CFB Week 12

This week is certainly the week to work on some home projects, take your significant other out, or really do anything but watch college football. This schedule is wretched, outside of the early Michigan/Wisconsin game.

 

Yep, I'm chilling in a deer blind right now, have that game and UT-WVA on record at the house. Guess I'll watch them tonight, maybe.

 

Auburn looking utterly pathetic

 

Auburn really might lose to Louisiana Monroe

 

That was a close call. Fire Gus Malzahn.

 

Wow, so Oklahoma State has really just gone and given up, huh?

 

Play call on that last series by Kansas State is beyond embarrassing. They deserve to lose this game playing like p*****s like that.

 

I liked Baker Mayfield a lot, until recently. He needs to quit apologizing, stop taunting and stop being selfish.

It's a problem now.

 

KU not shaking hands and that clear targeting is pretty personal. I'm not gonna chastise Mayfield for rubbing it in.

 

Random pet peeve...I get that play-by-play announcers and analysts have to fill lots of time, and generally speaking, I don't really understand why so many of them seem to be so universally hated by fans. But with that being said, I really don't get why they think they need to go into granular detail on the difference between a referee saying a reviewed call "stands" and a referee saying that the call "is confirmed." This has been the accepted verbiage since replay began and yet they still explain this to us every. single. time.

 

I get that Vanderbilt isn't any good (they've honestly looked awful since getting blasted by Alabama), but this Missouri team looks like a completely different group than the one we saw in the first half of the season. Up 35-0 on the Commodores at halftime.

A win here would put Mizzou into a bowl game, which would be a huge accomplishment considering:

A. The low expectations coming into the season
B. How awful the Tigers looked until mid-October.

Sure, they've gotten back on track against, quite literally, the very worst teams in the SEC (Florida, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt, with Arkansas due up next week), but unless you're an Alabama, Auburn, or Georgia, that's the name of the game in that conference. Beat the teams you should beat, and then occasionally steal one from someone you shouldn't beat. Do that year and after year and you're basically establishing a baseline of 7-5, 8-4. At Missouri in this SEC, that's good enough.

 

This week's surprisingly debilitating coach buyout we're learning about is Jim Mora, head coach of the 5-6 UCLA Bruins. His contract runs through 2021 and has an attached buyout of $12 million.

He led the team to a couple of 9-3 seasons (which became 10-3 seasons after bowl wins) early in his tenure, but since then, things have stagnated. The 4-8 season last year is somewhat understandable given that Josh Rosen was out for much of the season, but this season hasn't been much better with Rosen in place (minus the Utah game). Most importantly, it doesn't look like there's much reason to think next season will be a marked improvement. Rosen will be gone, so they'll be breaking in a new quarterback, and the program has suffered a bunch of recruiting decommits of late. Prior to that, this next recruiting class was actually on the short list of reasons for UCLA to keep Mora, but now, perhaps not so much.

My guess, barring an embarrassing blowout loss to Cal next week, is that he'll get another year, just based on getting a pass for the 4-8 record last year and there still being the faintest bit of shine left from those ten-win seasons.

 

If Kyle Whittingham hadn't called a TO after 1st down, I think Chris Petersen was content to let the clock run out and go to OT. But given a chance to think about it, Petersen gave the keys to Jake Browning and UW gets a game-winning FG as time expires.

For several reasons, major choke job by Utah.

 

He's a jackass, great player though.

 

Mayfield adding his name to the long list of punk-ass b**** OU players.