The College Football Czar
Week 9
Week eight in review: The number of undefeated teams has dwindled to
six, as Miami and Memphis suffered shocking upsets, while Ole Miss fell to
once-beaten Georgia, and an undermanned Texas Tech team took a tough loss to
Arizona State. Of course, the
distinction of going undefeated doesn't mean what it used to, so none of these
losses is as damaging as it might at first appear. In fact, the degree of parity we're seeing
this season suggests the possibility of multiple three-loss teams making it
into the playoff.
A 23-21 win over Mississippi State
was not enough to save Florida head coach Billy Napier, who was dismissed
shortly after the game. Napier finished
with a mark of 22-23 at UF, making him the first Gator coach with a career
losing record in 75 years. Also fired is
Jay Norvell of Colorado State, and the College Football Czar is hardly
surprised, after he picked the Rams to win the Mountain West this year only to
see them now wallowing with an overall record of 2-5. In three-plus seasons at CSU, Norvell went
13-13 in MWC play, and 18-26 overall.
Meanwhile, his unrelated namesake Mike Norvell has been given until the
end of the season to justify his continued employment at Florida State.
You've probably noticed, as has the
College Football Czar, an almost unanimous assumption by college football
announcers that nobody is capable of playing defense anymore. They talk as if the team that is on offense
must play as if it will lose if it does not score a touchdown every time it
touches the ball. In particular, this
attitude has manifested itself in three lardheaded
remarks that we've heard repeatedly throughout the first half of the season:
"You've got nothing to lose" -- The
only people who have nothing to lose are losers. Just because a team is the underdog does not
mean that its coach should throw his tactical judgment to the wind, but this is
just what the announcers consistently demand that he do. Whenever a group-of-five team plays a power
conference team, it should have enough respect for itself not to think it needs
to be in ludicrous desperation mode for the entire game. The mindset of having nothing to lose is
definitionally uncompetitive.
"You're not gonna
win this game with field goals" -- This incomprehensibly stupid remark is most
often made in the first quarter, as if the team with the ball cannot possibly
win the game without scoring a touchdown on every single drive. You'd think somebody who watches football
games for a living would have seen enough of them to know that field goals
matter. Anybody who coaches like it's
end zone or bust on every possession is going to go bust with relative
frequency. When he loses a game 45-42
because he wasn't gonna win the game with field
goals, he will feel like the total lardhead he will truly be.
"You don't want to score too soon" --
This bit of addlebrained advice assumes that the coach has such a total lack of
confidence in his defense that he is willing to impede his own drive. Conversely, it is also based on a belief that
the offense can score touchdowns at will, at times of its own choosing. You score a touchdown when you can score a
touchdown. You don't pause at the
ten-yard-line and try to drain some additional time off the clock before
punching it in, because there's no guarantee that you will be able to do
so. Only a besotted banana-brain is
afraid of scoring the go-ahead touchdown because he will have to give the other
team the ball afterward.
It seems the old adage has been
updated to say defense wins championships, but it doesn't win the individual
games along the way. As they say in
college, it's not moronic, it's paradoxical!
Anyway, the Czar dropped his first
two Friday night games last week, but recovered somewhat to finish with a
record of 12-8. For the season, he is
now 93-65, for a .589 winning percentage.
Oct. 24
California at Virginia Tech
Gobbler quarterback Kyron Drones has
remained monotonous between this year and last, with little change in his
completion percentage, TD-to-INT ratio or rushing yards per carry. Since a promising sophomore season in 2023,
he has suffered a series of leg injuries that have diminished his threat as a
runner, and in turn taken a facet away from his passing game.
Cal cornerback Paco Austin preserved
a 21-18 win over North Carolina when he punched the ball out of the arms of Tar
Heel WR Nathan Leacock less than a yard short of the goal line, and then
pounced on the ball in the end zone for a touchback with less than four minutes
remaining.
These teams have met only once
before, in the 2003 Insight Bowl, which was out of sight, as some people in
Berkeley probably still say. Aaron
Rodgers led the Bears as they trailed that game by two touchdowns, then led by
two touchdowns, and then blew that lead before winning on a last-second field
goal. The 52-49 final, which was
considered outrageous at the time, is now almost mundane. Kind of like the first time somebody scored
ten trillion points in a pinball game.
