Just ask the BCS. Oklahoma inexplicitly jumped Texas in the latest standings to take the Big 12 South, a spot in the Big 12 title game and a presumed spot in the BCS championship game.
I wish I had time right now to run down all the reasons why this is so monumentally f’ed up, but I don’t. So I’ll point you to Richie Whitt’s nicely summarized explanation over on The Sportatorium.
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Snackbar’s been known to post some funny shit in the comments, but this story he pointed us to is just too good not to give it its own post. Keep in mind the lady in this story is married mother of three. Also, if she thinks her life is ruined now, it’s about to get a lot worse. Her story has been posted on the Drudge Report (bottom of the left column)! Personally, I think this is karma kicking her in the croutch for being a damned Hawkeyes fan.
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This is the most egregious thing I’ve ever seen in all my years of watching football. Watch as this ref in Saturday’s South Carolina/LSU game delievers a perfect forearm shiver to SC’s quarterback.
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‘Cause you get blown out by Baylor.
Kill me.
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Granted Iowa State has only won one game so far. And that game was against South Dakota State. And nobody else in the Big 12 North has played yet. But now is probably the only time all year I’ll be able to write that without being called a liar.
Go Clones!
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SMU announced yesterday that the football team will be returning to the unis they wore back in the glory days of the Pony Express. The uniforms will feature the white helmet and white pants that Eric Dickerson, Craig James and Lance McIlhenny wore while they dominated college football.
Here’s the money quote from the press release:
The SMU football team will don new uniforms in 2008, it was announced today. SMU will return to white helmets and white pants and will have three jerseys to choose from: red, white and SMU blue.
The helmet will feature a red Mustang logo, trimmed in blue, blue and red stripes and a red facemask. SMU wore white helmets during the famed “Pony Express” era and continued using the helmets until the 2003 season when the Mustangs switched to a navy helmet.
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This news item is about a month old, but I’ve continually forgotten to post it until now. What can I say, I’m getting old. Anyway, the interesting tie-in from this story is that the perpetrator not only has Dallas-area ties, but he used to live three houses down from me. He’s a really great kid, and I don’t hold these transgressions against him at all. I mean, who hasn’t participated in a drunken dorm raid only to find some wise ass RA trying to throw you out? The only difference is when a normal student gets caught, he spends the night in jail and gets a hefty fine. When a football player at Nebraska gets caught, it’s splashed throughout the national media. I feel for Patrick and his family. Like I said before, they’re actually wonderful people.
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I don’t hate SMU, I just hate some of their fans who seem to be stuck in the 80s thinking that they are still a formidable powerhouse that can compete with other D1 universities. I also don’t think their little ”Pony Up” campaign hit the target. But maybe that’s just me…
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Word has just come down that SMU was successful in luring June Jones away from the University of Hawaii. I know the other contributors to this blog have quite the disdain for ol’ SMU, but personally I would love it if the Ponies could get back on track. I realize the success of the early 1980’s will never be duplicated. However, it would be great to have a respectable, if not nationally-ranked, D-1 college football team in Dallas. Even without a successful big college program in town, Dallas is still the best sports city in the country. A successful and competitive SMU program would be the icing on the cake.
All that said, I’m still not holding my breath. It’s been 20 years since the “Death Penalty” and they still haven’t recovered.
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You have to see this clip from the world of Division III football this past weekend. Trinity University (from San Antonio) used 15 laterals in the final seconds of the SCAC title game to beat Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. The laterals are impressive, but what amazes me is how the players from Millsaps just stand around and watch the chaos unfold in front of them. Get in there and make a tackle, you retards!
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This kid is 8-years-old and according to some rumors, already has a silent commitment to USC. Screw USC! I’d let this kid suit up for my Iowa State Cyclones this Saturday!
Watch what he does to #32 at the 3:01 mark.
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And I don’t mean on Wild Turkey and Schlitz beer like everyone else in Madison.
Let’s enjoy this video clip of a Wisconsin Badger wide receiver getting completely annihilated by a Michigan State cornerback. That hit was harder than Mark Chmura at a junior high dance. He might want to put a call into Brett Favre’s pharmacist for a few bottles of Vicodin after that hit.
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Texas vs. Oklahoma a week ago was touted as the possible National Title contender championship…fast forward to two days ago and those hopes were distinguished by some Buffs and Cats…oh the shame. At least this way, the teams are equally bad going into the Red River Shootout, but the real silver lining (should Sooners and Horns choose to see it) is that Fried Cookie Dough is now being served at the State Fair.
