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Louisville and Middle Tennessee put on a show in a shootout


We were totally shocked to see that Louisville was only able to defeat Middle Tennessee by a measly seven points, 28-21. C’mon, this is No. 8 Louisville taking on lil’ ol’ Middle Tennessee! The Cards should be dropping 50 on these guys without even breaking a sweat.

Wait, what? Say that again? 28-21 wasn’t the final score, it was the first quarter score?!?!

Well, in that case; holy crap, did you see the first quarter of last night’s Louisville/Middle Tennessee game! It was amazing! Brian Brohm threw for 223 yards and two touchdowns on eight completions in the opening frame en route to a career-high 401 yards and five TDs to outlast MTSU in a shootout that ended up with a final of 58-42. The whole game was great, but the first quarter was indeed a sight to behold.

The two schools combined for 504 total yards (MTSU: 212, UL: 292) and a whopping 49 points in case you’re too hung-over from last night’s NFL opening night party to do the addition. It also helps that neither team decided to play a lick of defense until after the third touchdown of 70 or more yards was scored in the first 2:23. Even then, it still took a while to `slow’ things down as a total of five touchdowns were scored in the first five minutes of the game.

The final statistics of the game are equally incredible: 1,284 total yards from scrimmage and an eyeball popping 13 touchdowns.

I think these guys kept their heads up and on offense we said, ‘Keep scoring.’ That’s going to be our motto all year,” said Brian Brohm.

It’s a good thing too, because with Hawaii playing in the middle of the freakin’ night most weeks we’re thrilled to have our very own mainland Colt Brennan.

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[SportingNews.com]: Brohm throws for 5 TDs as No. 8 Louisville holds off Middle Tenn.

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Arkansas St. coach says Big 12 admits they’re Indian givers


Michigan became the laughing stock of the college football world when they fell to Appalachian State in the Big House over the opening weekend, but it turns out that they might not have been the only gridiron powerhouse to get upset if it hadn’t been for those pesky refs bumbling up the calls.

Arkansas State coach Steve Roberts claims that the Big 12’s coordinator of officials admitted that the zebras goofed when the overturned an onside kick that was recovered by the Indians with 56 seconds left in what eventually went down as an extremely unimpressive 21-13 Longhorns victory.

We got a confirmation … (Tuesday) that they missed the call,” Roberts said.

The Indians were flagged with 56 seconds left in Saturday’s game for an improper formation. Texas recovered the second onside kick and ran out the clock.

Roberts said the game film showed the Indians had enough players on both sides of the ball before the kick.

“There’s nothing you can do about it now,” Roberts said. “I don’t have a reaction because a reaction’s worthless.

A Big 12 spokesman refused to confirm or deny that a conversation occurred concerning the call. Texas was ranked fourth in the nation going into the season opener. While it’s obvious that the Horns were clearly overrated coming into the season, this really is a moot point because nobody is going to be lining up the final 56 minutes of the game to see if Texas could stop Arkansas State’s last ditch effort. At this point, the only thing were concerned about is if the ref in question is of any relation to Tim Donaghy.

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[ABC13.com]: Arkansas St. coach says Big 12 acknowledged bad call in Texas win

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Appalachian State has spirit, yes they do! ASU has spirit, how `bout you!

It’s Tuesday and after two full days of letting it sink in, you probably still can’t believe that Appalachian State knocked off No. 5 Michigan in the Big House on opening day. Well, believe it, it actually happened. A lot of people are even calling it the biggest upset in college football history. For a while we were kinda leaning in that direction, but then we remembered that while ASU might not even be on the same stratosphere as the major U’s like Michigan when it comes to recruiting, they are one thing that big time programs aren’t: Appalachian is Hot Hot Hot!

Gooooooo `Neers!! Lenoir-Rhyne should be a cakewalk after sending thousands of Wolverines fans to seek the comfort of a dark closet and a bottle of whiskey until the end of the three day weekend forced them to face the cold, cruel world. Sorry Big Blue, but it is gonna be a long and painful season regardless of how the remainder of your schedule goes. After all, the win in Ann Arbor sent Mountaineer fans to tear down their own goal posts at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, N.C.! It’s pretty tough to put something like that outta your memory.

