College football week 11 thread: Lion Eyes

Mountain West up for grabs now with the Zoomies and Pound Puppies falling tonight.

 

And yet they did take a hit because:

1. a win today would have made them 5-5 overall instead of 4-6
2. they have Washington State and Utah left, so they have to beat them both instead of just Washington State
3. 6-6 with Deion as your coach makes you an attractive to a bowl
4. 5-7 makes you ineligible for a bowl if there are enough teams

 

That whole thing is wide open right now. Five teams with either one or two losses and who knows how the tiebreakers will sort out since they all have wins against each other and games left against each other — including UNLV and San Jose State, who are the two hottest teams in the conference and play in the regular-season finale. UNLV also plays at Air Force next week and probably needs to win both to get to the championship game.
San Jose State took Fresno State behind the woodshed and absolutely skull fucked them tonight. Wyoming has fallen apart. Boise is playing a lot better and lurking. Going to be a fun conference to watch the rest of the way.

 

Not only taken out yonder behind the woodshed — which is bad enough it own self — but then skull fucked.

Damn. Y’all mean.

 

Yeah, I get that it's technically accurate.

My gripe is, the first thing out of the chute on a halftime show is "Colorado's bowl chances take a hit." Of all the stuff they can talk about from today in college football, the biggest one is apparently that a 1-6 team now has a tougher route to a bowl game.

 

At this point, it may be difficult to keep Liberty out of that NY6 spot, which is insane to me, but everyone else in G5 keeps falling on its face.

JMU is not going to be eligible without a miracle waiver from the NCAA, which never grants these things.

The Mountain West champ will have at least two losses and will not be in the CFP rankings.

Tulane is the only AAC team with one loss. It still plays UTSA and presumably either UTSA again or SMU in the AAC championship game. It's the Green Wave's spot to lose. A two-loss SMU's best win would be against Tulane and, uh, a four-win Rice team? UTSA already has three losses.

Toledo might have had an argument had it beaten Illinois and was still unbeaten.

To get to 14-0, Liberty needs only to beat 3-7 UMass at home, 3-7 UTEP away, then beat New Mexico State at home for the second time in the CUSA championship game.

Getting 2007 Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl vibes right now.

 

I understand this was meant to be pejorative, but that should sound amazing to Ole Miss fans. The Rebels are nowhere in the same universe as Penn State when it comes to resources and historical success.

 

What happened in Vegas apparently stayed in Vegas.

 

If anyone would know, this guy would

 

Jimbo wearing a track suit with platinum buttons:

 

This season. Man.

Bill Clark's first season was worse. We went 6-6 with a team that won five games in the previous two seasons combined, qualified for the second bowl in team history, and they shut down our team. That's the gold standard for fan pain here.

Watson Brown had 35 seniors and won four games one season, that's probably second worst.

This is the third most difficult UAB football season for me in twenty-five years. There are a lot of legit reasons that we knew this was going to be a rebuilding year. That said, the defense played well enough to win this game. Two pick sixes gifted to Navy. The play calling was horrible, to the point that there was wide agreement that the offensive coaches should have been left on the runway. Tough day.

Tip the hat to Navy. They played well in all facets, well coached, and UAB didn't. Bad as today was, it's still not the worst loss this season. Temple at home next weekend, and if we lose to them it's going to get ugly around here. All the fans who got on the bus after Bill Clark arrived are in no way used to this. The old fans like me, well... Watson Brown is the losingest coach in NCAA history, and he went 62-74 over twelve seasons here. Twelve years of disappointment and misery.

 

Kevin Mawae’s available.