Now that I'm lucid again...

I really appreciate that after Boston College beats your mediocre team, NOW you're calling for your coach's head. After literally 30-odd years. It isn't as though the Eagles have never beaten the Seminoles before -- you know, we did it last year. And Bowden hasn't known the names of his players for years, so why NOW? It's wonderful to me that a loss to BC is what really offends FSU fans, not the loss to South Florida. (Which to be fair is 5-0. But still.)

Which brings me to my favorite statistic of the weekend: Greg Paulus (yes, the former point guard for Duke who now plays QB for Syracuse) threw five picks in one game against South Florida.

It's like the football equivalent of this:



And now for an I told you so: At the start of the season, I wondered why everyone thought this was UNC's breakout year. UNC is a basketball school, not a football school. And I have never been inclined to think that UNC is interested in being a football school. Yet, at the start of the season, the Heels were ranked #21. In the interim, they've lost to Georgia Tech (okay, I can accept that) and then to Virginia. UVA, I should point out, lost to William and Mary at the start of the year. Until I moved in with a W&M grad last year, I had no idea they even had a football team. The school's mascot is named Ebirt. It's this weird green monster. That's how bad UVA is: they lose to teams with mascots named Ebirt (which for those of you playing at home, is Tribe spelled backwards, which was the school's former, and way cooler, mascot).




One other thing. Look, I appreciate that Oklahoma's star QB is out right now. But let's look at this realistically: Oklahoma is 2-2. The Sooners have lost to both BYU and Miami -- and while this isn't how I like to look at rankings, BYU got its ass handed to it by Florida State (who just lost to BC) and Miami is pretty good but I'm not prepared to say the U is as good as everyone thinks. And yet Oklahoma is ranked #19. Riddle me that, Batman.