so?

Oh, and before you scream “41-14!” while holding your precious blankie, Pelican, please, we’re talking about this year, multiple games where the SEC has been flat-out exposed OOC. Bama losing to Free Shoes? Auburn losing to a very average USF team? Are you fucking kidding me? The same Bama that went down to the wire against a champion you’ve already crowned?

1. -

Please be a worse massacre than last year’s Fla game…..Michigan vs Florida> please….florida waxes them again.

Florida and Michigan have played once, at the 2003 Outback Bowl. Michigan won that game. Which “again” are you referring to in regards to the Wolverines, praytell?

the floor of this blog is covered in spittle, invectives and beer cans. Bless you Orson for giving us a place to yell at each other and slap each other on the back

20 yards rushing…

Let me repeat that…

20 YARDS RUSHING

and Bama almost beat LSU….that’s just sad that this team is probably going to end up in the Nat’l Championship Game

Oregon vs. Kansas for the Title! 100 Cocktails to whoever can figure out how to pull that off…

anyone have a cure for a hangover headache? I’m dyin’ here…

So Oregon, who has already lost, is “clearly better” than any team in the SEC?

Jeez, they cram 59,000 into a stadium for the FIRST TIME EVER, beat an overrated ASU team, and now they’re going to run the SEC.

Puff Puff Give.

LSU should drop to No 5 or so. They sucked, but Bama sucked even more.

Can we agree that LSU has yet to beat a truly top – ten worthy team this season? Florida was a pretender this year (no defense), Va Tech is vastly overrated (no offense), Auburn? Please. Alabama had 20 goddamn yards rushing and still almost beat LSU. Hell, Kentucky hardly puts 11 guys on the field for defense and they beat LSU this year.

Does LSU have the talent? No doubt. Can they stop shooting themselves in the foot with dumbfuck penalties and idiotic play calls? It’s not looking that way. If LSU gets to the MNC game and plays this poorly, I don’t care who they face; I’m giving them 4 points in the spread. They look sloppy and undisciplined in every phase of the game.

#164, it’s a Big-12 thing.

The University of Oklahoma = OU
The University of Kansas = KU
The University of Colorado = CU
The University of Nebraska = NU

As for OU vs UO, as an Urge Overkill fan, I really hate that Oregon changed their helmets a few years back.

Forty miles west of Kansas City
Down a county road like a lonely soul
I see Sharon and I see Jack
It’s me and roman weared in black,
Tell my bride to bury me in Stull…

Haha. LSU waxing OSU is funny. The riverboat gambler, Les Miles, should have lost 3 games by now. Congrats on holding a #17 team to 31 points though. Should be fun beating Les Miles every year when he moves to Michigan also….

I meant Florida waxes another Big 10 “Powerhouse” on national TV……I am sorry, USC waxed Michigan, last year, and LSU would do the same this year if they play up to their talent level, they hadnt so far…..
Sadly as much as I hate to admit it, LSU is just underachieving so much so that they let Florida,Auburn,Kentucky, and Alabama hang around all game so much so that KY beat em. Put Nick Saban coaching at LSU and LSU blows Alabama off the field, and he would be on his 3rd National Championship, this one being his 2nd in a row since he would have won last year. LSU without Nick Saban, should win a National Championship, like last year, but will find a way to lose in some boneheaded fashion, aka, calling a screen pass from your own endzone…(insert your own questionable call here)…Trust me, Alabama aint all that….no running game and a QB who chokes in the biggest games, shouldnt have been ahead at anytime, except due to LSU penalties and turnovers and special teams breakdowns.
If LSU wins and gets to the MNC, the TEAM will have to do it in spite of their coach, and if they play OSU or Kansas like Alabama, they will lose, talent be damned,cant fix stupid coaching. I dont think Ohio State can get past both [Name Redacted} and Meeeesheeegan ….So #300, I am not talkin about 2003, I am talking about this year and the same Michigan team ….I’ll make this easy for ya…..Two Words…..Appalachian State…..@ home….in the Big House…….I am actually pulling for Michigan to beat OSU,and I want Michigan to run up the score on the Tresselator. If OSU obliterates these next 2 opponents, then maybe they deserve a shot, and if ya wanna go tit for tat on strength of schedule, look at OSU vs ranked opponents….oops I am sorry, dont think they played any ranked opponents 4 games in a row, at least top 20 that I have seen…..I am a SEC Homer so I could be wrong…..cue tOSU comments now……

What is ironic is that the greatest NFL QB playing right now with the TD record is from Conference USA’s Southern Miss, and the chosen one to break it is from Michigan, and the best offensive mind under center is from Tennessee……
after watching that game and being emotionally involved for 4 full quarters and taking a step back….the SEC is turning into the WAC with over 70 pts in a SEC game…all you BIG 10 guys are right, the SEC is irrelevant this year and highly overrated and the BCS rankings are biased, and not matter how many 1st round picks the SEC puts in the NFL, thats overrated too.

