At home, Michigan State beat Wisconsin a few weeks back on a miracle "Hail Mary" play as time ran out. Ironically, the same sort of thing played a large part in MSU falling to UW in the Big 10 -12, whatever, championship game, held in Indianapolis.
Yet towards the end, it looked like MSU had dialed up another miracle. On 4th down and 3 yards to go, leading by 3 points, Wisconsin had to punt the ball. The Spartan punt returner scampered all the way down to the UW 3 yard line. It appeared the Spartans were going to pull another rabbit out of the hat after all, but no. One of their guys had made contact with the punter after he'd kicked the ball. Tweet, flag, 5-yard penalty, first down for Wisconsin, run out the clock, and game over. This sort of bone-headed play falls squarely on the coaching staff. After a whole year, you'd think they'd have taught their players a couple simple rules, given this sort of situation. Do NOT jump offside. And unless you're 100% sure you can block the punt, don't even breathe on that kicker, let alone touch him. They did, they lost, and in the end, it cost them the Rose Bowl. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Speaking of dumb -- after the game was over -- confetti was released, and it was colored -- maize and blue. Who came up with that brilliant idea?
UCLA got whacked by Oregon. No surprise there. In the Pac 10-12, whatever, conference championship game, UCLA represented the South, while Oregon represented the North. But wait a minute. Sanctions or not, Southern Cal had just previously blistered UCLA to the tune of 50-0. What comes after routs, beatdowns and slaughters? If UCLA was the best the southern version of that conference had to offer, it makes one wonder -- just how bad were the rest of the teams? On top of that, they had a head coach (Rick Neuheisel) that had already been fired. Maybe it's ironic again that a lame duck, or maybe a dead duck, was playing the Ducks. What's that? RichRod just signed on at Arizona for a billion dollars and help is on the way? Not sure, but it could be that sound I hear way off in the distance is people in Ann Arbor chuckling.
What could be better than Okla State beating Okla 44-10? Beating them 1000 to nothing. In years past, the Sooners had no qualms about running up the score when they were clearly a dominant team facing an inferior opponent. It's about time they got a dose of their own medicine.
Same with Texas. Glad to see Baylor shut them up. And what is it with Texas anyway? They always seem to have guys named Mack, or Tex, or Colt, or Case, or Troy, running things. Macho stuff. There could be some high school phenom named Jody that broke every prep record there ever was, and I'll guarantee you Texas wouldn't be interested in recruiting him.
The previously unbeaten Boise State like Houston Cougars (strength of schedule) got hammered in their own backyard by Southern Missouri in the Conference USA championship game. Evidently, had Houston won, they would have went to a BCS bowl and generated some $13 million dollars to be split amongst the other conference teams. Some sideline female TV reporter, complete with microphone, cameraperson, and enough makeup to make Joan Rivers blush, couldn't wait to ask the question of the victorious S. Mizzou head coach after the game......
Do you realize you just cost the conference $13 million by winning this game?
Which make yours truly wonder--- who hires these people? Jerry Springer?
The BCS championship game next time. LSU for sure, and probably Alabama in a rematch. But there's another way of going about this that just might make more sense......
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