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Dubious Rivalries of the Week
SMU @ TCU, Ft Worth, TX
Rice @ Houston, Houston, TX
It’s the dregs of the old SWC, metro-rivalry week. These four schools got left behind when the SWC merged with the Big 8 to form the Big 12. Baylor, on the other hand, got to go along. Why? Because Ann Richards is a Baylor alumnus. Hey look, it’s something approaching politics in the football preview. Let’s put a stop to that.
And I am not sure how Rice gets mentioned yet again.
Tailgate of the Week
I couldn’t find an interesting one this week. I have a great one waiting for a team to be at home, but could find nothing to compare. If anyone wants to make suggestions, this is the hardest section to fill in.
So, like many games this week, I am cancelling due to Irma.
Game of the Century of the Week
LSU @ Mississippi St, Starkville, MS
LSU leads this series 73-34-3. And 23-2 in the last 25. Why I am using this game? So I can link to this, the greatest sporting moment in Starkville history. That video doesn’t do justice to just how close MSU came to winning that game 4-3. I could have waited until Auburn-MSU week, but I think they are playing at Auburn this year, plus by the time that occurs, no one will care about either of those teams. In addition, the day of this post is the anniversary of the game.
Starkville is well named. No one wants to go there. Ever. I point to two pieces of evidence to prove the point. Between 1923 and 1982, LSU never played in Starkville. Between 1934 and 1957 they only played in Baton Rouge. When Mississippi St was able to actually get a home game vs LSU, they played it in Jackson.
The second piece of evidence? Despite being in the SEC from its founding until 1966, Georgia Tech never played a conference game vs Mississippi St. GT refused to play in Starkville, and MSU wouldn’t come to Atlanta without a return game.
Top 25
Another week of college football!
1. UCLA (2-0) 4.682 +5
2. South Carolina (2-0) 4.641
3. LSU (2-0) 4.615 -2
4. Duke (2-0) 4.586
5. Utah (2-0) 4.567 +7
6. Mississippi St (2-0) 4.553 -3
7. California (2-0) 4.498 +11
8. Michigan (2-0) 4.470 +5
9. Clemson (2-0) 4.470 -2
10. Georgia (2-0) 4.463 -1
11. Southern Cal (2-0) 4.450 NR
12. Texas Tech (1-0) 4.447 NR
13. Iowa (2-0) 4.446 +6
14. Mississippi (2-0) 4.424 -6
15. Alabama (2-0) 4.418 -4
16. Oregon (2-0) 4.404 +7
17. Maryland (2-0) 4.392 +7
18. Illinois (2-0) 4.347 +2
19. Virginia Tech (2-0) 4.346 NR
20. Tennessee (2-0) 4.343 +2
21. Vanderbilt (2-0) 4.336 NR
22. Washington St (2-0) 4.329 NR
23. Michigan St (2-0) 4.298 -2
24. Georgia Tech (1-1) 4.294 NR
25. Oklahoma St (2-0) 4.291 NR
Falling out: Auburn, Notre Dame, Arizona St, Nebraska, Boston College, Pitt, Syracuse.
*falls over laughing*
/Illinois alum
You think that’s funny, Utah is ranked 5. They will screw it up. They always choke miss season.
Semi-related trivia: friend of mine teaches at Mississippi State. They’re from the northeast so not their first choice but it was tenure track and they had a decent amount of money for research. He’s traveled to various overseas countries on their dime and, with what they pay him compared to the cost of living and real estate, he’ll probably retire when he’s 60 (which is young for an academic to retire being financially secure).
Just say no to college foozball.
Sounds good. We’ll stick with college football!
For the longest time, it was the only professional sports that Oklahoma had.
But, there’s real grownup foozball, with defenses and stuff!
Stacked With Cheaters
+1 Death Sentence
And of course, it had to be SMU…
/United Methodist
SMU’s football program is still sad to this day. I went to a couple games while in school there, and it was dwarfed by the atmosphere at some of the local high school stadiums.
