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03
Nov

Matt Ryan will not win the Heisman

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Florida State beat Boston College 27-17 on Saturday night, ending BC’s undefeated season and marking the fourth time that a #2 team has been upset this year. Boston College quarterback Matt Ryan was 26 of 53 for 415 yards and two touchdowns, but his third and final interception in the waning minutes of the game prevented the Eagles from pulling out another comeback win and quite possibly dashed Ryan’s Heisman hopes.

Boston College had remained unbeaten this year after pulling out a stunning win against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg last Thursday, but the tough Seminoles defense and a breakout passing performance by Florida State’s Drew Weatherford were too much for the Eagles to overcome on a chilly, rainy night in Boston.

How did the other Heisman candidates do?

  • Arkansas’s Darren McFadden ran for an SEC-record 323 yards against South Carolina, prompting Razorbacks coach Houston Nutt to compare him to Barry Sanders.
  • Florida’s Tim Tebow completed 22 of 27 passes for 281 yards and three touchdowns, and added two rushing touchdowns as Florida pounded Vanderbilt 49-22.
  • Oregon’s Dennis Dixon passed for four touchdowns before leaving with a knee injury in a huge win over #4 Arizona State.
  • Glenn Dorsey and the #3 LSU Tigers beat conference rival Alabama 41-34 as LSU retained control of the tough SEC West and remained on target for a trip to the National Championship game.

Sorry, Matt Ryan, you had a good run. You’re mediocre against a good defense (note: this does not include Virginia Tech’s two-minute prevent defense), and I’m surprised you and your team made it to 8-0.

I guess you’re a little like Britney Spears: you burst on the scene and have your 15 minutes of fame, then it dawns on everybody that you really don’t have that much talent and there’s much better options out there. Then you marry Kevin Federline / lose to Florida State and get your kids taken away and forget to wear underwear so that you show your vajayjay every time you get into or out of a car.

Stop it, you’re embarrasing yourself.

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^ The chances of us seeing this Britney ever again are about the same as someone using the word “scrumptious” in my presence and not getting his or herProbably her ass beat.

02
Nov

Virginia Tech dismantles the Yellow Jackets 27-3 on their field and in their jerseys

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Thursday night in Atlanta, Sean Glennon and the Hokies atoned for last week’s heartbreaking loss to Boston College by crushing Georgia Tech 27-3. Glennon completed 22 of 32 passes for 296 yards and two touchdowns, and Brandon Ore added 86 yards on the ground as the Hokies’ offense controlled the entire game with 37:25 total time-of-possession.

To make matters worse, Glennon and three of his teammates were forced to suit up in white Georgia Tech road jerseys after their own attire mysteriously disappeared before the game. The players blacked out the “Yellow Jackets” name across the front, as well as the Russell logo (replaced by a crude Nike swoosh), and the players’ names were written on the back in black marker in what was probably the most ghetto apparel situation possible by a major college team.

The AP report continues,

The Hokies had no idea what happened to the four jerseys. There was no evidence of a break-in to the visiting locker room. A review of video surveillance tape showed nothing suspicious.

If this was a prank by a Georgia Tech student, I have to say it was executed pretty well. They got past the video surveillance into a secured locker room, stole the jerseys, and left without a trace of evidence. We need more pranks like this in college football. Instead of just holding up clever signs behind ESPN’s Gameday booth and chanting “(Opposing quarterback) sucks” at the game, students should go out and commit felonious acts.

I’m issuing a challenge: anyone who pulls a prank big enough to get mentioned on a telecast will win a free time machine from me. If you also kidnap a live mascot, I will throw in a mini-fridge.

Don’t you wish you had a time machine so you could go back and not get a blowjob from that “woman” behind the 7-11 that time when I was in high school? It can be yours, for free.

So, drunken college students, go out there and slash those team bus tires, steal those helmets, violate those animal mascots, and poop on Lee Corso’s windshield.The key to a good windshield poop is the subsequent smearing pattern. Use a stick or something, not your hands. Freak. Make sure to get lots of photographic evidence, then put it all on your Facebook page.


^ If you get the opposing student section to spell out “We lick chode,” I will buy you a Kia.

29
Oct

Trinity vs. Millsaps: apparently Division XVII football can be exciting

If you haven’t seen this play, it’s worth checking out. Fifteen laterals - enough said. (See a higher resolution version on ESPN.com.)

Is this the most amazing football play I’ve ever seen? Do bears do unspeakable things in the woods? Is the pope best friends with Mel Gibson? Does Creed suck? Is Andy Rooney terribly annoying and quite possibly senile by now? Is Coors Light the best domestic light beer out there, despite what the Clydesdale Horses on TV tell us?

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^ Screw you, Mr. Ed. Bud Light sucks.

28
Oct

Top of the BCS doesn’t change much, hell freezes over

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The top seven spots in the BCS remained unchanged this week, in a rare moment of inertia during the turmoil that has been the 2007 college football season.

#1 Ohio State dispensed an emphatic 37-17 win on Penn State in Happy Valley, further cementing their hold on the top-ranked spot. The highest change was Kansas taking the #8 spot from Virginia Tech after Tech’s heartbreaking loss to Boston College on Thursday night.

Further down the AP Poll, however, the instability we’ve come to expect this year continued. Cinderella story USF lost for the second week in a row, Florida was defeated by Georgia in Jacksonville, Southern Cal went down to the one-loss Oregon Ducks, Kentucky lost for the third time in four weeks, Virginia suffered its first ACC loss at the hands of NC State, and South Carolina was taken out by Tennessee in overtime. Kentucky, California, Virginia, Penn State, and Rutgers dropped from the AP rankings, while Connecticut moved in for the first time in school history on the heels of their win over South Florida.