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Mack Brown gets another decade tacked onto his contract

Get ready for a whole lot more of Mack Brown wearing burnt orange because it looks like the Longhorns head coach will be receiving a new contract for an additional 10 years later today. Brown has already put in a decade of work in Austin and is currently making about $2.6 million with an even $100,000 raise per year. This new deal should vault him up into the $3 million per year range. Not too shabby for a guy who used to have a bounty on his head because he couldn’t win the big games.

Vince Young should be receiving his thank you card in the mail any day now.

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[ESPN.com]: Source: Texas coach Brown to be extended through 2017

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Crazy football fan just loves him some Raiders

College football is almost here and we can’t wait until the whole pomp and circumstance of the game kicks off. Lee Corso donning the mascot head, the bands, tailgating, school songs; hell, we love the spectacle as much as the head-knocking and football spiking. But as the race for the national championship prepares for the opening leg, we gotta remember that the game is what it is because of the fans. Without them around, football just wouldn’t be the same.

GOOOOO RAIDERS!!!

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Reading a college football schedule just got easier, if that’s even possible



If this is too confusing then we can dumb it down
for ya.

Men are a visual species who typically want everything to be relayed to them in the most basic, cavemanesque methods possible. The last thing any real man wants to do is read, right? Words have their place and all, but if we can obtain all the info we need in a picture then that allows more time for important things like staring at the big, glossy pictures of Jessica Alba in one of those random men’s magazines that are all the rage right now. See, we don’t even know what trashy publication we’re reading because we’re too focused on the exposed skin!

So, we were totally thrilled to come across this sweet Excel spreadsheet that makes life, oh, so much easier. Not because the entire college football season is all in one place and right at our fingertips, but because instead of using those damn, annoying words like “Florida State” or “Oregon,” there’s a nice little picture of the team’s helmet!

Just think of all the time you’ll save this season because there will be no more encoding and decoding the messages that normally accompanies a schedule. There’s going to be a whole lot more time spent staring at the picture box now that you won’t be bothered with the time consuming process of reading phrases such as “Nebraska at Texas.” So, thanks to whoever wasted hours of their life creating this bad boy just so we can waste more hours of our life doing virtually nothing. We’re putting this right up there with the Michael Vick dog toy as the football fan’s must-haves for the season.

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[Awful Announcing]: The Guy Who Invented This Is An Evil Genius
[Cobra Brigade]: You Want a NCAA Football Schedule

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Chocolate milk and Gatorade: Is It In You?


The Washington Huskies football team, like most college campuses around the nation, is getting jacked up for the upcoming season. They players are on the field, running drills, smacking pads and sweating out tons of vital vitamins and essential minerals. But don’t worry; Tyrone Willingham has a secret weapon: requiring players to slam a bottle of Gatorade and a carton of chocolate milk before leaving the practice field. Uh, YUCK!

It was good. I love chocolate milk anyway,” said Willingham, who tried the combination in front of his players at the start of practice earlier this week.

“I check to make sure as much as possible what is going on and what they’re going through. There are some things that I don’t have to experience because I’ve already done them, but in this case I hadn’t done that. So I wanted to see what it was, the combination, and get a feel for it.

According to a study, there are no significant differences between the typical dehydration drinks out there and a good ol’ glass of moo-juice. Well, apparently they haven’t looked into our favorite sports drink: Playa-Ade.

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[KOMOTV.com]: Got milk? The Huskies do, and its chocolate

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Chris Rix can’t handle the truth

So I went out and got absolutely shitfaced last night. Desperately looking for an outlet to waste time while I’m sitting at work, I was flipping through random blogs. Basically, I was just hoping to find something that can carry me for a half hour. After reading that David Beckham had a successful MLS debut against DC United, it occurred to me that I hadn’t checked Flashwarner.com to find out if there was a new round of “Becks” bashing. Quite frankly, I was just hoping to lob in some anonymous sarcastic comment like, “You’re right…..David Beckham stinks…..he’s only accounted for 3 of England’s last four international goals and probably every single one in the last three World Cups.”

