THE FIESTA BOWL, SPONSORED BY BOB STOOPS' BCS LOSSES

My UF buddies in JAX lovingly remember the “Fiasco Bowl” the gators played in 1995 (I think that was the year)

Justin Vincent was sent packing when LSU upgraded to Badass Stable of Runnning Backs version 6.9.

Don’t show this to Okiedomer.

Not Fiesta Bowl related, but anyone catch CJ Spiller waving off his own teammate after he scored on the 80 yard run? Looked like some drama there, and wondered if any Clemson people know the backstory.

That Boise State video never gets old.

One would think that OU getting to a BCS game would be the equivalent of them being sentenced to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, but this year may be different.

But I figured that CU had not shot against the Sooners as well.

What did Bob Stoops have to do with Paris’s top falling off?

Who was that excitable young man doing play-by-play in the top video?

Actually, I think we can thank your buddy Urban for his 2004 Fiesta Bowl performance for this mess.

This game fucking sucks. There. I said it!!!

PLACTIC Irish,
Not sure Stoops is involved at all, but your comment took me back to an episode of Buck Rogers, the most frustrating TV show I ever saw as a pre-teen, with hormones raging through my body. The seven dwarves found in the show, it is soon learned can use mind control to make different things move or happen. They encounter Wilma and begin chanting “OFF THINK! OFF THINK! OFF THINK!” Just after he belt flys off they are rudely interrupted and their wonderful ploy put to a stop. Ohh, I was on the edge of my seat for sure, Erin Gray was to be my first wife…

Of course if she were a star now, I would have nothing to worry about, as she would undoubtedly have appeard on the internets multiple times showing off those unmentionables we could only imagine in the one piece, fart bags she wore so tightly in BR in the 25th century. And i am sure she and Gil would have had several private sessions taped and “leaked” to the various purveyors of filth in Hollywood.

Well now… back to football.

Remember way long ago to the Sugar Bowl last night?

Sugar Bowl = Fiesta Bowl except replace Oklahoma for Georgia, West Virginia for Hawaii, and Pat White for Colt Brennan gettting thrown around like a rag doll.

Oklahoma by 28 at least.

They put BARRY SWITZER in the pre-game analysis booth for the Oklahoma game??!?!? Whereby he shares a fireside chat with Sam Bradford (whose father played for Switzer at OU) in the Switzer Center on OU’s campus, after beaming with pride as the “pride of Oklahoma” band marches across the field. Seated next to him is Jimmy Johnson, former Miami coach who spent years playing WVU as a rival, who is clearly enjoying his fellow Cowboys coach and his nostalgia-laden reverie. I’ve watched this show for 8 minutes, and nary a WVU player, coach, or fan has graced the screen. Here we go again, FOX.

#11
What I liked about Erin Gray, was in my dream world, paired up with D.D. McCall from “Hunter” in anything goes-Porky-type movie…..
With his sidekick, Twiki, filming the whole thing

Also all USC fans should watch that 2004 video and listen closely to the last sentence.

OnePeat.com

She-attt…not enough games left in the year to bitch about this…

OK 41 Wva 28

I’ve been money all bowl season..I’ve got more people outta debt than AmericaDebt

I’m really angry at the criticism of the Fox announcers. The following inequality should demonstrate why:

Bob Ufer > Keith Jackson > Fox Announcers > 0 > Musberger.

I won’t watch a non-Michigan game with him announcing. Seriously.

BTW, that SEC speed is kicking ass!!! WOOOOO!!!!

Sorry, I’m still happy.

Wow! Buck Rogers masturbatory fantasies. And we are off to as a great a start as Fox.

FWIW, Linda Carter was my, um first.

Please, please let’s not start that sec-big 10 stuff…sec can finish 7-2 in bowl games and win 2nd NC in a row and it seems like that’s not good enough

Congrats Michigan! SEC speed crap is over.

Can WVA re-group? No one has been able to losing their coach for the bowl game.

Captain #19 of WVA is more confident than me on prom night…Instead of shaking hands post coin toss..he got in OK players face.

How did that work for the Gators yesterday? Can someone show some class?

Doug -

What’s the drink of choice tonight? Screwdrivers again?