The College Football Czar can
remember when pinball machine displays only had four digits, and when you
scored 10,000, that was called turning the machine over. By the time he got to college, it was as if
we were keeping score in Argentinian pesos.
California 35, Virginia Tech 24
Oct. 25
Nc State at Pitt
Good thing that miserable, gloomy
dome was covering up last week's Pitt-Syracuse game so nobody could see
it. The Panthers prevailed 30-13, in
spite of having committed 13 penalties for 114 yards, in part because the
Orange had 12 infractions for 107 yards themselves.
Pat Narduzzi's team received a scare
at the end of the first half, when freshman QB Mason Heintschel reacted as if
he had thrown his shoulder out after an awkward pass. He returned to play for the entire second
half, but he might not have gotten up feeling very well on Sunday morning. His status, and that of RB Desmond Reid, will
dictate whether Pitt can keep its three-game winning streak going. Reid did start against SU, but only got six
carries and no receptions at all. His
current backup, freshman tailback J'Kyrian Turner,
was held to 42 yards on 15 carries.
Following an idle week, the Wolfpack
hope to get a fresh start just like they did at the beginning of the season,
when they beat bitter rival East Carolina and upended what has turned out to be
a very good Virginia team. They have
lost their last three games against Division I-A competition, though, including
a dismal defeat by Virginia Tech at home.
Running back Hollywood Smothers seems to be running out of oxygen
lately, in pedestrian performances against both VT and Notre Dame.
The Panthers are being scapegoated
for the field conditions at Acrisure Stadium, to the point that former Steeler
QB Ben Roethilsberger has suggested that they shouldn't be allowed to play
there any longer. This is lardheaded for a number of reasons, aside from the simple
fact that Big Ben himself is a lardhead.
The College Football Czar has a Pitt season ticket. He doesn't go to phony games against
lower-division teams, so he wasn't at the opener against Duquesne, but by the
time he attended the Panthers' second game against Central Michigan, the field
was in tatters already. The state of it
cannot possibly have been attributed to the one college game and one NFL
preseason game that had been played on it up until then.
Later in the season, it's perfectly
normal for a field to have barren patches, especially in a northern city. That doesn't mean the surface has to be so
dry and crumbly that it becomes a hazard to the players running on it. Doesn't this stadium have
groundskeepers? Did they regularly water
the field during this dry summer, or have they prioritized eco-dingbattery above player safety? Or are the field conditions overseen by the
same people who are responsible for maintaining our Fiat-eating, pothole-riddled
city streets?
One thing is for sure. The problem is not that the presence of two
home football teams has turned a once-lush green field into a scene from Bring
Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. They
have both been playing there for a quarter-century, after all. The Panthers and Steelers also shared Pitt
Stadium from 1963-69, before the astroturf era, and back when NFL teams weren't
anal enough to replace the sod whenever it started to look a little brown. As far as the Czar can tell, this created no
concern about the playability of the surface, and no calls to evict the Steelers
from the building.
Ever since the stadium formerly
known as Heinz Field opened in 2001, there has been a certain snobbery among
some Steeler game attendees who don't like this crummy little college team
defiling their field. Well, the city of
Pittsburgh didn't build the stadium so that it could only generate revenue on 9
or 10 days out of the year. It's easy to
flippantly demand that the Panthers move out and build another stadium
somewhere, without regard for where the money to do that would come from, or
how to make up for the lost revenue from the existing stadium. It's also easy to say that Acrisure Stadium
should be able to maintain a natural playing surface just like every other
stadium did from the day that sports were invented up until 1966, but that
makes a heck of a lot more sense.
Besides, construction of the stadium
was contingent on it being used by both teams, with the Steelers and the University
of Pittsburgh signing a joint lease that doesn't run out until 2031. Even if the inclusion of the Panthers in that
deal had created such a problem, nothing could be done about it for six more
years, at which time the Steelers will probably threaten to move out anyway.
By the way, the entire playing
surface at Acrisure Stadium has now been ripped out and replaced, which means
the Panthers will get to mar the pristine new field a day before the precious
Steelers get to play on it. If any of
you lardheads out there are actually mad about that,
good!
