one more holiday.

First off — Congrats to Matlock, and the impressive butt-kicking his Mountaineers put on Oklahoma last night. I was expecting that game to go in the other direction, but WVU looked intent showing their success isn’t all about their departed head coach.

And now that Lloyd is retired, I think we can safely hand the Best Choke Artist in a Bowl Game Oscar over to Bob Stoops.

I have one caution for Mountaineer fans, though. Hiring Bill Stewart as your head coach feels little like North Carolina replacing the retired Dean Smith with Bill Gutheridge — it makes everyone feel good, and it’s nice to reward a loyal guy with the head job, but in the long run it’s probably not the right move.
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And with the exception of tonight’s Orange Bowl — which I’m not really counting as a game — there’s just one more left in this college football season. We got down to this point a year ago, and although it took me a while to get into it — due to a cold and a nagging suspicion that things might not go too well — I eventually posted a torrent of stuff about Ohio State in Phoenix, and the players and fans getting ready and Brutus torturing Albert the Lizard and confident predictions.

And then we got waxed.

I’m taking a different approach this season. Because if you listen to anyone who knows anything about college football, we’re clearly going to get waxed again.

If there’s one thing we learned a year ago, it’s that a Big Ten team has no chance of competing against an SEC team. They’re much faster. They play a better schedule. They’re playing a virtual home game.

Whew. We got no shot. Sort of like when we had to play Miami for the 2002 championship.

I mean, look at how LSU has dominated the competition this year. Huge wins over always-competitive rivals Tulane and Louisiana Tech. The torrent of offense unleashed against Tennessee in the SEC title game. And perennial college football powers Kentucky and Arkansas each needed multiple overtimes to squeak by the Tigers.

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Yikes. We’re going to get crushed. I’m taking Monday off, but I’ll probably spend the day at the Laundromat or doing my taxes.

I probably won’t even watch the game. I mean, what would be the point?

Right?

5 thoughts on “one more holiday.”

  1. This is just how it’s working with the players too. Just let that little ember deep in your belly grow over the next four days into a raging fire and then poleaxe those cajuns.

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  3. i wish kentucky’s basketball team was as good as their football team…just to irritate the rest of the country, i would like osu to play in every bcs championship game for the next 4 score years or so and to lose each game by at least 26 points (so long as osu continues to win the last game they play in november). i love being hated; it’s feel like i’m a republican in france…or england…or holland…italy, germany, japan, iraq, turkey, etcetcetc

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  4. I’m going to watch the political posturing in New Hampshire (Where they Live Free, or else!) and check the box score in the paper in the morning.

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  5. Thanks for the shout-out on the Mounties. The new coach choice is a little, shall we say, unorthodox. One Charleston sports writer likened the college football world to one of sharks where Stewart is either Nemo or possibly Dory. He also called the choice “pulling a ‘Fisher'” a la Michigan basketball 1989.

    On the Buckeye front, given what the analysts are saying, the Bucks are so slow that LSU would have to spot them a couple Kawasakis to make the game fair. Who knows, according to Jimmie Johnson, WVU beat Oklahoma with no athletes and a quaterback who can’t throw. Go figure.

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