EDSBSGPS: WHERE WE AT, WEEK 13

Sold my UF-FSU tix for an embarrassing sum, so…

Gameday @ Gainesville
Clemson @ S. Carolina
FSU @ Alma Mater
Tennessee @ Kentucky
Notre Dame @ Stanford

In honor of Baby Rhino’s final Swamp outing, I shall be drinking the tears of a virgin…drizzled lightly over double-scotches.

At HQ Control here in the Metroplex.

The main event:

Arky @ LSU – Hopefully, this is the penultimate game of Gary Crowton’s career as OC, punctuated by his continued lack of creativity in playcalling.

Sterger @ Florida – There are only two more times after this to see the Baby Rhino in collegiate action.

The undercard is below.

Morning Session:

Wind Turbines @ Oklahoma

Afternoon Session:

Bayou Classic (Southern @ Grambling) – Southern’s band rule the Halftime Show. The football team needs to get back to winning this game, too.

Utah State @ Idaho – For the final time this season: Kibbie Dome, bitches.

Night Session:

UGA @ GT

ND @ Leland Stanford Junior University

On The Menu: Seafood Gumbo, with beer to cool it down.

HOLY FUCKING HANGOVER.

Clemson @ Sakerlina
North Carolina @ NCST
Commonwealth Cup (periodically checking in on Tebow running train on the ’Noles)
Arkansas @ LSU
Notre Dame @ Stanford
Georgia @ Georgia Tech
UCLA @ USC

I wrote off my $100 Kansas-Missouri ticket as bad debt and will instead ride out this CFB Saturday from a bar in Door County, Wisconsin.

on a frikkin plane from 11 MST – 430 EST, sooooooo…..

Bobby “Am I Coaching a Football Game Today?” Bowden @ University of Georgia, Gainesville (FL) campus
 + drinking heavily

BOBBY DODD STADIUM TO WATCH THE UNIVERSITY OF HELL YEAH BROTHER BULLDAWGZ PLAY THE
JACKETS

more drinking

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Watching visors fly in Spillers wake, followed by the requisite Tebow-Bowden tour/gorefest, culminated by Weisian schadenfreude.

Home-fried grouper and onion rings for eating. Guinness, Killian’s, and whatever else my dad has laying around for drink.

Clemmonses at Sakerlina for the early shift, trying to be productive (and failing).

Then headed to tailgate on the Flats before Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. My last game in the student section of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field. Glad it’s for a night game where in the Jackets annihilate the mutts.

Sitting in front of my TV, trying to put my heart back in my chest after yesterday’s Iron Bowl, and catching the SEC slate of games this afternoon.

Huddled down in my house in Starkville, away from the prying eyes of my promotion and tenure committee, cheering for the Rebels. Then Tebow’s home field farewell, followed by busting my diet by ordering pizza and watching the Tiger Hunt (whoooo pig sooie, even though Arky fans are batshit crazy, I’ll take them over LSWho anyday).

The Apple Cup…oh wait, its not on television anywhere outside the pacific northwest.

ND-Stanford, huh? Fucking sadists.

Sacrificed the early west-coast AM games to try and get my car running – which was successful. Catching 30 min of OSU / Okie and then slowly working my way to attendance at Stanford / ND. Which would’ve been a lot more fun had Stanford won last weekend… but oh well, Weis’ last game and booing Notre Dame still a fun Saturday make.

Now the only question is: what combination of bourbon and other liquids do I gather on my trek to Caltrain for the 30 min ride to Palo Alto and ample tailgates there? I’m thinking a tallboy of light beer (gotta get my water in!) and a toddler sized Crown.

Tryna watch dat FSU game at work on cbssports.com please god let it be on there. If anyone knows a place it might be streaming, I’d love to know..

Oh and FUCK YEAH MISSISSIPPI STATE.

Sorry for the double post but if you’re interested, UF/FSU appears to be on cbssports.com so if you can’t get to a TV… Also, I felt like I came across as something other than a Gator fan and disciple of the prophet Tebow in that last post, and I had to fix that.

COOP!!!!!

I love your commentary buddy, but get on here and taste this crow.

I don’t know that I’ve had more fun watching two teams I don’t give a damn about than I’m having watching Ole Miss and Mississippi play.

State*. I think I’m going to stop posting now.

I don’t care what anyone says, those Nike UF throwback uniforms are lame.

Tim “The Eternal Shooting Star” Tebow w/ Baby Jesus Powers is getting off to a slow start, must be because of the awkward rainment.

Chillin’ here at beautiful Halo de Santo in slOconee County, Georgia.

Watched Clemson @ South Carolina with some sneaks at the Egg Bowl and Bedlam… is this a day for upsets?

Right now: Florida State @ Florida.

