Bucking a trend that really irritates Heismanpundit, the Georgia Bulldogs have used the NCAA’s hypocritically approved 12th game to travel out of the geographic south and play the Colorado Buffalos in a home and away starting next year (although Georgia doesn’t do the away half until 2010). Perhaps they are gambling on complete chaos at CU by 2010 after 5 more years under Gary Barnett.
We’ll be damned if we’ll pay ten bucks a month to get scuttlebutt about college football-we can troll team message boards for free for gossip in the meantime. The news of Gamecocks linebacker Dustin Lindsay’s DUI arrest in Alabama over the weekend comes to us secondhand through the Mobile Register. Current offseason arrest score: South Carolina 12, Tennessee 11. (Take that, Scout.com.)
Since it is the off season and we here at EDSBS.com are married and have previously admitted to sometimes having to watch something other than sports, we would like to sound a shout out to our friendly neighbors to the north and congratulate them for having this years’ most beautiful woman… not just in the world, but in the universe.
Almost enough to make us all hockey fans, eh.
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Dennis Dodd continues his three-part series on the intricacies of scheduling with a piece on road openers. A couple of notes:
-Heismanpundit, take note: your belief that SEC schools rarely wander far from the roost is…well, totally validated in the piece. Only two SEC schools will open on the road to open the season: Ole Miss and Vandy, not exactly the cream of the crop. By comparison, USC will open at Hawaii, Va. Tech will open up at NC State in a rematch of Tech’s only conference loss last year, and Texas A&M goes into Death Valley in the second part of a home and home series with Clemson. Hell, even stodgy Georgia Tech is taking a trip to Auburn to get its whooping out of the way. Looks like you’re right for another year.
Not fond of travel, and not alone in his conference.
-Dodd gives his “No Shame” award to Texas Tech, who lines up a row of non-conference patsies unparalleled in their mediocrity: Florida International, Sam Houston State and Indiana State. FIU, who’s just barely a 1A team, just got a little weaker when they were hit with three years’ probation for conducting improper offseason workouts. On the upside, we might just get to see the record for greatest loss ever broken in one of the three games, eclipsing poor Cumberland College’s 222-0 loss to Georgia Tech in 1916.
(Note: Georgia Tech did not throw the ball once. Rushing totals for Tech: 978 yards. First downs: none, since they never needed more than four downs to score. Check out more bellyaching over Cumberland and the other worst teams ever: here, for the writers’ choices, and here, for the readers’.)
We’re pleased to be able to post something involving two college athletes and a car wreck that a.) doesn’t involve alcohol, and b.) turns out well for all concerned. See Fanblogs for a bit of good news, for once.
Notre Dame received its seventh verbal commitment for next years’ recruiting class as Charlie Weiss and the Fighting Irish continue what Tom Lemming has called their best start ever. Five star fullback recruit Luke Schmidt gave a verbal committment to the golden domers, choosing Notre Dame over Purdue and Michigan. The Charlie Weiss era continues its good start, but he’ll have to beat Michigan and USC to cement his job security. Oh yeah, did I mention they play Tennessee this year too. In the immortal words of Jerry Seinfeld to a newly open and emotional George Costanza…”Good luck with all that.”
No, not this J Lo, but how can we possibly do a story about Lorenzen without a gratuitous posting of sexy Jennifer Lopez pictures????
For those loyal and long time readers of EDSBS.com, you know that we have a feature that we do semi-regularly… or at least that’s the plan…. on people we love. Those players who were great in college but who don’t fit the mold of an NFL player, even though some try. One of the archetypical prototypes is Jared Lorenzen, who we discussed here. Well, today I am pleased to say we have an update. J. Lo is not content to let his career go gently into that good night and live forever as a legend in the EDSB.com Guy’s We Love Hall of Fame. Rather, he is continuing his sometimes strange quest to become Eli Manning’s back-up quarterback. Coughlin looks for Lorenzen to show up to the July mini-camp in better shape…. we hope he remains the immortal Pillsbury Throw-Boy.
Orson Swindle and Stranko Montana are two men pushing thirty who should know better than to run a college football blog, but evidently don't. Both graduated from the University of Florida, and both agree that college football is far too important to be left to the professionals.
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