Liberal Arts Major
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
---
xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
DSB Moderator
---
"In the best relationships, nobody wears the pants."
Liberal Arts Major
I'M GOING TO BAN YOU
WITH MY FIST
field goals, how do they work?
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO KICK THE BALL TO THE CUTEST CROWD MEMBER
IT'S LIKE THROWING THE BOUQUET AT A WEDDING
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
Last year when this happened I was despondent for, like, a week. It was really painful, which is, I think, a sentiment that was shared with most BSU fans. That senior class had been "with us" so to speak through three years of emotional games: Oregon 1, Oregon 2, that fucking Poinsettia Bowl, VTech, the Fiesta Bowl, all those Nevada games that inexplicably went down to the wire. We had watched Moore, Pettis, Young, Brotzman, Venable (my vote for favorite non-Kellen player), Thompson, Johnson, etc. "grow up" and develop into quite possibly the best team in Boise State history. And then there was the way we lost, on the road, to Chris Ault and Colin Kaepernick, after dominating the first half then falling behind in the second (complete with controversial emotional rollercoaster kick-catch interference calls!) then almost getting there with the play that I remember better than any other play in 2010: Moore to Young for a billion yards with one second to go. The feeling was, quite plainly, unparalleled, from the elation of "winning" on a miracle to the sweet schadenfreude of Ault's face on the Nevada sideline. Then Brotzman, hero of the Fiesta Bowl - a game I rescheduled my flight back to Seattle for just so I could watch with my dad - misses the kick and then, well, at that point I knew the game, and the season, were over.
It was absolutely crushing.
But this year? The year got off to a rough start, with the NCAA inquiry, Gene Bleymaier's horrifying "resignation", and the mysterious Dutch suspensions. Most of last year's team is gone, and many of the familiar faces that lingered around have been injured or otherwise marginalized. For example, George Iloka hasn't caught an interception all year, I think; he had a crucial one in the Nevada game last year. Geraldo Hiwat changed his name to Boldewejn and missed half the season due to ineligibility. Our corners and safeties went down one by one all season long, leaving people like Quaylon Ewing-Burton, Lee Hightower, and Ebo Makinde to fill in the gaps. You don't know who those people are, and neither do we. The emotional connection just wasn't there. In a significant departure from last year and the years before, I missed games, in whole or in part, all season. And I wasn't really bothered by it.
As the injuries piled up (Gavins was injured in practice - the fuck?!), the games got progressively uglier. This team gave up almost thirty points to 2-win UNLV; this is a team that's been giving up big plays all season long. TCU, meanwhile, had been improving steadily as the season wore on. These teams were on opposite trajectories. This time, Boise's loss was not a surprise. We had the blueprint already - teams had been exploiting Boise's weaknesses every game, and the only reason none of them were able to pull through was that, on a whole, they were just worse than Boise. But this time, Boise met its closest brother, in so many senses. And this time, Boise lost another 1-point game to TCU.
Sure, it hurts. I'm sad for Kellen Moore most of all, whose Heisman campaign just imploded a second time in as many years, but I'm also sad for, say Doug Martin and Billy Winn, who had to watch this game from the sidelines after going down against fucking UNLV (the state of Nevada hates you, BSU), as well as for the rest of those guys that have been here a while (Shea McClellin, DJ Harper, etc.). I'm disappointed that their win over Georgia, now going on a tear through the horrible SEC East, is going to go to waste just like that first win over Oregon and, more emphatically, that win over Virginia Tech last year. And losing that ridiculous home and conference game winning streak feels just as bad, if not worse, than losing one of the longest active FBS winning streaks at Nevada last year. And of course, going to some random horrible bowl for the second straight year brings back memories of 2007 and 2008, and that is definitely not a good thing.
These things are all various degrees of terrible. Unlike last year, though, they aren't killing me, nor do they seem to be killing the rest of BSU's fanbase. In my case, all it's doing is making me apathetic about most of the rest of college football. And that's OK. Kellen Moore, Doug Martin, and the rest of the seniors will go on to have bright careers in something or other, a few of them in the NFL. The remainder of these guys (except for people like Dan Goodale, who probably won't get the start again after the season is over) are going to grow on me/us like everyone else did. And sure, we'll probably have to suffer through some more awful seasons. Next year's Southwick/Hedrick bonanza threatens to be as forgettable and/or distressing as the Tharp era or the whole Jared Zabransky Experience was a great deal of the time. But that's fine. If BSU completes its move to the Big East, it should be in a better recruiting position, and so long as Chris Petersen sticks around, the program is unlikely to experience a long period of decline like, say, Boston College, or even a season as horrible as whatever the hell happened to Utah this year. The program will survive King Kellen's departure. I, of course, will also survive.
For now, though, and for the second November in a row, this all just kinda sucks.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
---
xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Liberal Arts Major
Then I went over and opened all my bookmark tabs like I usually do, right?
Then I was all scrolling through OBNUG to see if anyone posted some random fanshot about whatever, and I see "HOLY CRAP! Iowa State 37 Oklahoma State 31.". And I'm like, that's probably the halftime score or something. Right?
