NCAA football, 2013-14

[jimmy olsen]

The stream I was watching crashed and I missed the last TD.

[Eddie Teach]

Yay Sparty.

[jimmy olsen]

I did see that touchdown.

[MadImmortalMan]

Oh boy. Let the SEC mutual masturbation begin. Red states rule bitchezzzz!!!!

[CountDeMoney]

Don't worry, Urban Meyer will get over the disappointment by drowning his sorrows in another coed.

[Eddie Teach]

Eh, Florida St. beating Auburn would do a much better job ending the perception of SEC dominance than Florida St. beating Ohio St.

[Valmy]

Ohio State just couldn't take another beat down in the BCS title game.

[Savonarola]

Police don riot gear, monitor crowds as fires burn in East Lansing

Authorities took precautionary anti-riot measures as more than a thousand people celebrated the Spartans' football victory amid two fires at Cedar and River streets, near campus.

Wearing riot gear, more than a dozen East Lansing police officers closely watched the jubilant crowd, as of 2 a.m., but made no attempts to break up the group.

Bonfire flames sometimes reached 15 or 20 feet high as the crowd fed the fire with whatever wood they could find or sometimes firecrackers.

Joe Sheena, an MSU senior, was just glad to be going to the Rose Bowl in in his last year. Standing a few feet from the bonfires, he saw it as harmless fun.

"It's more tradition than anything," he said. "We're not a school of pyromaniacs."

MSU athletic director Mark Hollis, who was in Indianapolis for the game, said via text, "People need to celebrate in a responsible way. I am proud of the performance of our football team. There is no place for destructive celebrations. I hope our fans and campus are safe."

MSU Alumni Association president Scott Westerman took to Twitter to voice his thoughts on the scene in East Lansing: "True Spartans do not burn things, break laws or mess with my Spartan Cops If you do, you're not one of us."

Police arrested nearly a dozen disruptive students during their intervention, subduing them and taking them away in handcuffs.

TRADITION!

[jimmy olsen]

Holy Crap!

https://twitter.com/markjskiba/status/407245822087020544

[PDH]

Hey Wyoming hired Craig Bohl to be their head coach.

If he returns the team to some level of being tougher, wins some games against teams with winning records, and then leaves for Nebraska or higher points...I will be happy.

I would love a return to simple above .500 play with tackling, is that too much to ask?

[OttoVonBismarck]

I actually like Fox Sports for College Football, not necessarily because of any particular talent with their game calling or anything but just because I don't like everything being within ESPN. I think CBS probably does the best job with games. I'm not one to usually notice this, but I will say the crew covering the MSU-OSU game was very blatantly pulling for OSU throughout the game. Anytime Miller broke loose or OSU did anything remotely good they were immediately excited, while they basically had muted response to any MSU big plays. They also took Miller-worship to the point of fawning over him for not dropping a bad snap (that despite being bad actually flew directly at his chest so it didn't require superman skills to catch it.)

I honestly have always liked OSU just because I've always hated Michigan, but I was pulling for MSU last night because I despise crybaby Urban Meyer. I could live off the schadenfreude from seeing his crybaby expression and tone in the post game interview for a month.

Ohio State just couldn't take another beat down in the BCS title game.

If I have anything at all against OSU it is the delusions of their fans. I work with a few, and throughout this year the few times I've talked sports with them I've brought up that whatever team they face in the BCS game (if they were to go) would be a very good team, probably a Bama or FSU, and OSU has virtually no experience under UM or many of the current starters playing good teams in tough games. They also handwaived away their beat downs at the hands of Florida and LSU. One even said the LSU game "was actually pretty close"--which it wasn't. I watched that game, OSU lost the lead early and never got it back and while LSU may have only beaten them by 14 instead of the 27 Florida beat them by, the result was never really in doubt. LSU controlled that game from kickoff til the last whistle.

[PDH]

So Wyoming is getting the coach who won back to back championships at FCS NDSU.  I sure hope Bohl can build Wyoming back up.  If he wins, I will buy a sweater vest in brown and gold for this.  It is hard to recruit to 7200 feet and the middle of nowhere (geez, even more nowhere than Fargo?)

It is so hard to be a Wyoming fan, and that is all I have.

[Berkut]

You know, I have to respect you though - that is a real fan.

Seedy and his Notre Dame, D4 and his Miami, they aren't real fans. It is easy to be a fan of a powerhouse, and construct some bullshit reason (Oh, they are Catholic just like me! Notre Dame is the only Catholic University in America that plays football!) to be "fans" but really, they are just bandwagoners at the end of the day.

No worry about that when you are a fan of Wyoming.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Texas - Oregon in the Alamo Bowl.  THAT should go well.

[PDH]

It sucks, too often it sucks.  But in college football I get one team, and that is my Alma Mater.  The best days of Wyoming were before I was self aware, back in the mid-1960s, there were a couple of glory years in the late 1980s, and Joe Tiller won 10 games in the mid 1990s...

But damn.  Wyoming is the smallest state, with a small state mentality.  The don't pay enough, Wyoming thinks a bowl game every few years is good enoug, and we the fans suffer through more 5 win seasons than we should.  There are some good times, an 8 win season a couple of years ago, and some bad times (don't ask about when Wyoming won 5 games in 3 years), but for the most part there are just times and memories of the old timers.

Recently Wyoming has not even been the place where good coaches go for a couple of years before getting hired by a bigger school, they have just been stuck in the doldrums.

Still, I wear my Brown and Gold each fall, and I hope.