Curious rankings in college football
We Suck at Sports —
Most notably, it is the buoyancy of USC despite suffering an inexcusable loss. Spencer Hall hit the nail right on the head, the fact that Southern Cal didn't fall out of the Top-10 in either the poll, while everyone else had an anchor attached them when they lose. Let's take a look at USC. Five games into the season, they have as many wins as bye's. So far their wins have consisted of winning at Virginia and home vs. Ohio State. Virginia is far worse than we all thought they'd be - and no one thought they'd be any good to begin with. So that win is worth slightly more than nothing. Ohio State is clearly not as good as they were originally ranked, so ...
USC Tumbles, But It Could Have Been Worse
SportsHubLA —
There really isn’t much hidden upside to USC’s stunning collapse in Corvallis Thursday night. No happy unintended consequences or silver lining. It was bad. Very, very bad. But it could have been worse. By the time Sunday morning rolled around, what seemed like a shoe-in for the most dramatic, shocking, news generating loss of the college football weekend had some company. First, Mississippi went into The Swamp and knocked off #4 Florida, 31-30 ...
Playing the “moron sports editor” card
The Nittany Line —
I got into this biz because, basically, the sports writers of this day and age are generally lazy. Most grab the low-hanging fruit just to make a deadline or try the Dave Jones approach of "say anything negative you can about your local team just so people listen so they can hate you" no matter how retarded it may be. No I don't want to be a writer (like some other guys I know), I'm well aware of the fact that the English language escapes me ('i' before 'e' except after 'c' and sometimes 'y' – what the fuck?!?!) but that's not why I'm here. No I'm here to talk about the teams (and things) I love with people of similar (and ...
