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Ferringo School Report: Joe Pa Takes A Tumble

Fairly nondescript weekend in school soccer, eh? Thursday doesn’t count in direction of the weekend, lads. Yeah, the Big East might have been decided, the Big {Two} had minor scares, and some old guy obtained mugged on the Penn State sideline. Oh, wait. That was Joe Pa. My bad. But I’ll say that had to be essentially the most unintentionally funny moment involving a senior citizen and a collision since Bob Dole lost his battle with gravity in California in 1996.

Granted, it was nice to see a football participant in Tennessee not named “Pac Man” getting arrested for a bar struggle, and it’s at all times good when Butch Davis is out of the blue not the man who spent 4 years sucking his thumb in the fetal position in Cleveland, however Week 10 nonetheless appeared prefer it was missing something. And it wasn’t Jean-Luc Picard.

I don’t know. Whenever you discover it, let me know. In the meantime, listed here are a few leftover thoughts from the World of School Football:

– Memo to Bob Ryan: Georgia isn’t the one team within the South that performs “between the hedges”. Auburn comes to mind. The entire thought of his story was to collect perception into why those Simple Southerners love college football. Instead, he made himself appear like and asshole. Good show.

– Florida managed to carry off a sport Vanderbilt membership, however they lost DT Marcus Thomas for the remainder of the year. Thomas, who was just lately spotted with Puff The Magic Dragon, is believed to have failed a drug test. What is this world coming to when college kids are doing drugs?

– Memo to Chase Daniels: There are cameras on you. Numerous them. In truth, ESPN is simply barely much less intrusive than the National Security Company and a proctologist. For these of you that don’t know, the Missouri quarterback was caught on the Worldwide Leader picking his nose and consuming it. Yup. It’s as unhealthy as it sounds.

– Nice weekend for the Bluegrass State. First, Louisville downed West Virginia in an excellent and exciting recreation on Thursday. Next, Kentucky stunned staggering Georgia on Saturday. Good occasions, and I’m sure plenty of moonshine was imbibed throughout the ordeal.

Nevertheless, I’m nonetheless unsure that the best staff won that WVU-Louisville game. I’m not taking something away from the Cards. They’re an excellent team. Really top-notch. However they were enjoying at residence, befitted from six fumbles (three recovered), and managed each a special teams and defensive touchdown. That stuff is a bit fluky to me.

I still hold to the claim that Louisville is not going to go undefeated. I said it last week, and I’ll say it again.

– It’s a good thing LSU won that sport because they got screwed – AGAIN – by the officials. That ball CLEARLY touched a Tennessee blocker within the second quarter regardless that replay upheld the ruling as a touchback. As an alternative of being up 14-0 and on the way to a blowout, they made me sweat out a stirring fourth-quarter comeback.

Oh, and DT Glenn Dorsey is a friggin’ man-imal.

- Bizarre, Notre Dame didn’t cover again.

And if Brady Quinn wins the Heisman, I’ll puke. I know that no one wants to win the award this 12 months, however there’s no manner he gets it over Mike Hart. And yes, I do know Troy Smith will win it, however my vote goes to Hart. That man is carrying the Wolverines.

– Do you suppose Iowa State missed Stevie Hicks? Note to self: at all times wager towards a team that simply lost its senior leader and greatest offensive player.

– How a few spherical of applause for Buffalo. The Bulls shook off the fact that they’re in Upstate New York in November, and that 41-0 drubbing at B.C., to hammer visiting Kent State 41-14 as 16-level dogs. It should look like eternally in the past that the Golden Flashes were the Cinderella crew atop the MAC.

– Kudos to the Houston defense. All of the focus heading into their showdown with Tulsa was on the Hurricane secondary towards Kevin Kolb. However it was the Cougars protection that basically made the difference by holding Tulsa to a mere 10 points.

Along those self same strains, you needed to be impressed by San Jose State shutting out New Mexico State in the second half on Saturday. Say what you will about how unhealthy the Aggies are, they were taking part in at dwelling and had been completely locked down by a Spartans protection on a mission.

– A lot for a letdown from Oregon State. Good go. They’ve been hopped up on adrenaline, amphetamines and anger for 2 weeks now and absolutely destroyed the totally befuddled Arizona State squad. The Beavers are abruptly No. 24 within the BCS rankings after their fourth straight win.

And poor Stanford. Can you think about what it should’ve been like at those practices last week? It must have felt one thing like Nagasaki on Aug. 10, right after these U.S. warning leaflets rained down over them and one day before The Rapture rained down over them.

– My hated rival, Bob Stoops, had one other great weekend. No, the Sooners didn’t cover. However they did score their second straight impressive Large 10 highway win by topping Texas A&M. Stoops confirmed numerous stones going for it on fourth-and-1, from his personal 29-yard line, with less than {two} minutes to go in a one-point game. Perhaps it’s luck. Or possibly he’s that good. I’ll allow you to decide.

– These are some huge stones that Stoops confirmed, but how about Houston’s Nutts? The Arkansas skipper additionally made a bold maneuver when he yanked golden boy Mitch Mustain after one move – ONE PASS – against South Carolina. Sure, that cross was intercepted. However now Nutt has opened the Pandora’s Box of a quarterback controversy. Sophomore Casey Dick played well, and has been named the starter, but it is a nice line that Nutt is walking. It’s a raffle – and you already know we respect that around here.

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