Holy hell, #21 South Florida is only beating UConn 14-7 and they're halfway through the 3Q!
Purdue, with the ball, is leading #2 Ohio State 7-3 right before the half. (The undersigned predicted the Purdue upset (which technically hasn't happened yet so I am not counting my buckeyes before they hatch).)
Holy hell, #25 Washington State is beating the quack out of #12 Oregon 27-0 at the half!
#1 Alabama held off Tennessee 58-21.
#3 Clemson held off Division I AA North Carolina State 41-7.
#15 Washington beat Colorado 27-13.
#18 Fourth-and-Five-Franklin
with a B1G win over unranked Indiana 33-28. Big because Little Game James has three BIG B1Gies coming up, #19 Iowa in Moonie Valley, the next Saturday he goes to #6 Michigan, and the Saturday after that #23 Wisconsin comes to Just Say No to Child Rape Park, and Little Game James would be playing the Big Boys off three straight losses if he had stepped on his dick, as he almost did, in Bloomington today. In other words, if a mid-October matchup against 4-3 Indiana can ever be considered a fulcrum game for a season, a loss today would have been that game.
After Little Jimmy's immaculate brain cramp on that eponymous Fourth-and-Five against Ohio State a Twitter user wrote something like, "First time I have ever seen two years of good will obliterated with one play." James Franklin is an EXCELLENT tackle football professor, but. There are some buts with James: he gets brain cramps in games, he gets out-coached, he has a poor record against Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State and those are the "elites" that James aspires to, the rivals for his nominally "Unrivaled" program, and Dr. James Harbaugh of Michigan has a score, specifically a 42-13 score, to settle with Little Game James Franklin in Michigan's Big House, and Dr. Harbaugh has a silent, slow burn to him, a burn all the more intense for being silent and slow. Jim Harbaugh will humiliate an opponent against whom he has a grudge. Jim Harbaugh will run up the score on such an opponent, keep his starters in when better sportsmanship calls for the water boys to play; Harbaugh will pass when he’s up 40 in the 4Q, call time outs to let it all sink in on the other side, then kick a field goal—just ask Pete Carroll of USC years ago, just ask Scott Frost of Nebraska this year. In short, Harbaugh, if he can, will do to Little Game James what Little Game James did to Pat Narduzzi of Pitt earlier this year.
James Franklin will be in no danger of losing his job even if he loses all three of these upcoming games. However, there is much truth to that Twitter user's observation among the Paterno-Sandusky fan base and in the local media. David Jones of the Harrisburg paper summed up his judgment after James Franklin's introductory press conference, "To be specific, it’s pretty clear James Franklin is full of crap." Today's result at Indiana does not quiet the doubts. PSU was a double-digit favorite and five is not a double digit number. And conversely, winning the next three will not quiet the doubts.
There is a sense among PSU moonies and writers that the team under Franklin is fragile, that the team itself doubts, that it is one stumbling loss away from going completely sideways. I and some of my betters point to the 2016 Minnesota game as one of those fulcrum games. PSU had alternated wins and losses through their first four games, including an emotional doubt-creating loss in Pittsburgh and a 49-10 destruction at Michigan. The Michigan game was the taste in the mouth that PSU still had when Minnesota came to Moonie Valley. Minnesota. Won a national championship in like 1936. Now competes for the Bits of Broken Chair trophy. They had been poor to .500 in the 80 years since FDR'S second term. But Minnesota came into that 2016 team as undefeated Minnesota, only 3-0 now and having beaten two middling Power Five schools and a lower division school but hey, Minnesota was fucking 3-0 okay and PSU was 2-2. To call any game against Minnesota a turning point is to encourage pageviewers to view some other page. But that dreary first day of October matchup of a 2-2 team against Minnesota was the fulcrum on which the rest of PSU's season turned. PSU won that game but it was a close thing. It was a thing that went into overtime. I believe that team half thought
James Franklin was full of crap too up until then; they had their reasons and I believe that if PSU had
lost that Minnesota game that the rest of that 2016 season would have gone sideways and James Franklin would now be a coordinator at some other school. For the Michigan debacle a week earlier turned out to be the last game Fourth-and-Five-Franklin lost that regular season. They won nine in a row including Minnesota! Beat #2 Ohio State. And they WASTED opponents after Minnesota: 38-14, 62-24, 41-14, 45-12 over Michigan State. They didn't lose again all of 2016, didn't lose again until January 2. 2017 when they lost an epic 52-49 Rose Bowl to #9 USC. THAT was a loss that really was as good as a win. James Franklin has not had many other losses as good as wins.
No, Franklin will not be fired if he loses the next three and I don't think he will lose all three, I think he'll beat Iowa and Wisconsin and I think Jim Harbaugh will make him his booty bandit bitch in Ann Arbor but whatever the results and especially if there is even one more loss, the Nittany Valley will be a roaring, bubbling cauldron.
