EDSBS LIVE! is on tonight at 9 p.m.. Our guest: Pete Thamel of the New York Times, the college football writer for the Gray Lady and blogger at the Quad. Don’t tell the Sulzbergers or they’ll send Mattias after him, and you really don’t want that happening.
Listen here. We’ll hear you then.
(This song will end up as the background to some game’s highlight reel. I don’t know which one, but this will happen this fall.)
From Around the Horn today, which we put on in the background in order to have something to get our blog rage. Courtesy of ol’ Blusterpants himself, Woody Paige:
Ohio State performed terribly against a MAC team picked eighth in their conference. They’re gonna get blown out by USC and blown out of the top ten! (punctuation added to emphasize dumbness.)
Listen; note; invert; act.
PhoningVegasasquicklyaspossibleJaysus ALL ON THE BUCKEYES!!! PUT IT ALL STRAIGHT UP ON OHIO STATE!!!
Late addendum: Double counter-intuitive mojo creating riptide of halfassed hunchery: it’s gonna be “closer than you think!” Really? The second best program in the country in the 21st century plays the best program of the era and you think it’s “gonna be close(r)” EITHER WAY WE LOSE.
Perhaps we’ve gotten off on the harsh bus too many times on Ty Willingham. What do we know, really? We don’t sweat it out there on the fields, we’re not in there breaking down game tape, reviewing our recruiting targets, we don’t have access to the grinding day-to-day work making up the bone marrow of a distinguished football body. We don’t see all the stuff that goes into those four hours on Saturday, right? All we see is what’s on the field, and even that can be…
Apologies for our moment of sympathy. That dude is Vince McMahon fired. And hey, don’t blame the refs for making a call they were specifically bound by rule to make:
“The rule seems pretty cut and dried,” Dave Cutaia, coordinator of football officiating for the Pac-10 Conference, said of Rule 9, Section 2, Article 2c, which states that a player can be penalized for an unsportsmanlike act for “throwing the ball high into the air.”
Giving another rule for a referee who works once a week is a bad idea to begin with, and can only result in tears like Saturday’s following the BYU/Washington game. It also has had an unintended but, in retrospect predictable result: it has given Ty Willingham a bold new variation on losing a game in the fourth quarter. Don’t say the NCAA Rules Committee never gave you anything
(BTW: no one knows what a horse collar tackle is; it’s as if the rule weren’t included in this year’s memo to officials across the board. Maybe it’s an angles thing, but we didn’t see a flagged horse collar tackle all weekend that we can remember, and they happened on several occasions including the Florida/Miami game, where Florida tacklers yanked Robert Marve down by the back of this pads at least twice. Not that we’re complaining, Referee Penn “My name is a complete and ironic sentence” Wagers.)
This week’s Blogpoll ballot follows in all of its erroneous disaster. You’re damn right we voted Oklahoma number one. What? WHAT? Notes follow.
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma |  2 |
| 2 | Georgia | — |
| 3 | Southern Cal |  2 |
| 4 | Florida | — |
| 5 | Penn State | 21 |
| 6 | Missouri | 4 |
| 7 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 8 | East Carolina | 18 |
| 9 | Kansas | 7 |
| 10 | Wisconsin | 8 |
| 11 | LSU | 5 |
| 12 | Wake Forest | 1 |
| 13 | Texas | 6 |
| 14 | Oregon | 3 |
| 15 | Alabama | 3 |
| 16 | Auburn | 7 |
| 17 | Arizona State | 2 |
| 18 | Texas Tech | 4 |
| 19 | South Florida | 6 |
| 20 | Fresno State | 6 |
| 21 | West Virginia | 13 |
| 22 | Brigham Young | 3 |
| 23 | Georgia Tech | 3 |
| 24 | Oklahoma State | 2 |
| 25 | Illinois | 1 |
Overall tack: in the wind, losing sight of land. This week’s poll is a naked, unhidden, and biased embrace of power polling. USC sits on its hands? Well, we moved UGA down for playing cupcakes while boosting USC, no? Okay, then move ‘em back up while Pete Carroll figures out a way to top Neuheisel landing to meet recruits in his BeautifulUnicornCopter.