Slow cooker beef short ribs
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-3-4 lbs of bone-in beef short ribs – place in the bottom of slow cooker
-3 large tomatoes, quartered
-20-30 large fresh basil leaves, coarsely chopped
-half dozen to a dozen coarsely chopped garlic cloves
-2 medium shallots or half a sweet yellow onion, diced
-can of fire roasted tomato paste (optional)
-few dashes of cracked red pepper (optional)
-salt and pepper to taste
-small sprig of fresh oregano
-cover the ribs in a combo of drinkable red wine and chicken stock.
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Set to slow cook for 6-8hours and forget.
Rib bones pull out of the meat easily; remove them. Coarsely break up the meat. Serve over white rice, gnocci, make a panino with it, eat plain, or do whatever you want with it.
pretend that is the tailgate section.
You’re welcome. This takes 5 minutes to put together.
PANINO!!!!!!!!!
I LIKE TURTLES
Turtle soup is yummy.
mmm , thank you! I’ll try it next week.
Where the hell you getting 20 – 30 basil leaves?
Probably a few basil plants in the garden or windowsill container. Basil massacre.
My preferred market sells bunches for cheap. American south in the summer, Colombian in winter.
Oh, that’s cool. Basil-on-demand from the garden is great, but you need to plan ahead for bulk.
I bought a live basil plant from my local grocery for like $5
My great idea for tailgate isnt usable until week 7.
That pic was entirely to piss sloopy off. I just thought of alt text for it: I claim this stadium in the name of Spain!
Bravo.
You motherfucker.
Seriously though, why did he apologize later for doing what he did after the game? Dude had played his ass off, destroyed the (overrated) #2 team in the country and set his team up to have a good chance at the playoff. He should have been that pumped up. That’s what college sports are about.
I don’t get the whole “they sang their song on our field to embarrass us” brigade fron Oklahoma though. They always sing “Carmen, Ohio” in front of the band and their fans at the end of a game, win or lose. They’ve done it since Tressell was there. I’m sure Mayfield knew this, but some of their fans don’t.
Either way, they earned the right to show us up after the game. They’d been doing it for 3 hours already. No reason to stop at the final whistle.
Because he is a gen z pussy?
What does that make JT Barrett then?
Overrated since he first stepped on the field? (I’ve never liked him as a qb)
My game this week is North Carolina @ Old Dominion. That’s right, UNC is travelling to Old Dominion. And it is “televised” on the Stadium network.
No, that’s not a euphemism for “you can buy a ticket and watch it at the stadium”, although that was my first thought when I saw the name. It is a website (watchstadium.com), an app, and has games picked up on local affiliates, usually on the alternate channels, like 36.3 – which is actually a thing if you don’t have cable. At least I hear it is. I have cable, so I wouldn’t know.
Anyway, after carrying a lead into the 4th quarter for two weeks in a row and subsequently allowing enough offense for an entire game in the final 15 minutes, the Tar Heels are looking for their first win against a very good (at their level) team that they should beat by at least 28 points. That being said, if Vegas has a line for this game, they are idiots. This team is so inconsistent that nobody in their right mind should commit actual coin on the outcome of their games.
So for the real question… what to have for tailgating? Well, having had my power off for about 48 hours, I have a lot of frozen meat that kind-sorta maybe got a little bit thawed around the edges, maybe. So we are eating it all up. Already had the brats and Italian sausages, chicken thighs were tonight. It looks like Tilapia is on tap for game time. Maybe I’ll cut those up into nuggets so they look like tailgate food.
Oh, and a metric ton of beer that sat around at 90 degrees for a week. That’s gonna be so tasty …. And it is all a bunch of summer shandies that my wife bought last month, for whatever reason. I’m not a fan of the shandy. But I’ll be drinking it. Because I paid for it, that’s why.
So come on over to my house for the game. Between two rather not good teams. Probably on a laptop with a screen that got messed up travelling (4 bright lines down the middle). And maybe slightly refrozen fish. With skunky beer. If you can find the house behind the 12 foot high wall of tree bits along the curb waiting for pickup. Oh… and we’ll be watching the kids too. Because the wives decided to have a ladies weekend. So at least 7 elementary school kids running around.
Say what you want about me, but I seriously know how to tailgate.
