College football week 7 thread: Mean Green Talking Blues

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If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d love to compile a list of teams that an FBS school lost to immediately before a coach was fired.

Northwestern, Vandy and Wazzu have to be high on that list.
Virginia Tech, last month, after getting dragged for 2 1/2 hours at home by Old Dominion.
 
As soon as it touches…..not crosses the line…..play is dead.
Auburn got jobbed.
Nope. The ball touches, but Arnold did not have control of it. Raylen Wilson's fist was in front of the line punching it out. Fumble, and should have been 7 the other way.

Georgia got jobbed.
 
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I was at the Ole Miss-Wazzu game, along with at least a few thousand of my Coug brethren who flew to from the PNW to Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham and various other points before streaming into Oxford. I have no idea how that game was that close. When I saw the two teams across the line from one another before the first play from scrimmage, I turned to my wife and said, "Jesus, they are HUGE."

Not sure if WSU is better than we have shown in our other games, if Ole Miss was looking 10 miles past us, or if they're just somewhat overrated—maybe it's all of the above.

I've been to The Grove before, and our hosts were incredible before the game. It was a great time afterward, too. But I will say that the vaunted Southern Hospitality dissipates a bit when your 33-point underdog all of a sudden becomes a very real threat—a few people got somewhat chippy as the game went on. (Which we loved, to be honest, other than the booing of injured players.)
 
If you didn’t have to dodge a whiskey bottle or stiletto heel during a one-score game, did you really even go to Oxford?
The first Ole Miss game I went to my freshman year, a guy near me got drilled in the head by a whiskey bottle. Still has the scar near his left eyebrow.
 
I saw no bottle projectiles ... Rebs might have understood that Cougs likely had as much ammo, or even more, to return fire on that front.
 
I didn’t think UAB could make it worse by firing Dilfer, but leaving the interim to get sandblasted by Memphis his first time out of the chute is brutal.

It won't be any fun, but no one is going to blame Mort for the loss. If anything maybe he'll be allowed to make sensible decisions regarding 3rd/4th down calls and punts. Lord knows Dilfer didn't.

It won't get any better. UAB's remaining home schedule: Memphis, North Texas, and South Florida. Two losses among them.
 

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