#20…I swear on my mother’s grave (she’s not dead yet)..I just made a 24 oz screwdriver!…I wish I could post a photo of it…You’re good!

Laura Okman is a hottie.

Doug -

Heh. I’m in DC for the next 10 days and I can hear the wind howling outside. If it’s anywhere near as bitter in Annapolis as it is here, you have a great excuse to pour a strong one. Salut!

What’s with the announcer calling West Virginia “WVU”?

I just now noticed that Jared Zebranski was totally moving towards the line on their TD in OT when he went in motion.

tsk tsk refs

Well I’ll be damned. The MountainTrash might have a chance after all.

Not the QB-
It’s cold….however..should be in the 60’s by early next week…There are some OSU bars here for Monday Night….

Pete Carroll cares not for the remainder of your 2007 college football season. He lounges tonight upon a plush, gilded chaise and lazily plucks grapes from the outstretched hand of a buxom virgin slave. At his side his minature personal assistant, who will from time to time lean close and whisper, “Sic transit gloria.”

I still haven’t decided whom to root for. As a Michigan alum, I can’t root for Ohio State in good conscience…but I don’t know if I’m ready for a 2-loss national champ.

I want OT Monday Night where Les Miles does something outrageous…He becomes the man who sold his soul to win it all or the idiot where everything finally catches up to him…great storyline…

Not the QB, count me in as a rabid OSU fan that was cheering his ass off for Michigan yesterday.

Could we see a 4-peat from Oklahoma?

I’m rooting for the Bucks…good for the conference.

That said, there will be a much healthier LSU team on the field.

I’ve got a lot of family in Columbus, and even they were happy Michigan won. Of course, I was on a plane during the game (DVR running) and the dozen text messages that I got celebrating the win did not improve the watching experience.

Slaton may finally be showing some cumulative injuries.

Actually announcers are not so bad…Fran Tarkenton is still giddy over his appearance last night as a Georgia apologist…alsmost as embarrasing as Lou Holtz for ND, Robert Smith for Big 10 and Jessie F’n Palmer for SEC

Only Herbstreit seems to have cred

WVU has a player named John Holmes?? Gotta cheer for them now…

Orson, a combination of cranberry and vodka and portly white women did Justin Vincent in.

Damn….hide your couches in Morgantown! Go get ’em Moutaineers!

I embarrass my school and the conference for the sole purpose of pissing off Mack Brown.

not the QB,

from wash post.com

Wait, a bar in Georgetown will have fans cheering for Ohio State? Actually, the Rhino Bar should be the most interesting place in the area . It occupies a prime piece of M Street real estate and caters to the local student crowd, but it’s also an official sports viewing location for the local Ohio State alumni group.

there is far too little incest humor here for my taste. oklahoma AND west virginia? you’d think people would be on that faster than sam bradford on his sister ZING

Is it my imagination or did Bradford just pull a Jim Everett on that corner blitz?

I guess now that we’re pretty sure that Les Miles isn’t coming to Michigan, I can go back to being a Big 10 partisan. Whatever. I just hope that game’s entertaining.

Doug – thanks for the heads-up..I’ll make sure to stay away from Georgetown Monday night!

Please let “He tested positive… for donuts!” be on Awful Announcing tomorrow.

And I’ll be glad when I don’t have to watch the goddamn Jason Gingell blocked FG again.

I have no numbers in front of me but doesn’t the Big East show up in Bowl games like they’ve been crapped on?

If this game doesn’t pick up, I’m switching to bourbon and going to porn sites. (not in that order)….

This is the first time I’ve ever heard Matt Vasgersian on anything other than a 2ksports video game. I wasn’t sure he was real until tonight

John Holmes with the money shot on the Oklahoma tight end?

This OK team rolled Mizzou twice?

I love college football.

They are going to play NFL football for 6 weeks and the Pats will win..the NBA rarely has upsets..

I’m against a playoff..every week is a playoff…shit…I’m outta of OJ…..can’t switch back to beer

Were there a comparable number of commercials last night? Granted I could barely sit up to 45 degrees without wanting to throw up but I don’t seem to remember this many.

i challenge anyone to find poorer announcing in any college football game (much less bowl game, much MUCH less BCS game) not imposed on us by FOX. jesus.

