College football week 9 thread: The Midshipmen Who Stare at Goats

I really need to introduce you to professional pool gambling. You'll never watch two total strangers playing 9-ball the same.

 

@exmediahack after sweating out his last Doosan Bears bet and walking into the sunset:

 

Since we're on the topic, I've really slowed down on the betting. When it first came here, I was betting on European soccer every weekend morning, betting on tennis, betting on Icelandic basketball at happy hour (seriously). Now, it's usually a baby parlay on Saturday and Sunday for football, and the occasional live bet on my team if I'm feeling froggy, like when I put $20 on the Caps to win by two last night when they were up 1-0 against a bad Flyers team. Thank you for empty netters. Sports betting came here just before the pandemic and I had a hell of a lot of time on my hands back then, not so much now. Don't like betting on things for the sake of it any more. I want to be able to watch what I'm betting on. It's additive to the experience for me.

 

That’s a solid candidate. I had forgotten that the Owls — again with the Owls — entered winless. Scored < 13 points in six of their other 10 games. Only other win was over Pitt (2-9).

 

And the one before that was winless UVA over undefeated VMI in 1980 or something. Some weird shit happening with state-of-Virginia football pretty much always.

 

Did someone say that Army and Navy are frauds? One win over a decent team, Memphis, between them.

 

Yes but that goes on the golf thread.

 

Kyle McCord of Syracuse may have had the worst half in the history of football. Three pick-sixes. In one half.
This explains how Pitt can have 83 yards of total offense and 31 points.

 

Right you are. Don't know if this is, in fact, the last time before the aforementioned Va Tech-Temple game that the winless vanquished the undefeated, but on Halloween 1981, Virginia beat VMI 13-10 to improve to 1-7 and send the Keydets, previously 5-0-1, to defeat.

 

Looking at the ACC schedule, I quickly discovered that none of the league's first four teams alphabetically -- Boston College, California, Clemson and Duke -- plays a single game against one another this year. This meant, in theory, that all four could have been 8-0 in regular-season league play.
One of these years, there will be a threesome of unbeaten-in-league-play teams in final conference regular-season standings. That'll be fun to watch the tiebreaker process and the ensuing litigation.

 

LSU threw three to Auburn in 1994 in the second half, and a fourth sealed the win for AU.

 

And Pat Narduzzi still has to put the cloud in the silver lining. It looks like quarterback Eli Holstein suffered a concussion on a play designed for him to run the ball with his team up 31 points in the fourth quarter. WTF?