Update:
Mangino went in at Tailback, and has just scored on Nebraska, from 10 yrds out…..took the hand off, the TV went to commercial…came back and he was just wobbling into the end zone……

I’m going to make a prediction: Alabama, with 4 losses, stays in the top 25 on the strength of SEC bias in the pollsters. Put money on it.

#307
It’s pointless to speculate what might happen if things were different. I mean, I could say if Troy Smith had surgically replaced his left arm with a machine gun, OSU would have won another championship. It’s true, but it is a completely stupid thing to say. Similarly, your statements RE: Saban and LSU are equally fuckwitted. They may or may not be true, but they are unverifiable and ultimately irrelevant. The bottom line is that LSU is badly underachieving against mediocre competition (although admittedly stiffer than OSU, Kansas, and Oregon have faced this season). It might be a result of their hairbrained coach, it might be a result of playing shit competition at home for most of the season. Who knows?

I’m personally pulling for LSU to lose; not because I have anything against LSU, but because I want Les Miles to take the Michigan job. That way, he can run his mouth and make dumbass remarks, then have The Vest steamroll his boys every year. That would be mighty fine.

HeyBC at Soonerfans created this gem.

About the Tigers:

Any other team in the nation who played as badly as LSU did for long stretches in their last four games, would have lost all four of them. LSU is talented enough that they can overcome their own mistakes and get it together when it matters.

However, there will come a day when they make one too many mistakes, and their opponent doesn’t give them the opportunity to come back. The only question is when.

Will it happen this season? I honestly don’t know; this season has been far too wacky to give an honest answer. However, Les Miles can only pull so many wins out of his backside before he runs out.

Took a week off from the SEC and watched OSU-Wisc and Oregon-AZ State and I have to say theres no way to gauge who’s the best team in the country with any certainty but the match up that would I would most like to see is Oregon-LSU.

 I love adding my 2 cents to day old threads with over 300 comments…I n my dvr negative universe, I miss all the espn bullshit but see twice the football in half the time

Fox News Alert = Kansas just scored again.

they’re just trying to scare people in Nebraska again. Go with what works

The lack of discipline and some very poor coaching at LSU is as difficult to dispute as that they have clearly achieved more than any other team in the country, have shown tremendous resilience (attributable to coaching? yes, now, maybe, whf knows) and once out of the gauntlet of the SEC should be favored by 4 on a neutral field against any prospective opponent until further notice (i.e. other poor performances against what is from here on out somewhat weaker competitions).

Pelican @ 311

Deplore Saban and have done so for 15 years but cannot deny that he made a great deal of the resources that were given him at LSU (uncannilly perseptive lyrics from Orson). Still, he won two division titles (alright – 1 with Denardo’s players) and 10 games only once. Miles, fuckup though he maybe, has 5 more win in a 35 game stretch than did Saban’s teams. He lost to Name Redacted, at home, in his MNC season!!!

Rumors out of Tuscaloosa indicate widespread theft of Heineken beer from area liquor stores. Surveillance caught this guy on tape:

http://www.insanitywetrust.com/Heineken.html

I guess no one remembers 1999 when the Big Ten runner-up Michigan beat SEC champion Alabama and the 3rd placed Big Ten team Michigan State beat SEC runner up Florida. The Big Ten champion, Wisconsin, they beat the Pac-10 champion in the Rose bowl.

The honest fact is that the SEC is great, but it is not the world dominating force the fans want it to be. After watching this season unfold, it is becoming more and more evident that the Florida win over Ohio State last year is simply not enough evidence to declare the SEC completely and utterly dominate over everyone.

It was one team on one night, played well after the regular season.

Wait is there another anti-SEC comments about who we have not beaten out of conference?

The Big Ten’s best non-conference win is who exactly? Washington? Washington State? Syracuse? Notre Dame? Buffalo? At least a SEC team beat someone.

