College football week 12 thread

Hate USC going ultra-conservative there.

 

Give Coach O a cookie and the job. He's earned both.

 

It must gall the tweedy Stanfordites to no end to lose to a guy like Ed Orgeron.

 

they weren't playing stanford football, so the loss doesn't count

 

I'll say this: In every facet except recruiting ability, Ed Orgeron might be the worst SEC football coach of the last 25 years. I realize that's saying quite a bit, but I don't make that assertion flippantly.

I believe he was worse than Mike Shula or Mike DuBose, worse than Sly Croom or Curley Hallman, worse than Ray Goff or Ron Zook. Vanderbilt and Kentucky have had some really bad coaches over the years, but probably none worse than Orgeron on a relative scale.

For Orgeron to be winning this big at USC must mean that Lane Kiffin is completely incompetent. I'd be surprised if Kiffin ever gets a significant head-coaching job again.

 

Other than Stanford dropping a notch behind Oregon in the Pac-12 North, not much of significance changed on Saturday.

The Big XII will likely still come down to the winner of next week's Baylor vs. Oklahoma State game. The SEC west will still come down to the winner of the Nov. 30 Alabama-Auburn game. Florida State still rules the ACC and Ohio State (until further notice) rules the Big Ten. Central Florida still has the inside track to the AAC title and a BCS spot. Fresno State and Northern Illinois (among others) are still pissed they can't move up because no one above them is losing.

I can't remember a year with so few upsets among the top ten this deep into the season. I had Alabama, Ohio State and Florida State 1-2-3 preseason and that's where they've stayed.

 

Can someone tell me what the heck happened in the Georgia-Auburn game? I was tracking various scores while following my game and saw Auburn up 37-17 in the second half, so I sort of tune them out and focus on my game and one other in progress. Then later I look up and see Auburn getting a desperation pass play to win the game? What the hell happened to their big lead?

 

A great win for Wazzu, especially for the defense, considering how they've been boatraced ever since the fourth quarter of the Oregon State game.

Cougs can get win No. 6 at home next weekend vs. Utah, then take their chances in the Apple Cup.

 

Anybody else notice that Big Ten-winless Illinois was within two scores of the mighty Buckeyes midway through the fourth quarter?

 

Which has the exact same relevance as Mississippi St being within 13 of the mighty Tide at the end of the game. Depending on the point of narrative one wishes to push, of course......

 

Um... no.

Nobody noticed Illinois even with Kurt Kittner was the QB.