Ten things from yesterday's college football games:
1. Has the NFL's dreaded PARITY seeped into the collegiate scene?!? Having watched six of the top 25 teams lose, including three of the top 10 (USC, Florida and Georgia), makes that a legitimate concern. And those fools who said we had seen the last of Coach Pete's Trojans, best think again. An early loss combined with an easy Pac 10 schedule will make Southern Cal major power brokers come November.
2. Some people are a lot smarter and funnier than we are. They Play in California was the first site (we think) to notice the hilarity of ESPN's front page Friday morning. It had the words "Beavers" and "Trojans" in the headline, along with a picture of Oregon fans on the field. Among the thousands of students on the field, one held a sign with the name "Erin Andrews" on it. Beavers...Trojans...Erin Andrews. Talk about Sexual Humor...How classic is that?!?
3. Oklahoma, by way of its 35-10 victory over No. 24 TCU (as well as Georgia's loss to Alabama), will take over the top spot in the polls. However, Our Sooners are not without issues. The kicking game and run blocking are BIG question marks. Kick coverage has been awful thus far (that is what happens when you routinely kick the ball to the opponent's 15 yard line). Last night, against a solid TCU defense, the Sooners were held to 61 rushing yards on 30 carries. The Sooners have a bye week this week (they play Baylor -- same thing), before busting heads with Lack Crown's texASS Bonghorns on October 11.
4. Best GameDay sign in Athens yesterday morning? How about this one: "I had a better sign but Phil Fulmer ate it!" Classic. We loved it. Also earning high marks was the picture of Knowshon Moreno in his classic leap-over-the-defender pose. Instead of a defender, he was leaping over the names of the teams the Bulldogs had defeated this season.
5. Of course, they defeated no one last night. Instead, they got pistol-whipped by The Sons of Nick Saban, 41-30. (The Dawgs scored two cheapo-depot touchdowns at the end.) We thought Georgia would win a close one, but we also told you how overrated the Bulldogs' offense is. Getting shutout at halftime, 31-zip, validates our statement. Now, one has to look at how far Alabama can go this season. It still must play at LSU and then home against Auburn (both in November). Until then, they should stay undefeated.
6. The weekly ACC Sucks Report. Question: How bad are you when your best
team loses to...wait for it...Navy?!? Answer: So bad, it's not even funny. That's right. It was Navy beating Wake Forest on the road, 24-17. And just for kicks, we will throw in the obligatory Tommy Bowden is a Disgrace footnote. His Clemson Tigers, once thought by some crazy know-nothings to be national contenders (national contenders?!?), lost their SECOND GAME OF THE MONTH -- losing to Mighty Maryland. And what's up with Virginia losing to Duke?!? We are convinced now more than ever that our NFL Flag Football Packers (comprised of a dozen 6-year olds) could gangsta-stomp anyone (ANYONE!) in that weak excuse of a league. Duke, by the way, is undefeated in the conference. And that pretty much sums up the woeful ACC.
7. Your Conference Blows, Part II -- the Big East. Wow, Syracuse jumped ugly on Pitt early yesterday (14-3) and we half expected Panther coach Dave (Love the 'Stache) Wannstedt to get fired at halftime. Lucky for him, the Orange remembered that they are, well, the Orange, and Pitt pulled away in the second half, winning 34-24.
8. Your Conference Ain't That Good, Big 10 style. Your best team (Ohio State)
got the crap kicked out of it by USC, which then went out and loss to Oregon. Your second best team, Wisconsin, lost yesterday to Michigan, which has been dreadful this season. Thankfully, the league has Penn State, which has proven to be a good team thus far. (Gave Oregon a beat down earlier and disposed of Illinois last night.) Put the NFL Flag Football Packers in the Big 10 and we come in third behind the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions.
9. People are so quick to declare that storied programs who have fallen on hard times are thisclose to returning to glory. Colorado (maybe not storied, but they had a damn good run in the early '90s) got smoked by Florida State, The U lost at home to North Carolina and Nebraska somehow allowed Virginia Tech 35 points in their home loss to the Hokies. So please (puh-lease) stop telling us those programs are on the cusp of returning to prominence.
10. We end with the obligatory non-college football Phillies reference. We were ready to produce self-induced vomit during the 9th inning of yesterday's Phillies-Nats game. Ahead 4-2, Brad Lidge struck out the first batter and then promptly gave up: a single, a walk, a single and yet another single. That made made it 4-3, with runners on first and second and still only one out. At this point, The Playmaker (sensing defeat), asked, "Who's pitching tomorrow?" Seconds later, J-Roll made a diving stop up the middle to start a division-clinching-6-4-3-double-play! Which means Uncle Charlie can rest Chase Utley and Lidge today and get his rotation of Hamels-Myers-Moyer (16 wins, mind you) ready for next week's playoffs.
