College football 11/01-11/04

This is also coming across the wire, Dye....

Iowa State is fucking horrible. Down 41-10 to Kansas in Ames

Dan McCarney, please pick up the white courtesy phone. Right now.

The Big Ten has about 3-4 teams with four losses. Not good for the B-10. The Badgers are fuckin' tough and Bielema will get coach of the year.

 

Whitlock would have been insufferable.

 

Tommy is still pretty good. Problem is, because Danny Ford cheated his a_s off putting that '81 title team together, Clemson fans are convinced it can so easily happen again. Bowden put together a good team - save for Danny Proctor, who isn't any great shakes - but because of a couple of losses, things tend to snowball because the fans there are such a group roller coaster. When they're winning, they're entirely too much and talk in terms of grand delusion, and when the Tigers lose, it's usually a lynch mob ready to get the coach.

The idiots ran off Ken Hatfield, a very good coach, to put in West, who was one of Danny's boys but couldn't win enough to please the lunatics. Now Tommy is there, Clemson's lost two in a row and AD Terry Don Phillips will be in full spin mode because IPTAY can't begin to pay off the rest of Bowden's contract - though they're dying to fire him at the mere hint of not winning everything in sight.

Clemson's fans are delusional, which is why I was very happy for Maryland.

 

Almost made that trip one year with my school ... back when the bowl game was nicknamed the Weedwhacker Bowl.

It would have been a nice chance to look some Saints-era Sam jerseys ... :-\

 

Odds are Kentucky's going to the Liberty Bowl. The same bowl they used to poke fun of when Louisville made multiple treks to it.

Expect at least 30,000 UK fans in Memphis.

 

Bielema gets coach of the year for beating up pushovers. Badgers defense is tough but there is no measuring stick on that schedule.

 

Well, since someone else posted it first ... I'm happy to see that score. Glad to see the Jayhawks get back to .500 at 5-5 with Mizzou and K-State to go.

KU football. You know you want some.

 

They may have played pushovers, Irish, but Wisconsin has won the games they had to win in conference. As far as that creampuff non-conference sked, you'll need to talk to Barry in the AD's office...

Oz, that's a much needed winner winner chicken dinner for Mangino and his kids (it's a final, 41-10).

ISU football. KU's bitch: two years runnin'.

 

Did you enjoy getting outsmarted by Gary Pinkel? That fucking comeback helped him keep his job, ensuring that Mizzou will have to endure three to four more years of road ineptitude and losing at least 2 games a year it should have won before he gets canned. Thanks Gamecocks. Thanks a lot.

 

Finding a Whataburger after too long without? Awesome.
Gambling at the casinos? Fun
Pissing away what should have been ... what ... a 35-7 lead with a 150-yard INT return and an epic collapse afterward? Yeah, that sucked ass.

Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;D

 

Of the pushovers, SDSU and Illinois were the only games where the Badgers didn't play up to snuff. I think Michigan and Penn State were the measuring games. The final score against Michigan is a bit misleading. Breaston got some nice punt returns to give UM good field position and UM dominated the field position battle in the second half. And Manningham did his thing. But Wisconsin hung in there and was only down 17-10 after three quarters. Are they as good as Michigan? Obviously not. But they gave Michigan everything it could handle -- which is more than I can say for Notre Dame.

Penn State was a test because Wisconsin and PSU could be seen as equals. Each team beat the teams on its sked that it was supposed to and lost to the teams it was supposed to. Wisconsin's defense dominated the PSU offense and Wisky proved its offense was good enough to move the ball, especially in the passing game, against a pretty good defense.