What a day on the GameDay-Week #11 set today! Chris and I kind of have our own chemistry working at this point. He’s Kirk and I’m Coach Corso. I love doing the headgear stuff and the helmet stickers. He loves being the voice of reason for college football.
Kind of like Kramer and Newman running the Merv Griffin Show in Kramer’s apartment… if you know what I mean.
We both whiffed on the Cincy-Tulsa game. Tulsa actually should have won the game. Great resolve by the Tulsa kids…they’ll be getting a helmet sticker tomorrow.
Chris nailed the Iowa State blowout win over the dumpster fire Texas Longhorns who will in two years probably be challenging Vanderbilt for SEC football doormat supremacy bragging rights. Two really good schools who suck at football.
I missed on the Baylor-TCU game, but I honestly didn’t figure OU quarterback transfer Chandler Morris would the TCU starter today. Chandler actually scored OU’s first touchdown against Iowa State in last year’s Big 12 Championship Game. He’s the one Lincoln didn’t want to sign a release on last spring…at least to another Big 12 school. Now we know why.
Would I have taken Baylor if I’d known Chandler Morris was going to start in place of Max Duggan today and throw for over 400 yards? Probably not, but that’s the breaks of the game.
Purdue upset Michigan State just like we said they would on the set this morning. God…we nailed that one with Purdue winning 40-29. It doesn’t get much better than that when you nail a Top 5 upset on the GameDay set with the whole world watching. It would be like making a hole in one at the Masters on the closing nine holes.
Chris said to me, ” You were brilliant. That was really your pick the way you broke down Michigan State’s suspect pass defense and Purdue’s stingy run defense. You were brilliant. You shouldn’t have wasted a pick on Auburn playing in College Station. Your heart for Bo Nix got in the way. I thought we talked about that.”
I said, ” I was hoping my belief in Bo would help him get over the hump Those Auburn fans can be brutal at times.”.”
So Chris says, ” Why don’t we do this, Coach Corso?”
He knows I love it when he calls me Coach Corso.
He said, “I’ll take one point for the Purdue win and you take two points for picking the national upset Pick of the Week.”
I said, ” Sounds good to me. Your’re a great son, Kirk, I love you. I’m a lucky father.”
So that’s it for GameDay-Week #11.
What a great college football Saturday.
Enjoy the extra hour sleep and have a blessed Sunday.
I haven’t played this in a while. It never gets old.
This isn’t my official weekly Top 12…just a first draft before thinking about it for another day. The Committee is a bunch of Big Ten tea sippers is what they are. The Big Ten isn’t the SEC. Take away the Cardale Jones Cinderella saga with the Buckeyes in 2014 and the Big Ten has won exactly the same number of national championships in the Playoff Era as the Big 12 and PAC 12…as in zero.
Way too much love for the Big Ten by this Committee.
1 Georgia
2 Oklahoma
3 Alabama
4 Oregon
5 Ohio State
6 Oklahoma State
7 Notre Dame
8 Texas A&M
9 Cincy
10 Michigan State
11 Michigan
12 Ole Miss