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The weekend that was at MBG – week 8 edition

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As we all spent this weekend on the golf course, at fall festivals, or hanging out with family, the world of college football kept on moving. As a result, the message boards were lighting up from sea to shining sea. After this weekend, I believe itā€™s safe to say the championship chase is wide open.

Letā€™s start todayā€™s trip in Cincinnati where the Bearcats pull down Texas Techā€™s pants.

Cincinnati rushed for over 250 yards including a 58- yard TD that put the game on ice. Texas Tech commits 13 penalties and turns the ball over 3 times. For those Georgia high school recruits who are taking Cody Campbellā€™s money, I guess playing for giving up playing for championships and living in Athens to live in Lubbock and cash a little bit bigger check is worth it.

Cody Campbell is not amused.

In the responses, Cincinnati fans are letting him know ā€¦ the troll of the season so far.

Letā€™s head to the Greater Opelika to check in on the Auburn roadkill after LSU goes in and pastes them.

How did we lose to this bunch? The way LSU just swatted the Greater Opelika Cow College was what we should have done to them. The haymakers the Corn Dogs threw in the 2nd quarter knocked Auburn out cold. Auburn had 67 yards on 35 rushing attempts. If that isnā€™t an indictment of how poorly our defense played last week, nothing else is.

Kiffin has 2 weeks to get ready for next job audition in Baton Rouge when Alabama comes calling.

Letā€™s move on to Ann Arbor to look in on possibly the worst offense for a team that is supposed to have a pulse.

Michigan has a national championship caliber defense, but they have now lost 4 games if you include the Western Michigan gift from the Big 10 replay center. That offense is putrid, but yet, they outgained the defending national champions. 57 yards rushing on 42 attempts is awful. They held Indiana to 11 first downs.

You had your chance, Wolverines, to end any chance the Hoosiers had to defend their title and you didnā€™t get it done. Iā€™m guessing Kalen DeBoer is going to be getting a call from people in Ann Arbor pretty soon.

Letā€™s head to Tuscaloosa after Kalen DeBoer staves off the brick for another week. Unfortunately, Mike Elko seems to be another week closer to a buyout.

One fan base was going to melt down completely in Tuscaloosa on Saturday afternoon. If youā€™ve been keeping up with Marcel Reedā€™s QBR, this week it was a scintillating 23.9 with a pick 6 and he put the ball on the ground 3 times losing it once. I have no idea if the Aggies have another QB they trust at this point in the season. Reedā€™s rating for the season is 42.6 putting him at 100th in ESPNā€™s rankings.

At least this week, Elko didnā€™t have a 4th down brain fart that took points off the board, but then again, Texas A&M didnā€™t have a single first down in the last quarter when they needed a comeback.

Oof.

Letā€™s drop in on Columbia East to see how the Vols come out of their win over Alabama.

The clock struck midnight for the president of the local Kiwanis Club as George MacIntyre goes 16-23 for 159 yards against the Poultry. I wonder if Mike Matthews lies awake at night in Knoxville imagining what it would be like to play for a team that can win a championship. Tennessee ran the ball 50 times for a very inefficient 184 yards. Still, Tennessee controlled the game until they didnā€™t as shown by this win probability chart.

At 4:30 to go in the game and up 7 with the ball, Tennessee had a 96% chance of winning. Then Josh Heupel goes for it on 4th and 1 on the South Carolina 38 and doesnā€™t get it. I donā€™t care what the analytics say there (probably to go for it) ā€¦ kick the ball, take advantage of field position, and make LaNorris Sellers drive the length of the field to tie the game.

Just stupid.

Letā€™s head to the land of the Mouse for an update on the leader of the Group of 6 conference masquerading as a Power 4.

The BYU bros on X are obnoxious, so seeing their dream of an undefeated season go crashing down at UCF of all places was a pleasure. Their obsession about all things SEC makes you think theyā€™ve had doors slammed in their faces across the Bible Belt while on mission. If you donā€™t get the reference, here it is:

Humility is a week away, Cougars.