I should start cracking beers and mixing cocktails in the next hour or so. I’d have started earlier, but I’m sort of in-charge of this 9 month old boy. Some might say it’s time to start drinking heavily anyway and at times, I’d agree.

At 8 there is only Clean, Old Fashioned Hate and one last chance for the Dawgs to redeem themselves for 2009.

Then I’ll make sure that I’m good and hung over tomorrow by drinking my way through this mini-fridge of 2 Shiner Bocks, 3 Dale’s Pale Ales, 2 Coors tall boys, 4 cans of Miller High Life, one Carlsberg and a half a pint of Crown Royal while watching USC-UCLA.

Of course, for food tonight it’s turkey and ham sandwiches. Again.

THWGT

I dont care about Tebow one way or the other, but the Tebowfest has made the CBS coverage unwatchable.

Varsity vs junior varsity. I love it

Watched my Cocks slap around Clemson today from the house in Buford, GA. Watching Florida slap around FSU from same house. Then, going to sit right here and watch GT slap around UGA.

Nevada @ Boise State

Tar Bitches @ NC State

Bowby Bowdaen @ Final Mass Worship of Baby Rhino (and I will actually miss hating him)

A MAN @ OU

UA @ ASU

Clemson @ Sakerlina

And that’s it for me, I regret that I will be working from 6 PM onwards so I will miss G-Tech beat down Uga’s Ugly Legions and Notre Dammit get smacked by Stanford and finally getting rid of Charlie

I’m confused. Were the Gators playing Florida International last week or this week?

Is it in the job description of Bobby’s FHP escorts for them to introduce him to the opposing head coach after each game?

Holy crap. How have I missed Urbana hot daughter for so long.

Roll Tide!

Varsity vs Junior Varsity against FSU, AT HALFTIME, is heaven on earth.

As for the unis, I’m all for material that’s made from space age polymers and shit, but aesthetically they were nothing special.

And LSU looks like Tulsa with those helmets.

FSU’s most effective plays came off dead ball fouls. How deliciously re-watchable.

Come back for another year, Bobby. Don’t let those ungrateful, spoiled snobs push you out while you’re still in your prime.

FSU’s point totals vs Corch Meyer: 7, 14, 12, 15, 10

I hope Bobbah stays another decade.

ACTUAL IMPORTANT QUESTION: so, is my $42.13 going to RRISA again this year, or is there another holiday donation recipient planned?

Trucker hat: 1
Bobby Petrini: 0

Brent Munsberger can’t go a whole game without talking about his “BUCK-EYES!”

Can the ACC division champions just hide and crawl to their game next week without the big SEC meanies stomping on them?

After that dirty leg twist on Nesbitt, I’m starting to wish Spikes had gouged out Ealey’s eyes while he had the chance.

Not quite as profanely blunt as Nick Saban last week, but Mark Richt said something along the lines of “we’re getting after their asses” when they asked why UGA’s up in the 1st half.

Sweetwater tackle box is disappearing either way, but I’d be much more pleasant about it if the second half of this game doesn’t degenerate like it did last year…

Hey, good timing Caleb!

WASHINGTON!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear God, Miles ran a 2 minute drill to set up a FG.

Johnson likes to throw it deep, results be damned!

Pretty good day for the SEC, methinks.

Well, Reshad Jones gets his revenge for being the goat last year.

Acc…..HaHa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo

Ladies and gentlemen, TOBY GERHART!

So that’s gonna be what… a 20th or so ranked team, vs an unranked team, for a shot at the Orange bowl? GJ ACC!

And Toby Gerhart just ran off with Charlie Weis’ job.

Nice win for Winnipeg over Arkansas.

@49: And his bukkit!

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/14/i-has-a-bucket/

Georgia Tech ought to stay above VT, so that’s top 15 at least, which is about where they’ve belonged all season given the lack of defense. But lowly, awful Clemson will probably pick them off to represent the ACC in the BCS bowl.

Well, techmites… Liberty Valence just shot your new sheriff in the face. No Tom to come save the day for you losers this year…

ACC Champ = 5th in SEC East

Pass me the Old Crow, ladies!

I am not a Georgia native so this rivalry doesn’t run that deep. UGA is clearly a program on the decline but I give them credit for a great gameplan tonight.

Hats off to the UGA Offensive Line and Kicker.

ESS EEE SEE… That’s all I can say…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Don’t miss the Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game! Saturday, December 5th in Tampa, Florida! Tickets still available! Bulk packages available in sections 101, 102, 103, 104, 105…

Conclusions from a wacky season:

1. Gawd, the ACC really sucks. Bigtime sooooo bad.
2. FUCK OLE OVERRATED MISS.
3. Let’s have a poll on the worst college coach in recent memory – TyWillingham, Kragthorpe, [NAME REDCATED], dacoachO or Charlie TunaChalupaWeis.
4. FUCK YOU, YOU OLE MISS DICKHEADS.
5. If Anthony Dixon played at Bammer, he’d have a Heisman.
6. FUCK OLE MISS MAY YOU ROT IN HELL YOU BASTARDS. I LISTENED TO YOUR ARROGANT CRAP ALL YEAR AND YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT BUT SOMETIMES YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE.

