Almost on cue, the season starts to get wackier and wackier. Wacky enough to kill a horse, even. Wait, that doesn’t make sense. Aww, fuck it.
From the early week MACtion that kept the smattering of crowds at the games on the edge of their seats - 41-38 Northern Illinois comeback, 29-28 Ohio win with a field goal as time expired, and Western Michigan’s 24-21 win.
It didn’t stop there, either. Thursday night’s undercard games featured 34-31 and 23-22 final scores. North Carolina almost came back against VaTech, too, losing 24-21.
And then we have the Okie State’s loss to Iowa State on Friday night, 37-31 in 2OT and it just snowballed from there.
Oregon lost, Clemson got smoked, so did Nebraska, Baylor triumphed over Oklahoma at home, Arizona beat Arizona State, Virginia went into Doak Campbell and beat FSU. Oh yeah, and Cal nearly nipped Stanford.
We had the BCS #2, 4, 5, 7, 16, 20, and 25 all lose on the same weekend. Great googily moogily. What does this mean for the BCS? (hint: things done got fucked) Where is our Heisman frontrunner? (hint: there is none) What the sam hell is going on?
The way things stand right now, the BCS 1-2-3 will probably be LSU-Bama-Arkansas, which is at best incestuous and at worst a calamity. If the BCS thinks that people want to see another 9-6 snooze-fest, they’re crazy. Sure, we all know that LSU and Bama have been a step above most teams so far this year, but does no one else even get a shot? Every year we keep this screwy system, it keeps making it’s own case for a real playoff.
If Arkansas manages to beat LSU this coming week, it will add even more fuel to the fire. Who is #1 then? Can’t be Bama, because LSU beat them head-to-head. Can’t be Arkansas, because Bama beat them head-to-head. Virginia Tech? Too lax of a schedule. Stanford? The same, plus they got blown out by Oregon, who lost to LSU head-to-head. Boise State? Schedule again. Houston? Schedule AND conference.
What a fucking mess.
I suppose that’s my entire summation of the BCS standings right now; what a fucking mess. The only way to figure this season out would be to have an eight team playoff, at least. Throw LSU, Alabama, Arkansas, Stanford, Virginia Tech, Okie State, Virginia Tech, and either Oregon or Boise State into a tournament and let the chips fall where they may.
In any case, here’s eight things I learned from this week in college football.
- If you don’t know who Chandler Harnish is, you better find out. Sure, he plays in the MAC, but 2600 yards passing with 22/4 TD to INT ratio and 1200 rushing yards with 10 TDs ain’t no joke. When I roll out my Heisman column in the next few days, he will most likely be on it.
- Houston plays the 123rd most difficult schedule in the nation. But Case Keenum is still the boss.
- Continuing the parade of excellent QBs, Robert Griffin III is all sorts of ridiculous, especially when he’s chucking the ball downfield with :51 seconds to go to beat Oklahoma. Worst part is, I have a sneaking suspicion that the NFL is going to try and turn him into Kordell Stewart 2.0.
- U$C continues to ruin college football. First by being insufferable assholes, then by breaking all sorts of rules, and now by knocking off Oregon and leaving a mess near the top of the BCS. Thanks a heap, Trojans.
- My little sister has a prettier throwing motion than Nebraska’s Taylor Martinez. Seriously, every throw that kid makes looks like it’s going into the dirt. It’s painful to watch.
- The pundits need to stop talking about Trent Richardson and start recognizing that Montee Ball has 30 TD and has scored 2 TD or more in every game this season.
- It’s been a shitty season, wins-wise for Nick Foles and the Arizona Wildcats, but Foles has certainly played his way into first-round consideration in the 2012 draft.
- How does he do it? Kansas Stat was outgained by Texas, 310-121 and still managed to win. Colin Klein ran 26 times for 4 yards and had 87 total yards, but still scored two TDs. Baffling…
