2018 Week 10
November 6, 2018
We now have college football action just about every day, thanks to the excitement of MACtion. Last week we saw Kent State gun down Boweling Green, Toledo have little trouble with Bald State, Northern Illinois topping Acorn, Regular Ohio destroying Western Michigan, and Buffalo beating Miami in a shootout, 51-42. It's actually nice that MAC has added some of the weak sisters from the AFC East.
Of course the game that everyone was talking about took place in Baton Rouge, with the top ranked Alabama Crimson Tide topping the Bayou Bungholes, 29-0. I haven't seen a smothering like that since I accidentally sat on my good friend Lee Corso's pet ferret.
Other top teams also had relatively comfortable victories. Notre Dame tried their hand at Big Ten play again and topped Northwestern 31-21. Clemson batted around against the St Louisville Cardinals, winning 77-16. Michigan pounded Penn State into submission, 42-7.
One of the most exciting games took place in Lubbock as Texas Tech hosted an old-fashioned shootout. There was also a football game as Oklahoma scored both on offense and on special teams to hold off the Red Raiders, 51-46.
The Duke Blue Devils are on their way to another fine season as they upended Miami 20-12. The Canes seem to be struggling under Frank Richt and probably long for the halcyon days when they had Nick Satan's uncle Lou Satan as coach.
The Tennessee Volunteers appear to be turning things around, with a nice 14-3 victory over a high school from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Even though it's the middle of conference season there still are numerous intersectional games. The University of Texas at El Paso had a close win over Rhode Island Continuing Education. U.T.E.P. may be another team that is turning things around while R.I.C.E. seems to be having a tough year.
Another excitement filled game occurred in Austin as Western Virginia and quarterback Will Geer III pulled out a stunning 42-41 overtime win over Texas. I'm still not sure about these overtime rules. For some reason Western Virginia started its OT possession deep in their own territory and was required to go for two points after scoring a TD. They did succeed in doing so and got the scintillating win.
In other overtime action UMass defeated Liberty in the battle of Catholics and Babtists, 62-59 in triple overtime. This overtime at least made sense as UMass kicked a field goal to win but apparently missed the mandatory third overtime two point conversion.
In the Big Ten Ohio State held off Nebraska, winning 36-31. That game featured a very strange play when the Nebraska kickoff guy twirled around like his school mascot Cornholio and booted the ball backwards. Unfortunately the ball did not go 10 yards backwards so could not be recovered by the Nebraska team. He was really wound up like a corkscrew; I haven't seen a kicker so twisted since Rafael Septien.
Elsewhere Illinois had a big win over Minnesota in a battle for last place in the Big Ten South. It was a lot of fun watching that game with legends like Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, especially when Bronko gave Red a noogie that tore most of Red's hair out.
Next week should have some humdinger games - Ohio State at the Michigan State Fighting Chippewas, Mississippi State at Alabama, the Bed-Lamb game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, and the corpse of Florida State at Notre Dame. Talk to you soon!