A couple of big road upsets occur on what was supposed to be a boring Saturday of college football. Needless to say, the message boards lit up across the fruited plain as usual on a Saturday. Before we start our trip, take a quick look at this (remember most of these teams have beaten a ranked opponent at the time of the game).
Let’s get started this morning this morning in the Classic City where it’s clear BBN isn’t happy with basketball season starting the first week of October.
Kentucky is probably the best job for a coach looking for stability while being the worst for maintaining consistency and acquiring talent. It’s the exact opposite of their men’s basketball coaching job. The problem is their fans are starting to expect close to the same performance from their football program that they expect from their basketball program.
Stoops is probably now a dead man walking unless he finds a way to beat Tennessee to save his job. I’m guessing Kirby told him after the game that he has a spot in his coaching rehab program when the time is right.
On to the game, I don’t understand why Kirby doesn’t coach this game in Lexington the same way he does in Athens. Turn the superior athletes loose and let them make plays. Kudos to Stoops for hitting the over for his buddies in Youngstown by leaving his starters in while Georgia was emptying the bench. I was surprised he didn’t try an onside kick to get a field goal to cover the spread.
Let’s move on to Tobacco Road to check in on the Bill Belichick Experience.
Before the season no one would be surprised that Clemson was going to beat North Carolina. I’m not even sure I would have been surprised to see the Tiggers beat the Heels convincingly.
I am surprised at how quickly things have gotten sideways with Belichick. I thought it was a dumb hire for a Kentucky type of program (football at a basketball school) to attempt to short-cut their way to national relevance, but this has gone worse than I thought it would.
Does Bill have the class to step down and go play golf after 1 year in Chapel Hill? We’ll see.
Let’s stay in the ACC to check in on Seminole Nation.
Yes, the final score was only by 6. -3 turnover margin gets you beat, and many times gets you run out of the building. Down 28-3, the Noles scramble to score 19 in the 4th quarter.
After the Alabama game, I thought Norvell had probably saved himself. His buyout is probably the only thing saving him now as the Noles season is officially on the brink. Trips to Clemson, Raleigh and Hogtown loom for the Tribe.
Is it just me, or does the new Doak just not have the same degree of home field advantage as the old one?
Now, we head to the 2 places you’ve been waiting for this week. Let’s start out at the land of the Big Bang Theory … Pasadena, California … to see how the Lions are doing this morning.
James Franklin has made a lot of money in Happy Valley by beating teams his team is supposed to beat. They went out and hired Jim Knowles away from the hated Buckeyes and threw a bunch of NIL money at players hoping to replicate what anOSU did to win a title.
Instead, now the season is close to half over, and they allowed Oregon to beat them twice. UCLA is one of the worst Power 4 teams in the country, and they controlled much of the game with Nico I accounting for 5 TDs and outplaying the preseason #1 overall pick in the Yankee Cade Klubnik.
I think it’s safe to say that Franklin is quickly wearing out his welcome and a trip to Columbus looms.
Let’s end today’s trip in Hogtown not for the reason we thought at the start of the weekend.
You ain’t wrong, collin12345. But we all think you’re a “laughing stock” because no one wanted you.
In the name of a meteor game, the north central, meth lab geniuses aren’t getting a pass this week.
Where’s F-bum today as Arch Manning’s Heisman campaign, after his moment against (checks notes) Sam Houston, crashes and burns in The Swamp? Watching this Texas offense has to be making the Shorthorns wonder where is the Sark who is supposed to be an offensive genius. The problem on Saturday was they sucked on defense as well.
To the Handbags, congratulations on keeping the Sun Belt Billy farewell tour going for another week. A trip to College Station to face an AgCult team who is now taking on the toughness of its coach probably isn’t going to end well for you.
That’s what I saw this week. Share your well wishes to Texas and Penn State in the comments.
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Repeating a Tweet: Corch is a good git, morals wise, at Penn State.
Good ‘fit’, oops.
