What A Hoot

Wacky regular season comes to end

Nov. 28, 2007

College Football Preview: Week 14

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Top 25 Game Previews ----- SATURDAY ----- No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma Pittsburgh at No. 2 West Virginia No. 14 Tennessee vs. No. 5 LSU UCLA at No. 8 USC Washington at No. 11 Hawaii Oregon State at No. 18 Oregon No. 21 BYU at San Diego State  Team Capsules  ---------- Air Force Akron Alabama Arizona Arizona St Arkansas Arkansas St Army Auburn BYU Ball St Baylor Boise St Boston College Bowling Green Buffalo California Central Mich Cincinnati Clemson Colorado Colorado St Connecticut Duke East Carolina Eastern Mich Florida Florida St Fresno St Georgia Georgia Tech Hawaii Houston Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa St Kansas Kansas St Kent State Kentucky LSU La Tech Louisville Marshall Maryland Memphis Miami Fla Miami Ohio Michigan Michigan St Middle Tenn Minnesota Mississippi Mississippi St Missouri NC State Navy Nebraska Nevada New Mexico New Mexico St North Carolina North Texas Northern Ill Northwestern Notre Dame Ohio Ohio State Oklahoma Oklahoma St Oregon Oregon St Penn St Pittsburgh Purdue Rice Rutgers SMU San Diego St San Jose St South Carolina South Florida Southern Miss Stanford Syracuse TCU Temple Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech Toledo Troy St Tulane Tulsa UAB UCF UCLA UL-Lafayette UL-Monroe UNLV USC UTEP Utah Utah St Vanderbilt Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest Washington Washington St West Virginia Western Mich Wisconsin Wyoming ----------

By Brian Jones

Special to CSTV.com

	BRIAN JONES Brian Jones is a football analyst for CSTV and CSTV.com. E-mail here!

        ---   Column Archive   --- 1/17: Good Call For Some 1/8: Prognosticating Failure 1/8: LSU's Defense The Real MVP 1/3: Oklahoma Flat Out Whipped 12/18: Postseason Pontification, Edition '08 12/5: Final Thoughts - I Think - On 2007 11/28: What A Hoot 11/20: Love And Hate 11/13: Jayhawks Are For Real 11/05: Heisman Hosses 10/29: Corn-shucked 10/15: Nation Who Loves To Hate 10/9: No Love In The Heartland 10/1: Lessons For Professors 9/24: Say What? 9/3: NCAA Alphabet Soup 9/1: Questions On Defense Bit Wolverines 7/24: SEC Breakdown 7/16: Pac-10 Breakdown 7/10: Big East Breakdown 7/03: ACC Breakdown 6/25: 'Big 11' Breakdown 6/19: Big 12 Breakdown 5/14: Who's That 4/30: BJ's All Hi-Def Defense 4/27: `Twas the Night Before The Draft 4/23: Picture Perfect 4/6: Coach Robinson, We'll Miss You 4/3: BJ's 32 3/19: The Deserving Hall of Famers 3/5: Dreaming of December Delirium 2/26: Spring Cleaning 2/19: Gay or Straight, It Shouldn't Matter 2/13: Steroids Were Once Part of The Game 2/7: A Walk Down Recruiting Memory Lane 2/5: Longing For The Day When Race Doesn't Matter 1/29: Old Ways Need to Change 1/22: Change For the Better 1/15: No Problem With Ginn, Peterson Going 12/18: Postseason Pontification 12/12: Season Superlatives 12/4: Handicapping the Heisman Race 11/27: Rutgers Better Lookout For Stewing WVU 11/20: Got To Like Booty And USC 11/13: It's All About The D For Michigan 11/6: Knights Will Be Hard-Pressed to Stop Cards 10/31: Win in Cards For Louisville

The wacky world of college football 2007-style continues, much to the delight of fans everywhere. It was wild and entertaining again this past weekend on the college football landscape. One would surmise that one should not be surprised at this point by upsets and other odd occurrences on the college gridiron. Let's keep it real, this season has had us all in a state of phantasmagoria. (I have Wilson Baldwin way back in the 10th grade to thank for that term.)

Let's start at the top, where no one gave Arkansas a snowball's chance in hell to defeat the No. 1 LSU Tigers...in the No. 1 team's backyard...in front of arguably the most deafening crowd in all of college football. Well R-Kansas, as Les Miles likes to pronounce Arkansas, had plans for "less smiles" in the Bayou! And how about Houston Nutt's celebration, first promoting my main man running back Darren "McFooten" McFadden for the Heisman and subsequently resigning from his "dream job." I think it's safe to say his dream job became a freakin' nightmare over the past few seasons.

Speaking of nightmares, for the second consecutive year, my Longhorns were upended by them damn Texas A&M Aggies. Somehow, one of the worst passing offenses in Division I-A amassed over 360 passing yards. It's a C.O.N.-spiracy I tell you! And their head coach, Dennis Franchione, resigned after the game as well. Reports have it that he got $3 million to leave. If they really, really want to get rid of your ass you'll get over $160 million like that cat at Merrill Lynch. Nonetheless, what's this win the rivalry game and then resign trend? I thought it was win and you're in, not win and it's the END!

Down in The Swamp, we had Florida and Florida State without the much ballyhoo that the game has deserved in the past. Georgia and Georgia Tech didn't draw any interest outside of the Peachtree State. Did you know South Carolina actually produces more peaches than Georgia? Georgia Tech's head man Chan Gailey found a pink slip in his peach. Kentucky and Tennessee played forever. I had four helpings of Thanksgiving leftovers during that game. That's right, fo' - I have a weight problem. I can't wait to eat.

Speaking of grubbing, nod if like me, you wonder how in the hell Kansas head coach Mark Mangino motivates his players to workout. I digress. The much-hyped game between the Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers lived up to its billing. You had explosive plays, turnovers, big hits - a thoroughly entertaining contest. The atmosphere in the stands was just as impressive, that joint was loud!

In conclusion, let me say thanks to all that have participated in such a wild and crazy college football season thus far! There's still some football left as the crystal football ownership remains in flux. You can rest assured there's more wackiness on the horizon. Why stop now?