As Kent State is one of my three favorite teams, I enjoyed reading this article about the unlikely rise of the Kent State Golden Flashes football team:
Down go the *uckeyes! Haskins and Hutchinson were unstoppable. Big Ten Championship next week for Michigan which is their first. You would think they’d have one earlier but OSU has been so dominant in this rivalry over the last 20 years. Go Blue!
YES! YES! YES! The Kent State Golden Flashes pulled off an overtime victory over the Miami RedHawks to win the MAC East Division championship! We’re going to Detroit next week to play Northern Illinois for the Mid-American Conference title!
Kent State scored a touchdown and extra point in the first overtime, and Miami scored a touchdown too, and went for the two-point conversion. If they got in, they’d be going to Detroit; if they missed, it’d be us.
And our guy broke up the pass in the end zone. What an incredible game.
O.S.U. fans will still get drunk, throw garbage and set couch fires around the campus area, only this time in mourning.
It is sweet.
In 2019, the Old Dominion Monarchs were 1-11. They were one of a handful of teams that opted not to play in 2020 because of the pandemic.
Now, in 2021, after starting 1-6 (with two of those being heartbreaking losses), the Monarchs won their last 5 regular-season games to finish 6-6, and are bowl-eligible!
Looks like UMass* has clinched the ESPN Bottom Ten Championship 
for 2021.
The Minutemen (1-11) have lost 44-27 to New Mexico State (now 2-10).
UConn put up a valiant effort to claim the top bottom spot, losing big to Houston today to go 1-11***, but it probably won’t be enough to hoist the trophy.
*a.k.a. UMess.
**The Bottom Ten used to feature what it called Old Duh-minions, but then they had to go and start winning games.
***only victory was a squeaker against an FCS team, Yale.
****UMess’s sole win was against UConn.
Amazing ending to the final week of the season. My Baylor Bears seemingly still have a shot! If Auburn beats Alabama, Oklahoma beats OSU, and Michigan and Cincinnati both lose their championships, Baylor might sneak in. If they beat OU again in the Big XII championship, they might pull it off. Either way, that’s the scenario that would cause the most chaos, so that’s what I want to happen.
ETA. In that scenario it would be Georgia (assuming they win the SEC championship), Notre Dame, and two two loss teams. Which ones get in?
An ugly bit of fighting at the end of the Beavers@Ducks game.
My Spartans prevail in the Snow Bowl and take home the heavy if not handsome Land Grant Trophy. I’ll take 10-2 after last year’s record. If not for the sleepwalk loss at Purdue it would have been a great season rather than very good.
I’m pretty sure that OSU is already in the championship, so if OU beats them tonight, next week is a rematch leaving Baylor out of the picture.
If OU beats OSU, I believe it’s OU vs OSU again next Saturday in the championship game. OU would have 1 loss, while OSU and Baylor would have two losses. Since OSU beat Baylor, they would win the tiebreaker for second place.
However, if OSU beats OU, OSU would finish in first with 1 loss, while OU and Baylor would have two losses. Since Baylor beat OU, they would win the tiebreaker for second place. So Baylor would be playing OSU, not OU, for the Big 12 championship.
Since Bama pulled tonight’s game out of the fire, and if they lose to Georgia next Saturday, they would be one of the two-loss teams in your scenario. The other one? Probably Michigan, as I don’t think that Ohio State could be picked over Michigan after today’s game. But also perhaps Oregon.
(That assumes that Oklahoma loses tonight or next week. If OU wins both games and finishes with one loss, they are in the CFP.)
Oregon will be creamed by Utah next week.
ETA: again.
Holy crap. I know Georgia Tech’s not especially good this year, and I figured my Dawgs would handle business, but I didn’t expect them to hang a 45-point beatdown on the Ramblin’ Wrecked.
FSU lost, and probably deserved to lose. But I’d much rather be the Seminoles next season than the Gators.
I know it’s a rivalry game, but the amount of cheap shots, late hits and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties hurt both teams.
What a great game. I loved seeing the many crestfallen OSU fans’ faces in the stands that the camera zoomed in on in the final minutes of the game.
Kudos to Auburn for a gritty effort with a seriously hampered QB but after they got that big stop at midfield with about two minutes left they ran a grand total of 25 seconds off the clock before kicking it away.
Yeah, Bama had two timeouts. Had Auburn used the clock correctly, Bama would have gotten the ball with less than a minute to go, 97 yards from the end zone. Instead, the ballcarrier on second down went out of bounds, which of course stopped the clock. And Bama got the ball with 1:35 to play. Huge difference.
I’m impressed by Lincoln Riley’s “renewed commitment” to continue as head coach of Oklahoma.
It lasted nearly 24 hours (he’s leaving for USC).
First thing I thought of seeing the Riley headlines from Yesterday and today side by side.
Bender: Forget it! You can’t tempt me!
Robot Devil: Really? There’s nothing you want?
Bender: Hmm, I forgot you can tempt me with things I want.