Week 14 Recap

Someone make sure Ryan Day is still breathing, because I know a 1,000 mile stare when I see one, and he was staring straight into the eyes of the abyss after that game on Saturday. We had quite a weekend+ of football, with Rivalry week giving us a hell of a nightcap to this awesome College Football season. Kinda wild it’s already over… for some that means bowl season, for others it’s onto Basketball season, and for FLLLLLLLLLLorida State that means you can finally rest, as I cannot add any more L’s to your name. What we have left is a great weekend of conference championships/eventual playoffs, the Battle for America in two weeks, and the eventual crowning of a new non-QB Heisman Trophy Winner. Let’s check in to see how the last weekend of the regular season went.

Due to unforeseen events, there will no NFL recap today. Sorry brothers (and sisters)

CFB Week 14

Ryan Day, DEAD at 45

Just kidding guys, he is still very much alive & likely still suffering immensely from arguably the worst loss of the last decade. Well at least since we lost Robin Williams. Anyway, Ryan ‘Can’t win a Big Game’ Day falls to 1-4 against Michigan as the HC of the Ohio State Buckeyes. OSU fans, how we feelin? I’m usually pretty perceptive, but I can’t seem to get a good read on y’all’s opinion of that goofy ass coach, are you ready to fire him? Personally, I think that would be unwise. Now, I know the easy thing to do is to just tell him to kick rocks and look for another guy, but I think that would set you back a bit and lets at least give him a few more weeks to see if he can bounce back (he won’t). Unfortunately for you guys, you are out of the B1G 10 championship game, as you will be replaced by Penn State. I’m sure they’re just elated to be playing Oregon, instead of coasting into a 5/6 seed. For you guys, you should fall somewhere between the 8-12 range, but my opinion is often overlooked by the committee, despite my best efforts to tweet it at them all the time. It’ll be interesting to see where they put Ohio State, as they lost to a BAD Michigan team. Look, I get rivalries are crazy, and that you can throw out the record book, but this was a 6-5 team that was a 4 score underdog, came into your place and only threw for 60 yards, and beat the shit out of you. Will Howard turned into a pumpkin at the first sign of a pass rush, throwing 2 INT’s, but Michigan had 2 INT’s too and one was at the OSU 1 yard line. ‘So how did Michigan win??’, great question – they just out physical-ed the Buckeyes. RB Kaleel Mullings carried the brick 32 times for 116 yards, and was able to pick up at least 4 yards a clip when it mattered. Defensively, they held Ohio St. to 75 rush yards and forced those two turnovers. Not really much else to it, other than the brawl that ensued after the game ended, which brings me to a very important point – If you get your ass kicked at home by your RIVAL, they can and should plant their flag on your field. Don’t like it? Well, how about you bust your ass DURING the game to ensure that doesn’t happen? Instead we had punching, fighting, scratching and (pepper) spraying. Michigan, congrats on winning your Super Bowl. Ohio State, better pick yourselves up, you’ll likely be traveling to play Notre Dame in the 1st round.

Shoutout Message Board geniuses who are already scheming up new HC options. My fav is “Oregon OC”

Clean, Old Fashion H8 (Overtimes)

UGA 44
GT 42 (8OT)

Eight overtimes, yes EIGHT. If you didn’t watch this game, what the hell is the matter with you?? I told you Friday that UGA hates covering spreads, and that in a rivalry game so hateful that the head coach of one team refuses to even speak the name of the other school… yeah we were in for a classic. I’ve seen a lot of discourse on social media about the Refs bailing UGA out a few times during the game, and that’s true, but let’s not act like Georgia Tech didn’t shit down their leg the entire second half. After shutting out the Dawgs the 1st half, something that hadn’t been done in 5 years, they slowly started to let UGA back in the door. Kirby and his staff made some impressive half time adjustments and were able to hold that high powered GT offense to 0 points in the 3rd quarter, and entered the 4th down 17-6. One 11 minute 90 yard drive later, and the Jackets made it 20-6, with just 9 minutes to play. Credit to Carson Beck, who was able to get his team back in this game and lead 3 TD drives in the last 7 minutes of regulation, despite Arian Smith’s best efforts to prevent that. Beck finished with 297 yards and 5 (!) TDs, with no turnovers, while Haynes King played the game of his life on the other side. King was runnin’ and gunnin’ finishing with 303 pass yards, 110 rush yards, and 5 (!!) total TDs, a true herculean effort. Down 27-20 with just over 2 minutes left, King was met in the hole on a 3rd and 2 by former walk-on safety Dan ‘Imafuckyouup’ Jackson and the collision caused a fumble, recovered by UGA on GT’s 30 yard line. The ensuing drive resulted in a 3 yard TD pass from Beck to Lovett as the Dawgs tied it up at 27 with less than a minute to play. Now, to OT. After a hot start from both squads (both scored 2 TDs in less than 4 plays) in the first 2 overtimes, we moved to the 2 point-conversion-off that everyone wanted to see. Most of the remaining 6 overtimes were occupied with the teams walking the length of Dooley field to the other side, as one OT bled into the next, until finally UGA struck first blood, to make it 42-40. After a Kirby Smart timeout, GT answered with a long developing drag route to Rutherford across the middle, onto the next OT. You could tell both teams were physically exhausted, and that the game was coming down to which team had the mental strength to carry on. Well, after 7 horrific play calls, UGA finally realized they had a freshman stud at RB with (kinda) fresh legs, and Nate Frazier burst through the middle to make it 44-42. GT had an opportunity to answer, but the UGA defense made one final stop.

