The weekend that was at Message Board Geniuses – week 0 and preview edition

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After the success of last year’s series of trips around the message board universe, I decided to bring it back for 2025. Until this past Saturday, everyone was undefeated and had visions of championships dancing in their heads. Alas, some fan boards melted down and others were delusional as the best time of the year gets started.

We’ll start our trip at a familiar spot, the loveliest cesspool on the Plains … aka the Greater Opelika Cow College.

The hits keep on coming with the Barn’s new claims of national championships. Pat Dye didn’t have the guts to go for the win against Syracuse and will be forever known as Pat Tie instead. The 1993 claim while Auburn was on probation … again … and the “We’re #3” of 2004 are laughable. Good grief, that bunch is sad.

Speaking of bogus championship claims, let’s go across the state to check in on a genius who likely works in the SEC offices.

If the Birmingham Bammers could get their way, they probably would end the Iron Bowl and the 3rdSiO as annual games to make their schedule as easy as possible. Throw in that the SEC probably would be willing to let the washing detergents play every game at BDS with pro-Bama officials (isn’t that redundant?). They believe they deserve every advantage the office gives them.

Let’s go visit the AgCult to see how they feel about the SEC expanded schedule.

Is there a more down in the mouth fan base than the Aggies at this point? They’ve never made it to the SEC championship game. They were gift wrapped a chance to ruin the Hamburgers’ season last year at Kyle Field, and Mike Elko faceplanted. They are now playing 3rd fiddle in the Texas NIL wars to Texas and Texas Tech.

Let’s go to the north side of the Red River to see how the folks in OU country are feeling.

Texass flunky Oklahoma isn’t feeling the love from the SEC. I know some (cough, cough … Josh Pate … cough, cough) think the Sooners are poised to make noise with their new OC and hotshot QB from Washington State. I have a feeling what the Sooners are in for is in the immortal word of Clubber Lang … “PAIN.”

For a last season preview check-in, let’s head up to Bloomington to see what the most empty calorie playoff fan base thinks.

I’ve said it before, but when you cancel a home and home with … checks notes again … Virginia, you should be immediately declared ineligible for the CFP for those impacted years. Curt Cignetti hides behind Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan to take shots at the SEC. Every top tier SEC program should call Indiana and offer up an opportunity for a home and home and then publicize that Mr. Big Mouth turned them all down.

Let’s check in with the teams who were on the field on Saturday. We’ll start in Manhattan, Kansas via Dublin, Ireland.

Kansas State loses to Iowa State in a top 25 matchup on what appeared to be a disaster of a football pitch. Why any coach agrees to play in that game is beyond me especially to give up a home game for it. The Big 12 is likely to be a mess this year, so losing to a team this early that you may have to deal with in a tiebreaker isn’t season ending, but it does take away the safety net.

Let’s go to the Bay Area via Honolulu to check on the status of the Almost Competitive Conference.

Not a good look, ACC, before the season really starts next week. Stanford may end up as one of the worst 5 teams in all of FBS based on this result. How the brainy have fallen from Jim Harbaugh and David Shaw. You lose to Hawaii … your conference is definitely almost competitive whether your team is or not.

What did you see or read this weekend? Let us know in the comments. I’ll be back with a first look post. It’s finally here. Go Dawgs!

18 thoughts on “The weekend that was at Message Board Geniuses – week 0 and preview edition”

  1. It’s nice to be worried about a sub par 9-3 season vs living in the Donnan/Goff years.

    • Yep. Seeing the end of the Dooley years as a student combined with the Goff/Donnan years as a young season ticket holder should have purged my devotion to Georgia football. Glad I held on through CMR and have seen the program at its peak under Kirby.

  3. Message Board Geniuses – We sift the angry rants so you don’t have to. The Clemson cultists are usually good for a few testimonials to Dabo and their school’s virtue. Keep up this feature.

    • I’m sure the Greater Anderson Cow College will make an appearance in this feature at some point this season. It will be as early as next week if LSU wins. We all just need to figure out who is the message board handle of Tyler from Spartanburg.

      • Assuming anything other than “Tyler from Spartanburg” is probably projecting a level of creativity beyond the limits of your typical Son of Klemp.

  4. However they are behind a paywall on Twitter, so double thanks for these posts.

    • I don’t subscribe. They may have bonus stuff for subscribers. I even saw some posts this morning they made since I looked for content yesterday.

  5. Stanford and Cal were ACC adds solely for the purpose of west coast reach…they had the option of adding Washington State and Oregon State, but both are, you know, competitive to a degree, and we can’t have none of that, can we? The fact that Auburn found a way to lose to Cal last year says all you need to know about the Barners. FTMFs.

  8. What else are you gonna on a Saturday night in Dublin? When in Rome…

  9. It’s not just the upper tier of SEC programs that should offer Cignelli (I doubt I spelled his name right..but IDGAS) a home and home. I doubt there’s a single SEC team that wouldn’t take him to the woodshed…..and he knows it.

  10. What, nothing about Corch saying the nfl should penalize Harbaugh because of Michigan sign stealing?

    • It wasn’t publicized by the MBG account, so I missed it. Feel free to link, WCD. I would insult feminine hygiene products by calling Corch a douche.

  11. I make fun of TAMA my fair share, but they did get jobbed when the SEC invited Texas to join the league after TAMA had finally broken away from them and were allegedly told this would never happen. Having watched the Texas treatment by the SEC over the last year, I see their point.

  12. Love seeing this series every Monday…even when it doesn’t favor our Dawgs. Always a hilarious read.

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