Off-topic College Football Thread.
 

Well, the college football season started out with a mixed emotions game: the Youngstown State University Penguins vs. The Ohio State University Buckeyes in the Horseshoe. We Penguins fans would have liked to have seen more offense from our side of the scrimmage line be we are secure in knowing that both the Penguins and Buckeyes marches to the National Championship games are still intact.

Then we Penguins/Buckeyes fans got a big season opening weekend gift at about 07:00pmEDT when the University of Utan Utes visited the Big House and came away with a big win.

Rut, just remember, The Games that count for the rest of the regular season will be played on Saturday, November 22nd: the Penguins at Western Illinois University and the Buckeyes at the Big House.

MTD, Sr.

You're right. It is off topic!!!!!!!:p

Didn't show up.
 

Did the Buckeyes get their travel plans mixed-up? They don't seem to know that there is a game at the LA Coliseum tonight.

What's the Nevada Wolfpack's excuse? :p

Is that a team? :D

Peace

Evidently, it ain't a football team. :cool:

I don't think Purdue's place kicker will ever get drafted by the NFL.

Does anyone from Purdue get drafted? :D

Peace

I don't think it would have mattered if Beanie Wells had been 100%. USC was the better team tonight and I don't think that Ohio State is as good as they have been that last two years. They still have the makings of a Top-10 team and should be in the running for a Rose Bowl berth come Nov. 22nd.

Note to Rut: I just hope the Penguins are in the running for the playoffs come Nov. 22nd. :D

MTD, Sr.

Yup, just <b>before</b> the first</b> Michigan player gets selected.:D

<i>"We wuz doin' good until the big kids got out of school."</i>:(

Eleventeen Beanie Wells won't help you when wander out of the Big 10 and play somebody other than the powderpuffs that you usually schedule.

Not to worry....you got that powerhouse Troy next week, followed by the Michigans of the world. With any luck, you'll still be playing in a Bowl.....on December 26.

All I know is that God is in His Heaven, and all is right with the world again.

Iowa 17 - Iowa State 5

I musta missed that one when I was looking through the Division 4 scores.

You cut me so deep, JR.

I'll take wins over Maine, Florida International, and Iowa State.

You shoulda scheduled Ohio State and Michigan too. They both fit right in with that threesome.

You could be 5-0 and going to the Wattaburger Bowl.

Hey, we have our standards.

Whataburger Bowl ???
 

I thought Jurassic was being funny, and made this up, but on a hunch, I searched Wattaburger, and came up with this.

http://re3.yt-thm-a04.yimg.com/image/25/f12/780255067

Here in the Constitution State, I don't believe that we have any franchises. Then I thought that Jurassic Referee was making up the Bowl part, again to be funny, but after another internet search, sure enough, there really is, or was, a Whataburger Cactus Bowl, a Division II all-star game, however, it seems that it's now called the Valero Cactus Bowl.

Jurassic Referee is really up on his obscure football knowledge.

You misspelled antiquated.

Faith and Begora ...
 

M - I - Z
 

Z - O - U

:D

http://re3.yt-thm-a04.yimg.com/image/25/f12/780255067

They're a Texas thing and man are they good. I sure do miss them since I moved to Illinois years ago!!!! And if you like poultry try the whatachicken. I'm not making this up, really I'm not.

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OUCH! THAT HAD TO HURT!!!!!:eek:

I remember eating there in TX when I was spending my days in San Antonio. Between them and Jack-in-the-Box....

When the Big East can beat an ACC team, then I will get upset by what JR has to say. Look, I think Penn State scored again on Syracuse.

Peace

And PSU plays Temple next weekend! Woohoo! ;)

My gf told me that the Monster Burger at Hardee's (a US chain) has 1,420 calories and 108 grams of fat. The recommended daily maximum for fat is less than 50% of that value! I like those restaurants, but not as much as your health care system. Luckily, I don't go to those places anymore: I bet Denny's is just as bad, among many others.

BYU 59, UCLA 0. I can live with that. ;)

I think there was this guy name Bob Griese, or something like that.