Get a better argument then that.

And J.P. needs to learn how to eat the ball when he is getting sacked.

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awlrite boyz…. yall settle down… awm gonna tell ya like it is…

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heah’s the way the top teams sit as I see it…
- Ohio State – them kids aint too bad, but that coach is just a bit too sissified to light a real fire in their behinds… if they play foah a nash’nul cham’ship they git took to the woodshed

- LSU – that damn yankee coach is takin a gud team and running ‘em like gurl’s touch futbawl. Caint believe them cajuns aint run him outta town for that trick play on 4th down… that was complete horseshit. ’Em boyz might win it all, but they probably need to pull the plug outta his headphones to do it.

- Oregon – now’s thas my kind of footbawl… 6 running backs and a defense that hides an extra player in a lineman’s jock who pops out after the snap. Uglay ass uniforms, but dem boyz play man’s bawl.

- Boston College/Arizona State/Connecticut/Kansas – whodafuck let these clowns have good players? Musta been a special on linemen and runnin backs at goddam Walmart or somethin…

- Oklahoma/WestVirginia – dem teams doin the best they can with those elementary school dropouts they usually put on the field

- Hawaii – what the fuk?

gotta go now… Saban’s startin practice, gotta monitor them boyz on my vision input…. damn I wish I had Saban’s hair…. that boy is might fine lookin

SEC wins when they go to the title game, that says something about the conference. What other conference is undefeated in the title games?

#324

Who? Who of merit has an SEC team beaten in an OOC game? Va Tech? If it isn’t obvious by now, they’re not very good (read: fucking terrible and would lose by 3 touchdowns to anyone in the top ten). The Big Ten doesn’t have a marquee win either. Realistically, only the Pac 10 (Cal over a mediocre Tennessee) and Big East (crappy USF over mediocre Auburn) have meaningful OOC wins.

SEC is good? Maybe. Dominating? Nope. You can ride other teams for piss poor schedules, but the SEC plays thin OOC schedules too. You don’t have to like it, but it’s a fact.

Unless, of course, you think Troy is a quality OOC opponent.

News Flash: Kansas just scored again.

How many good teams are there in college football this season anyway? Just going by these comments my guess is 0.

I agree the SEC is not a behemoth of conference that crushes everyone in sight. And I think most people think that is true as well, but like talk radio we let the crazy people talk over the rational ones and think that means it is the majority.

#329, there are a lot of good teams this year, just no great ones.

In the SEC, I’d say that LSU, AU, Bama, UK, UF, UGA, and UT are good teams, defining good teams as teams with weaknesses but that can rise to greatness on any given week, but can also sulk to craptacularness on any other given week.

Going on what 330 said, I would put those teams in the good category as well. I’d put OSU, OU, and WFVU (there are other teams too, but I’m not going to spend my time enumerating them right now) in the good category, too. Kansas and Oregon are the only teams so far that have been unequivocally great every week (even in a loss, in Oregon’s case).

tOSU,

Are you honestly harkening back to 1999 (actually, 2000) to make your case against the SEC? Hell, that’s not even to mention that the Michigan OB win to which you referred was a one point victory due to a missed extra point, and was a game in which soon-to-be #3 overall NFL draft pick Chris Samuels did not play (replaced by the ever-hapless Lannis Baxley).

Damn, that’s compelling. You should’ve been a trial lawyer.

Should be “hearkening”.

BeardGuy,

First of all, get a clue. Alabama has three losses—not four.

Secondly, what were you saying?

This SEC fan is conflicted.

While UF mudholed tOSU last year, Brian’s list of OOC losses are undeniable.

It seems like the SEC:
A. Tends to suck when playing real OOC opponents early in the season. I’m not even sure Houston Nutt bothers to practice in the fall, based on their last two games against USC. Tennessee, like other SEC teams, is highly unpredictable. Sometimes we’re good but sometimes we suck.

I’ll let the bowls sort it out but I’m not one to proclaim dominance when I’ve watched Bama lose against every decent OOC oponent we’ve played in the last ten years with the exception of Texas Tech, who kind of sucks.

But then again, Bama pretty much completely sucked from 1996 to 2006, with the exception of 1999 and a couple of games in between.

tOSU is probably right but without a playoff, theres no way to really say.

They may have 3 now, but my point is that they’ll have 4 (Auburn) by the end of the season. And they’ll still be in the top 25. How’s that for a clue?