That exegesis on PSU took so long that there are now only two minutes left in the game in Tampa...And just like that it's over. #21 South Florida held on to turn back UConn 38-30. THAT would have been the biggest upset of this or many years. THAT loss is as good as a win for the beleaguered "Huskies."
Purdue is still making me look like a savant at the start of the 4Q, leading #2 Ohio State 21-6. Jeff Brohm is Purdue's coach, Jeff Brohm was Purdue's quarterback back several years ago. If Jeff Brohm wins this fucking game he will look like a savant.
Looks like #14 Kentucky is going to eke one out against Vanderbilt. It's only 14-7 but there's only a minute left in the game and UK has the ball.
#5 LSU beat #22 Mississippi State on the bayou 19-3.
Looks like Washington State is going to hold off O who 20 in a row in the second half but the "Cougars" just stopped the bleeding and now lead 34-20 with 2:48 left in the game.
And, last one: Purdue is closing in on the biggest win in school history in quite some time. They lead Ohio State 28-13 with 6:42 left in the game.
Oh, God bless Amerika 2.0, the Miami "Heat" dropped another close one, 113-112 to the Charlotte "Queens." Oh deary me. Dwyane Wade, 36 years old, in his last season, was high scorer for the "Tepids." Goran Dragic had 20 but got butt-fucked by his opposite number Kemba Walker for 36 on 14/31, 7/15. Second game in three that Goran has been humiliated. YoungWhiteside had 11 points on only six touches and 15 boards, 12 of them defensive and only played 25 minutes. Josh Richardson was putrid and Erik the Great apparently saw early that Josh did not have it, Josh is failing his showcase casting, tonight he had 7 measly points on only 11 shots, only a little more than half his spoon-fed 21 and made only 3 of those 11. He was also awful, 1/6, from downtown. Still no PF in Erik's starting lineup. Kelly Olynyk had one more than his allotted 15 minutes.
"We have a lot of good to great players," Pat Riley said this summer. Good players, Riles, good, not great. This team has twice in three games, all razor close games, lost because the other team had somebody clearly superior to anyone Miami had. On opening night it was A. Gordon. Tonight it was Kemba Walker. The difference between merely good teams is often one great player. Riley and Spoelstra don't have one of those.
And that's it. Night night termites.
Purdue, with the ball, is leading #2 Ohio State 7-3 right before the half. (The undersigned predicted the Purdue upset (which technically hasn't happened yet so I am not counting my buckeyes before they hatch).)
Holy hell, #25 Washington State is beating the quack out of #12 Oregon 27-0 at the half!
#1 Alabama held off Tennessee 58-21.
#3 Clemson held off Division I AA North Carolina State 41-7.
#15 Washington beat Colorado 27-13.
#18 Fourth-and-Five-Franklin
with a B1G win over unranked Indiana 33-28. Big because Little Game James has three BIG B1Gies coming up, #19 Iowa in Moonie Valley, the next Saturday he goes to #6 Michigan, and the Saturday after that #23 Wisconsin comes to Just Say No to Child Rape Park, and Little Game James would be playing the Big Boys off three straight losses if he had stepped on his dick, as he almost did, in Bloomington today. In other words, if a mid-October matchup against 4-3 Indiana can ever be considered a fulcrum game for a season, a loss today would have been that game.
After Little Jimmy's immaculate brain cramp on that eponymous Fourth-and-Five against Ohio State a Twitter user wrote something like, "First time I have ever seen two years of good will obliterated with one play." James Franklin is an EXCELLENT tackle football professor, but. There are some buts with James: he gets brain cramps in games, he gets out-coached, he has a poor record against Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State and those are the "elites" that James aspires to, the rivals for his nominally "Unrivaled" program, and Dr. James Harbaugh of Michigan has a score, specifically a 42-13 score, to settle with Little Game James Franklin in Michigan's Big House, and Dr. Harbaugh has a silent, slow burn to him, a burn all the more intense for being silent and slow. Jim Harbaugh will humiliate an opponent against whom he has a grudge. Jim Harbaugh will run up the score on such an opponent, keep his starters in when better sportsmanship calls for the water boys to play; Harbaugh will pass when he’s up 40 in the 4Q, call time outs to let it all sink in on the other side, then kick a field goal—just ask Pete Carroll of USC years ago, just ask Scott Frost of Nebraska this year. In short, Harbaugh, if he can, will do to Little Game James what Little Game James did to Pat Narduzzi of Pitt earlier this year.