A crazy, exhausting, and unbelievable football game. It really put into perspective how amazing CFB is, a near 3 score underdog goes into your place AT NIGHT and takes you to 8 overtimes. UGA won though, and finished 10-2, with a rematch against Texas awaiting. GT fans hold your head high, the future sure is bright with Brent Key steering the ship.

LaNorris ‘Superman’ Sellers ends Clemson’s season… or does he?

USC 17
CLEM 14

Another BANGER of a game down there in South Carolina. I’m gonna go ahead and cast my vote for 24-25 Heisman, LaNorris Sellers. Some of you may laugh, but I am the same man who had the vision and ball knowledge to place a wager on Ashton Jeanty to win the Heisman alllllll the way back on September 5th (true story, snagged him at 62-1), so go ahead and laugh now. Mr. Sellers was everything for this gameCock offense, throwing for 165 and rushing for 166 and 2 scores. He had an early interception, but channeled his inner Mahoraga and said “I understand it now”, and proceeded to carry the Cocks to a 10-0 4th quarter performance and score the go ahead TD.

Clemson, this was your game to lose man. A pretty stinky offensive performance all game by both teams (until LaNorris understood it) and Clemson still managed to have a 14-7 lead until 7 minutes left in the 4th. Even then, despite giving up the 10 fourth quarter points, they had plenty of time to go down the field and tie the game, hell, they even made it all the way to the USC 18 yard line. Unfortunately, Klubnik threw a bad check down pass to his RB Phil Mafah that ended up being deflected and intercepted, game over. What looked like a dead Tiger, turns out to be the Son of God, because on the 3rd hour, they rose from the dead and have new life, thanks to unsung hero Kyle McCord and Cuse. With that Miami loss, Clemson advances to the ACC Championship and has a chance to win and be in. Despite no ranked wins, and losing to the ONLY ranked teams they played (3) by a combined 46 points, the Tigers have a chance to earn a spot in the Yoffs and a 1st round bye, thanks CFP Committee. For the Cocks, they have to pray to Steve Spurrier (or whomever their God is) and hope the Alabama bias doesn’t take place, as they await the Tuesday rankings to determine their fate.

CFB Quickie: #1 Oregon takes care of rival (?) Washington to get us kicked off, as the Ducks remain perfect with the 49-21 rout. #3 Texas goes to College Station and gives them the business for 60 straight minutes, shutting the TAMU offense out and winning despite two Ewers redzone turnovers. They look to stay hot and avenge their only loss in Atlanta this weekend vs the Dawgs. Speaking of dominating performances, the #4 ranked Penn State Titty Lions beat the hell out of Maryland 44-7. They now have to face the Oregon Ducks in the B1G 10 championship game so we will see how THAT goes for them. Notre Dame plays a close one in So Cal but has two back-to-back pick 6’s to clinch a 11-1 regular season and likely #6 seed. Another team seeking a 11-1 regular season was the #6 Miami Hurricanes, who (as I predicted) fell to the Syracuse Orange 42-38. They are now in what I so eloquently refer to as the “Bone Zone” which is the few spots likely to be left out of the CFP. The next two teams beat up on some divisional rivals and secured their playoff spots, as #9 SMU and #10 Indiana move to 11-1 with wins over California and Purdue. My #11 Boise State Broncos won on Friday to also move to 11-1 with a 34-18 and another 230 yard performance from Ashton Jeanty. #13 Alabama wins a pretty uneventful Iron Bowl 28-14, #14 Ole Miss wins the Egg Bowl with a similar score, 26-14. In the land of the PAC-12, top seeded #16 Arizona State smokes in state rival Arizona 49-7 to punch its ticket to the conference championship game where they will face #18 Iowa State, who held off a late Kansas State comeback to win 29-21. Other notable games included #22 UNLV clapping Nevada, earning a rematch with Boise State in the MW Conference Championship game, #23 Illinois moving to 9-3 with a win over Northwestern, and #25 Colorado beating the BRAKES off of Oklahoma State 52-0, helping pad Travis Hunters stats justttt enough to probably earn him the Heisman.