They’re making a lot of progress under Saban (more than I expected this year), but they really aren’t a top 25 caliber team this year. Hence, my point about SEC bias.

Give me a break, BeardGuy. Nobody believes you were implicitly referring to several weeks in the future, at which time you speculate UA will have four losses.

How disingenuous can you be?

To the extent that LSU fans were sick over the work of the replay official (AU homer Al Ford) in last year’s game in Jordan-Hare, it’s officially been made up for.

Overturning the long catch by Caddell was utterly inexplicable, at least if one is actually adhering to the rules. And there was far from indisputable evidence sufficient to justify overturning the LSU fumble.

I don’t really care if you believe me or not. I’m just pointing out that the immediate jump to personal insults, particularly when you misread my meaning, is perhaps unwarranted.

1. - no defense??? W.T.F.?

Name 1 other single digit scoring game in the NCAA this year between BCS teams besides AU-9, UArk 7. Humanity Advanced got 40something yards that game. Yeah, no defense.

Puff Puff Give.

First of all, no, that was most certainly not your point. Your initial response made absolutely no mention of “personal insults,” etc.

Secondly, you and I both know there was no “misreading” on my part—you simply didn’t know what the fuck you were talking about and, when you were called out for it, you chose to lie instead of admitting your mistake.

Here’s the original comment: “I’m going to make a prediction: Alabama, with 4 losses, stays in the top 25 on the strength of SEC bias in the pollsters. Put money on it.”

It was clear, given both the timing (the morning the new poll was to be released) and the context of this thread, what you intended by your comment. It’s truly pathetic that you now feel compelled to lie about it.

I wouldn’t hang too much on the fact that Bama only had 20 yards rushing. Saban all but abandoned the running game after the first quarter, which was probably a smart move. Yes, LSU is that good.

Bama’s offensive game plan was solid enough; get the ball down the field into the hands of those that can make something happen.

I agree that Les is a clown, but as good as LSU’s players are they may not need a great coach to win a NC.

4 loss teams in the last AP poll of the regular season:
2002:
Florida State (9-4) at 16
Auburn (8-4) at 20
Florida (8-4) at 23
Pittsburgh (8-4) at 25

4 loss SEC team not ranked: Arkansas (9-4), LSU (8-4)

2003:
Florida (8-4) at 16
West Virgina (8-4) at 21

4 loss SEC team not ranked: Arkansas

2004:
Florida (7-4) at 20
Texas A&M (8-4) at 22
Texas Tech (7-4) at 23
Ohio State (7-4) at 24

4 Loss SEC team not ranked: none

2005:
Michigan (7-4) at 20
Florida St. (8-4) at 22
Clemson (7-4) at 23
Georgia Tech (7-4) at 24
Iowa (7-4) at 25

4 loss SEC team not ranked: South Carolina (7-4)

2006:
Nebraska (9-4) at 22
Oregon State (9-4) at 24

4 loss SEC team not ranked: Georgia (8-4)

Not sure if this bias or not. Depends on if/how Alabama loses another game. 2 last minute/play losses to top 15 teams and a close loss to a slightly above average team. They would be 8-4….I have no idea if they will be ranked or not though…

#332

No need to go back to 99, in the last 3 years the Big Ten is 5-3 against the SEC, with the crown jewel for the SEC being the NC win for the Gators. So if you consider Florida’s beat down of Ohio State a beat down that is representative of the SEC’s dominance over the Big Ten, how do you explain the the 5-3 record over the last 3 years and the 13-13 record since the beginning of the BCS bowl structure?

Didn’t 6-6 Bama lose to 6-6 Ok State last year in the Bowl game? Couple that with 17# Tenn losing to outranked Penn State and SEC runner-up Arkansas losing to the 3rd best Big Ten team and I just don’t see this top to bottom dominance you dumb motherfuckers keep talking about.

Let’s just be honest, it is ingrained into the SEC fans psyche to never concede to defeat-probably something passed down from generation to generation from the Civil War days. If your team loses, it’s okay because your conference is better. If someone from your conference wins they you must be better because you play them. Sounds like a pussy ass excuses to me. If your team loses, take it like a man and don’t give me some bullshit about your conference.

