2022 Week 14
December 6, 2022
Well we are now done with just about all the regular season games, including some makeup games as well the conference championship games. There's still the great Army/Navy game next weekend but everything else is done. And that means the BS people have done their work and we're now ready for the best time of year, bowel season.
Some of the makeup games were interesting. It looks like teams that needed to get to 6 wins to make it to a bowel game decided to play some lesser opponents to guarantee that 6th win. Buffalo narrowly beat Akorn 23-22 to get to 6 wins, which is great for former Wyoming star Josh Allen. New Mexico State also played an extra game to qualify for an exciting trip to Detroit - New Mexico State had a 65-3 win over Valparaiso High School.
A lot of these minor conferences keep shifting members so it's hard to keep track of who is where. So the Men of Troy beat Coastal Carolina 45-26 to win the Sun Belt League title game. Tulane defeated Central Florida 45-28 to win the American Football Conference and qualify for the NFL playoffs. Fresno State toppled Boys' State 28-16 to win the WAC.
There were some other fine mid-major matchups. Toledo beat Ohio University 17-7 to win the Ohio State title and Texas San Antonio ran up the score on North Texas, winning 48-27, to become the champs of the Loan Star State.
There were also some crossover matchups involving Texas teams - Kansas City State beat Texas Christian 31-28 in overtime. And highly ranked Southern Cal was upset by the University of Texas at Houston 47-24, which apparently knocked the USC out of the playoffs. Given the Trojans' dismal defensive performance I'd normally wonder whether they thought the game was a beach touch football game - except they didn't get close enough to U.T.A.H. players to do two-handed touch either.
Clemson ended their late collapse by bombing North Carolina 39-10 to claim the ACC title. Top ranked Georgia had little trouble with Coach B Kelly's Bayou Bengals, winning 50-30 in the SEC title game. And Michigan completed an undefeated regular season by pulling away from Purdue, 43-22, in the Big Ten championship game.
These fine teams and many others both fine and not so fine will now head off to that most wonderful time of the year, bowel season. As usual I've started working on my bowel preview.
I told my good friend Keith Jackson that I have been digging into these bowels and he compared me to a drunken proctologist. I don't understand Keith at times.
In any event, be sure to come back next week for Beeno's 2022 Bowel Preview.
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