“Like a runaway beer truck” ???

I like this announcer!

“like a runaway beer truck!” Now that’s a good piece of announcing. Maybe Fox can redeem itself for last night.

Oh, shit!

Owen Schmitt!

My sportsbook is enjoying this.

I am not.

My liver is fixin to pay the price.

These Tostito’s commercials have GOT to go….somebody at the ad agency rented a “Jackass” DVD and thought they were being “hip”

Those deceiving left-handers!

That Pitt game was more fixed than my girlfriends cat.

There is no way a 29 point underdog on the road beats that team.

It’s all gonna come out one day.

Bookies own America.

Was Laura Okmin an oompa loompa in Charlie and the Chocolate factory? That’s some seriously orange skin…

Just saw Fred G Sanford on TV on a 1st class flight to Hawaii cut in line past 2 women in line to go to the bathroom.

Don’t remember that episode. Politically incorrect to the max.

Redd Foxx deserved an Emmy.

“…as told by Morgan Freeman.”

Fox, that’s one point for you. You’re up to -16.

I’m really hoping that the “touching” story narrated by Morgan Freeman doesn’t involve the Sisters from Shawshank.

I love how Fox doesn’t cover any college football all damned year, then it’s amateur hour for the big games with a pupu platter of Vaskergian, Haden, and Donohue. I guess the #7 Fox NFL team (per wikipedia) is the best we can do during BCS season. I’d rather have the regional FSN broadcast idiots like Dave Lapham.

And Laura Orkut (or whatever the hell her name was) is definitely partying down with the wee folk at the Chocolote Factory.

Oh, and Orson, did Owen Schmitt’s touchdown run look like the longest in Fiesta Bowl history to you? Did it? Don’t make me go to the youtubes.

Is anyone else watching West Virginia play this game with the tune “Sweet Georgia Brown” in their head? And the Sooners are the Washington Generals?

Pat White has “beautiful legs”

Wonder if he waxes…I find shaving to be incredibly bothersome and tedious.

It’s a little known fact that in 1952, Garrett Morris played quarterback for the USF Dons and introduced the “shotgun” formation to whitey.

62

I wonder what these people do the rest of the year? Are they on call simply for this game? Do they do the weather on the 11pm news in Buffalo and then rush to call the Fox college football games?

66

Nice. Best SNL skit ever.

75 > 54.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LHbZ3T4rzA

Dunno if it is the longest run in Fiesta Bowl history, but it’ll do, Orson, it’ll do.

@69

Thanks for that. After yesterday, that just hits the spot. Fuck.

“The WVU sideline is going nuts after some Sooner got a handful of Johnny Dingle….” only on Fox.

There’s a reason no one else has ever referred to West Virginia as “WVU” during a broadcast- because it sounds cumbersome, and little bit like an acronym for a CDC recognized pandemic.

1. — Google is your friend. You can be subjected to Pat Haden on a regular on the Notre Dame Broadcasting Company, and Vasgergian and Donohue both work NFL for Fox.

It’s unfolding according to OS’s prediction, but I think Stoops has it in him to lose this. The Big 12 may be the most overrated conference of all.

“They shouldn’t let those guys sit next to each other” That’s two great lines tonight.

These Fox announcers don’t even know the rules.

A muffed punt recovered in the end zone by the receiving team is a touch back, not a safety.

The scoreboard operator even gave 2 points to OU momentarily, as it read WVU 20 – OU 11.

Fox – Amateur Hour, except for our awesome robot graphics!

Rival: there’s also nothing amateur about constant pimping of this season’s breakout hits and sponsored replays.

Anyone heard about this “Jumper” movie? Think it’s some kind of grass-roots indy film. Should be good.

I also have this urgent need for Linda Hamilton to show up and beat the shit out of these announcers. Weird.

The “double you vee you” thing is really starting to annoy me. 1) No one calls it that. 2) It’s HARDER to say than “West Virginia.”

Troy: plus they leave out the “effing” between the W and V every time.

Great move Stoops…you have all the momentum forcing two three and outs by WVU while scoring a fg and td coming out of the half. Then you take that away by chasing points too early with a failed two point conversion when you haven’t even tried one all season. So to make up for that you call an onside kick that fails. Of course WVU scores a couple of plays later. Game over.