No apologies for the diatribe.

I would like to say congrats to Auburn and their moral victory-losses….heres to many, many more…..Florida 24-Alabama 20

Dude, if ND would ever think about playing defense, they would be freakin dangerous…..how do you throw for freakin 5 TD’s and LOSE???? Fire your damn Def Coordinator before you fall on the sword, ya know, like Tubberville and Fulmer did for the past few years..

Congrats to UGA and their obviously classy fan base. Enjoy the win, sluts.

Man, I called Coop out before the UGA win.. I didn’t expect today’s games (except UF) to happen as ihey did, but I do love when someone (in this case, Coop) gets on here and boldly predicts ACC asskickings of their supposedly weaker SEC rivals.

So, apparently, USC and UGA will be meeting in Tampa next week for the ACC Championship. The All Clown Conference’s two best teams lost to two schools who were 6-5 going into the game. From the first week of the season (USC over NC St., Alabama over Va Tech) to the last week of the season (Florida, Georgia and USC all beating their instate ACC rivals), the Southeastern Conference has owned the ACC all year.

ACC football teams, bunch of slapdicks…

Hey Brian, I’ll enjoy it just like I did the other 8 out of 9 times.

I’m lovin’ it like the hot dog and coke I got with my Tech season tickets.

Bitch.

/slapped

Pretty sure I’ve never seen CMR look more pissed after a win. The ACC championship is now completely irrelevant as it does nothing for conference prestige.

Also, BEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!

“What’s your deal? What’s your deal?” – Pete Carroll two weeks ago after Stanford tried to run up the score on USC.

And then USC runs up the score on UCLA tonight. What a gutless little bitch.

I gotta side with Angel Pete on this one, frankly. UCLA burned a timeout after USC had started taking knees. They want to prolong their own misery, fine.

Hats off to UGA. We were outmanned on defense by vastly inferior competition.

Easy on the SEC crap. Biggest bunch of vicariously swinging johnson I’ve ever heard of. If we are to follow your same logic, Duke would have beaten Florida last year… Take a downer. It’s never as good or as bad as it looks…

Now, it GT can take care of business, the loss won’t mean much. We’re 10-2 they’re 7-5. WE still BCS elligible, they’re not. Good for us. Hopefully this saves WM job for another drubbing next year.

Brian @ #62:

As Chris Rock (or somebody) once said, “A slut fucks everybody; a bitch fucks everybody but you.” So I believe what you meant to write was, “Enjoy the win, bitches.”

But yeah, keep complaining about Georgia’s alleged lack of class. That’ll solve your defense.

I’m starting to wonder where all the defensive recruits in Georgia are going. Tennessee? Florida? Not sure what’s wrong with that state. Like Orson said in the Alphabetical, Derrick Morgan, Morgan Burnett, and nine tackling dummies dressed as small white kids won’t get it done.

I don’t think there’s anything to “solve” on defense, like Georgia for example. Tech needs some breadth and depth first on that squad.

Re: Gespacho @ 70:

Whatever makes you feel better.

@70

“The loss won’t mean much?”

On North Avenue, that loss means EVERYTHING.

@73
back at ya. 7-5 is not 10-2

@74
in lieu of a back and forth yes/no battle with you like a three year old, I’ll play the better man. Go ahead and bark. Congrats! You won.

We’ll still be ranked ahead of you. You have all year to wallow in a hollow superiority enjoying the PapaJohns inconsequential bowl. We’ll play in a better bowl with a better payout regardless.

I dispute the idea that the Georgia game is all that matters at Tech. Aren’t we well into the Acceptance phase?

It always sucks to lose to a dreadful team, but as a Florida fan I understand that rivalries can be lopsided for a long time. Each year I know they will beat UGA and FSU, then lose to some goofy SEC West team. It’s just how it is. Tech also seems to be a contender in their division now — as weak as the ACC is, it’s still something else to look forward to besides trying to ruin the season of your bigger and stronger archrival. I’m also pretty satisfied that the stubborn fucking redneck, Paul Johnson, won’t put up with another 8 out of 9 like some coaches who play Reggie Ball for 4 years, for example.

I think the ACC fanboys need to give it up this season too. I’m actually less concerned with losing the two rivalry games — Richt clearly had this game circled more so than, say, the Kentucky game due to the loss at home last year. On the other hand, Clemson losing to Maryland is simply embarrassing because it sums up the futility of this horrid conference. At least Tech took care of the true dregs in the SEC, Vandy and Miss St., but otherwise it’s a down year of a down existence for the ACC.

