2025 Week 11
November 10, 2025
Well, that was a weekend full of great excitement and huge moments, wasn't it? And I'd like to start by discussing what I think everyone will agree is the signature moment of the season so far. People were holding their breath as the drama unfolded and a crucial call was made by the officials.
Yes, even up here we were on the edge of our seats until we got the final word. The referees finally announced that they were throwing out several of the players from Grambling who apparently were fighting over my daughter, Beth Cook. I'm still not sure what happened and, while I'm a proud papa, Beth has a tendency to let guys score on her and they get a bit excited for the opportunity. From what I saw they were knocking over benches and each other to get ahead in line, and eventually Grambling, after the suspensions were announced, scored 31 times on Beth Cook.
I wish she'd find herself a new hobby.
One of the other great moments took place in a Big Ten stadium. Protecting a lead in a high scoring 13-10 affair, Wisconsin stopped Washington on downs to get their third win of the season, one win for every month. Wisconsin was so excited that the students rushed the field, the fans tore down the goal posts, and the athletic director gave Coach Waterboy a 5 year contract extension.
Speaking of contracts, LSU played their first game since wrapper B Kelly got fired, at Alabama. Fortunately for Coach DeBore the Tide ground out a 20-9 victory or else he may have been joining Coach Kelly in the unemployment line. I now predict that Ty Simpson will win a Heisman and an Emmy for a supporting role in his mother Jessica Simpson's new TV show "Remember When I Was Hot?". Just be glad that there can't be any cameos by Ty's Grandpa OJ. No I haven't seen OJ up here, I'm surprised that people even bother asking.
These conference TV networks really have to pick up some dreg games that the four major networks won't touch with a ten foot pole. For instance, the ACC Network was stuck televising a boring game between two low-level league teams, neither of whom had a winning record in spite beating non-conference cupcakes like Troy and Alabama Tuscaloosa. In the snoozefest game 3-5 Clemson beat 4-4 Florida State 24-10.
There was a great matchup of two upstart teams out west, one I had really looked forward to, but it turned out to be a blowout as Texas Tech drilled Bring 'Em Young, 29-7. Meanwhile the Texas Aggies went up to Columbia and dominated an overrated Missouri team 38-17. A&M is once again just a few games short of an undefeated regular season so it will be fascinating to see how they blow it this time.
Oregon State has fallen on hard times. They had ten wins just a couple years ago but lost in Corvallis to a winless non-conference foe on Saturday, falling to the Sam Houston Institute of Technology 21-17. It was the first win of the season for the S.H.I.T. team.
Cross-state rival Oregon traveled to Iowa and had to play in a nasty rainstorm. As usual there was a safety in the game but surprisingly it was scored by Oregon. Oregon rallied late thanks to a great pass from Dante Moore to Malik Benson, setting up the game winning field goal. This was after the Huckeyes had made the most of the elements and had a well executed 93-yard drive to take a late lead. 93 yards is more than they gained in several of their wins last year.
Duke's resurgence ground to a halt when they got stripped late in the game and lost 37-34 on the road at Yukon. I'm not sure why an east coast team from North Carolina would want to play in Whitehorse, especially in November. You ever see a Grey Cup game? It's even colder than that in the Klondike.
Indiana had the catch of the year to win at State College Station. After the game, IU quarterback Fernando Mendoza repeatedly thanked the man upstairs for the miraculous win. I think Fernando should consider the possibility that it was less about the big guy helping out Fernando and more about wanting to punish the four-eyed putz who used to coach Penn State.
Nope, once again I haven't seen him. Nobody up here wants to talk about it.
Finally there was some controversy at the Coliseum because USC replaced its punter #80 with a quarterback who also wore #80 and the QB #80 threw a pass from punt formation for a key first down against Northwestern. After the game Coach Lincoln said they'd switched numbers on the QB several weeks ago just to set up this trick play.
I find such antics quite shameful. If Riley Lincoln has to resort to trick plays to beat Northwestern he should just hang up his whistle.