NCAA Football '11-'12

[PDH]

Wyoming, at 3-1, goes to Logan to play Utah State, 1-3.  The oddsmakers know what Wyoming is capable of, and currently the Pokes are dogs at 9.5 points.

It is lovely being a Wyoming fan, "YAY! Just 9 and a half point underdogs!"

[Berkut]

I want to know who the #1 force of evil is.

*please be Ohio State*

I bet it is John Mackovic.

While not a terrible guess, Whackovic is not important enough to rate that level of Evil.

No, I am speaking of Notre Dame, of course.

WTF, so Oregon is only #3.

Oregon is not evil, just a huge corporate shill for Nike. And they seem to really like recruiting thugs and gang-bangers.

Oregon is all that is wrong about the "win at any cost" mantra in sports. They are what Miami used to be, but not even top-10 in overall evil.

Besides, they are part of the Pac-10.

[Berkut]

Are you supposed to "hate" your biggest rival?

I mean the Blue Bombers biggest rival is the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and while I wish the Riders would go 0-18 every single year, I don't hate them.  They're lovable in the way you love your inbred, retarded in-laws who live in the country.  

Well Arizona State are the biggest cheaters in the history of College sports which is really an amazing achievement.

The one thing you gotta give props to ASU for - they make it so much fun to be on the other end of that rivalry. Almost pathetically easy, what with the cheating, porn stars, national jokes about "a degree from ASU", etc., etc.

But frankly I am just sorta disappointed.  Just like your Jets I always rooted for Arizona and hated on ASU because, you know, Berkut is a Languishite and I like talking sports and I thought we were friends and all.  Ah well.  Now we just sorta troll and counter troll each other.

We are friends, despite your love of Texas. Heck, you letting Texas come between us is just another reason to despise them.

[Berkut]

So, enough bagging on other programs and (admittedly) trolling the Texas kool-aid drinkers.

Arizona is, as expected, 1-4 after a ridiculously brutal opening five games against probably the toughest 4 game stretch anyone has seen in college football in some time.

I said we were learn something about this team, and we did.

We learned:

This might be the worst defensive line in school history.
The linebackers are pretty bad.
The secondary is the strength of the defense, because they are only mostly terrible.
It turns out the 5 new starters on the offensive line is really not a good thing. The argument that the previous 5 guys were not that great either as a unit and hence we should not look at 5 brand new ones as cause for alarm did not really turn out to make much more sense in reality than it did 7 months ago.
5'8" running backs with heart still don't average 3 yards a carry.
The kicking game. Dear lord the kicking game. I cannot even talk about it.

On the other hand...that Nick Foles guy is not just pretty good, he is really, really fucking good. And we have awesome receivers.

So we found out that not only were we not as good as those 4 teams, we were note even really close. Like, not even close enough to give them a moments pause.

So now we have 7 games against not so awesome opponenets, although Washington is playing well and ASU is not bad, and hell, who are we kidding, we may get blown out by OSU next week.

Arizona fans are in full on "Damn, the basketball team is going to be ossum again this year!" mode...

[PDH]

I have to say, not many big names come to Laramie (I can think of 3 non-conference in my time here).  The Texas fans were the best behaved, the least condescending, and the most fun to be around.  When I went to Austin, they returned the favor of being good hosts and complemented, thanked, and generally were classy folks.

All in all, if the worst thing that Texas has going for them is that they are a symbol of big college football in a state that is stupid crazy about that sport, then they do that quite well.  I won't wear orange, but I do like them (especially when they beat BYU).

[MadBurgerMaker]

(especially when they beat BYU).

This latest game was the first time the Horns have beaten the Mormons, AFAIK. 

(only like three games, but still)

Need to schedule a few games against Vandy to get rid of that 2-7 record vs. them as well.  Punk-ass Commodores. 

[Alcibiades]

My school is finally in the rankings this year, 19 according to the AP!    


Though we tried really hard to give it away to Northwestern Saturday, amazing comeback that came down to the final seconds.

[PDH]

So what? Wyoming is in the top 90.

[stjaba]

Brantley's not going to play.  LSU will romp to victory.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7052076/florida-gators-coach-john-brantley-not-expected-play-lsu-tigers-source-says

Even if Brantley was playing, I don't think UF would have much of a chance. Anyways, the main reason I'm going is to visit New Orleans. If the Gators do ok, it will be a bonus as far as I'm concerned.

[dps]

I want to know who the #1 force of evil is.

*please be Ohio State*

I bet it is John Mackovic.

While not a terrible guess, Whackovic is not important enough to rate that level of Evil.

No, I am speaking of Notre Dame, of course.

WTF, so Oregon is only #3.

Oregon is not evil, just a huge corporate shill for Nike. And they seem to really like recruiting thugs and gang-bangers.

Oregon is all that is wrong about the "win at any cost" mantra in sports. They are what Miami used to be, but not even top-10 in overall evil.

They're worse than Miami ever was.  Whatever else you can say about Miami, they weren't corporate shills.

[ulmont]

Brantley's not going to play.  LSU will romp to victory.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7052076/florida-gators-coach-john-brantley-not-expected-play-lsu-tigers-source-says

Even if Brantley was playing, I don't think UF would have much of a chance. Anyways, the main reason I'm going is to visit New Orleans. If the Gators do ok, it will be a bonus as far as I'm concerned.

Why are you going to Baton Rouge to visit New Orleans?  They're 90 miles apart with sweet fuck-all between them.

[Barrister]

Brantley's not going to play.  LSU will romp to victory.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7052076/florida-gators-coach-john-brantley-not-expected-play-lsu-tigers-source-says

Even if Brantley was playing, I don't think UF would have much of a chance. Anyways, the main reason I'm going is to visit New Orleans. If the Gators do ok, it will be a bonus as far as I'm concerned.

Why are you going to Baton Rouge to visit New Orleans?  They're 90 miles apart with sweet fuck-all between them.

90 miles?  Is that it?

I've gone further than that just to have lunch.

[Valmy]

90 miles?  Is that it?

I've gone further than that just to have lunch.

Yeah Scipio laughs at your 90 miles.

[Berkut]

See, you guys wonder why I fuck with Texas.

Posts bitching about Texas get responses.

Posts whining about how bad Arizona is...nothing.

Fuck Texas and the cow they rode in on!

[FunkMonk]

I will change the mood:

Fuck the Gamecocks.