Category: College Football (Page 261 of 296)

It’s one thing to lose to a rival on their home turf – it’s quite another to get shutout, shellacked and downright embarrassed much like Notre Dame was in a 38-0 defeat at Michigan Saturday.

“My confidence isn’t shaken,” Weis said. “But as an organization, we haven’t done a very good job.”

No, you’ve done an absolute abysmal job Charlie. A bad job would be starting off a season 0-3, but showing a fight. An absolute abysmal job is going 0-3 and losing by a combined score of 102-13. An absolute piss poor job is getting shutout by one of the worst defenses in the nation.

The one thing I’ll credit Weis for, however, is the way he always takes responsibility. As a good coach does, he never points fingers and never puts it on the kids. Also, I realize Weis is working with a freshman quarterback and a very young team. However, these are the players he recruited and he’s in his third year. Ty Willingham was fired after three years and he was the one who recruited the players Weis took to the slaughterhouse last year. Is Notre Dame going to hold Weis under the same standards as they did Willingham? Doubtful.

Although hey, at least they didn’t lose to Appalachian State at home, so Weis has that going for him I guess.

It didn’t fail last year and it won’t this year – the Big East teams will fall again. People cried last year that West Virginia, Louisville and Rutgers were ranked too high. Well what happened? Louisville knocked off West Virginia, Rutgers upset Louisville and Cincinnati beat Rutgers. End of national championship discussion.

Without failure, the first Big East team fell Saturday, as the #9 Cardinals were upset in a thrilling 40-34 battle in Kentucky. Brian Brohm (28 of 43 for 366, 1 TD) was fantastic once again, but unfortunately the future No. 1 pick won’t be playing for a national title this year.

And as much as I love to watch Ray Rice, Steve Slaton and Pat White play, West Virginia and Rutgers won’t be playing for a NC either. The theory that Big East teams will knock each other off is just too sound.

I know I wrote it in the headline, but I need to write it one more time in drawn out script: DeSean…Jackson…is…sick.

As if this last week wasn’t spectacular enough:

…Jackson had 141 all-purpose yards in a 34-28 win over Colorado State Saturday. Yeah I know, Cal is probably a little overrated right now and obviously it’s way too early for this talk, but I just want to see what Jackson looks like striking a Heisman pose. You know, as possibly a taste of more to come.

This is not a ploy people – I just earned an extra $25 in only three hours! You need to take advantage of this once in a lifetime, guaranteed moneymaking system, now, now, NOW!!!

All you have to do is bet (legally!) against the 2007 University of Michigan Wolverines when they’re playing any team that doesn’t run a conventional offense. The moneymaking system works best when UM is trying to defend a mobile quarterback or a program that runs a spread offense, but really, any scheme that doesn’t just run right at their defense will do just fine. I’m kidding of course…kind of…

On a more serious note, the word “overrated” doesn’t do enough justice to this Michigan team. Those voters who ranked them fifth in the nation before the season, need to be unemployed by Monday after Oregon spanked UM 39-7 at the Big House Saturday.

And how good did Oregon look? I know they were going against a D-III defense, but the Pac-10 better not sleep on Dennis Dixon and the rest of the Ducks, who actually looked great on D.