Nc State 22, Pitt 19
TCU at West Virginia
In Morgantown, they think a
backfield is a back yard that has never been mowed. A combination of inexperience and injury has
left the Mountaineers in a quandary at both the quarterback and running back
positions. Through seven games, their
five QBs have combined for only four touchdown passes. Not a single tailback on their roster has
reached the 150-yard rushing mark for the season. The result is that they've been utterly
uncompetitive in their four Big XII games so far, most recently getting dumped
by don't-call-us Central Florida, 45-13.
After winning a 42-36 scrap against
Baylor, the Horned Frogs (5-2, 2-2) appear to be back in the Big XII race. That is, until you look ahead at their
November schedule, where they end the regular season against Iowa State,
Brigham Young, Houston and Cincinnati.
It's a little-known fact that in
Morgantown, they think the reason Texas Christian is called the Horned Frogs is
because they use those in their Sunday services, in lieu of snakes.
All right, so maybe West Virginians
don't think in terms like "in lieu of," but the rest of it is a little-known
fact.
TCU 52, West Virginia 24
UCLA at Indiana
It was against these blue bears a
year ago that UI first showed the potential to be a playoff team. That 42-13 rout in the Rose Bowl was the
first of seven straight wins to begin Big Ten play. It was also the first time these two schools
ever met on the gridiron, which is pretty peculiar considering the decades-long
rivalry between the Big Ten and Pac 12 conferences.
It's no surprise that the Hoosiers
have the seventh-rated offense in the nation, but their emergence as a national
championship contender is owed to their rapidly improving defense, which is
currently #7 as well. In a big 30-20
victory at Oregon two weeks ago, their pressure stymied QB Dante Moore so that
he seldom even looked downfield before checking down.
Don't look now, but the Bruins are
in the running for the Big Ten championship game. When they fired head coach DeShaun Foster,
they hadn't played any conference games yet.
Interim coach Tim Skipper lost a tough one in his debut, 17-14 at
Northwestern after trailing 17-0, but since he brought aboard offensive
coordinator Jerry Neuheisel, his team has gone 3-0.
Funny the head coach being the one
named Skipper. If either of them looks
as if he might skip, it's Jerry.
Indiana 31, UCLA 17
Ole Miss at Oklahoma
There's certainly no disgrace in a
43-35 loss to Georgia between the hedges, but there is in the fact that the
Rebels didn't stop them all game long.
No UGA punts, and no turnovers.
Just five Bulldog touchdowns, three field goals, and one possession to
run out the clock.
OU quarterback John Mateer, who had
hurried himself back from hand surgery to play against Texas, was able to
settle back into his position in a 26-7 smashing of South Carolina. After three INTs against the Longhorns, he
was able to stick to safe passes as he completed 18 of 26, albeit for only 150
yards. Now, we'll see how far his
recovery has come along, as he tries to open his offense up again in a critical
battle between 6-1 SEC contenders.
Now that male pom-pom girls are all
the rage, the Sooners should invite Ruprecht from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
to try out for the cheerleading squad. ("OKLAHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLAHOMA!") Watching everybody pretend nothing was wrong
would be half the entertainment value of the game.
Ole Miss 38, Oklahoma 34
South Florida at Memphis
The previously unbeaten Tigers got
rattled in the Battle for the Bones, by an unheralded UAB team under an interim
coach, 31-24. With that upset, they lost
not only the upperhand in the race for the group-of-five CFP bid, but also a
trophy that is a bronze likeness of a rack of baby back ribs. Elvis hasn't been so depressed since he
struck out with Ellie Mae Clampett.
This is not quite an elimination
game as far as USF is concerned, but it's pretty close. If the Bulls were to fall to 6-2 overall with
their first American Conference defeat, then the absence of Tulane from their
schedule would mean they'd need help in order to make it to the league
championship game.
As of last month, dual-threat Bull
quarterback Byrum Brown is old enough to buy rum, but mostly that's what he's
been driving defensive coordinators to do.
In last week's 48-13 flogging of Florida Atlantic, he threw for 256
yards and ran for 111 more, while scoring a total of four touchdowns.
The Liberty Bowl originated in
Philadelphia, then made a brief stop in Atlantic City before migrating to
Memphis in the mid-60s. It was only a
matter of time before the title of Homicide Capital of America followed.
South Florida 28, Memphis 27
Minnesota at Iowa
The Hawkeyes are the latest team to
upset Penn State (if such a thing is still possible), which they did by a final
of 25-24 at Kinnick Stadium. There was a
time when a 21-10 deficit would have seemed insurmountable for Kirk Ferentz's
club, but this year they have former South Dakota State Jackrabbit Mark
Gronowski, who scampered on QB keepers of 38 and 67 yards on a pair of
second-half TD drives.