Then I tab to ESPN and see a picture of a big crowd of happy ISU players has made the front page. And then I'm like
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
On the flip side, Oregon probably would have jumped BSU either way after beating Stanford, and Alabama was already in front of BSU, so the NCG still probably wouldn't have been in play.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
---
xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Liberal Arts Major
Or, better, LSU loses to Georgia and gets shut out of a BCS bowl altogether.
Though based on how this Kentucky-Georgia "brawwwwwl" is going this seems impossible.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
Maximum. Trolling.
Oklahoma too.
...Boise must feel awful. I mean, I'm sure they did before, but oh man, this just seems malicious.
---
xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Liberal Arts Major
I don't think Oregon or Oklahoma lost.
Here's what really happened.
A black hole opened up in the center of the earth and ate Kobe Bryant. The universe, now ruined, has done its best to compensate by being insane ever since. First it was the NBA lockout. Then it was the Cardinals winning the WS. And now this. In the real world, the top ten is an alphabetical listing of the SEC West plus a random selection of teams from the remaining two conferences, the Big-12 and the Oregon conference, featuring Oregon.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Provisional
---
LMAO he ain't my lover I'm not into guys -Tengu
Liberal Arts Major
BSU thus has a reasonable chance of regaining the #5 position and still getting shut out of the BCS bowls because of - wait for it! - Houston. But, here's a golden opportunity for me to produce the...
IMAGINARY PATH TO THE TITLE GAME FOR 1-LOSS BSU
- Tulsa beats Houston and wins C-USA, becoming ranked in the process.
- Oklahoma beats Oklahoma State, hypothetically keeping both of them behind BSU.
- Whoever wins the Pac-12 South is unranked and godawful. Hey! One down already!
- Stanford loses to Notre Dame.
- Virginia Tech loses to anybody.
- Arkansas loses to LSU.
- Alabama loses to Auburn.
- Georgia wins the SEC.
With OSU, Arkansas, VT, and Stanford presumably knocked out, BSU moves up to third. Since Alabama lost to Auburn (this may even be optional!) they drop down and with Georgia's win, BSU jumps in to fill the gap.
DON'T QUESTION IT. IT'S TOTALLY POSSIBLE. DID YOU SEE THE STANFORD-CAL GAME? ACTUALLY YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
- Tulsa beats Houston and wins C-USA, becoming ranked in the process.
PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Stanford loses to Notre Dame.
PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Alabama loses to Auburn.
PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAFUCK
Houston was ranked ahead of Boise State in both BCS polls last week. That's all you need to know about this season.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Regular User
*facedesk*
It's not so much that I HATE the SEC (although I do) it's that I hate the SEC and still cannot come with a legitimate case that anyone in college football is better than Alabama.
Oklahoma State lost to a team outside the top 25 (although Iowa St. isn't nearly as bad as people think.)
Virginia Tech is a decent contender but has their otherwise stellar season blackened by the one lose at home to a Clemson team the subsequently had a meltdown. They might be able to avenge this in the ACC championship game, but I doubt it's enough given the state of the ACC to propel them into the #2 slot.
Stanford has probably the best chance since they have the highest profile player , but they lack a win against a team rated higher than #20.
Houston and Boise both play in non-automatic qualifying conferences and are assuredly on the outside looking in.
Damnit.
Liberal Arts Major
USC would be ranked fairly highly if they were eligible to be ranked, so that's Stanford's resume-defining win. Still, after getting clobbered by Oregon and barely squeaking by USC and Cal, it's hard to look at this team and think, "Yeah, they have a nonzero chance of beating LSU." Because they don't. Stanford sucks.
Houston screams 2007 Sugar Bowl reject Hawaii to me.
I would like to see OSU vs. LSU but Oklahoma State is probably also doomed. It seems LSU is so far ahead of the rest of the FBS that they'd just obliterate whatever opponent you throw at them in one way or another.
So, barring an absolutely HUGE upset by Georgia over LSU, the NCG will be LSU vs Alabama part 2.
If LSU loses to Georgia, they are unlikely to drop out of the top 2. The only thing that would do probably is put 3 SEC teams into BCS bowls.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
...I think you'd still have the rematch, because I refuse to believe the polls wouldn't go out of their way to troll Boise at all costs, but I think they'd have a shot.
---
xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Liberal Arts Major
The only teams non-AQs jump are teams that lose, or other non-AQs.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
---
xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Liberal Arts Major
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
EDIT: So, after posting the worst offensive first half I have ever seen, LSU woke up and realized that Georgia sucks.
Consequently, it is clear that BSU never had a shot at the national championship this year. Houston's loss opens up an at-large slot in the BCS bowls, which will probably go to Michigan. But if it somehow goes to BSU, then it'll be as if that TCU game never happened! Hurray!
EDIT 2: The end of the B1G championship game was hilarious.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
...
I hate everyone and everything.
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Provisional
---
LMAO he ain't my lover I'm not into guys -Tengu
Liberal Arts Major
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Provisional
---
LMAO he ain't my lover I'm not into guys -Tengu
Liberal Arts Major
___
~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Provisional
---
LMAO he ain't my lover I'm not into guys -Tengu