Championship Monday - The B(C)S - What a Week!

What Happened over the Weekend?

LMU - LOST to the Piggies.....Great game that finished in OT on Friday, in case you missed it....What's really funny is that the Razor Backs Coach, Houston Nutt, after beating the #1 team, is probably going to get canned...Go figure the SEC.

BORDER WAR - Mizzou beats Kansas. And they looked good doing it. If they can slip past the Laters, they rightly deserve a shot in the national title game...More on that in a minute..

Hokies defeat Virginia - Set up the ACC showdown with a rematch against Boston College and one time Heismann front runner Matt Ryan. Can they pull off the rematch?

IRON BOWL - Auburn Kitties over Crimson Satan. Figure the love for Satan, if not gone completely, is going fast...You can't lose to Lousiana-Monroe and your arch rival after nearly beating LSU and still get love...I don't think Mike Shula ever lost to a SWC team in his tenure...

GATORLAND - Defeated "weak" in state rival FSU to keep their 9-3 record in tact...

CREMESICLES - needed 4 OT's in one of the best games over the weekend to beat Kentucky and win their way into the title game against LMU....

cornsuckers...Man, what happened to Nebraska football? They let Colorado hang 41 points on them in the 1st half and over 60 total points for the game? No wonder Callahan got canned...

DOMERS (Jeez I hate these guys)- Won their "Bowl Game" against the Cardinal after some really weak play calling by Jim Harbaugh...But 3-9 is still a nice record...I will be the first to predict that The Weasel is not .500 next year and will get the Ax by Turkey Day...Notre Dame faithfull just won't be able to take anymore.


The B(C)S Mess (and how it stands today):
The reason the (C) is in parentheses is that if you take it out, as Lou Holtz says, you have the perfect Initials BS Standings

1. Mizzou (Big 12)
2. West Virginia (Big East)
3. Ohio State (Big Ten)
4. Georgia (SEC)
5. Kansas (Big 12)
6. Virginia Tech (ACC)
7. LSU (SEC)
8. USC (Pac 10)
9. Oklahoma (Big 12)
10. Florida (SEC)
11. Boston College (ACC)
12. Hawaii (WAC)


Now, to clarify for all the SEC people out there...It looks like right now the "dominant" conference is the Big 12 with 3 teams in the top 12. That Florida nod at 3 losses is a gift, by the way. Be glad you have a QB that has 20 rushing and 26 passing TD's this season and everyone wants to see him play on New Year's Day. However, that shouldn't change the fact that the Big 12 is probably the conference that gets screwed this year - along with the SEC. But that's a good thing - I will explain in a minute...Oregon finished themselves off with the help of UCLA beating them 16-0...I feel bad for that team. They are great with Dixson and they are nothing without him...

So, what happens now, MR. MMQ? WVU, for all intents and purposes, is an automatic. They are playing about as well as they have played all year and only have to get past a weak Pittsburgh team in the Backyard Brawl on Saturday. So, figure they are in. And, I hate to say it, but I think it's going to be tough for Mizzou to be up again in a week to play the Okie Dokie Laters...and I think the Laters will be looking for respect in San Antonio...I like Bob Stoops in a one game showdown... I don't know what the spread is, but Mizzou will probably be favored and they will find themselves in very unfamiliar territory playing for the title. That means, if the Laters pull of the not so big upset - they already beat this team once - that the OSU (s)Luckeyes will find themselves in the title game against WVU. Which means that everyone in the Big 10 moves up a notch in the Bowls and Michigan becomes a lock for a New Year's day game...and if it had not been for that loss to (ARRGGGGHHH!) App State, maybe even the Rose Bowl...

Yep - I can always get it back to how it all affects the Michigan Wolverines, sports fans....

And Fans, this is WHAT WE WANT THIS YEAR. I figure if there is any time that you have 3 Big 12 teams in the top 10, three SEC teams in the top 10 and neither one of them makes the Title Game, and two of the "weakest" conferences slide teams into the National Title Game and the also get an at large bid (Illinois) for all the dough.... well, you can bet that there will be plenty of screaming from 24 teams (maybe 34 if you throw the Pac 10 in there) in the NCAA that will want either an 8 or a 12 team playoff...And deservedly so. I can't look at one team in the top 12 (with the exception of Hawaii) that didn't play their butts off this year and they should somehow get a shot to win it all if they can put 3 or 4 games together at the end of the season to make a run to the Championship...But we don't have a play off, so it will be two conferecnes that don't have multiple teams in the top 12, much less the top 25, that will get to play for all the marbles...does that make sense in this crazy college football world? This year...Anything makes sense...

Coaching Carousel

I would say hot seat, but the seat is always hot when your coach...

Callahan - (Cornsuckers)GONE
Franchione - (Texas A&M) Gone
Orgeron - (Ole Miss) Gone
Carr - Retired

Hot Rumors (or fact):

Bo Pelini - Interviewed Sunday by Osborn
Mike Sherman, Houston Texans Offensive Coordinator- Texas A&M
Kirk Ferentz - Daily Iowan is reporting that Kirk is going to Michigan to rejoin Mary Sue Coleman.. Vegas has Kirk 2nd in the odds department at 9-2 and
Les Miles at 2-1 for the Michigan Job...But that keeps slipping with each loss...

Games of the Week

LSU and the Cremesicles - Right to play for the Citrus bowl when Georgia gets the SEC At Large Berth...

BC and the Hokies - Rematch on a neutral field...can the Hokies take advantage?

Mizzou and the Laters - The game that decides EVERYTHING....


MMQ