Last Friday, the radiant rodents
recorded a school record nine sacks as they knocked around Nebraska, 24-6. They only allowed 213 total yards, partly
because they kept the ball away from the N-men for most of the third quarter
with a 14-play touchdown drive.
This Upper Midwest rivalry is played
annually for the Floyd of Rosedale Trophy, which is a pretty schmantzy name for a statue of a pig. It has its origin in an ugly racial incident
from the mid-1930s, when the Minnesota defenders were accused of taking cheap
shots at black Iowa halfback Ozzie Simmons.
When the Hawkeyes hosted the Golden Gophers the following season, an enraged
Iowa Governor Clyde Herring warned, "If the officials stand for any rough
tactics like Minnesota used last year, I'm sure the crowd won't." To short-circuit the possibility of a riot,
Minnesota Governor Floyd Olson made a bet with Herring, with the governor of
the state of the losing team awarding a state fair blue ribbon-winning hog to
the winning team.
The College Football Czar must admit
that he never understood the psychology of this, but playing with the pig on
the line apparently cut the tension and let them get on with the game. Minnesota won 13-6, and some of its players
(publicly, at least) made up with Simmons afterwards. Herring delivered the hog as agreed, and
since it was from a place called Rosedale Farms, with a twinge of bitterness he
named it Floyd after his counterpart to the North, and Floyd of Rosedale was
born.
So, the first year Floyd of Rosedale
was awarded, he was a live animal. The
official story is that they had to settle for a bronze likeness of Floyd by
year two because he had died of cholera.
The truth be known, he really died of collard greens, with scalloped
potatoes and applesauce, but who's counting.
Iowa 24, Minnesota 21
Texas A&M at LSU
Now that the Tigers' opening 17-10
victory over Clemson doesn't look so good in hindsight, the College Football
Czar looks back and doesn't really see an impressive performance on their
resume so far this season. At 5-2 with
matching 20-10 wins over Florida and South Carolina and a 23-7 trudge past
Louisiana Tech, they do not have the look of a team that's about to jump back
into the SEC championship race. Against
Division I-A competition, they're only averaging 20.5 points per game, even
with senior Garrett Nussmeier at quarterback.
The Conjunction Boys stayed on track
for the CFP, but it wasn't easy, as they averted the upset at Arkansas,
45-42. At 7-0, the third-ranked Aggies
would stand a fair chance at an undefeated regular season with a win against
Louisiana State, because they don't have to play Alabama, Georgia or Ole Miss.
Remember how exciting it was when
A&M won that seven-overtime game against the Bayou Bengals, 74-72 in
2018? Of course you do. That's why The Powers That Be Stupid had to put
an end to it, by introducing the alternating two-point conversion format
starting in the third extra frame.
Conversions without touchdowns?
How can you convert nothing into something? That's basically what they did with the
replicators in Star Trek, but they never adequately explained it.
The holodeck in the Next
Generation series was basically the same concept. Remember when Riker used it to create a
concubine? How did that not catch
on? You'd think nobody would have ever
found the time to look for dilithium crystals after
that.
Texas A&M 29, LSU 20
Brigham Young at Iowa State
The 5-2 Cyclones have had a week off
to figure out what to do about their pass defense, following back-to-back
losses to Cincinnati and Colorado. Prior
to that game against the Bearcats, ISU had looked like a likely participant in
the Big XII championship game, but then they lost both of their starting
cornerbacks for the season during the same week.
BYU beat arch rival Utah 24-21 to
stay undefeated, both in conference play and overall. With 122 rushing yards in that game, junior
tailback L.J. Martin is now the runaway leader in the Big XII, with 774 yards
and an average of 6.1 per carry.
Cougar QB Bear Bachmeier sometimes
throws to his brother, Tiger Bachmeier, who plays wide receiver. It's a closely guarded secret that they have
another brother, named Sheep. Every
family's got one.
Brigham Young 30, Iowa State 27
Missouri at Vanderbilt
Commodore QB Diego Pavia only passed
for 160 yards against LSU, but he repeatedly extended plays and made unlikely
escapes to keep drives alive. With the
help of his own 86 rushing yards, he led his team to a 31-24 victory by
converting 8 of 15 third and fourth downs.
