Here's how you know your team sucks: 54 yards of offense. Nope, that's not how many yards our quarterback (who by the way is named TUGGLE) had; that's how many yards our entire team had through the entire game. Yuck.
So I wash my hands of Boston College today, and I move onto USC's seriously pathetic loss to Washington, 16-13. My dad always reminds me that the Millers are supporters of a Husky-free Northwest. That said, I gotta give it to the Dawgs tonight, pulling off the last-second win over Southern Cal. The Trojans were ranked #3 in the country. I think everyone knew, after last week, that USC was beatable. They are not the Trojans of previous years, at least. But being close late against USC is dangerous -- they're the kind of team that makes big plays, the kind of team you watch and are like, see? Now why can't we do that? (We being whoever you're rooting for who inevitably fumbles on 3rd and 1 or throws an interception in the end zone).
So that was an enjoyable part of the night. Particularly because when things don't go Pete Carroll's way, this is what he looks like (note the mock turtleneck):
The interesting part of this game, I think, is the Washington story. This team won NO games last year. Literally, 0-12. So now this new coach (who used to be an offensive coordinator for USC -- ouch, now that stings!) shows up to replace Ty Willingham (another story for another day) and his team puts up a big game against LSU, then goes out two weeks later and beats USC? Wow. That's awesome.
Anyway, that wasn't the only fun part of the day. You guys remember BYU's Bronco Mendenhall? Yeah, BYU was ranked #7 in the country, then went out and were summarily dismantled by Florida State, 54-28. I support putting Mormons where they belong. So. Goodbye Bronco. Back to the WAC for you.
And then there was Virginia Tech. My brother was at the game; he brings a little TV to watch the ND game at the VT games, it's kind of adorable. He'd texted me to say the VT game was disappointing, and I was hanging out with my parents and saw the score was 15-10 with less than a minute to go, so I'd sort of given up hoping the Hokies would beat Nebraska.
And then I received this sort of panicky, ridiculous screaming phone call from him telling me he'd just witnessed the greatest game except for the 2005 ND-USC game, which I didn't really understand because USC beat ND in the last second of that game with the Bush Push. And then I saw that they'd beaten the Huskers after all. Pretty awesome. My mom told him to stay out of jail and he yelled "NOT BY MUCH!" and hung up on me. So I'm hoping that he doesn't have another incident in which we get kicked out of Buffalo Wild Wings at like 7:30 p.m. after he runs up, slaps the TV and tells the entire bar to fuck off for rooting against ND.
ND also pulled off a win today, but not by much. Their best receiver broke his collarbone too. Which is annoying.
Alright, I leave you with this side-by-side comparison, brought to my attention by a grieving USC fan who was probably hoping one of Colt McCoy's googly eyes would be gauged out today (alas, not to be).
Check out weird turtle-face, googly-eye Tyler Hansbrough (who has a super super annoying commercial out right now), and his equally not-smart-looking doppelganger, Colt McCoy:
I probably could have found a better comparison shot but this one of Tyler made me laugh a lot.
Goodnight, girls! Tomorrow I'll look for a good No Helmets...
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