Wonder who will be fired first: Butch Jones or Mike Riley? Apparently Ohio State has scored a TD on their first 8 drives. While my money is on Riley, it seems doubtful Jones gets to coach against Alabama.
AP Top 25 1. Alabama(61) 2. Penn State 3. Georgia 4. TCU 5. Wisconsin 6. Ohio State 7. Clemson 8. Miami 9. Oklahoma 10. Oklahoma State 11. USC 12. Washington 13. Notre Dame 14. Virginia Tech 15. Washington State 16. South Florida 17. NC State 18. Michigan State 19. Michigan 20. UCF 21. Auburn 22. Stanford 23. West Virginia 24. LSU 25. Memphis
The weeks without a ton of marquee games are typically the weirdest weeks, and that was the case this week for sure. I didn't see a single second of the Clemson/Syracuse game, but in looking at highlights and the box score, it really looks like the only thing of note was the Kelly Bryant injury. Maybe there was more to it than that, but it's not as if Cuse forced a bunch of turnovers, which is often how these types of upsets occur. And it wasn't the type of upset that you would expect Syracuse to pull, either. They play that "basketball on grass" style, but with a 27-24 final score, it's not as if they got Clemson into a track meet in which the Tigers were prepared to compete. Cal has been surprisingly competent this season, a season that I thought was going to be very much a rebuilding year for them, but I wouldn't have guessed they'd hold a WSU offense to three points. The Arizona State win over Washington might be one of those wins that proves to be a double-edged sword for their fans. Many of them want Todd Graham gone, and things were very much headed in that direction after a 1-2 start (including a closer-than-was-comfortable win over NMSU), but wins in league play over Oregon and Washington have opened the door for him earning another year. They have games they should win against Oregon State and Colorado ahead, plus toss-ups with UCLA and Utah. A 7-5 record looks pretty likely and 8-4 isn't completely out of the question. That probably won't guarantee his return, but it sure makes the decision a lot tougher than if ASU had gone 5-7. LSU, two weeks after everyone around that program freaked out about firing Coach O, beating Auburn, a team many were finally starting to accept might actually be pretty good, is pretty much the most "SEC in 2017" result ever. Can we just fast-forward to the Alabama/Georgia championship game? There were also just a lot of really close quality games. Navy/Memphis, Miami/GT, Indiana/Michigan, Michigan St./Minnesota, USC/Utah, and OU/Texas were all nail-biters to different degrees.
Nebraska just hired Washington State AD Bill Moos, and I really love the idea of Moos firing Mike Riley and bringing Mike Leach to Lincoln. Not for football reasons, mind you, although I do enjoy the Air Raid and its derivatives, but more just for all of the inevitable hand-wringing from the Nebraska blue hairs about the program forsaking its roots to play an inferior form of football.
He's not lying, he's always wanted to be in Baton Rouge. He's pure coonass. I can't help but root for him.
Right! Some little kid who "goes hard" with fam? (am I doing this stupid douche **** right?) may still grow up to be the 12TH swagcopter and worship a dog.