2. Some people are a lot smarter and funnier than we are. They Play in California was the first site (we think) to notice the hilarity of ESPN's front page Friday morning. It had the words "Beavers" and "Trojans" in the headline, along with a picture of Oregon fans on the field. Among the thousands of students on the field, one held a sign with the name "Erin Andrews" on it. Beavers...Trojans...Erin Andrews. Talk about Sexual Humor...How classic is that?!?
3. Oklahoma, by way of its 35-10 victory over No. 24 TCU (as well as Georgia's loss to Alabama), will take over the top spot in the polls. However, Our Sooners are not without issues. The kicking game and run blocking are BIG question marks. Kick coverage has been awful thus far (that is what happens when you routinely kick the ball to the opponent's 15 yard line). Last night, against a solid TCU defense, the Sooners were held to 61 rushing yards on 30 carries. The Sooners have a bye week this week (they play Baylor -- same thing), before busting heads with Lack Crown's texASS Bonghorns on October 11.
4. Best GameDay sign in Athens yesterday morning? How about this one: "I had a better sign but Phil Fulmer ate it!" Classic. We loved it. Also earning high marks was the picture of Knowshon Moreno in his classic leap-over-the-defender pose. Instead of a defender, he was leaping over the names of the teams the Bulldogs had defeated this season.
5. Of course, they defeated no one last night. Instead, they got pistol-whipped by The Sons of Nick Saban, 41-30. (The Dawgs scored two cheapo-depot touchdowns at the end.) We thought Georgia would win a close one, but we also told you how overrated the Bulldogs' offense is. Getting shutout at halftime, 31-zip, validates our statement. Now, one has to look at how far Alabama can go this season. It still must play at LSU and then home against Auburn (both in November). Until then, they should stay undefeated.
6. The weekly ACC Sucks Report. Question: How bad are you when your best
team loses to...wait for it...Navy?!? Answer: So bad, it's not even funny. That's right. It was Navy beating Wake Forest on the road, 24-17. And just for kicks, we will throw in the obligatory Tommy Bowden is a Disgrace footnote. His Clemson Tigers, once thought by some crazy know-nothings to be national contenders (national contenders?!?), lost their SECOND GAME OF THE MONTH -- losing to Mighty Maryland. And what's up with Virginia losing to Duke?!? We are convinced now more than ever that our NFL Flag Football Packers (comprised of a dozen 6-year olds) could gangsta-stomp anyone (ANYONE!) in that weak excuse of a league. Duke, by the way, is undefeated in the conference. And that pretty much sums up the woeful ACC.7. Your Conference Blows, Part II -- the Big East. Wow, Syracuse jumped ugly on Pitt early yesterday (14-3) and we half expected Panther coach Dave (Love the 'Stache) Wannstedt to get fired at halftime. Lucky for him, the Orange remembered that they are, well, the Orange, and Pitt pulled away in the second half, winning 34-24.
8. Your Conference Ain't That Good, Big 10 style. Your best team (Ohio State)
got the crap kicked out of it by USC, which then went out and loss to Oregon. Your second best team, Wisconsin, lost yesterday to Michigan, which has been dreadful this season. Thankfully, the league has Penn State, which has proven to be a good team thus far. (Gave Oregon a beat down earlier and disposed of Illinois last night.) Put the NFL Flag Football Packers in the Big 10 and we come in third behind the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions. 9. People are so quick to declare that storied programs who have fallen on hard times are thisclose to returning to glory. Colorado (maybe not storied, but they had a damn good run in the early '90s) got smoked by Florida State, The U lost at home to North Carolina and Nebraska somehow allowed Virginia Tech 35 points in their home loss to the Hokies. So please (puh-lease) stop telling us those programs are on the cusp of returning to prominence.
10. We end with the obligatory non-college football Phillies reference. We were ready to produce self-induced vomit during the 9th inning of yesterday's Phillies-Nats game. Ahead 4-2, Brad Lidge struck out the first batter and then promptly gave up: a single, a walk, a single and yet another single. That made made it 4-3, with runners on first and second and still only one out. At this point, The Playmaker (sensing defeat), asked, "Who's pitching tomorrow?" Seconds later, J-Roll made a diving stop up the middle to start a division-clinching-6-4-3-double-play! Which means Uncle Charlie can rest Chase Utley and Lidge today and get his rotation of Hamels-Myers-Moyer (16 wins, mind you) ready for next week's playoffs.
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