College football 2018 Week 13 thread

That was when there was only one 1-loss team (Ohio State). I guess we could wind up with that scenario this year if Alabama, Clemson, Central Florida and Notre Dame all lose out and Washington State, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Michigan, Georgia and Utah State all lose one more ... but that's hard to imagine.

 

Kansas only had one loss, but didn't win its division. And you can't have a national champion that didn't win its division. Right?

 

But the 2007 Jayhawks covered ten games in a row. The gambler’s 85 Bears. God bless them all.

 

Todd fucking Reesing.

 

That was a weird year for a lot of reasons, one of which was that LSU had a legitimate case to be in ahead of every team it was clustered with in the next-to-last BCS rankings.
It crushed Virginia Tech (No. 6) head-to-head; won its conference, which Georgia (No. 4), Kansas (5) and Missouri (1) did not do; and didn't have any truly terrible losses like West Virginia (No. 2, lost to a terrible Pitt team when a win would have clinched a spot in the title game), Oklahoma (No. 9, lost to a 6-7 Colorado team) and USC (No. 8, lost as a 41-point favorite at home to 4-8 Stanford).
LSU's losses were to two eight-win teams, on the road, in triple overtime. Kentucky was ranked No. 17 when they played them. Then when you start factoring in the other things I mentioned, you can see why they got the nod. When you broke it down at the end, LSU had the best resumé among its peer group.

 

How big a deal is Gardner Minshew II? They've written a song about him.

 

That Egg Bowl line is moving. Opened at Mississippi State minus-8, and now it's up to 13. Can there be that much action on that game to make that big of a shift?

 

Minshew Mania hits fever pitch: Mustached QB makes WSU one of football’s best stories

Reading this story made me think of how the writer had a column shortly after Tyler Hilinski's suicide about the need for people to share their mental health issues. At this point, the suicide was 10 months ago. Not that the story has disappeared, but it serves as relevant background to show just how remarkable this season has been. If the suicide story is front and center now in every story, could it be seen by some as glamorizing (so to speak) that action, and not giving enough credence to the phenomenon that has been happening this fall? To me it's a real fine line.

 

Just like the stock market, if volume is thin, a big investment means a big price change.

 

Egg Bowl brawl!
Ole Miss' A.J. Brown catches a touchdown pass (later overturned by replay because the third quarter clock expired just before the snap) and gets into a shoving match with a Mississippi State DB at the end of the play. Several fights break out and both benches clear. Every player on both teams gets an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, while three Mississippi State players and one from Ole Miss (but neither of the two main fighters, Brown and their QB) are ejected.
Thankfully, they don't have to march off 100 separate 15-yard penalties.

 

Joe Moorhead, unapologetic about his team fighting with Ole Miss.



And, apparently, what led to that. After the game, Mississippi State's players went to plant a flag at midfield. A couple of Ole Miss players and an assistant AD got up in the middle of it and started a second kerfluffle.
Moorhead had some colorful words for the guy as they were leaving the field.

 

Pat Forde wins.