I haven't updated in a while so I figured why not make a college football post? I mean, if I got to pick any job ever writing about sports would be near the top, and I don't ever do anything anyway, so might as well, right? Anyways I guess I just have some observations from the weekend that was in college football.
First, Ole Miss looked bad. I was getting pretty geared up for the game after driving all night (and taking the long way since we weren't aware I-20 was opened back up from the Atlanta floods) and I felt like if we would 1. play great defense and 2. not turn the ball over we'd win the game fairly easily. We succeeded with #1, not so much with #2. The offense didn't do anything right, really. OL play was bad, QB play was bad, playcalling was bad, and Dexter McCluster didn't hardly touch the ball until the 4th quarter. That boy needs lots and lots of touches. If Darren Sproles can be an every down back in the NFL, Dexter can be an every down back in the SEC. Yeah, he'll take some hits, but right now he's our only offense. None of that is anything people didn't already know, but what made me mad was the idiot State, Southern, LSU, and other SEC fans in general (as well as the rest of the sports media world) spewing all the crap about the most overrated #4 team ever. Was Ole Miss ever the 4th best team in the country? Nope. I thought Ole Miss realistically should have been where we are now, and that's in the #18-#21 range. The ridiculous thing is not one word has been mentioned about how overrated Cal, Penn State, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, or USC were to start the season. I mean, shoot, for as bad as the aforementioned morons (read: State fans, Southern fans, LSU fans, etc.) made that game out to sound, Ole Miss was never out of the game and had a chance to win right down to the very last play. I would have loved to have seen Penn State's kicker attempt a 12 point field goal, or Cal's Jahvid Best score a 33 point touchdown. Did the Ole Miss loss suck? Yes. But to act like it was this horrible, gut-wrenching loss that somehow set the program back 50 years and ended the season and somehow made us the most overrated team ever, well, that's just stupid. Yeah, we were bad, no, there's no excuse, but that happens. Not as annually as USC's losses to bad PAC-10 teams, but it happens. This week in Nashville makes me nervous because we're like 2-3 the last 5 times we've played Vanderbilt. They have a bad offense. So do we.
Second, I literally laughed out loud at every single status update that mentioned how proud people were of their precious Bulldogs or Golden Eagles. Hey, guess what, y'all looked bad too, and in more ways than one. State, LSU tried every chance they had to give you the game and you just wouldn't take it. Plus, your offensive guru of a head coach couldn't score with 4 inches to go. Dan Mullen is every bit as over his head as Ed Orgeron was as a head coach. Their secondary sucks, the offensive line is pitiful, and they don't have a quarterback. I don't follow State's recruiting that closely, but State's always had trouble getting good quarterbacks. Not to mention your uniforms look like something out of C-USA. Which brings me to Southern. Those uniforms are awful. But, hey, when you are screaming for attention the way Larry Fedora is every time he gets on a microphone, you have to do something that stands out. Otherwise you're just another non-BCS team that a crappy Big XII North team beat. Congrats.
Third, the Big 10(+1) is the worst BCS conference. Worse than the Big East. What do you get when you take Florida's offense and put a bunch of slow white boys from the Midwest in there where Tim Tebow and Chris Rainey are supposed to go? Michigan (who shouldn't be ranked). Terrelle Pryor is a pitiful passer. Penn State has beaten 3 nobodies and lost to an average team (sound familiar?). Big 10(+1) football is incredibly painful to watch, yet somehow they have enough clout to throw their weight around to still be a BCS conference. How that happens, I'll never know. But here's to hoping Iowa wins the league and gets the chance to play with the big boys. That will be fun to watch.
Fourth, Notre Dame sucks too. How they began the season ranked in the top 25 is beyond me, Jimmy Clausen is bad and they don't/can't play defense. Plus Charlie Weis still pisses me off.
Fifth, as far as the SEC goes, it's looking like it'll be Alabama/Florida again in the SEC championship game. Alabama has a great defense but I still think their offense is suspect. If Saban had the same confidence in his team this year as he did last year, he wouldn't be getting fancy with the Wildcat or the pistol in his offense. They're gonna play a good team eventually.
Whatever. Those were just some thoughts. Regardless of how "proud" fans at other Mississippi schools are of losing, hopefully next week the entire state of Mississippi won't be quite as embarrassing.
