September 12, 2025

EDSBSGPS: WHERE WE AT, WEEK 3

The weekend’s viewing agenda:

SWINDLE (Gainesville, for a wedding that mercifully falls on Florida’s bye week):
Kansas @ USF
Georgia @ South Carolina
“Whatever’s on ESPN at noon”, which means Cal @ Maryland, the poor bastard.
Ohio State @ USC

HOLLY (San Diego, freezing her ass off in the 50-degree “beach weather”):
Kansas @ USF
Navy @ Duke
Alabama-Birmingham @ Tennessee
Michigan @ Notre Dame
Georgia @ South Carolina
Ohio State @ USC
Wisconsin @ Fresno State

TERRY BOWDEN:  Writing about football on the internet, making him precisely as employed as we are.

Consider this your open thread for tonight’s festivities.  Swindle’s on radio silence for most of the weekend with abovementioned commitments, but we’ll have occasional commentary and live coverage of OSU-USC tomorrow.   Y’all come back, now.

BUZZ BISSINGER IS COMING FOR OUR WAY OF LIFE.

Grab your bitch rifles, campers, and call up the local stations. BREAKING BREAKING MUST CREDIT NYTIMES OP-ED COLUMN:  Buzz Bissinger says college football fans are outlandish, and Nick Saban seems like an unpleasant fella on the sidelines!  And he leads with “I am watching the Alabama-Clemson football game. It’s a pretty good contest, actually”, so we know we’re in for a barrel a’giggles.  With apologies to Fire Joe Morgan, let’s cut this up a little:

I am just watching the crazy spectacle of it all — frenzy and bloodlust and the low rumble of moans and the high-pitch of screams. I wonder why we need any more studies showing our nation’s education system to be in the tank when all you have to do is attend a college football game.

This is still the guy who wrote Friday Night Lights, right?  How do you immerse yourself in, of all places, Texas football culture and come away with the capacity to be startled by the fervor of any fanbase, anywhere, ever?

Nick Saban is the head coach of Alabama. I don’t see much joy in Nick Saban as he coaches the Crimson Tide against Clemson, even though his team is playing rather well and will ultimately win, 34-10. I see a lot of determined marching back and forth by Nick Saban on the sidelines.

Ah, but therein lies his charm, sir.

Saban, in a rare unguarded moment of glee.

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ONE MORE MAJESTIC BUFFALO IN HEAVEN

Former Colorado coach and AD Eddie Crowder died this week at 77 after battling leukemia.  This guy gave fifty years of service to the university.  Our condolences and best wishes to the family and school.

OSU-USC WARNING SIGNS

ESPN had this headline up for most of yesterday, and it bugged the hell out of me all day:

That’s just lazy, and maddeningly vague.   There’s nineteen different ways this could’ve been more informative, and they went with a grand total of none of them.  “Sealed for your protection”?  “Detour ahead”?  “Not to be used as a flotation device”?

We’re here to help, after the jump:

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EDSBS RAW: NAKED SUSHI BUFFET PICKS, WEEK 3

The weekend in Gamblor-baiting, divided into half-reasoned predictions and blind contempt.

#5 OSU @ #1 USC

ORSON, QUASI-RATIONAL: USC. We’ll all look like idiots for picking USC for the first quarter, the first quarter when Mark Sanchez struggles a bit, the Buckeyes actually stick to the run in a big game for a while, and the Buckeye defense zeroes in on USC’s innovative “first down boot PA pass” call, which they make every damn time they hold the ball.

Then, the ice weasels come for Ohio State, and they come at halftime. The run game will stall; USC’s offense will find holes underneath in the zone, or counter OSU’s blitzes with screens and slants; and then it’s all tears and replay from there as this rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem in the second half. Then, they’ll have to rely on Todd Boeckman passing them back into the game to survive. This means they die.

HOLLY, QUASI-RATIONAL:  USC. Can the argument be made that for the past two weeks Ohio State has been operating out of a third of its playbook, saving all the fancy Pryor packages for the game that’ll swing their title hopes the most?  Of course.  But if Tressel’s got something that gamebreaking up his tiny sleeves, I find it very hard to believe he’ll choose the Coliseum as a staging ground to see whether or not any of it works.  If last week’s game had truly been the cakewalk we all expected, the Buckeyes would’ve been able to wrest control handily once things started to careen the way of the Bobcats.  They did not.

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CURIOUS INDEX, 9/12/08

Proposed; counter-proposed. UNC 44, Rutgers 12. Proposed:

Rutgers opened as a Vegas favorite with back-to-back home games and lost by a combined score of 68-19. North Carolina had not won an out-of-state road game in 20 tries, a streak dating back to Oct. 5, 2002, and embarrassed Rutgers on national television.

And please now consider our well thought-out response.

(HT: Rob.) North Carolina should not get too excited about beating this particular Rutgers team, as they are…let’s look up le mot juste…ah yes. They’re shitty. Very, very shitty, as in Mike Teel throwing 3 crippling interceptions shitty. Nevertheless, Mike at Tarheel Mania sagely notes that this is a big game in their process of becoming better, and also that the game featured the most melodious of interceptor/interceptee combos, Quantavious Sturdivant picking off Jabu Lovelace in the fourth quarter.

Cocks Abused on Lunch Break. South Carolina football players were involved in a brawl featuring between “5 and 12 people,” which is accurate reporting at its finest if we’ve ever seen it.

Nguyen overheard the instigators of the fight shouting and yelling as they hit the victim. What Nguyen overheard indicated the fight may have been gang-related. It is worth pointing out that South Carolina football players did not by anyone’s account start this fight, and that no one’s sure why it happened, though if we were Georgia players we know what our taunt for Saturday’s game would be:

“At first I thought [I heard] ‘Bloods’ or something like that. Once they started hitting him they kept saying ‘What’s up Red?’” Nguyen said.

What’s up Red? (Sack.) Just repeat that for four quarters. It’ll only get funnier! For you, at least. None of the players were seriously hurt in the brawl, and will postpone any major injuries for tomorrow’s game against Georgia.

Clemson fans + Religious Discussion=WOOOO!!! Youtube commenters still hold the gold for sublime internet commentary. (We had no idea you could get death threat angry over old El Debarge videos, but evidently it happens.) Clemson fans commenting on religion in sports has to be mentioned up there, however, especially in response to a half-dumb column by Ken Burger in the Charleston Post and Courier on Tommy Bowden’s evangelical approach to team religion.

Yes every man can make his own decision, but
coach Bowden is doing his job per God’s instructions,
go forth and spread the word of Jesus Christ that
no one comes to the Father (God) except through him.

Um…God’s gameplan against Alabama sucked. Dodging lightning for remainder of day.

Tasteful handbags available, too. The Starter Wife points out on twitter that only USC would have a pep rally at Nordstrom’s. Pete Carroll is soooo jacked about their affordable and competent personal style consultants.

Recruiting promise. In Alaska, they tranq him and tag him before sending him back to the wild. In the SEC, we’d see if he could pass online correspondence courses and get classified as LD.

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