Re: Gespacho @ 75:

Congrats on your success and best wishes against Clemson. I’m glad to see Tech get over the malaise of the Gailey years, and I’m hopeful that it bodes well for some great late season interconference matchups going forward.

Tim sums it up succinctly: winning the ACC may get you a BCS bowl bid, but that and a dollar will buy you a candy bar. The conference will really need to start beating the Big East and mid-major champions to get the level of respect you want.

The ACC conference post expansion has so far failed miserably to live up to expectations.

Regarding bowls:

I’m tempted to see how the bowl picture shakes out. The win last night definitely helps UGA. Very probable we can still end up in the Peach Bowl which would be a damn fine way to end this season.

@76: Right. If Clemson hadn’t lost to Maryland, UNC hadn’t lost to Virginia, and VT hadn’t lost to UNC at home on a Thursday night (DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT — how the hell do you get outcoached by Butch Davis on gameday?), the rivalry fail wouldn’t matter as much — Clemson and UNC would be solidly ranked still and VT would be very much in the discussion for a BCS at-large bid.

As it stands, though, the top-ranked ACC team is going to a third-rate bowl at ~#11 without much chance to move up. And the league’s actual champion will head for the BCS as either (a) a bad team or (b) a team hoping last year didn’t mean that their dominant regular-season offense is easy to figure out when the other team spends a month preparing for it exclusively. Don’t get me wrong, my man-crush on Paul Johnson’s coaching is as strong as anyone’s, but if they get their butts whipped again the ACC has a problem that I’m not sure it’s equipped to solve.

@68: If UCLA doesn’t think the game’s over, then I don’t see why USC has to act like it is. I feel dirty defending USC here, but if you try to end the game by taking a knee and your rival takes a timeout despite the fact that they won’t get the ball back even if they do, just to prolong the game for no purpose, go ahead and give ’em hell.

Paul Johnson still hasn’t had a chance to get his players in there on offense full time. The only insurmountable problem is recruiting defenders, which is a challenge given the smaller pool and proximity to SEC teams. There is still some hope that local recruits will choose Tech despite the rivalry loss since UGA seems to be declining, but then they have to fight with schools like Tennessee. Maybe winning the championship and bowl game would help that but who knows.

I don’t think Tech’s bowl game problem last year was LSU’s preparation, just trying to run the triple option against a good SEC defense with Chan Gailey recruits. As long as they don’t get matched up against Florida or something ridiculous, I think they’ll look better at the very least.

@75
I fail to see how our worst team in a decade beating your best team in two rings of “hollow superiority.”

Rings pretty solid to me.

Only at Tech would the game with the better payout matter. Guess you need it since your athletic department operates in the red. UGA uses Ulysses S. Grants for toilet paper.

Haha, Tech is behind VT now in both polls. What a joke.

Chan Gailey recruits? What? Johnson was very lucky he has had Nesbitt, Dwyer, Burnett, Thomas et. al. Hell, 95% of their offensive production is coming from Gailey’s 07 class, which was very good, especially for Tech. Johnson will have a much easier time recruiting D talent than he will getting O talent especially those with the same skill set as he has right now. Without a Nesbitt running that show, they are a .500 team, not too many Nesbitt’s beating down the door to play in that kind of O.

My point being, for Tech, enjoy this year, b/c this is as good as it gets with CPJ. Next year, the dawgs O will be improved, we have a qb you will learn about named Aaron Murray, and our D and special teams (with new coaches) can’t go anywhere but up. But that’s fine if you want to keep thinking the dawgs are on the decline.

Thanks, I will indeed keep thinking that. As I am also an SEC fan, I have a larger perspective on Georgia’s ineptitude, but like I’ve said my hats off to them for keeping the rivalry lopsided.

@ 84:

All right, TJ, I’ll bite.

Pray tell, inform me of why Georgia is in decline.

It’s a dead weight thing. I’m willing to concede they will be better next year with fresh coaches and a redo on things like turnovers and penalties, although you never know. If they can beat Tennessee and Florida next season without dropping the SEC East upsets I’ll be impressed. I don’t say it with much malice; the Eastern division has been pretty crappy for a while and it’s healthy for the GT rivalry when both teams are good unlike this year and last when it was only one of the two.

I felt the same about Auburn but it’s possible that Georgia can turn it around without needing a 7 loss season. I may be letting myself read too much into one down season, since I always say it’s silly how much we try to generalize based on the vagaries of a single football game. Good luck in the Peach Bowl.

Someone please explain to me, why State fans are apparently pissed off because Ole Miss fans aren’t as pissed off as they supposedly should be?