Pat White. Holy shit.

That on-side kick was dumb, and it wasn’t just dumb because it didn’t work. It was dumb, period. OU had ALL the momentum and just gave it away. Wow.

So… was Coach Dickrod’s playcalling holding this team back this year? Not saying… just saying…

I don’t mind Pat Haden, but then again I was childhood friends with his son…

How many of these games can Oklahoma lose before voters start punishing them in the polls?

Doug, please tell me you didn’t bet the house on Oklahoma for this one…you’ve been eerily silent lately…

wow.

#74
Shiiit….Does Bob Stoops even prepare for a bowl game? At all? Do they ever practice? I keep seeing this promo for a show called “Jumpers” and every time Pat White is always on the screen…that would describe this WFV offense, the start off in one spot and “jump” to the end zone via time and space…….
Note to self: Always, always bet AGAINST Bob Stoops in a bowl game, especially when he is in the Fiesta Bowl….The Fiesta Bowl is Bob Stoops Bermuda Triangle, no? This is where Oklahoma goes to die…on a yearly basis….when did Julio Iglesias start returning kicks? So much for that Big 12 power…..Betcha WFV would love to play Michigan next year…….in a bowl…..that would be awesome

There’s a good reason that Vasgersian does little more than San Diego Padres games on cable.

Seriously, why are any bowl games going to be on FOX if they give us blatant homerism (Switzer for Oklahoma, Summerall drooling over Frank Broyles both literally and figuratively for Humanity Advanced), people who don’t know the rules and Thom Brennaman? Give me the Daves or at least Joel Meyers (who was tragically born with a lack of emotion, as he proved the one year he replaced Jack Buck for the St Louis Cardinals) any day.

1 – Will there be couches saved, if West VA wins big?

2 – Does beating Oklahoma in a bcs bowl game count?

3 – Sooner schooner bafoonery, when will it end?

Where is Pat White’s girlfriend – LIttle Miss Andrews with the nice set of hooters and so-so rear end?

I really hope that the BCS machine puts UGA in the MNC game against OU next year.

West. Fuckin’. Virgina.

I refuse to believe that the Pitt game ever happened.

Hell to the naw.

let me taste the tears of unfathomable sadness.

Its yummy

El Hombre,
Fran T for UGA.

The first 20 posts of this thread are gold.

Ameridebt Roxxors your Arse.

Julio Iglesias is the only OU player I know, because he keeps returning kicks.

Did anyone see Haden and Donahue last night in the pastel sweaters?
They looked like the KGB guys in Spies Like Us or queer preppies from the 1950s.

Dingle with the drop.

defense died this year, didn’t it?

the whole world has become WAC football. it sucks.

1. - no it didn’t. It lives at Auburn, where a 3 point lead is like 5 touchdowns.

And now my football watching experience is complete, the “Bedazzler” finally made the big time.

That Devine kid is sorta fast, eh?

Noel Devine is running like he’s trying to put his couch out.

Taco Bell: A Big Fan of College Bowl Action.

Hmm….

Taco Bell: A Big Fan of Painful, Stuttering, Burning Toilet Bowl Action

There ya go.

Noel Devine running like someone’s after him for child support checks

Polite request for OU: When TCU comes to Norman next season, please play defense EXACTLY the way you’ve played it tonight. Thanks…

Noel Devine is a beast.

1. - as many cocktails to you sir. However you owe me another gin rickey.

Noel Devine is faster than Goose Shit down a Tin Hole.

While it is true that, in the past three days, I have consumed enough alcohol to pickle a sperm whale…I swear that Terry Donahue sounds an awful lot like Bob Griese.

I’m going to vomit if they say one more time that OU has a good defense. WVU is 2 points away from half-a-hundred. If OU has a good defense, then I’d hate to see an average defense.

Is that Romeo Crennel’s younger brother calling plays for WFV?

Bob Stoops in these BCS games is like Wile E. Coyote — even when he has every damned advantage, that road runner just keeps running past his ass.

Looks like the SEC has West VA speed?

They may call me “Coach February,” but make no mistake Bobby Boy, you will never be referred to as “Coach January”

Nope, Harvey, SEC is at least a half-step slower

It’s become a New Year’s tradition of mine to laugh while watching Oklahoma cry in the stands.