Mizzou survived a scare from Auburn,
when they kept AU off the scoreboard through two overtime periods in a 23-17
squeaker. The SEC-leading team in
rushing yardage had an uncharacteristically awful game on the ground, however,
gaining only 91 yards on 44 carries.
When these teams met in 2020 in the
Show-Me State, Vandy showed them the first female football player in SEC
history, and it's a good thing they did.
That had been a really rough year, so everybody needed a good laugh.
Missouri 21, Vanderbilt 19
Houston at Arizona State
The Sun Devils and Texas Tech played
a dirty trick on the College Football Czar last week. By the time he posted his picks on Thursday
night, Red Raider QB Behren Morton was almost a sure thing, but Sam Leavitt was
an uncertainty. It turned out that
Leavitt was able to play, but Morton wasn't, as ASU escaped with a 26-22
upset. Leavitt's scrambling ability was
limited to almost nothing, but he threw for 319 yards.
UH has a record of 6-1, but last
week's last-second 31-28 victory over Arizona was the first time they've beaten
an opponent that now has a winning record.
Conveniently for the Cougars, their schedule softens up again after this
week, with games against Central Florida and West Virginia.
Union Army general Philip Sheridan
said if he owned both hell and Texas, he'd live in hell and rent out
Texas. That's why Sparky the Sun Devil
is smiling, because at least in hell, he only has to deal with that dry heat. If he lived in Houston, the humidity would
make him look disheveled and droopy.
Then, people would start mistaking him for Johnny Depp, and that would
be a fate worse than hell.
Arizona State 45, Houston 31
Illinois at Washington
Husky hopes of a big victory in the
Big House disappeared after QB Desmond Williamjr threw identical interceptions
on consecutive second-half possessions.
Michigan converted both miscues for touchdowns in a stifling 24-7
defeat, leaving UW (5-2, 2-2) with an identical record to this week's opponent.
It was easy to write off the
Fighting Illini after they got blown out in Bloomington by 53 points, but their
only two losses are to the nation's current top two teams, IU and Ohio
State. With no more ranked opponents on
their schedule, a second visit to Indiana for the Big Ten title game is not out
of the question.
In last week's 34-16 loss to OSU, Illini
quarterback Luke Altmeyer threw his first interception of the season, as well
as his thirteenth TD. The senior slinger
has got a 72.4 percent completion rate, and is well on his way to a 3,000-yard
season.
Legend has it that Washington said, "I
cannot tell Illi," but he'd better be able to tell them from his own receivers
this week.
Illinois 19, Washington 17
San Diego State at Fresno State
The suffocating SDSU defense leads
the Mountain West against both the pass and the run. Nationally, the Aztecs are #5 in fewest
points allowed, at 12.2 per game. Last
week, they blanked Nevada through the first three quarters of a 44-10
trouncing.
E.J. Warner, son of Super Bowl
champion Kurt, threw three interceptions last week, as the Bulldogs were blown
out by Colorado State 49-21, ending a five-game winning streak. In his four-year, three-team collegiate career,
Warner has now been picked off 46 times.
At this rate, he could be just like his dad, insofar as a three-year
stint with the Iowa Barnstormers of arena ball is concerned.
This, the weakest trophy game in
college football, is played for possession of the Oil Can. What suffices for the story behind it is that
an oil can was found near San Diego, which was believed to have been used by a
traveling fan from Fresno who was having car trouble. At least they got the "oy" part right.
San Diego State 24, Fresno State 14
Colorado at Utah
The Buffaloes' 24-17 upset of Iowa
State gives them a chance of reaching a bowl game in this rebuilding year. For that to remain a realistic goal, they'll
have to beat their former Pac 12 foes on the road in Salt Lake City, where they
haven't won since 2011.
It was after a tough loss to arch
rival BYU last year that the Utes were buried by the Buffs, 49-24. Those were the fifth and sixth games of a
seven-game losing streak, however. This
year, they were a 5-1 team before getting tripped up by the undefeated Cougars,
24-21.
The Buffs had better watch out for
the Mighty Utah Student Section Section, which is
also known as MUSS.
Too late. It has already gotten to QB Kaidon Salter.
