This is our new Thursday night thread. We hope YOU our readers and friends in the blogosphere pop your heads in and engage in a little conversation.

This is a weekend of under cards, but let’s take a look at the inner beauty.

Florida State 28 @ North Carolina 26 – To date this is the least exciting Thursday night game of the season. FSU is fighting for bowl eligibility and North Carolina needs a big win at home to feed their fan base. The ‘Noles have proven they can put up points while North Carolina has struggled  to find their groove. FSU’s defense has been suspect, but is good enough to hold the Heels in check.

South Florida 13 @ Pittsburgh 20 – Don’t punch me in the balls Wanstache.

Georgia Tech 27 @ Virginia 17 – From here on out, for obvious reasons, I’ll have my eye on Georgia Tech. For those who turn a blind eye to ACC football, Virginia Tech needs our engineering brethren in the Dirty to lose so we control our own destiny in the ACC again. The Jackets haven’t won in Charlottesville since 1990, but unfortunately their offense will be too much for the Cavs to handle. They’ll grind out the clock and UVA will waste half of their precious possessions.

Boston College 27 @ Notre Dame 30 – Brian and Jeff took some time away from knitting new tights for dance class to take a look at the history between the Eagles and Irish. The Eagles are riding a six game winning streak into South Bend, but we’re picking the Irish because Boston College has been outscored 21-73 on the road this year. The winner will receive representation in the Jesus graphic above. Current Jesus Cup standings have been provided for your convenience.

Continue Reading “Divine Predictions. Thursday Night Open Thread with Jesus.” »

We haven’t done this in a while, we think it’s like riding a bike, but tell us if we’re doing it wrong.

Jenn Brown is college football’s newest sexy blonde and FOTP has her covered from all angles.

Fried Pies–An older woman’s outer lady business. (Vadge)

The thrill of victory and agony of defeat. Purdonkulous victory by the Boilers over the Buckeyes. Man, it was great being down there, and there’s no better way to leave a field than through the field gate surrounded by thousands of smiling fellow Boilers–Boilerdowd of Boiled Sports. The warriors draped in scarlet and gray are questioning accountability, desire and competence. Georgia Tech’s win over the Hokies had Winfield and Dane partying over at President Peterson’s house where afterward they no doubt retired home, zipped themselves into adult sized onesies, and watched bootlegged anime. Good game guys. From here on out we’re siding with BCO, one game at a time, and no it’s not all Brian Stinespring’s fault. And it can always be worse. Continue Reading “Around the Interwebs” »

Check out the shirt to the left of two sad faces in from the top right. That’s a Super-fucking-fan. The original is here.

These are, hands down, the best signs from right outside Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley.

Stanzi rocks out with his cock out.

Who doesn’t love fish sticks? Oh… wait a minute…

Continue Reading “GameDay Signs – Iowa at Penn State” »

Andy Hutchins takes a look at the bigger picture involving homoeroticism, homosexuality and athletes in a phenomenal post.

The Lamborghini is definitely blushing.

Doak Walker Candidates Announced. With so many names we thought it was impossible to snub any player on any college football watch-list. But Penn State’s Evan Royster isn’t one of the 45 players list as a Doak Walker candidate. Royster rushed for over 1200+ yards in ‘08 and will be featured even more in ‘09 while the Nitany Lions try to break in young inexperience wide receivers.

Steele, Turnovers and BCI. Brian looks at Phil Steele’s turnover predictor and what it means for our beloved ACC. Long story short it only applies to Miami, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech. If VT falls within the 80% success rate, the Hokies won’t win more than 10 games. Meanwhile Jeff, who was last seen wearing purple, must still be doing housework. Continue Reading “Around the Interwebs” »

This will be the last post out of us until sometime next week. You might see some new content if Maggs posts something while we’re away. We’re starting off with this image from the Richmond Hokie Club to project positive vibes for out upcoming life troubles. And what a classy tie Fowler is wearing, I wonder if he has colors for every team…

H/T: TSL

Who’s making that paper? College Gridiron 365 has a list of the athletic revenues from the 2007–08 reporting year. These schools are flat out minting money: (1) Texas $120M, (2) Ohio State $117M , (3) Florida $106M, (4) Michigan $99M and (5) Wisconsin $93M . Virginia Tech was 37th with $56,029,172. But don’t fret, we got some real expensive oranges!

Kansas State has atoned for the Power Towel. Will you guys scratch my coin slot. /shivers

H/T: Corn Nation

Much more after the jump. Continue Reading “Around the Interwebs” »

Intense rivalries are at the core of of what makes college football uniquely special. They’re the dates on the locker room calendar that are marked boldly in red from being circled and re-circled. They’re the games that produce the most memorable plays and finishes. And they’re the ones in which a down year never compromises fans’, players’ and coaches’ desires to win. Simply put fans are cheated when rivalry games are put on hold.

Penn State and Pittsburgh have played The Pennsylvania Classic, the fiercest football rivalry in the north east, 96 times since 1893.  The last game was played in 2000 with Pitt winning 12-0. The details why the series hasn’t been renewed are murky. On the surface money is the stumbling block. Since they’re the bigger draw Penn State is insistent that they get an extra home game. Continue Reading “The Pennsylvania Classic Needs to be Resuscitated” »

Joe Paterno bucks the stereotype that all octogenarians are conservative and crotchety. Well, ok maybe he can be a little difficult at times, but he’s one of the most progressive coaches associated with college football. In 2002 he became the spokesman for instant replay in the Big Ten, a system I couldn’t imagine games being played without. It was so successful that all the other BCS conferences adopted it.

Now JoePa is encouraging the Big Ten, an eleven team conference, to expand to twelve so they can play a conference championship game. Selfishly Paterno wants the championship game to broaden the Big Ten’s exposure down the stretch of the season.

“We go into hiding for six weeks,” Paterno said, referring to the hiatus between the end of the Big Ten regular season and the BCS bowls. The other major FBS conferences play into the first weekend of December.

“Everybody else is playing playoffs on television,” Paterno said. “You never see a Big Ten team mentioned. So I think that’s a handicap.

I have to disagree with him there because it works both ways. A championship game can either leap frog a team into the BCS Championship or knock ‘em out.  However, I will concede it is a benefit for teams on the outside to have an extra game to make their case. But in any event I hope JoePa continues to push the Big Ten on this issue.

In my opinion the Big Ten conference champion is determined in the least “fair” manner among the BCS conferences. Sure they don’t pick their champion with eeny, meeny, miny, moe, but they don’t have a championship game and don’t play a round robin schedule. The other 5 BCS conferences do one or the other. If the Big Ten did too we would be able to say the BCS conferences, both large and small, have a uniform way of determining their conference champions.

Why do I think that is important? Because it will bring us that much closer to a playoff. One of the major obstacles in instituting a playoff  is changing the different conferences from doing it their way, to everyone’s way.  This is one small step in the right direction. Homogeneous harmony people!

Who would be a good fit for the Big Ten?

James Sheep was pulled over on campus around 3:15 a.m. on Nov. 22, hours before Penn State’s 49-18 win over Michigan State, University Police Capt. Bill Moerschbacher said Monday. The officer who made the stop saw that the vehicle was overloaded, with passengers piled onto each other and blocking the driver’s view.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/11144941