10. Games against FCS teams – 34 teams played games against FCS with the expected results in nearly all cases (more on those failure who didn't live up to expectations later). This is a disgrace and shouldn't be allowed. There are 120 teams. It works out to have 60 games per week. Why do we need these games again other than they are cheaper to buy than games against Sun Belt teams?
9. Washington St. - This is well-worn territory for the Cougars. If this column had existed last season, the Cougars would have been here nearly every week and after losing 65-17 at Oklahoma St. (the most inexperienced team in the country), the Cougars better get ready for another long season.
8. Albany vs Maine – This FCS game is only notable because it probably put everyone watching (even those at the stadium) to sleep. Albany won the game 3-0 on a field goal in the first quarter. Neither team threatened again. The game recap on ESPN talked about two fourth quarter fourth down stops by the Albany defense without mentioning that both were at midfield. All of the mediocrity and none of the charm of the immortal 3-2 Auburn-Mississippi St. game of two year ago.
7. LSU in the 2nd half – North Carolina was playing without most of the team. LSU nearly blew a 30-10 halftime lead anyway. Les Miles and Gary Crowton have some issues to work out.
6. North Carolina special teams – The only reason LSU had a 30-10 halftime lead to blow. This unit did everything wrong that could have possibly been done wrong except get a kick blocked. It's never a good sign when your a player on the opposing team has a school record for return yardage before halftime and someone else starts the second half with another 50-yard return.
5. UNLV 1st half offense – Despite only trailing by 3, all anyone needs to know is that UNLV had 12 yards of offense with 1:08 to go in the first half. It did get better once Omar Clayton came into the game in the 2nd half, but that was a putrid first half.
4. Florida Offensive Line – The center problems were well-documented in nearly every other college football show, site and blog on the internet, but the rest of the line wasn't much better and considering John Brantley is a statue in the pocket and not Tim Tebow, this could be a big problem going forward, possibly as soon as next week against South Florida. Also, the vaunted Florida running game didn't even manage 100 yards, even with a 72 yard touchdown run.
3. Ole Miss – What more needs to be said here. How do you blow a 31-10 halftime lead to an FCS school, any FCS school. Both coordinators are probably done for after the season. The SEC has a way of doing that. The defensive for overseeing the blowing of this lead and the offensive for playing way too conservatively and letting the defense blow this lead. All of that said, Houston Nutt got what he deserved for all of his moral coaching transgressions over the last few years.
2. Kansas – So how do you top Ole Miss in the embarrassment category? Simple. Be so inept a terrible FCS team beats you without scoring a touchdown. That is what Kansas managed to do in a 6-3 loss to North Dakota St. When Dr. Saturday on Yahoo Sports says it's the single most depressing box score he's even seen, and you were the losing team, you have accomplished something truly terrible.
1. New Mexico – To be even lower than two FCS losses, it takes something truly spectacular. Behind 59-0 at halftime, losing 72-0 nothing and causing the mascot to have to do 506 pushups certainly qualifies. Can we just go ahead and pencil Mike Locksley in for worst head coaching hire in the history of college football considering he has been suspended a game for punching an assistant and turned a team that, while 4-8 the year before he got there had gone to bowl games or been eligible for six straight years before that into the worst team in major college football with no hope for the future. This team is so bad that if I were running the BCS I would deny any and all Mountain West application to become an auto-bid league as long as these guys are still around in their current state.
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