2012 College Football

[ghost]

Admit it.  It's a circus.   

You guys are finished.  Les Miles is still my favorite coach, though. 

[ghost]

Interesting.  Notre Dame has moved to the ACC in all sports except for football.  And they will play 5 ACC football games per year to be "ACC lite".  I wonder how long that will last.   

I can't help but believe that once Notre Dame makes their final choice that you'll really see the current conference system that we have now implode into something completely different.  Some folks think that you'll have four superconferences, but I'm not sure that will happen unless the Big 12 dies.  And really, as long as Texas is in the Big 12 it will keep kicking along.  The Big East is fucking toast.  They might as well start dismantling it now.

The Big 12 is an interesting situation because, as I said, it's the Texas Conference.  Whatever UT does really determines the fate of the conference.  They are really playing chicken right now.  They have power over a small number of crappy teams but Oklahoma will be more and more in the driver's seat.  Once Oklahoma makes the move, it's all over.  There will be nobody left but WVU, who I suspect the SEC would take on if they needed a 15th and 16th team. 

[Paelos]

So Ab, does Utah get boatraced by BYU this weekend? Because I have to pick this game for a pool, and coming off that Utah State...game, I have no idea WTF to do.

[ghost]

They're going to get pummeled.   

[Abagadro]

I wouldn't be so sure. I think it will be a close game with a couple of fluky plays deciding things (which is how the game has been over the last decade except for three times where the Utes beat the hell out of them).  Depends a lot if John White IV is playing and they have been really cagey about his status after he tweaked his ankle last week. I think right now Utah is underrated based upon a game where they just laid an egg against a really fired up team on the road and BYU is overrated because they have played two shitty teams and haven't faced a good defense (which the Utes still have). I think it is a toss up really but the conventional wisdom right now is BYU.

[ghost]

Just be happy that I'm making a prediction against your team.   

Now go put some money on the Utes.  Hurry!

[Abagadro]

I never bet on the Utes. I've been known to bet against them in the right situation so I come out ahead either way (i.e. with a win or money).

[ghost]

Cal versus Ohio State.......

Good luck, Ingmar.  You're going to need it.  

Edit-  ouch. 

[Paelos]

Cal struck back, we got ourselves a ballgame!

[ghost]

That was some piss poor defense by OSU, but I'll take it. 

[Paelos]

HERE WE GO CAL!  

Edit: or you know, completely lose a guy in the secondary. Good grief.

[Paelos]

VA Tech got boatraced by Pitt. The ACC is a floating joke.

[01101010]

VA Tech got boatraced by Pitt. The ACC is a floating joke.

Yeah... holy shitsticks Pitt. Me and the coworkers were debating how hard they lose. Tonight, I dine on crow.

[ghost]

So.......Tennessee versus Florida.  Is it a really a bad thing to hope for someone to blow up the stadium?   

[Tannhauser]

UT leads at the half, what a goal line stand!  But FLA has some great players, this game is kick ass.

We've been patient for two years, the time for the Dooley Era to produce is here.

Let's go VOLUNTEERS!

[ghost]

Boo.  Stupid Tennessee. 

[cmlancas]

VA Tech got boatraced by Pitt. The ACC is a floating joke.

Yay Big East!  Maybe we'll finally get some respect.

[Ingmar]

And I thought our new kicker could't possibly be worse than the last one. 

[Tannhauser]

I really thought UT would beat 'em this year.  *sigh*  Well, grats to an explosive FLA team.  That 80 yard TD run broke our backs.   

UT is better this year though, maybe this game is something we can learn from. 

[Paelos]

So much for Kiffin's #2 program 

[Trippy]

Haha, 4 years in a row.

[ghost]

My father-in-law is going to slit his wrists.   

[Tannhauser]

Nah, Kiffin's long gone.  This is all Dooley now.  I've been patient for the last two years; I know he's had a mess to clean up.  But he needs to start beating SEC teams RIGHT NOW.  All the excuses are gone.  Win or GTFO.

[ghost]

Dooley blows.

[Abagadro]

That was some crazy ass shit in the Utah game. Had to win it three times. Told you it would come down to the fourth quarter.

[01101010]

Well look slike it is Bama and LSU ranked 1 & 2 come this week. Again. Go figure. Thanks USC. 

[Paelos]

I reserve a little judgement, but this year's crop of college football talent doesn't look very good. I haven't seen any teams other than Alabama who just scream "contender" yet. LSU might, but they need to play somebody to give me a reference point like they did early in 2011. We'll see how they fare against Florida and SC before they get their big battle against Alabama.

I'm looking around and thinking, who else? Oregon? They've played nobody yet, and they won't until USC. OU? Same story. They play K State next week, and they could easily lose that game. FSU? The ACC is a joke, I can't take them seriously. Georgia? Lulz. Please. We barely scraped by a very average Mizzou.

[Rasix]

I'm looking around and thinking, who else? Oregon? They've played nobody yet, and they won't until USC.

Respect our overblown and undeserved ranking! 

[Paelos]

I feel the same way about my team. I look at UGA and go...yeah we'd get torn up against Bama in an SEC championship.

[ghost]

Arizona might actually be decent.

[ghost]

Ah, one of the funnier things I've seen on Deadspin, well, ever........Trainer Eyefucking Bruce Ellington of South Carolina.

[ghost]

Also, leave it to Lane Kiffin to throw his Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback under the bus.  Way to go, sleazebag. 

"(That was) really unusual by Matt," Kiffin said in his Sunday evening conference call with reporters. "Probably two of his worst decisions in our three years together on back-to-back plays."

[Paelos]

He's not wrong. I think he said it because he's trying to get his QBs head out of the Heisman and NFL talk.

[ghost]

He's a fucking douchebag.  That's never the right way to do things.  Do it in private if you want, or in the film session, but don't do it to the fucking media.  That will do nothing but drive a wedge into the heart of the team.

[Paelos]

He's a fucking douchebag.  That's never the right way to do things.  Do it in private if you want, or in the film session, but don't do it to the fucking media.  That will do nothing but drive a wedge into the heart of the team.

Spurrier did it and does it all the time.