Rivalry Week had some interesting results to remind us what a great sport this is. The message boards didn’t disappoint. Let’s start our trip in Columbus to check on the mental state of the most obnoxious fan base in college sports.
The Ohio State fan base is at DEFCON 1 after a 4th straight loss to Michigan. The best team money can buy scored all of 10 points against their unranked hated rival at home and will not be in Indy for the B1G championship game as they watch Penn State to play Oregon. Of course, the pollsters don’t punish the ultimate media darling in today’s polls having them at #7. It’s going to be interesting to see what the Grapevine idiots do with them on Tuesday. If Ohio State hosts a first round home game, we’ll know this is truly rigged.
Let’s head to College Station for the battle of Texas.
First off, I saw Texas and Texas A&M have a trophy. How can you have a rivalry trophy for a game that currently is not likely to be played every year under the current SEC scheduling plan?
Let’s get to the game. Mike Elko fell prey to analytics twice on 4th and short calls. He didn’t learn anything from the South Carolina game where the middle of his offensive line showed its warts. The Aggies went for it on 4th and 1 on their first possession instead of getting an early lead with a field goal. They didn’t get it and then watched Texas march down the field for a TD, and they played from behind the rest of the night. Then, down 17-7 (Elko must have had a different 2-point card from Kirby) and with momentum after a blocked punt, he decides to go for the TD rather than kick a field goal (needed to get the game to OT). They get stuffed, and you could feel the air go out of the 12th Man.
I get the analytics, but you have to read your team. You kick both of those and have a chance to win or kick one of those and have a 1-score game with 4:30 to go. That’s my opinion, but YMMV.
Let’s head to Tallahassee again for the merciful end to the Conquered’s season.
This genius is what happens when you want to rationalize why your team sucks. I guess some FSU fans only think their team can win if their Heisman Trophy winner tends to have a problem with taking five-finger discounts at local retail establishments. I admit I missed on the Seminoles this year, but what this team has become so quickly is a train wreck you can’t look away from. 63-3 really did break the Florida State football program. Norvell convincing the Gus Bus to move to Tally feels like desperation. Don’t buy a house, Gus.
On the Handbags’ side, the Sun Belt Billy and Lagway hype train for 2025 will go into overdrive if they win some meaningless bowl game.
Let’s go up to the snowy northeast to see how Canes fans are after missing the World’s Smallest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
Miami blows a 3 TD lead to Syracuse. First, congrats to Coach Fran … he has become a DGD for his consistent love and respect for Kirby. I watched a little of this game around the Iron Bowl. Kyle McCord lit up the Miami defense and, IMHO, outplayed the likely #1 overall pick in Cam Ward. A shoutout to Jackson Meeks for another (that’s 5) 100 yard game receiving … the young man is likely to have 1,000 yards receiving after his bowl game … good for him. I’m not sure why Kirby encouraged him to leave. We could have used him.
Let’s drop in on Greater Anderson for the South Carolina state championship.
I’m sure JimmyHEYHEY is a major donor to the program. Clemson finds itself in the ACC title game with a chance to get a bye into the CFP quarterfinals if they can knock off SMU in Charlotte, but the Tiggers lose at home to the Poultry because they can’t score. The fact that Clemson is playing for a championship after being run out of Atlanta by Georgia at the beginning of the season and being physically beaten at home by the SEC’s 6th best team at the end may be a reason to revisit the entire playoff structure in 2026.
Shane Beamer probably should be SEC coach of the year based on how he kept his team fighting to the finish line. Enjoy Orlando, Gamecocks.
For a bonus Friday feature, let’s finish today’s trip to check in on the crybabies/nerds of North Avenue aka the denizens of StinkTalk. 7IAR, B!
If this happens, they may have to put all of the “Dodd-like”s at StinkTalk on suicide watch and will need lots of copium over the holidays. Buster, Norman sucks. You don’t want that job. Of course, Venables will be on the hot seat in 2025. Go take that job in Hattiesburg and be your own man.
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. Let’s go kick the Horns’ teeth in, Dawgs, and make this sad fan sad again.
Sumboddy get Key a tissue!!!
LOL at that comment about Elko’s 2pt play card. 😀
I couldn’t resist. It still makes no sense.
After watching tOSU offense flounder then watch Kyle McCord the QB Ryan Day ran off light up Miami. If your an tOSU fan you have reason to wonder is Ryan Day the problem. Congratulations to coach Fran for taking Syracuse bowling at 9-3. Florida needs to sign Billy Napier to a lifetime contract before reality returns.
The Texas fan with the Butterbean haircut needs to be as that famous Gamecock Grumpy Old Man.
I dunno. Maybe even Lulu and Junior!
If you envision the Starship flight as the COTY race, it begins with the liftoff blast of Sark (Texas is back!), then shifts to stage two with Deboar proving bama is back, shifting to Lea at Vandy, giving way to Kiffen…all with spectacular burnouts…but then the re-entry burn is Beamer…quite spectacular!…but the final soft landing back where it all starts will be Kirby after winning the SECCG. All those flameouts were related to the one coach who is the best in the league.
Of course, the award will go to Napier and I couldn’t be happier about it. 🤣
I don’t know if it will be Beamer or Napier, but I think in all seriousness that Napier deserves SEC coach of the year and I don’t think that it is close. I don’t know how he managed to hold that team together mid-season especially after the loss at Tennessee when there was speculation about whether or not he would be the coach for the rivalry game against FSU. Sitting at 3-3 mid-season and with a remaining schedule that UF could be reasonably expected to finish 1-5, and as much as it pains me to say it, the fact that they finished 4-2 was pretty remarkable.
Vandy beating bama = SEC coach of the year.
The hair helmet on the Texas kid is glorious! What a bittersweet day Saturday. Great games & match ups, but you know the season is winding down. Just going to try to soak up as much as possible the next 6 weeks to keep me warm during the offseason. And we need to get Faulkner back in Athens pronto.
I’d love to see Faulkner back in Athens, but it ain’t gonna happen. Kirby isn’t firing his BFF and Buster isn’t coming back to be an analyst.
Word on the street is that Bobo will drop back to his previous analyst role, similar to what Boom did, and that Kirby will bring Faulkner back as OC and QB coach. That is, unless Faulkner accepts a HC job somewhere. He has already turned down the HC job @ Southern Miss where he coached previously. The OC position @ Oklahoma he was under consideration for was filled by someone else. Not saying it’s gonna happen, but it’s looking promising for now. Plus, his family still lives in Athens, and his wife is on record as not leaving Athens until her kids finish school. If Mama ain’t happy… ain’t nobody happy!!!
That probably makes the most sense. Kirby wasn’t going to fire Mike, who gets to continue to work in a role that is beneficial to his state employee pension (remember Monken said a ton of complementary things about Bobo as an analyst both while here and after). If Faulkner’s family is still in Athens, he can’t love the current situation.
Want to see StinkTalk completely meltdown? That would do it.
I’m guessing that the guy who proclaims Lil Ole Dabo’s jib to be up just hates the cut of his jig. English is hard, y’all, particularly for graduates of the Greater Anderson Cow College.