The Holy War is on the horizon. Hereā€™s to Utah driving a stake through BYUā€™s playoff hopes.

Speaking of contract buyouts, Dan Lanningā€™s star has possibly flamed out after a loss to Bert and Illinois.

For a defensive-minded head coach to allow Illinois to convert 50% on 3rd down is awful. Oregon should never lose by double digits to a program like the Illini. Guess what? The final margin of victory came through the middle 8 where Illinois outscored Oregon 14-3 including a 75 yard touchdown run late in the 2nd quarter and 70-yard TD drive to start the 3rd. Sound familiar?

Letā€™s head to Austin to check on the Rebels after they come back just to fall short.

For all of the Archduke love during the game (I muted the idiots), hereā€™s the stat line for that Heismanesque performance:

If not for the Texas defenseā€™s lockdown of Trinidad Chambliss in the 1st half, Texas doesnā€™t win Saturday night. They were really the MVP of the game instead of the constant showing of the Archduke. Boom did a hell of a good job without Colin Simmons to control much of the game.

Letā€™s head to Madison as Jump Around could be the last straw for the Boy Wonder.

I did call this one in the ND game day post.

-17 yards rushing ā€¦ thatā€™s a long way away from USC student body right. USC scored fewer points against Wisconsin than Western Illinois and Eastern Michigan.

I have a feeling Lincoln Rileyā€™s time in Los Angeles is about to come to an end. Ari Wasserman, Colin Cowherd and others have a sad as a result.

Sorry for your loss, TrojansRok.

Letā€™s finish todayā€™s trip on the Flats where the Jalopy gets a flat on homecoming and StinkTalk is not pleased.

Lose by 22 on Homecoming? At Georgia Tech you can do that!

399-101 ā€¦ for tough guy Brent (or now known on StinkTalk as the clown), thatā€™s going to leave a mark. As for COFH, the game is destined for the SEC Network at this point as the Jacketassesā€™ season becomes a dumpster fire (thatā€™s insulting to dumpster fires). You could easily argue the trade school wonā€™t be a point spread favorite the remainder of the season.

All of this and I decided not to include Clemson this week. That should tell you something about the Tigers.

What did you see this weekend that made you laugh? Let us know in the comments below.

Help Us Brent Venables, Youā€™re Our Only Hope

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Dabo is officially on the hot seat, and it seems like he doesnā€™t much care about it. Ever since Brent Venables left the Greater Anderson Cow College, Clemson hasnā€™t necessarily been a feared program.

In Venables time at Clemson, roughly ten years from 2012-2021, Clemson lost a total of 17 games. In the four seasons since he took over at the helm at Oklahoma, Clemson hasnā€™t necessarily lostā€¦17 games.

Itā€™s not so bad, thoughā€¦in the four years before Venables came to Clemson, Swinney lost 22 games.

Itā€™s amazing what Swinney canā€™t accomplish as a head coach in his own, and people are becoming very aware of it. Smart may have had his last chance to embarrass Dabo when Georgia played Clemson a few years ago, but the better news is Kirby doesnā€™t have a split like that that people can point to based on a coordinator, no matter if the fan base likes the coordinator or not.

A National Disgrace

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Of all the opinions on Georgia’s offseason issues, this is certainly one of them.

“We laugh about the arrests and low graduation rate…”

With all due respect, no one is laughing about these things, except for rival fans, who then turn it into righteous indignation. This, mind you, coming from a Miami fan, the same Miami who covered up a serious traffic incident with star defensive player Reuben Bain:

Former Miami defensive end and 2026 NFL draft prospect Rueben Bain Jr. was involved in an auto accident in 2024 in which a passenger later died because of injuries sustained in the crash, according to a report published Sunday.

Bain was cited for careless driving for the accident that occurred at about 4 a.m. local time on March 17, 2024, on Interstate 95 northbound in Miami, according to documents obtained by The Read Optional.

