NCAA Week 8 Running Thread

If Auburn had held on last night, Tubbs would have won consecutive games at Florida, Arkansas and LSU ... ALL AT NIGHT! That would have been remarkable. I swear Tubbs is the best big-game coach in America, especially on the road.

And before you laugh at Arkansas, go there at night. Intimidating venue, great stadium.

Tubbs would have gotten my at-this-point vote for SEC coach of the year if they had pulled that off last night. Now, it's Brooks again.

 

I almost forgot they were playing yesterday. Wow.

 

Tubs should have used one of the two timeouts he had remaining.
Tubs should not have kicked a squib after Auburn's last touchdown.
He's a hell of a coach, but that was no coach of the year performance last night.

 

No, it wasn't. It was a great coaching performance UNTIL the last 4:00.

But beating those guys in Death Valley at night through with a few seconds left is no small task...

 

The linesman on the other side of the field threw the flag so my guess is that when they conferred the other linesman told him that he gave the receiver the OK sign, thus no penalty.

 

SC was so scared it only hung 50 on Arkansas in Fayetteville last year, instead of the 70 it hung on the Hogs in LA in 2005.

 

Warning: fanboy looser rant coming up ...

The new AP Top 25 came out today. Ohio State is No. 1, Boston College No. 2 and Arizona State No. 7, all with at least one first-place vote. Kansas is ranked 12th.

Is there that much of a difference among the four teams? Last I checked, none of those four have beaten a team currently in the Top 25 (KU did until today, with K-State falling out); they've all played weak schedules and are untested, compared to teams like LSU. So why is KU 12th and everyone else top seven? I don't get it.

 

Because polls are stupid.

And as for LSU -- I can't see how this team, as dumb as they play and as clueless as Les Miles is, goes the rest of the season in the SEC and doesn't lose again. They might be the most talented team, but they aren't the best team because they don't play very smart.

 

Here's a rant for you: Why the hell is Kansas ranked above Mizzou? MU has beaten three teams that were once ranked (Illinois, Nebraska [and yes, I know that's not saying much now] and Texas Tech). MU has won at Ole Miss (again, not saying much, but that win looks like it came at LSU when compared with KU's craptastic schedule).

And, Mizzou's one loss was on the road and to a team that is fucking LIGHTYEARS ahead of anyone KU has played thus far.

That's what I don't get. But I'm guessing our views of the college football landscape greatly differ.

 

While we are at -- explain why a two-loss Florida team is ranked ahead of a one-loss South Florida team, considering, South Florida has a win over a top-ten team and they won on the home field of one of the teams that hung a loss on Florida and did so at the swamp.....

 

Yeah, no surprise there. It's just that KU is undefeated at won at Colorado, where Oklahoma -- which just struggled with Iowa State -- lost. And KU's nowhere near the Sooners in the polls.

Anyway, I'm not going to complain too much. Just enjoying the ride for now.

 

They've only got one tough game left, in two weeks at Alabama. After that, it's La. Tech, Ole Miss and Arkansas.