Oklahoma gets the one spot for looking buck nasty and heartily dismantling Cincinnati, a team just a few hairs better than the Central Michigan team Knowshon leapt over single-handedly on Saturday. It’s no huge insult to any of the teams, as they’re all running neck and neck in our minds, especially since it should be clear to all involved that Virginia is a wretched shitheap of a team, and that USC’s game against them should be read for minimal content value.
Point being: it’s one week, there’s no joy in being the king of carryover expectations, and you can only work with what you’ve got. Hinton’s been doing it for years, and to a lesser extent, so will we. It’s the only way a skeptical pollster should work in the first place after week one.
We save our insults for Ohio State, who will lose to any team that makes Todd Boeckman place himself in a position of effort. We. Do. Not. Trust. We crapped on Kansas for scheduling weakly, but at least Kansas salts the earth with their cupcakes. Ohio State let a MACrificial lamb (term copyright: Mark Hasty, Fanhouse) hang around deep into the fourth quarter, so there should be some minor consequences, like letting Florida leap ahead of you.
Beat non-schlmiels, get reward.We owed Kansas, so they bump up, and not just because commenter Pete Jayhawk gets hammered and then hammers us in comment threads for drinking bottles of corn syrup whole and disrespecting his beloved Jayhawks. At this point, they hold as much of a say in the Big 12’s fate as anyone does. Their first crux comes Saturday against USF: someone’s going somewhere in the next edition of the poll pending this outcome.
East Carolina. Well, yes. If we’re talking resume voting, they get an absurd ranking even after sending men off the bench and trebuchet’ing tacklers in from the parking lot to tackle Pat White. At times it looked like they had a whole Andrew WK concert tackling him, just waves and waves of screaming lunatics heading White-ward.
Oddities: Disdain of teams with lackluster performances does create some logical inconsistencies. Fresno State bumping up because everyone else sucked? The whole state of Alabama dropping for uniform mediocrity this weekend? We’ll just own up and admit that Oklahoma State’s defense will scuttle any real chance they have of climbing above the mixed-use housing of the low 20s, but T. Boone paid us $500K to put him there. Swindle Industries: Honesty in Corruption.
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All is right: LSUFreek and Photoshop are reunited. LSUFreek spent the past week running around the Louisiana/Mississippi area fleeing Gustav and its various side effects. Fortunately for humanity, he is back in place in an undestroyed home, drank in one hand and Photoshop in the other, to give you the full NPRish account of both Gustav’s aftermath, and its devastating effects on Chris Smelley. In Gainesville we refer to that as “discretion.” Steve Spurrier would have thrown a fade to the back of the endzone, but let’s not let little details like past precedent or the fact that you’re on the field and playing football get in the way of what you’ll say anyway: Randy Shannon didn’t have anything to say about the Florida field goal with 1:56 left on the clock, except for that thing that he said. ”I’ll just say this one statement,” Shannon told reporters. “Sometimes when you do things, and people see what type of person you really are, you turn a lot of people off. Now, whatever you want to get out of that, I won’t say it again. But it helped us. It helped us more than you’ll ever know.” It certainly helped Miami more than their offense did Saturday night, then. (The Reggie Ball offense lives!) “Running up the score” is a term Mike Lupica uses. That alone should disqualify its use as a term of serious meaning or use in any corners of the known universe. BEES! Tony Barnhart wonders out loud if Georgia Tech can win the ACC Coastal, a possibility if Miami continues to use the same offense that crippled Tech’s chances in the division and the division–Duke, Miami, Virginia Tech, Virginia, and UNC–continues its uniform crapulence. Tech won an ugly, sloppy, messy, fumble-filled 19-16 win over Boston College Saturday, but it was a win nonetheless. The November 20th GT/Miami game in Atlanta might be a race to six points for victory. Paul Johnson’s number one friend in year one: other teams’ galling mediocrity. Rick Neuheisel is Stringfellow Hawk. Helicopters. Yes, helicopters, bitches. Penn State’s Jerome Hayes, three bad letters for you: A-C-L. The PSU starting DE is out for the rest of the year with the dreaded “timing belt of the knee” injury. |
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