Utah 23, Colorado 13
Toledo at Washington State
The plucky Cougars have come close
to upsetting ranked opponents Ole Miss and Virginia on the road, but can they
keep their intensity up when they return home to take on a small conference
opponent? The last time they took on a
team from the MAC, they stumbled to a Sun Bowl loss to Central Michigan in
2021.
The 4-3 Rockets are 0-3 on the road
this season, losing to Kentucky, Western Michigan and Bowling Green by an
average of 4.7 points. They led league-leader
WMU 13-0 in the third quarter, and blew a 21-0 lead against bitter rival BGSU.
Sometimes a hockey team will shake
things up by pulling the goalie, even if he wasn't primarily to blame. Something like that seems to have happened at
Wazzu, where opening-day starting QB Jaxon Potter was
benched after a blowout loss to North Texas.
New starter Zevi Eckhaus has been adequate, but it's the response of the
Cougar defense that has made them more competitive. Since giving up 59 points in back to back
games, they have stuffed Colorado State 20-3, and then hung tough in those games
against the Rebels (24-21) and Cavs (22-20).
A team whose two quarterbacks have a
combined total of four last names? It's
a wonder they're not playoff-bound.
Washington State 27, Toledo 20
Kansas State at Kansas
In this battle of the Sunflower
State, one team has a QB who actually resembles the state symbol. Petal-headed passer Avery Johnson loved the
Jayhawks not last season, when he threw for 253 yards and two touchdowns in a
29-27 K-State victory.
The KU-KU Pigeon Sisters may not
have an air conditioner, but they've got plenty of ventilation since Texas Tech
blew their doors off two weeks ago, 42-17.
At 2-2 in the Big XII, each team is fighting to stay in the race for a
championship game berth in the most parity-riddled conference in the nation.
After that loss in Lubbock, Jayhawk coach
Lance Leipold claimed that a coach on his staff had been hit with a pocket knife
that had been thrown by a Red Raider fan.
An investigation later found that the knife was folded shut when a KU
player spotted it on the ground and handed it to a coach. It had most likely been dropped there, not
thrown. Both teams were fined by the Big
XII after the game. Tech's fine was for
the fans throwing objects onto the field, but those objects were tortillas, not
knives. The Jayhawk fine was for Leipold's
reckless and disparaging accusation. The
embarrassed Kansas coach grumbled that "I need to do better."
Perhaps his hysterics would improve
if he studied tapes of Charles Town Chiefs coach Reg Dunlop. "Somebody threw a @*%#$&! tire chain, hit
him in the mouth! Somebody threw a
monkey wrench, hit Jeff right in the face!
Self-defense, for cryin out loud!"
Kansas State 44, Kansas 33
Northwestern at Nebraska
During their current four-game
winning streak, the Wildcats have held their opponents to an average of 10.5
points per game. A week ago, they
pulverized Purdue 19-0, for their first shutout since 2017. The school that's known more from brains than
Braun is now 16-15 under its current coach.
Dylan Raiola was not able to get things
rolling in a 24-6 loss at Minnesota, in which the Cornhusker QB had a
season-low 177 passing yards. This was partly
the fault of an offensive line that let him get lit up by the radiant rodents
for nine sacks. They'll have to hold up
better than that against an NU defense that is allowing only 15.1 points per
game,
Each team wears an N on its helmet,
but instead of centering theirs like most helmet logos, Northwestern used to
put theirs way up high on the crown.
Because they're an egghead school, the College Football Czar figured it
meant they were summoning the Nth power.
Northwestern 21, Nebraska 16
Baylor at Cincinnati
BU quarterback Sawyer Robinson leads
the nation in passing, meaning that he's first in yardage through the air, not
that he leads the nation matter-of-factly, although he's doing that as
well. His team has lost three games,
which means that he's at the right school to still have a shot at the
Heisman. This week could help his cause,
if he can have a big game against a surprising 6-1 Bearcat team whose pass
defense only ranks #13 in the 16-team Big XII.
UC is currently tied for first place
with Brigham Young at 4-0 in conference play.
They're just now reaching the challenging part of their schedule,
however. After the Bears, their
remaining opponents are Utah, Arizona, BYU and TCU.
With all the special alternate
uniforms football teams wear these days, the College Football Czar thought the
Bearcats might play a game dressed like Herb Tarlek
of WKRP. Upon further review, the
Bengals have already got that covered.
Baylor 41, Cincinnati 37
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