Category: College Football (Page 258 of 296)

Last year, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights were the feel-good story of the college football season. This year, not so much, but they did pull off one of the better upsets of the season when they defeated #2 South Florida 30-27 Thursday night.

It happens every season. One or two Big East teams sneak up the polls, and then suffers a humiliating upset and order is restored in college football land (well, sort of). Last year, Louisville upset #3 West Virginia. Then Rutgers topped #3 Louisville. Then unranked Cincinnati beat #7 Rutgers. All of these Big East schools have similar talent levels and all it takes sometimes is a trick play, a blocked kick and one big-time playmaker (i.e. Ray Rice, who by the way, I can’t wait to see play on Sundays).

Regardless, South Florida had a hell of a run. It’s quite remarkable that a team that wasn’t even ranked in the preseason polls took only seven weeks to climb into the #2 spot. The Bulls have a hell of a team and true gamer in QB Matt Grothe. He does everything possible to win and leaves it on the field every week. It was a long shot that USF would compete for a national title all season, but it was a fun ride while it lasted.

Dayn Perry of FOXSports.com recently ranked the 10 worst college football mascots for his blog, “$8 Beers”. It’s worth checking out just to see some of the ridiculous ideas schools had for mascots, and Dayn provides some pretty funny commentary.

The best commentary has to follow #2 Colonel Reb, the mascot for Ole’ Miss. Following a picture of “Reb” holding an Ole’ Miss flag with confederate colors, Dayn writes:

This one actually hasn’t been in sanctioned use since 2003, but it’s so bad that it deserves fresh ridicule. Yeah, it doesn’t exactly chill the bones to see a racist dotard who lost the only war he ever fought in staring back at you. Besides, extra wuss points for having fey little frat boys rally to your defense.

Personally I think that Stanford tree is the worst freaking mascot. Wow, a tree with huge red lips – scary. Although hey, I guess it scared at least one opponent this year, right USC?

In keeping with the previous spoof on Notre Dame’s poor season, here is a parody of a NBC/Notre Dame promo from the last episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Pretty hilarious stuff. Weird seeing all those missed plays.

I always thought it was strange that NBC would marry a single college team like that. Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket…

If you hate Notre Dame, enjoy.

If you love Notre Dame, I’m sorry:

The bit at the end about the Irish not finishing in the top 25 at the end of the year, but being ranked third in the following preseason poll was (real men of) genius.

It’s been the year of the upset in college football, and the rankings have reflected that. Each week, a new group of teams charge up the rankings as a host of others plummet thanks to a crippling loss. In my latest column for Bullz-Eye.com, I note that a change is needed to end this game of musical chairs.