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My dad was in the corps at A&M and graduated in the class of ‘72. He’s a VERY proud Aggie alum, so I was raised on watching the boys in maroon and white every Saturday. We lived and died by how they played. We loved the Wrecking Crew, I can still remember the hit that Quentin Coryatt put on the wide receiver from TCU back in the day. But, my youthful exuberance is slowly starting to die.
Is it because I’m getting older, found a new team to cheer for, or because I just don’t like college football anymore? Negative, Ghostrider. It’s because I’m sick and tired of hearing what a great coach Dennis Franchione is, then watching his team get their butts handed to them by a marginally good team.
Case in point was the embarassment on national television last night. the Thursday night ESPN game featured a down and out Miami team struggling to rebuild facing off with the #20 team in the country. Sounds like a pretty one-sided game, right? Well, it was. The Ags looked T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E.
The A&M offense is just that right now, offensive. It’s painful to watch their ground game struggle to pick up 2 yards per carry, and I’m not even going to go into the fact that running back sensation Javorski Lane didn’t have a touch on the ball until 8 minutes into the third quarter. Their top running back (in my opinion) finished the game with 2 carried for 2 yards. Wow, now that’s great coaching.
It’s time for Fran to move onto another school that he can fool into thinking he’s a “great recruiter” and leave the Ags alone. We’ve been through enough heartache and tribulation over the past few years to last true Aggie fans a lifetime. Don’t get me wrong, I still have marron blood coursing through my viens, but right now it’s boiling - and not because I’m cheering for a great team.
I would love to say that I’m boycotting the rest of the Aggie season, but I know the next time they’re on television, I’ll be clutching my stuffed replica of Reveille, shouting out the Aggie fight song and praying that Stephen McGee can somehow draw up his own plays and lead the boys in maroon and white to a victory… despite their woefully inept coaching staff. Here’s to hoping…
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Okay, so two fans from rival schools start talking trash in a bar. At what point does one guy grab the other guy - in the crotch - and pull him to the ground so severely that it takes 60 STITCHES to close the wound. Full story here.
Calls to John Bobbitt for his thoughts on this incident went unanswered…
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When are kids gonna learn to stop trying to be so freaking “hard core” and “represent”? So a guy spilled a drink on you. He apologized. Let it go. Instead, now he’s dead and the four guys who decided to “teach him a lesson” face long prison terms. One of which was a Division I quarterback. Sounds like it was totally worth it to me…
Full story can be found here.
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Well, I guess the SMU football team failed to watch the Pony Up video circling on YouTube. That, or they did watch it right before that game and that’s why they looked like mentally challenged seventh graders on the field. As I’ve said before, the Knuckleheads video is awful, SMU football is awful, and the SMU fan base are all morons for thinking that their team has a chance to be anything better than .500 this year. Case closed.
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I just had to be the first to blog about what could be one of the biggest upsets in college football in the last few years. Nevermind that it happened to Michigan and I freaking hate (I mean I really hate) the Big Ten. Today, Division 1-AA powerhouse Applachian State beat #5 Michigan in Ann Arbor by a score of 34-32.
The Mountaineers blocked Michigan’s last second field goal attempt to seal the down, and to quiet the stunned crowd at the Big House.
And I thought Iowa State’s loss to Kent State was bad. This one takes the cake!
I hate you, Big Ten! And I hope misfortune follows you throughout the year!
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Steve, you’re such a wuss, and Jerrod - you’re a freaking sell out. I stand by my earlier comments and challenge any Pony-loving Chris Chris (that’s probably more “into” ponies than we know) to dispute my claims about their athletically challenged football program.
They suck worse that Debbie in her Dallas debut, and nothing will ever change that. End of story.
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Alright Steve. Listen Pony fans (which if “pony” is a horse of a small breed, it’s quite symbolic that the SMU “Ponies” would be the underlings of D1 football, but call yourselves what you will) I’m a transplant “Homer” from the Austin area where college football is king, and a self-admitted “bandwagon jumper”. So if “the Ponies” actually win a few games and miraculously make a bowl appearance, I’ll retract my comments, put on a polo shirt with a sweater vest and abercrombie flip flops, and buy season tickets to next football season. But until then (never), I’d rather watch the WNBA.
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