When did Tom Brady go to Michigan? ;)

Peace

<i>"I'll have two Monster Burgers with extra bacon and cheese, super-size me a large fries..and give me a <b>diet</b> coke."</i>

-or-

<i>I'll have a Lumberjack Slam, a French Toast Slam and an All-American Slam...and a small glass of <b>skim</b> milk."</i>

-or-

You can visit the House of Tofu in Springfield, MASS and have the Bhuck Elics Special......a tofuburger, plain on a 12 grain bun, half a grape and a glass of diet designer water.

You had me for a second, but I know Elics can't eat that much. I mean really, I think about 7 or 8 grains is all he can handle in one meal.

First, that was funny. ;)
Second, they were a 25 pt underdog, so no one was expecting much. :rolleyes:
Third, they really got thumped. :(

I think that we have an answer for Rut.
 

Rut is always asking about the last time that Illinois beat Michigan, so...

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now we know that it was October 4, 2008. :D

This was what was know in my younger days as "Drunk Food". I don't think I've ever tasted one when I was sober.

Just like Taco Bell and Jack in the Box in college. Much past midnight, nobody in those establishments were sober, inlcuding the cashiers. Good thing college students can be fed after midnight, unlike Gremlins.

Toledo over Michigan? Sheesh!

What'll happen next, something bizarre like UNC beating Notre Dame? Nah.... ;)

The results may not be as drastic, but it's still not a good idea.

Holy Toledo! Off the crossbar and through from 48 and then a chip shot miss on the other end. Another loss in the Big House. :eek:
Where's Rut? :p


http://assets.espn.go.com/i/teamlogo...trans/2649.gifToledo 13, http://assets.espn.go.com/i/teamlogo.../trans/130.gifMichigan 10
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Final


12:00 PM ET, October 11, 2008
Michigan Stadium,
Ann Arbor, MI

I am right here. And if Michigan wins another game this year, I will be surprised. I said this while sitting in the Big House during the Wisconsin game. Unlike some here, I have perspective on the team and what they were going to do this year. You do not fill lose all your offensive play makers and play a QB that has never played a snap before this season, a RB that has never played, on offensive lineman that started before this season and numerous wide receivers that never played and expect to have success on offense. This does not include the fact that the players were not recruited to run this offense with a brand new coach that is not from the program. I am not a Cubs fan that gets excited about minimal accomplishments and brags about it. :p

Michigan is terrible and they make more headlines then any team from Nevada (I have no idea what Nevada did in any sport let alone football). I guess you are jealous. ;)

Peace

When I was a kid (in the 19th century) my friends and I used to go to Comiskey Park to see the White Sox. We'd stop at Carl's Red Hots on Stony Island Avenue ( I think they're still there) on the way there to pick up a bag of Vienna jumbo kosher dogs. They were boiled, then put on a steamed poppy seed roll. You could "drag it through the garden" which meant putting on virtually any kind of veggie you wanted plus you could choose from about five kinds of brown mustard. They'd put it on a piece of white butcher paper and pour a huge amount of hand cut fries right out of the hopper all over the dog then wrap it up. Here's the best part - 25 cents! The weird part was that they carried only Nedlog (golden spelled backwards was their slogan) non-carbonated pop. We wouldn't buy any but wait until we got to the ballpark to get a Coke.

Man - I miss those days.

BTW - anyone who put ketchup on a hot dog was drawn and quartered.

That still is the only way that I know to eat a 'dog. Your description is so right on that my mouth is watering for one.
One question - 19th century ???

That's known as a "joke", Lcubed. :) I know they're hard to recognize because we're not supposed to make them anymore.

I knew MP was old, just not that old. Little did I know that he is that old and that explains all his meds. Nothing wrong with an innocuous joke IMO.

I only said I went to Carl's in the 19th century, not that I was born then. Actually, I was born 6000 years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Sure they did. Just ask Sarah Palin.

OOOPS! A joke. Sorry.

Rut, it's the bizarro world!!

Big Blue loses to Toledo in the Big House while Carolina is 5-1 after coming from 11 points down to beat Notre Dame.

And Big Blue goes to Happy Valley this weekend to face the hot Nittany Lions and their 100,000 rabid fans all dressed in white....it sure doesn't get any easier. PSU owes Michigan....... WE ARE....PENN STATE!

After working for the local police for two years dealing with drunk college students...I completely agree. :D

Mark, those sound pretty good! I admit though, I put ketchup on my hog dogs. :o