OT, But this is how Lachowsky get prepared for the winter.
http://imgur.com/fI4qTPy
Also, since this is a college football thread, I’m done with BERT. I have been very patient with him, but I’m done. I’ll start paying attention again when he is gone.
How much wood do you usually end up needing?
I burn between 9 amd 12 ricks a year, depending on the severity of the winter.
I bought and installed a Hardy heater 4 years ago to heat my house with. I love it.
http://imgur.com/ppIxZLo
So 3-4 cords? How cold does it get there? And the stove sits outside? Seems like you’d lose a lot of heat with that setup.
Texas is traveling to USC. They are billing it as a rematch of that game (and season) Reggie Bush fucked up. In reality it will probably just be a beat-down.
the ads are a little over the top.
Our local sportstalk guys must use tarran’s poll. To hear them talk you would think the Cocks are on the verge of a national title while the Tigers are tumbling into mediocrity.
I meant robc, my wife was talking at me while I was typing.
My system has zero predictive value.
What the hell are they putting in the Phillies water cooler? Rhys Hoskins hit his 18th homer tonite in only his 34th game in the Show. Hope he doesn’t blow out his hammy tripping down the dugout steps.
UCLA…
+ BMFGTRWXYZ……..(put quotes around all that and you have something close to part of my roadside sobriety test from a pull over in 1984)
how was the ride to the station?
He got pissed off when I pointed out he rolled a stop sign. Cops gots no sense of humor.
#1 #1!!!
just let us have this for now. 🙂
“Huzzah! We’re not the worst team in the league anymore! Suck it, San Francisco!”
Because Ann Richards is a Baylor alumnus.
Technically, she was an alumna.
(OK, you can insert whatever joke you want now.)
I don’t remember. Do nouns have gender in latin?
Yes, 3.
matre, pater. Those don’t sound like nouns that are gender subjugated. Forgive me, my latin is limited to years of catholic schooling.
All nouns are gender specific. I really have no idea how they figure this shit out because my knowledge of language is not deep enough. I can just typically recognize if it’s feminina or masculino by the vowel it ends with, A or O.
Don’t forget neuter nouns.
You mean like English ‘It’?
in nomini Patris et filii.
That’s father amd son in latin. The conjugation is different than Pater.
Correct. Pater is a 3rd declension noun and filius is a 2nd declension noun. Both are masculine gender nouns.
That’s over my redneck head. Thanks HM.
Does anyone actually speak Latin today, or just the Romance languages?
Every fucking thing in Latin is about gender.
When I masturbate my penis, I like to view pornographic material. Watching others perform sexual intercourse on each other, especially if they are attractive, really gets my libido in gear. Factor in that I work at Arby’s three nights a week and have a wife and a kid to support, the price of free is exactly what I can afford. My wife will tell you the reason I got fired from the university and now prep $5 beef and cheddars fifteen hours a week is because I spent all my time surfing the dark web for pornography. But pay her no mind; she’s off her rocker.
“When I masturbate my penis”
I never heard it exactly like that before. Where exactly did that mysteriously come from?
He’s got his verb and noun all lined up like it went through translation software.
“HMware”
Dudes, I got real foozball, boobies, and beastmode all in one link!
Beastmode and Boobies
Welp, time to look up this “Britt Johnson” and masturbate my penis again.
*furiously researching at this very moment*
College ball? Dude, NFL is playing!
True story I’ve told before:
Oklahoma is split between north and south, OSU and OU, red and orange, or something.
I worked briefly at a Dollar General in red country, around Halloween. Teenage girl is begging dad to buy Halloween decorations. The man replies, and this is pretty close to an quote “You know how I feel about orange, I won’t have it in my house!”
Sounds about right. My dad went to OK State (mom went too for a while but didn’t finish), and then Bro went (as did his wife). Then my sister and I started at OU (University of OK)–she had already done 2 years at a closer, more affordable college, and I was a freshman. The OU stint lasted 1 year for me, and then I transferred to OkState. I was an engineering major, and I found some of OU’s wannabe liberal stuff too much to take. I graduated OkState (the real OSU). My sister graduated from OU with an English teaching degree.