The crash report alleges Bain was driving a 2021 Land Rover SUV that had three other passengers — fellow Hurricanes football players Wesley Bissainthe and Nyjalik Kelly, along with a 22-year-old Georgia woman, Destiny Betts. Bain’s vehicle rear-ended another car, veered into a concrete barrier, then ricocheted into another barrier before coming to a rest on the shoulder of the highway.

Betts was taken to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, according to The Read Optional. The outlet reported that Betts was in a coma for nearly three months before she died from her injuries on June 13, 2024.

At some point, this is where the new sports media has to take a look at themselves and ask “what have we become”…when the time comes where Chip Towers looks like real integrity in journalism, we have a real deal shitposting problem.

And when it comes from fans of a program like Miami, where they are actively harnessing NIL to compromise the integrity of the sports by poaching every decent player they can find, all the while continuing to not even win their own worthless conference, you know we have a real deflection problem.

For Once, The Hillbillies Have a Point

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Let’s go on a quick flashback to 2024, shall we…anyone remember this?

Yeah, Tennessee fans recall this vividly, moreso than the 42 point thrashing that ensued via the Suckeyes that same evening.

In light of the Warde Manuel/Michigan controversy and what is becoming more and more obvious that there wasn’t an objective consideration of teams and their records and strengths of relative wins and losses, they are opining this:

Tennessee had a legitimate argument to host a playoff game in 2024. The Vols needed to beat out four teams: Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, and Penn State. 

When you actually broke down the resumes, Tennesseeā€™s case was arguably the strongest.

Ohio State had two wins against playoff teams in Indiana and Penn State, but neither of those opponents had a signature win of their own. The Buckeyes lost to Oregon (No. 1 in playoff rankings) on the road early and then lost at home to Michigan (a 7-5 team). Tennessee, meanwhile, lost to Arkansas (a 6-6 team) on the road and lost to Georgia (No. 2 in the final playoff rankings) on the road. The Vols were undefeated at home and Ohio State wasnā€™t (the two teams had very similar losses otherwise). I think that matters ā€” especially when the conversation is about who deserves to host a playoff game.

Notre Dame had the worst loss in college football that year, falling at home to Northern Illinois. Texas didnā€™t have a single win against a team that finished ranked in the final playoff rankings. And Penn Stateā€™s best win was against Illinois (Tennesseeā€™s best win was against 9-3 Alabama, which finished No. 11 in the final playoff rankings ā€” meaning the Vols kept them out, essentially).

 think itā€™s fair to assume that the reason Tennessee didnā€™t host was because Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel was the chairman of the playoff committee. 

And in subsequent years, itā€™s become clear that Manuel had no business being on that committee, let alone chairing it. 

ManuelĀ is on the vergeĀ of losing his job amid a wave of scandals and a $12 million investigation. The University of Michigan Board of Regents is meeting later this week in Traverse City to determine Manuelā€™s fate. And the fact that this is the guy who served as the point man in the room when Tennessee was denied a home playoff game should make every Vols fan furious all over again. (emphasis added)

Correction: Tennessee fans just stay mad. For good reason. However, as much as I love Hillbilly tears, I’m afraid I have to agree with them on this one. Manuel’s blatant homerism and lack of an ethical fiber makes the 2024 season seem and even more scrupulous endeavor of tipping the scales to favor the B1G.

But…BUT…let’s not forget the favoritism came from the media as well. For no explainable reason whatsoever, from December 1st to December 8th, Ohio State and Tennessee flip-flopped in rankings, which bolstered the CFP committee’s final decision:

Mind you, the Coaches didn’t agree, at all:

I couldn’t find our trusted Mumme Poll, but if memory serves me correctly, Ohio State wasn’t even in the top ten after a monumental loss to Michigan (which, in retrospect, looks even more suspect now, doesn’t it?). Of course, we’re looking past Notre Dame’s ascent from losing to Northern Illinois, beating a ranked Louisville and two ranked service academies…to 3rd?