James Franklin will be in no danger of losing his job even if he loses all three of these upcoming games. However, there is much truth to that Twitter user's observation among the Paterno-Sandusky fan base and in the local media. David Jones of the Harrisburg paper summed up his judgment after James Franklin's introductory press conference, "To be specific, it’s pretty clear James Franklin is full of crap." Today's result at Indiana does not quiet the doubts. PSU was a double-digit favorite and five is not a double digit number. And conversely, winning the next three will not quiet the doubts.
There is a sense among PSU moonies and writers that the team under Franklin is fragile, that the team itself doubts, that it is one stumbling loss away from going completely sideways. I and some of my betters point to the 2016 Minnesota game as one of those fulcrum games. PSU had alternated wins and losses through their first four games, including an emotional doubt-creating loss in Pittsburgh and a 49-10 destruction at Michigan. The Michigan game was the taste in the mouth that PSU still had when Minnesota came to Moonie Valley. Minnesota. Won a national championship in like 1936. Now competes for the Bits of Broken Chair trophy. They had been poor to .500 in the 80 years since FDR'S second term. But Minnesota came into that 2016 team as undefeated Minnesota, only 3-0 now and having beaten two middling Power Five schools and a lower division school but hey, Minnesota was fucking 3-0 okay and PSU was 2-2. To call any game against Minnesota a turning point is to encourage pageviewers to view some other page. But that dreary first day of October matchup of a 2-2 team against Minnesota was the fulcrum on which the rest of PSU's season turned. PSU won that game but it was a close thing. It was a thing that went into overtime. I believe that team half thought
James Franklin was full of crap too up until then; they had their reasons and I believe that if PSU had
lost that Minnesota game that the rest of that 2016 season would have gone sideways and James Franklin would now be a coordinator at some other school. For the Michigan debacle a week earlier turned out to be the last game Fourth-and-Five-Franklin lost that regular season. They won nine in a row including Minnesota! Beat #2 Ohio State. And they WASTED opponents after Minnesota: 38-14, 62-24, 41-14, 45-12 over Michigan State. They didn't lose again all of 2016, didn't lose again until January 2. 2017 when they lost an epic 52-49 Rose Bowl to #9 USC. THAT was a loss that really was as good as a win. James Franklin has not had many other losses as good as wins.
No, Franklin will not be fired if he loses the next three and I don't think he will lose all three, I think he'll beat Iowa and Wisconsin and I think Jim Harbaugh will make him his booty bandit bitch in Ann Arbor but whatever the results and especially if there is even one more loss, the Nittany Valley will be a roaring, bubbling cauldron.
That exegesis on PSU took so long that there are now only two minutes left in the game in Tampa...And just like that it's over. #21 South Florida held on to turn back UConn 38-30. THAT would have been the biggest upset of this or many years. THAT loss is as good as a win for the beleaguered "Huskies."
Purdue is still making me look like a savant at the start of the 4Q, leading #2 Ohio State 21-6. Jeff Brohm is Purdue's coach, Jeff Brohm was Purdue's quarterback back several years ago. If Jeff Brohm wins this fucking game he will look like a savant.
Looks like #14 Kentucky is going to eke one out against Vanderbilt. It's only 14-7 but there's only a minute left in the game and UK has the ball.
#5 LSU beat #22 Mississippi State on the bayou 19-3.
Looks like Washington State is going to hold off O who 20 in a row in the second half but the "Cougars" just stopped the bleeding and now lead 34-20 with 2:48 left in the game.
And, last one: Purdue is closing in on the biggest win in school history in quite some time. They lead Ohio State 28-13 with 6:42 left in the game.
Oh, God bless Amerika 2.0, the Miami "Heat" dropped another close one, 113-112 to the Charlotte "Queens." Oh deary me. Dwyane Wade, 36 years old, in his last season, was high scorer for the "Tepids." Goran Dragic had 20 but got butt-fucked by his opposite number Kemba Walker for 36 on 14/31, 7/15. Second game in three that Goran has been humiliated. YoungWhiteside had 11 points on only six touches and 15 boards, 12 of them defensive and only played 25 minutes. Josh Richardson was putrid and Erik the Great apparently saw early that Josh did not have it, Josh is failing his showcase casting, tonight he had 7 measly points on only 11 shots, only a little more than half his spoon-fed 21 and made only 3 of those 11. He was also awful, 1/6, from downtown. Still no PF in Erik's starting lineup. Kelly Olynyk had one more than his allotted 15 minutes.
"We have a lot of good to great players," Pat Riley said this summer. Good players, Riles, good, not great. This team has twice in three games, all razor close games, lost because the other team had somebody clearly superior to anyone Miami had. On opening night it was A. Gordon. Tonight it was Kemba Walker. The difference between merely good teams is often one great player. Riley and Spoelstra don't have one of those.
And that's it. Night night termites.