Potato-Potahto
From the Google lady:
“In British slang, a “git” is an informal, derogatory term for a stupid, incompetent, unpleasant, or worthless person, often used to describe a man. ”
I’ll allow it. 🙂
Also, Urban Liar at Pedo State would allow me to concentrate my hate into one place.
All they gotta do is get Sandusky paroled or a weekend furlough.
In fairness to the Penn State poasters, Franklin probably could be fired “for cause” for losing to UCLA like that….
PS I heard Chuck “Some people say” Oliver on the radio Saturday night actually say that they had taken 12,000 seats out of Doak with the reno, so that they had more room for tractor pulls and concerts….
FU now’s the time to give Billy Napier a 10 year extension.
To James Franklin 🤣😂😂😂 thanks I really enjoyed your game. Now really screw with the media and beat tOSU. Can’t wait to hear the spin on that one.
ee, I am not surprised at all by the fiasco that North Carolina football has become. I expressed a strong opion that hiring Bilichick was running this progam into a wall at 90 miles an hour. Chaple Hill is living the clown show now.
UNC is one player away from success. Unfortunately, Tom Brady has used up his eligibility.
Someone else posted this weekend about how shitty the Texas fan base is to make a Dawg happy about a gator win. I’ll have to second that (Going to brush teeth again, BRB…)
With all the hype about Manning, I think his Grandpa and Uncles did an outstanding job of getting Cooper’s kid some money up front. As much QB knowledge as that brain trust has they HAD to know this was coming. I’m curious if they had a personal beef with UT and fucked them on purpose?
G’Pappy Archie – couldn’t let his alma mater down a 2nd time so they « steered » Arch to the oil money
Mercenary. I like it…
Peyton told Kirby on the golf course “You don’t want him. We’ll go to Texas for the money.”
I’ve never liked any of the Mannings and wish they would just go away. There schtick they do during NFL games where they think they’re cute and funny is embarrassing. Just stop.
And those dumb commercials “Painting” Manning and “Calculating” Manning. The dude is mostly illiterate and can barely talk right.
During Arch’s recruiting, I was never on the bandwagon of bringing him to Athens. I knew he’d be too expensive and I really didn’t want that band of Mannings on our campus or in our stadium.
Charlie Weiss and Bill Belichick win Super Bowls and then fail to get any footing in college ball.
Meanwhile, Dabo, Les and Orgeron win natties. And Mario Cristobal may have the no. 1 team in America.
The explanation that comes from the world’s greatest gridiron geniuses?
Play calling. Its all just about brilliant play calling.
Cristobal was coaching to lose to FSU. Miami won that game in spite of Mario’s coaching.
Pre-season #1 and #2 could end the season with 4 losses each. Heh.
Why does FSU hate Norvell? Didn’t he win a natty or something in 2023. I know that got rings and all. As for the Penn State poster who says Franklin ruined their reputation let me tell you this, dickwad. PSU’s reputation was ruined when your d coordinator was raping boys in the locker room shower and your coke bottle bespectacled coach refused to see what was going on right under his nose. Then all yall defended coach coke bottle to the bitter end. Get bent losers. Paterno was a shitbag for looking the other way and Sandusky is rotting in prison where he belongs.
Paterno….
Son you had a terrible game, go see the defensive coordinator.
Is it just me, or does the new Doak just not have the same degree of home field advantage as the old one?
No matter how much they change the doke they can never remove the choke. It’s akin to putting lipstick on a pig. No matter the efforts to clean it up it is still a pig and the noles will choke at the doke.
“They are fired for cause and unmanaged ruin to our reputation”. Ummm, who wants to tell him?
I fully expect for Texas to get their shit together and be a different team come November. There is a far too much talent for the Horns to be playing this poorly. I wasn’t surprised in the least that Florida won (they only lost by 10 at LSU when their QB threw five INTs and they had a long (76 yard?) TD called back for holding). But Texas is just playing really badly all over the field.
FTMF! I don’t celebrate Florida winning anything