My brother and his wife have two kids, both of whom went/go to OU. My sister’s daughter goes to OU, and I assume her son will also. It’s kind of sad to see the family tide turn. But I am proud of the fact that the only OkState grads of the family are freedom lovers/libertarian thinkers.
Go Pokes!
Also, Coach Gundy’s mullet is epic.
“My sister graduated from OU with an English teaching degree.”
Oh, what degree program did she wash out of before she ended up there?
Oklahomans love football but have no NFL team. So college is it, and is played at a high level.
When painters come to paint your house number on the curb next to your driveway, they ask if you want OU or OSU. (seriously, this is a thing.)
In Fall, OSU or OU flags are flown every bit as solemnly as the US flag.
I love being in Oklahoma during the annual Bedlam game between OU and OkState.
Lol. Yeah, I hated the weather/climate, but the people were great. The whole OU/OSU rivalry is epic.
Yeah, sometimes I think about moving back to Oklahoma. But it’s so freaking hot, and right now my job demands I stay in Minneapolis for the best career prospects.
When I retire, it will probably be to OK, at least to be near my siblings and their kids.
I can tell you for free that it was a harsh transition from (free) Oklahoma to (nanny state) Minnesota. Holy eye-opener, Batman.
https://youtu.be/ZbrnXl2gO_k
Awww. I am a sucker for that musical.
As a kid I honestly thought every state must have a freaking awesome state song and Rogers & Hammerstein style musical. I slowly learned the truth that we were pretty lucky.
When I was a post grad student in Stockholm, it cracked me up how popular live performances of Oklahoma! were there. I was kinda proud.
If mid-20th century Shirley Jones is there than so am I! Seriously, I saw Elmer Gantry as a young buck and I was all a-twirl. THAT was Mrs. Partridge? I was in my bunk. A lot.
Really? Minnesota or Oklahoma? Muggy and brutal winters of 2 months of 20 below zero, or 9 months of miserable muggy triple digit heat?
Have you visited Colorado?
My memories of ok are more recent, but I remember winters along the Iowa Minnesota border. Don’t lock your car door, the lock will freeze. Gotta put cardboard between your grill and radiator so that the heater actually heats. Fuel injection: have a heated garage or a block heater, otherwise you will have to pull your sparkplugs and bring them inside to warm over the stove.
Fuck that, I’m starting to remember. Have you visited Colorado?
Iowa/Minnesota border, lol, southerner.
I don’t know if TCU/SMU is THAT big of a rivalry anymore. Some of us who are older still enjoy beating SMU (especially since their unrepentant cheating, and their death penalty hastened the end of the Southwest Conference), but TCU’s real hate goes to Baylor in modern times.
I think SMU sees it as more important that TCU does.
I wonder if Baylor’s problems are going to end up being the thing that helps blow up the Big 12?
PS: Fuck Ann Richards (no….not really, just a metaphorical fuck off).
SMU is just happy to have a football team.
/alum
Navy has a bye week, so there’s nothing to watch. Sad.
Well, North Korea vs US Navy could get interesting…
I think the spread would be 30+ points in favor of Navy…
Lay the points.
“Interesting” like a goddamn turkey shoot.
Shitty stolen or bought Soviet designs vs. state-of-the-art modern navy? Might as well attack in bloody turtle ships.
I don’t actually follow college football, just NFL. But I do work work the Badger game broadcast on my radio station, don’t really listen except for my cues. But this leads to something I never got about college ball. The Badgers started out in the Top Ten, are 2-0, how are they out of the Top 25 already when a 1-1 team is in? You can blather on about ‘quality of win’, but to me a team that lost, no matter to whom, is worse than a team that hasn’t (this early in the season, later on a team that barely beat bad teams I can see being cattbutted for a team that only had one loss to a great opponent). I don’t get it.
Umm…Wisconsin wasnt In MY top 10 preseason.
The methodology has been explained in two previous posts. You cant compare this to AP. They are measuring different things.
Yeah, but what about that Shirley Jones?
et tu, robc?
Its a freakin’ computer, why does everyone think it is personal?