Some things go beyond Warde Manuel, but they still stink of the same bull sh*t, now don’t they?

Sorry, but not sorry, Tennessee fans.

MBG – Tooth Nation edition

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Opinionated is probably correct, but knowledgeable is not necessarily a word I would use to describe Hillbilly fans.

I have some words I would use to describe them, but this seems like a good one to get our merry band of refugees to weigh in on.

Your June 10th Reminder that Auburn Sucks: The Barners are Butthurt

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Question: Why even complain and send public statements when you can just claim he was the Coach of the Year anyway and put it on a banner? Why does it matter the decisions that are made for accolades when you can just claim bias and favoritism and claim the award, anyway?

At Auburn, you can do that.

Reseeding the CWS Would Result in Another SEC Tournament?

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Check the crowd pop on this one:

I would’ve paid good money to see this as COSM in Atlanta, provided they had this view of the game from the venue.

Go Dawgs…meanwhile, here’s the matchups for the CWS:

Yes, that’s right…All-SEC on one side of the bracket. Hmm. What would it look like with a reseeded bracket:

#1 Georgia vs. #8 Troy

#2 UNC vs. #7 Oklahoma

#3 Texas vs. #6 Ole Miss

#4 Alabama vs. # 7 West Virginia

Then it would just be an All-SEC CWS, would it not?

Just imagine…also imagine if the Supers were reseeded…some different outcomes could’ve occurred:

1 Georgia vs. 16 Little Rock

2 Auburn vs. 15 Cal Poly

3 UNC vs 14 Troy

4 Texas vs. 13 St. John’s

5 Alabama vs. 12 Oklahoma

6 Oregon vs. 11 USC

7 Mississippi State vs. 10 Ole Miss

8 Kansas vs. 9 West Virginia

Well…guess what…you still would’ve only had five SEC teams in the CWS brackets…and Auburn would’ve been one of them…plus you would’ve had a B1G team in it, too.

Nah, maybe I like it just the way it is.

Message Board Geniuses: Fanbases React to the Sorsby Decision

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Do you suppose Texas Tech fans have a shred of concern about the future of the sport?

I’d say “nah”.

Apparently, the Court of Appeals that would handle the next leg of this is chaired by Red Raiders:

Meanwhile, Texass fans are not pleased with their little brothers to the west…

*Checks notes* – Lambos and fat stacks of cash. Got it. While I am on Texas’s side here, I’d say the pot is calling the kettle unethical, just one is more “legally” ethical now that we’re in the era of NIL.

And, of course, it wouldn’t be a day ending in y if we didn’t have someone from our traditional SEC orange fan base whining about why they couldn’t get away with it, too.

“Why don’t we have a corrupt judge?” Boo hoo. Talk to a Georgia fan about the local legal system working against you, then wonder how we managed two National Championships while getting pulled over every other day of the week, and let’s resume the conversation after.

Message Board Geniuses: Big Orange Edition

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First, from east Alabama, here’s some great insight into the mind of your fellow Barners.

I’ll answer his question for him: he’s about to become somehow smarter than before he experiments with Ketamine. At least, that’s what would happen with the average Auburn fan.

Another, from our friends up north, where the ravages of common core math seems to still be afflicting our Volunteer friends.

They wouldn’t be able to get the NIL fund they’re imagining, but they would have a fun day at Dollywood.

Bless their little brains hearts.

Friday, Funday: Georgia Beats Tennessee for the NinthTime

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This is too good not to watch to kick off your Memorial Day weekend. If anything else, let’s remember that, at one time, Tennessee was good at football.

What a time to be alive gents.

Great game. Better outcome. And even better that Tennessee lost. And then there’s this (note: not a Playpen post):

Tennessee is the gift that keeps on giving, and I never thought I’d live to say that.

Go Dawgs.