Instead, I stumbled upon inspirational comedy. Raise your hands if you remember the Chris Rix Era at Florida State…..and Florida State fans……feel free to lower the middle finger you now have extended towards me. When historians look back on when Bobby Bowden started to lose his fastball, I guarantee they will point at the day Chris Rix was announced as the starting quarterback for Florida State. His tenure there was an unmitigated disaster as he was known throughout the college football universe for throwing interceptions at crucial times, an inability to lead in the clutch, and a swagger that reminded of an overwhelmed 17-year old trying to…..umm…”close the deal” for the first time.

Well, Mr. Rix has opened a Champions Training Academy to teach young players how to become a great quarterback. I think Flash Warner said it best when she remarked, that this would be like Michelle Wie running an academy called “Making the Cut on the PGA Tour”. I would add that Chris Rix being associated with the word “champion” is like Paris Hilton being associated with the word “chaste” or Lindsay Lohan being associated with the word “sober”. In a nutshell, it is absurd. Well Flash and a site she writes for are being threatened with a subpoena for stating this in an article…….or basically stating the obvious. Basically, Chris Rix is trying to intimidate a girl………..because quite frankly that is all he can intimidate.

See, Chris, in times like these, it’s best just to ignore critical blog entries because otherwise the whole thing just balloons out of control. And then you have more and more blogs weighing in. Clearly not championship strategy.

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Indiana’s tight end gets arrested for battery with a… water balloon?


Indiana tight end Blake Powers thought he was just heading out for a good time and a couple of laughs when he filled up a water balloon and took to the streets of Bloomington, Ind. Little did he know that his prank would get him thrown in the slammer after his target turned out to be an Indiana University police officer.

Powers was riding in a car when he decided to toss the H2O grenade out of the window and into the open window of the off-duty officer who was heading home for the day in his own vehicle. Turns out the soaked rent-a-cop didn’t find the joke to be all that funny and Powers was booked on a preliminary misdemeanor charge of battery on Monday night. He has since been released.

Geez, since when did everyone get so uptight over a little splash? Lighten up; sure it sucks to get all wet, but it’s just a lil’ water. Trust us, things could have been a whole lot worse. Just ask the lead singer of TRIVIUM.

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[WISHTV.com]: Indiana’s Powers Arrested After Water Balloon Prank

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It’s no east vs. west rap war, but the smack between USC and LSU is becoming pretty entertaining



Snoop recently gave LSU coach Les
Miles a verbal beat down.

Lots of peeps out there seem to think that we can look forward to a USC/LSU national championship game once January rolls around. Hopefully those people are right, because it looks we’ve already got some serious trash talk going down that will, with any luck, build up to epic proportions by the time the BCS starts pissing everyone off.

Les Miles recently made some comments about USC that were not very well received by the fan base.

I would like nothing better than to play USC for the [national] title,” Miles reportedly said in a speech to a heavily pro-LSU gathering in New Orleans. “I can tell you this, that they have a much easier road to travel. They’re going to play real knockdown drag-outs with UCLA and Washington, Cal-Berkeley, Stanford — some real juggernauts — and they’re going to end up, it would be my guess, in some position so if they win a game or two, that they’ll end up in the title [game].”

“I would like that path for us. I think the SEC provides much stiffer competition.

Hey, Les, the men and women of USC are probably the last people on earth that you want to piss off. Mainly because they have a big time rap star with a dirty mouth and stinging tongue that can’t wait to punk you out, which is exactly what Snoop Dogg did on Gump For Heisman. But before you hit play, if there are any young ‘uns in the room, now’s probably the time to throw on a set of earmuffs.

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[Gump For Heisman]: Snoop Dogg disses… LSU coach Les Miles?
[The Wizard of Odds]: `Snoop Dogg’ Calls Out Les Miles