College football 2018 Week 11 thread

Bobby Petrino out at Louisville.

 

Petrino No Longer Riding Solo

What a great thread, including the debut of Freq.

 

Not fast enough to stop me from winning with Syracuse minus-20.5 on Friday, though.

 

I didn't touch either of those games, but had a pretty bad day.
Took Oregon plus the 3 1/2 at Utah, which was without its starting QB and leading rusher. Loss.
Took San Diego State minus-23 at home against a bad UNLV team. They blew an 11-point lead in the second half and lost outright.
Took North Texas minus-14 at Old Dominion. They blew a 21-point lead and lost outright.
Only Utah State won, but it was part of a parlay with those other three so it didn't matter.

And now I'm watching Matt Barkley turn into Jim Fuckin' Kelly against the Jets, so it looks like it's going to be an entirely lost weekend.

 

So were Paul Hackett, Lane Kiffen (at the time) and Steve Sarkisian. It's a recent Trojan tradition.

 

Even Pete Carroll at his hiring was somewhat a dubious choice. He turned out okay. I do think the school and the market makes it kind of tough to have a Saban/Meyer type. Those coaches are used to being the biggest show in town and don't spend time kowtowing to boosters.
You look at their hires throughout history and they've repeatedly elevated assistants or hired former assistants. Larry Smith and Pete Carroll being the only exceptions in the last almost 100 years since Howard Jones.

 

Used this exact phrase in a text to @westcoastvol yesterday. Pruitt is slowly bringing normalcy back to The Hill.

 

Don't look at next week's sked if you have a weak stomach. The only two games of note are Syracuse-ND and I State at Texas.

 

We can all watch The Game. Harvard-Yale at Fenway Park.

 

The Big Game is Saturday too. Then the Bears play Colorado and Stanford plays UCLA, instead of the traditional end-of-the-regular season rivalry game.

 

I'm actually okay with it - playing it the weekend before Thanksgiving is tradition. Figure both stadiums will be empty Thanksgiving weekend though.

 

You guys didn't even discuss all the shitshow that was USC on Saturday night.

The DB who shoved Daniels on the sideline after the safety. What the fuck? Nobody really did anything. An injured player kinda joked around with him. An assistant talked to him, and the kid gave him the textbook body language definition of "Fuck You".

The Marshall flag was just... just... incredible. Just gave the game to Cal.

Good lord, what a freaking disaster.