Has Terry Donohue said anything relevant in the entire telecast?

Even Bob Davie, on the radio broadcast, has said better jibberish.

Hmm…22 players from the WVU roster are from Florida, including Noel Devine, so I’d say that WVU has Florida speed.

West Virginia has Ludicrous Speed. /Spaceballs

Hey Bob, the Ravens are ready when you are.

#94: my point exactly. Plus, no ads for farm products or Yellawood.

With Jerry Ross of the WWF on the sideline what’s the likelihood Stoops will unveil a WVU t-shirt at the end of the game and will be announced their next coach.

“OH MY GOD…STOOPS WAS COACHING FOR WVU ALL ALONG!!! AND HERE COMES RODDY PIPER TO KNEE DROP SAM BRADFORD.”

Wow the BCS has a great track record this year: 3 games, 3 blow outs.

The new prayer of every college football fan:

“Dear Lord, may we stomp every opponent into the ground during the regular season, may we win our conference championship, and may we face OU in a BCS bowl. AMEN.”

@108. No one has a good defense anymore. No one. Auburn only looks like they have a good defense because everyone gets bored when they play them.

IF this WVU coach is interviewing for his interim tag to be removed, I’d say he passed the test and is a better user of his available talent….me thinks if Slaton stays in, the Sooners win this one since Devine would not have been turned loose….scratch that, Bob Stoops would have found a way to lose it, looks like he is doing this shit on purpose…..sheesh all these flags youd think we were watching LSU vs somebody……
Its time for another flag, this time sponsored by the Fla Dept of Child Support Division,Special Devine Unit…

#123: It’s the Staring Frog of Sri Lanka defense. Boom Mutherfuckers!!! It’s the answer to the Spread.

1 drink for every Schmitt tear?

HAHAHAHA, Owen Schmitt pimps ESPN on Fox. Good Lord. And now the tears… FFS, woman, let him go celebrate. Or show him your tits or something…

1. - kinda. One Drink off of a Runaway Beer truck for every tear.

Has there been a more manly cryer this season than Smitty?

Man somebody go give Owen Schmidtt a hug…
Whaddya wanna bet some crazy Mountaineer fans hunt down Coach Rod and tie him from the goalpost in Morgantown???

I think it’s safe to say that Owen Schmitt just cured cancer.

Couldn’t SOMEBODY from the Fox crew have told Schmitt he had nothing to apologize for?

As a WVU student and fan, seeing Stew get hoised onto his players’ shoulders and carried on the field, and Owen Schmitt crying…I’ve never felt this much pride in my University. I’m damned proud!

Now, pour me some Schnellenberger scotch to celebrate!

Wow. Starting at the top of the thread and reading the comments by brb614 and anapolis doug was sure good for a laugh.

I’m confused by brb though, why is an apparent Buckeye acting like a corndog with the onepeat crap?

Great win, WVU. Man, you have a fun team to watch.

127

+100 to you. I thought I was the only one who caught that ESPN pimp job.

#131

Yes, yes he did.

So, 176 passing and 150 rushing adds up to “…over 350 yards of offense…”

W-ByGod-V math?

Owen Schmitt’s postgame interview was, for me, the single greatest moment of this college football season. You get the distinct impression from watching him play tonight and listening to him afterward that all he cares about his state and his team, and he will flat-out punish anyone that tries to otherwise convince him. Congratulations and thank you, Owen, you magnificent brutal bastard.

How is it that the Buckeyes have played in the Fiesta Bowl 32 times in the past 29 years and never once lucked into the Oklahoma free pass victory?

Did Fox just sign off by saying you could almost smell the burning couch cushions from here?

If all these AP voters are going to vote USC No. 1, why not look at WVU? Two losses, one on the road to a good-ish team, the other at home to a very bad team…sound familiar? WVU’s bowl win was much more impressive than USC’s, too.

Just saying and all…

Annapolis Doug

You’ve been on a roll the past couple of days. Thank you for the entertainment!

yes, that actually did just happen.

Owen Schmitt is a stud bleeding from the lip looking scary can still shed a few tears about his team and this game. You can tell how mush this game met to him and his team.

