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Article #118: Ferringo College Report: Joe Pa Takes A Tumble

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Pretty nondescript weekend in college comeback.
football, eh? Thursday doesn't count Oh, and DT Glenn Dorsey is a friggin'
towards the weekend, lads. Yeah, the Big man-imal.
East may have been decided, the Big Two - Weird, Notre Dame didn't cover again.
had minor scares, and some old guy got And if Brady Quinn wins the Heisman, I'll
mugged on the Penn State sideline. Oh, puke. I know that no one wants to win the
wait. That was Joe Pa. My bad. But I will award this year, but there's no way he
say that had to be the most gets it over Mike Hart. And yes, I know
unintentionally funny moment involving a Troy Smith will win it, but my vote goes
senior citizen and a collision since Bob to Hart. That guy is carrying the
Dole lost his battle with gravity in Wolverines.
California in 1996. - Do you think Iowa State missed Stevie
Granted, it was nice to see a football Hicks? Note to self: always bet against a
player in Tennessee not named "Pac Man" team that just lost its senior leader and
getting arrested for a bar fight, and best offensive player.
it's always nice when Butch Davis is - How about a round of applause for
suddenly not the guy who spent four years Buffalo. The Bulls shook off the fact
sucking his thumb in the fetal position that they're in Upstate New York in
in Cleveland, but Week 10 still seemed November, and that 41-0 drubbing at B.C.,
like it was missing something. And it to hammer visiting Kent State 41-14 as
wasn't Jean-Luc Picard. 16-point dogs. It must seem like forever
I don't know. When you find it, let me ago that the Golden Flashes were the
know. In the meantime, here are a few Cinderella team atop the MAC.
leftover thoughts from the World of - Kudos to the Houston defense. All of
College Football: the focus heading into their showdown
- Memo to Bob Ryan: Georgia isn't the with Tulsa was on the Hurricane secondary
only team in the South that plays against Kevin Kolb. But it was the
"between the hedges". Auburn comes to Cougars defense that really made the
mind. The whole idea of his story was to difference by holding Tulsa to a mere 10
gather insight into why those Simple points.
Southerners love college football. Along those same lines, you had to be
Instead, he made himself look like and impressed by San Jose State shutting out
asshole. Good show. New Mexico State in the second half on
- Florida managed to hold off a game Saturday. Say what you will about how bad
Vanderbilt club, but they lost DT Marcus the Aggies are, they were playing at home
Thomas for the rest of the year. Thomas, and were completely locked down by a
who was recently spotted with Puff The Spartans defense on a mission.
Magic Dragon, is believed to have failed - So much for a letdown from Oregon
a drug test. What is this world coming to State. Good go. They've been hopped up on
when college kids are doing drugs? adrenaline, amphetamines and anger for
- Memo to Chase Daniels: There are two weeks now and absolutely destroyed
cameras on you. Lots of them. In fact, the utterly befuddled Arizona State
ESPN is only slightly less intrusive than squad. The Beavers are suddenly No. 24 in
the National Security Agency and a the BCS rankings after their fourth
proctologist. For those of you that don't straight win.
know, the Missouri quarterback was caught And poor Stanford. Can you imagine what
on the Worldwide Leader picking his nose it must've been like at those practices
and eating it. Yup. It's as bad as it last week? It must have felt something
sounds. like Nagasaki on Aug. 10, right after
- Great weekend for the Bluegrass State. those U.S. warning leaflets rained down
First, Louisville downed West Virginia in over them and one day before The Rapture
an outstanding and exciting game on rained down over them.
Thursday. Next, Kentucky stunned - My hated rival, Bob Stoops, had another
staggering Georgia on Saturday. Good great weekend. No, the Sooners didn't
times, and I'm sure plenty of moonshine cover. But they did score their second
was imbibed throughout the ordeal. straight impressive Big 10 road win by
However, I'm still not sure that the best topping Texas A&M. Stoops showed a lot of
team won that WVU-Louisville game. I'm stones going for it on fourth-and-1, from
not taking anything away from the Cards. his own 29-yard line, with less than two
They're an outstanding team. Truly minutes to go in a one-point game. Maybe
top-notch. But they were playing at home, it's luck. Or maybe he's that good. I'll
befitted from six fumbles (three let you decide.
recovered), and managed both a special - Those are some huge stones that Stoops
teams and defensive touchdown. That stuff showed, but how about Houston's Nutts?
is a little fluky to me. The Arkansas skipper also made a bold
I still hold to the claim that Louisville maneuver when he yanked golden boy Mitch
will not go undefeated. I said it last Mustain after one pass - ONE PASS -
week, and I'll say it again. against South Carolina. Yes, that pass
- It's a good thing LSU won that game was intercepted. But now Nutt has opened
because they got screwed - AGAIN - by the the Pandora's Box of a quarterback
officials. That ball CLEARLY touched a controversy. Sophomore Casey Dick played
Tennessee blocker in the second quarter well, and has been named the starter, but
even though replay upheld the ruling as a this is a fine line that Nutt is walking.
touchback. Instead of being up 14-0 and It's a gamble - and you know we respect
on the way to a blowout, they made me that around here.
sweat out a stirring fourth-quarter






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