College Football Wrap Up

I'm now rested from the College Football Road Trip and despite putting my ass to sleep with close to 14 hours of driving, it was a worthwhile experience. I believe if I ever attempt two games in one agai again though its going to have to be two games in Dallas or a game in Austin, then a game in College Station.

Of course my Saturday began with the thriller in Waco, which I'm SURE you all tuned into Versus to see that barnburner. Cody Green had a shaky first start, highlighted by a floating TD pass to Niles Paul and a errible interception returned for a touchdown. And Ndamukong Suh soaked up the double teams all day, allowing fellow DT Jared Crick to log five sacks and get National Defensive Player of the Week honors. I'm not going to bore you with too many of the details of the game. I was there and had a vested interest and often found myself bored.

But if you've never been to Baylor game in Waco you have to see this thing they do called "the running of the Baylor line." Wikipedia describes it as such:

"The Baylor Line is made entirely of freshmen and is the core of Baylor spirit and tradition. Students wear a football jersey with the number of their proposed graduation year and a nickname on the back. Before each football game, the Baylor Line gathers at one end of Floyd Casey Stadium and waits for the signal to rush the field and create a giant human tunnel through which the football team runs to enter the stadium. 6 members of the Baylor Line carry flags with the letters B-A-Y-L-O-R and a large flag with the "BU" single while the rest of the Line runs behind them. After that, students rush the sidelines and stand in an exclusive Baylor Line section behind the opponents' bench. Here, students cheer for Baylor and heckle the other team."

This was honestly one of the geekiest things I've ever seen and I've actually seen it before. I think the last time I was just so awestruck by the live bear mascot that I couldn't appreciate the sadness of the Baylor Line. Take a quick peek at the line from an inside perspective.



If any of you read my live blog from Saturday you would have seen that I proposed to change the name of the Baylor Line to "the running of the virgins." But that's enough about nerds.

I followed up the Nebraska/Baylor struggle with a jaunt to San Antone to watch the Irish play Washington State in what could be best described as a mercy killing. I couldn't pay attention to the bludgeoning on the field much. I was too distracted by how drunk and stupid most of the Notre Dame fans were. Some of their finest were sitting in our seats when we got to the game and then shuffled down and talked shit to some poor Washington State fan for much of the game. Stay classy, South Bend.

To escape from them we went to the lounge for some drinks but there I had to hear the boasting of the UT fans who were convinced after beating a Dez Bryant-less OSU squad that the Horns' were far and away the best team in the nation. Between the Irish and UT, it was like having stupid in stereo.

All in all I picked a pretty good week to hit the road. There were a bunch of lousy games (seems to be a growing trend). The lone highlight of the day was Oregon's smackdown on USC, which we happened to catch a bit of in the lounge. Unfortunately this seemed to bring the Irish and Horns fans together and I realized I liked them better when they were fighting.

This week I'm back in BYB headquarters. Nebraska will be playing victim to Oklahoma in the primetime game on ABC. I can only hope they keep it within 50 points.