Ohio State lost to Florida and it had nothing to do with the SEC and the Big Ten, and anyone who can’t see that is a fucking idiot. You had two teams loaded with all american talent and future NFL players, two great coaching staffs, a neutral location, and the Gators just whipped our asses. It’s really that simple. They peaked at the right moment, executed an excellent game plan to perfection, and they were the better team. Sorry Bama fans who went 6-7 to finish the season with a loss to Ok State, Florida beating Ohio State in no way has anything to do with you or your shitty season last year.

I would crawl under a rock if the only thing I had to grasp onto in order to feel good is the fact that the teams I hate in my conference are either better than mine or better than the mine and the rest of the country.

Thanks to you SEC fans, I just enjoyed watching Tom Brady beat Peyton Manning.

unranked Penn State not out ranked

tOSUBuckeyes, someone has to be #1. The simple fact is that it’s the SEC.

The current conference members have a winning record vs every conference (yes, including the Big 10(can’t count)) except for the Big East, where there have only been 35 games played.

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First to Chuck D…Hey dipshit. When you correct someone, and tell them to get your facts straight, you should get your straight. It was Ole Miss who beat Northwestern St. this week. Please see link. Unreal that you would question my credibility by disclaiming my truths with your made up facts. Learn to read.

As for the rest of you, “You’re an idiot because you don’t suck at the SEC’s media inflated teat” fans:

You have done nothing to disprove anything I said. All I asked for was some objective results that demonstrate the SEC as being superior. LSU is a great team. They could beat many teams if not all on any given day. But the rest of the conference hasn’t proven a thing. And the only argument anyone can make depends on previous years’ results or chest thumping rah rah talk.

For the record, I don’t think the Big Ten is better. IN fact, I’d rank the Big Ten probably near the bottom based on their non-conference struggles. And though I can’t stand the Pac 10 and usually wont’ sing their praises, I think it’s awfully hard to argue that they aren’t the best. Do they have some shitty teams, yes. Do they have some shitty losses, yes (though not the top teams). But they also have actually beaten a few teams. See Tennessee.

If the SEC wants my respect, then they need to go play someone, outside of your coference and occasionally on the road. Until you’ve beaten someone, just be happy to have one good team and entertaining games between average teams.

Proof – OK.

Proof on a Plattah.

The SEC since 1992 (expansion) only has a losing record vs the current members of the Big East, I think due to some inconsistencies in the data, which likely has to do with the ACC/Big East realignments over that time period.

Sagarin has the SEC as the best conference or is that not objective enough (well it did last week). Big 12 was 2nd. But tell all the other conferences to do the same and maybe the SEC will join in as well-go ahead tell us of the one team in every major conference that goes on the road outside of conference.

and I don’t think the SEC is head and shoulders above everyone else either. Big 12 and PAC-10 are perhaps better, if not right there with the SEC this season. The Big Ten was good the past couple of seasons, not as good this year. ACC is terrible, the Big East is hard to gauge, though I think a healthy West Virginia is a scary team to face.

The only data that matters is that within the last 10 or so years:
Past BCS Championship Games
1998 Tennessee 23, Florida State 16
1999 Florida State 46, Virginia Tech 29
2000 Oklahoma 13, Florida State 2
2001 Miami (Fla.) 37, Nebraska 14
2002 Ohio State 31, Miami (Fla.) 24 (2 OT)
2003 LSU 21, Oklahoma 14 -how OK got here and not USC is beyond me….
2004 USC 55, Oklahoma 19-how OK got here and not Auburn is beyond me….
2005 Texas 41, USC 38
2006 Florida 41, Ohio State 14
2007 LSU 58, Ohio State 21-how OSU got here and not Oregon is beyond me….

SO basically make your own analogies…….in the last 4 yrs at least the SEC has gotten 2, Big 12 gets one and the PAC -10 gets 1, after this year it will be 3 for the SEC….

Someone help me with this new amendment to the BCS rules;
Under the new BCS arrangement Notre Dame will be guaranteed one of the at-large slots in a BCS bowl if it is ranked No. 78 or better in the final BCS Standings. It is also guaranteed annual payment for its participation in the BCS. In those seasons in which the Irish play in a BCS game, the school will receive $4.5 million (an amount equivalent that received by a conference that places a second team in a BCS bowl). In those seasons in which Notre Dame does not play in a BCS game, it is projected to be paid $1.3 million for its participation in the BCS arrangement.
Why in the fuck is Notre Dame singled out for this type of bullshit? Did Notre Dame invent football or something?