U.S. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: it's upon us

[Rumple Foreskin]

It's been a tough day for some AH football fanatics. Wake Forest (Desert Pirate) was shut-out, 26-0, by Maryland. Kansas (SweetSubSarahh) lost, 45-31, to Oklahoma.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[JagFarlane]

Yeah last Saturday was rough on me -sighs- We need a decent kicker badly.

 

[sr71plt]

Naw it's a great day for college football. UVa over 18th-ranked UNC 16-13 in overtime. Yea.

 

[jomar]

.....

 

[Katyusha]

My game's going...um...Cal just scored so we're now down by a touchdown, just before halftime. *bites nails down further*

 

[DesertPirate]

Glad I spent the day driving

 

[Katyusha]

My game's going...um...Cal just scored so we're now down by a touchdown, just before halftime. *bites nails down further*

Now we're down by ten.

 

[Katyusha]

Now we're down by ten.

And up by eight.

I hate nailbiters. I love nailbiters but I really do hate them.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Looks like the Bears have an uphill fight on their hands, trailing by 15 early in the 4th. But where there is time, there is hope.

LSU bounced back from the beating Florida laid on 'em to whip South Carolina 24-17. Next week the Tigers host Georgia, then two weeks later, Alabama. That'll make four nationally ranked teams (11th and higher) in seven games. Then comes their rivalry game with 3-3 Ole Miss which beat Florida and lost to Alabama by four. Just another season-long SEC cake-walk.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[DesertPirate]

Looks like the Bears have an uphill fight on their hands, trailing by 15 early in the 4th. But where there is time, there is hope.

LSU bounced back from the beating Florida laid on 'em to whip South Carolina 24-17. Next week the Tigers host Georgia, then two weeks later, Alabama. That'll make four nationally ranked teams (11th and higher) in seven games. Then comes their rivalry game with 3-3 Ole Miss which beat Florida and lost to Alabama by four. Just another season-long SEC cake-walk.

Rumple Foreskin

Has anone told you the SEC is a bit brutal?

 

[JagFarlane]

Mmmm well the top 4 should remain steady, Kansas at least shouldn't drop far considering that was the #4 team in the nation they lost to.

The upsets not mentioned being:

Unranked Boston College over #17 VA Tech 28-23
Unranked TCU over #9 Bringham Young 32-7
Unranked Arizona over #25 Cal 42-27

 

[Guest]

It's been a tough day for some AH football fanatics. Wake Forest (Desert Pirate) was shut-out, 26-0, by Maryland. Kansas (SweetSubSarahh) lost, 45-31, to Oklahoma.

Rumple Foreskin

Thanks, Rumple.

Oklahoma's pretty good, but it's my fault we lost.

I was building set yesterday and not watching the game!!!

 

[JagFarlane]

Ouch bad day to be a Kansas college football fan:

Oklahoma 55, Kansas St 28 3rd QTR
Texas Tech 63, Kansas 14 4th QTR

Hope someones got plenty of rum for SSS

 

[Katyusha]

We're playing USC today. And it's homecoming.

 

[JagFarlane]

Hmmm well couple of upsets occurring yesterday:

Louisville 24 over South Florida [#16] 20

Rutgers 54 over Pittsburgh [#17] 34 [Go Scarlet Knights, aunts alumni and cousin is in the marching band ]

Virginia 24 over Georgia Tech [#18] 17

Indiana 21 over Northwestern [#22] 19

And Notre Dame rebounds off their loss to UNC to beat Washington 33-7

 

[DesertPirate]

Lets see
Notre Dame lost
NMSU is getting an old fashioned butt whuppin
Kansas beat K State severly

Duke 30
Wake Forrest 33

Nebraska 21
Oklahoma 49

Texas 6
Texas Tech 22 at the half!

 

[Guest]

Kansas destroyed Kansas State.

There is a God after all.

 

[DesertPirate]

Kansas destroyed Kansas State.

There is a God after all.

tthhhhbbbbbbbbbbbttt!

 

[DesertPirate]

Texas looses to Texas Tech
Florida State looses to Georgia Tech.
Florida Spanks Georgia.

What a day and night of games!

 

[SCcreampieLvr]

And South Carolina easily trounces over Tennessee
Nice to see them doing well for a change

 

[trysail]

It is a well-known fact that I am not a fan of "professional" college football, viewing it as a large and seminal corrupting influence in our culture. It is, in short, a colossal racket. College football coaches making million-dollar salaries, football athletic "scholarships", athletic recruiting, and the fact that the colleges serve as free farm leagues for the NFL are every bit as sickening and obscene to me as the felonious rip-off artists of Wall Street.

Lest you conclude that I am a completely humorless S.O.B. ( I am a S.O.B., but like to think that I'm, at least, not humorless ), here's a vignette that is representative of the regard with which college football was held at the college I attended.

The "cheerleaders" ( all male, as was the student body of the time ) were always completely drunk ( at least that's what the administration and alumni presumed rather than contemplating the strong likelihood that certain other controlled substances were hard at work ). In preparation for game day, the grassy area in front of the home stands was transformed into a mud bog by copious applications of water. The "cheerleaders" ( a motley crew to begin with ), generally attired in diverse white or denim coveralls and equipped with an assorted collection of douche bags, hot water bottles, megaphones and enema bags suspended from sticks assembled in front of the stands. They inaugurated their performance with a cacaphonous, completely unchoreographed whooping and hollaring closely resembling primal therapy. This was followed by a series of anarchic grunts, general noise-making, mayhem and ad hoc cheers— the most memorable of which was the rhythmic chant:

Kill, maim, destroy!
Rape, pillage and burn!​

As the game progressed, things degenerated. By the end of the third quarter, amply fortified by multiple applications of alcohol ( and god knows what else ), mud-sliding commenced. Like broad jumpers, our stalwart and fearless "cheerleaders" would take running starts from the 10-yard line or thereabouts and plunge headlong into the mud-pit with the apparent object of sliding the furtherest or burrowing the deepest.

Halftimes featured the school band, a forlorn and discordant group equipped with an assortment of kazoos, Jew's harps and harmonicas. It is possible that that they once struck a uniform chord or produced a recognizeable tune but not within my memory.

The football game itself was largely ignored by the spectators. I have always maintained the highest regard for the players. Over the years, that regard has done nothing but grow. Theirs was as pure a spirit as you're likely to find, seeing that there was never any doubt that their participation was entirely ascribable to love of the sport— very clearly, no consideration was given for current or future emolument.

 

[R. Richard]

And South Carolina easily trounces over Tennessee
Nice to see them doing well for a change

I used to live in SC [North Charleston.] They take their football seriously down there and it's good to see them doing well in the tough SEC.

 

[DesertPirate]

Texas 35
Kansas 7

Wake Forrest 17
NC State 21

NMSU 17
Fresno State 24

Nebraska 56
Kansas State 28 Guess the inlaws are happy

 

[Katyusha]

Oregon 55, Arizona 45. 100 points were scored in this game, with 199 rushing yards and 328 passing yards for Arizona, and 206 rushing yards and 298 passing yards for Oregon.

Whatever happened to playing defense?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

So my LSU Tigers were playing at home this week against another team from Alabama, only this time it was Troy from the Sunbelt Conference instead of the #1 ranked, Un of Alabama. And while the Tigers and the Tide were tied at half-time, LSU trailed Troy 24-3. When the score hit 31-3 in the third, the stadium started to empty.

LSU then scored 37 straight points (five TD's with a missed PAT and a FG) in less than 20 minutes to win 40-31. Piece of cake.

Bayou Bill