I wish I could say that that was the first time I’d ever seen a guy with no neck and a mohawk cry.

#137, thanks for the compliments, but, uh, don’t you have a couch to burn?

141

Yes, they did. Personally, I am not surprised that anyone on that crew is an experienced couch cushion sniffer. OK, maybe a bit surprised they’d admit it on such a public forum.

Too bad Rodriguez didn’t take the Michigan job before the Pitt game. And thanks to the Rose Bowl committe for bypassing WVA because that would’ve been a much worse matchup than USC-IliNOT. Fuckers.

Congratulations to coach Stewart. Well done.

I think it’s safe to say that the Rose Bowl has the worst bowl committee out there. They’re so crusty they’re wishbony…

Bob Stoops is drinking way too much eggnog during the holidays.

Poor Mack Brown. He can’t even win the race to be most overrated coach in his division, much less his conference, much less the country.

Stoops beats him, again.

I got the WordPress warning. I think I double posted. Sorry.

Bob Stoops is the Mark Levy of the BCS.

And by Mark, I mean Marv.

Rich who?

Man did you guys underestimate the WVU Mountaineers! Is this game a statement … a vindication or what? How about Pat White? What can you say about Owen Schmitt? And Noel Devine – wow!

Even though USC, Georrgia, and WVU all played fantastic bowl games, I don’t think there will be an AP split. All teams playing fantastic, but really all reams have huge marks on theri resume. All teams could probaly win the NC right now, but each had a horrible loss. Then again, OSU’s loss to Illinois now looks that much worse.

I acually think Georgia and USC’s bowl wins hurt them a little bit. The competition was exposed as somewhat fraudulent. If GA and USC had played each other, then the winner would really have a chance at being voted AP No. 1.

What a great game. I came away with just one question though.
DOES THE OU BAND KNOW ANY OTHER FUCKING SONG TO PLAY THAN BOOMER SOONER?
If I would have had a drink every time I heard it, I would have been dead before half time. Honestly, those kids must have been so boared playing the same song after every fucking play….weather their team did something good or not.

Look, a pic of Stoops after the game.

Woot! Woot!

The Marv Levy reference reminds me of an old Bills joke from when they made a habit of imitating the Washington Generals during a run of Super Bowl appearances.

“How many Buffalo Bills does it take to change a flat tire?”

“One. Unless, it’s a blowout. Then they all show up.”

Awesome effort and result, WVU. Didn’t think you had it in you after the Pitt debacle. it could be bigger for the overall health of the program than anyone thinks. Seeing a team bounce back like that looks good to everyone, recruits included.

1. D-nice: Agreed, there is no way the AP will split the championship this year. The only reason it happened in 2004 was because USC was #1 at the end of the regular season. Interestingly the computers that kept USC out of the BCS game that year are the same ones that ranked VA Tech ahead of LSU this year.

If LSU wins then Georgia, USC, and WVU all deserve it about as much, but LSU will get the championship. I agree that a Georgia-USC winner might have had a shot at splitting the title.

The Big 12 stinks, and Bob Stoops is grossly overrated.

What happened to Vincent? He discovered dollar beer night at the Varsity and that white chicks would ball him every night of the week. Hard to fault the young man.

Anyone have a bankruptcy lawyer that they would rec?

Back when I did my “Simpsons” post that compared Oklahoma to Superintendent Chalmers, I caught some flak from Oklahoma fans for wondering out loud when Bob Stoops was going to stop getting punked in BCS games. That was two years ago.

I’d like to point out that the only recent National Title the Sooners and Stoops won was over a controversial choice, Florida St. The Seminoles actually lost to #3 team with an identical record that year, Miami (The U lost to #4 Washington).

Miami steamrolled in the Sugar Bowl that year, and quite possibly may have won it all over Sooner Nation if given the chance. I remember Bowden’s comments after the Sooner victory that given how FSU played that game, maybe the U was right and deserved its chance more. That U team featured several players making a major impact on Sundays (Ed Reed, Jon Vilma, D.J. Williams, Portis, McKinnie, Shockey, etc.).

The only better ending to this game would have been the seeing THE MALE BATON TWIRLER for WVU SING OKLAHOMA at the end of the game.. Taunting from the WVU band.. 2 SNAPS