10 Prayer for New Mexico – At least they scored. With 10 minutes left, that didn't look likely. Needless to say, I still blame Locksley. The final score of the beating the Lobos took against Nevada was 49-7 and the previously competent passing game was reduced to ashes (11-29, 89 yards). The pain never really ends in Albuquerque.
9 Festival of turnovers – Hawaii and San Jose St. put on an exciting Friday night game. Of course it was exciting. It was a festival of turnovers. Hawaii turned it over on four straight possessions. Of course, San Jose St. had to top that. They turned it over on five straight possessions later, and still managed to win the game because they won the turnover battle 7-5. Pathetic.
8 SEC Least – Somehow, the SEC East is even worse than it was last season. In fact, it is near reaching Big 12 North futility levels at this point. The scorecard: 0 wins over non-Mississippi teams and struggles by division favorites South Carolina and Georgia against Mississippi St. At this point, there is a decent chance the East division winner will be unranked come SEC Championship time, something that has never happened before in SEC history.
7 1 yard punt – What is it about Wisconsin and inducing bad punts. This one wasn't as bad as the Oregon St. negative punt in week two, but it was still bad. To the video...
6 Penn St. offensive futility report – Somehow Penn St. continues to win game despite a passing attack that often couldn't get a first down against air. This week Rob Bolden and Matt McGloin were 10-23 for 185 yards and 1INT. That was a significant improvement over normal (the standards aren't very high) and Penn St. won again, 23-18 over Purdue. And the only team that has managed to kill these sad sacks is Alabama. Wow.
5 UNLV misery report – At this point it has gotten that bad. UNLV was down 20-0 before anyone blinked against Wyoming. Then gave their fans hope by actually scoring this week, then snatched that hope back with another scoreless second half and a 41-14 defeat. The New Mexico game can't get here quick enough for this, but heaven help the Rebels if they manage to lose that one.
4 Todd Grantham vs James Franklin – Let's just say it was heated discussion weekend in football. This one went under the radar compared to the Jim Harbaugh-Jim Schwartz blowup in the pros, but it had the potential to be a whole lot worse. Of course we go to the picture for the evidence.
3 Utah-Pitt – Utah scored only 26 points on 3.3 yards per play. They were completely dominant. That is how bad of a fail the Pitt offense was in this game. If it was a higher profile matchup, this would rank even higher on this list. That said, Pitt had 70 yards of offense... at home... against a team getting clubbed in the Pac-12. Only because of a kickoff return touchdown and punt return touchdown was this game close, which of course made the offensive numbers worse because Utah had to keep the starting defense in.
2 1 pass to victory, and another Zookian blunder – The Ohio St.-Illinois game had its own brand of offensive offense. For one thing, the score was a lousy 17-7. For another, Ohio St. won the game while completing only one pass (they only tried four). Remember that Ohio St. is not an option team like others who have managed this feat over the last few season. They are supposed to be somewhat balanced maybe skewing a bit towards the running game, but not like this. Of course they managed to pull this off because Ron Zook's Illini finally put together a Ron Zook performance (in truth they had a few already against teams much too bad to manage an upset). The capper to this Zookian masterpiece of crap was Zook himself going for it on 4th and 2 in the opposing redzone down 17-7 with a minute to go. At that point, KICK THE FRIGGIN FIELD GOAL. You need two scores. Illinois failed and the game was over.
1 Everything Florida-Auburn – Just trust me here. This game was an abomination. After having seen some terrible passing attacks (see last weeks Lowlights Countdown), nobody would begrudge announcers Brad Nessler and Todd Blackledge from drinking in the booth after this miserable display. The grisliness: including Wildcat, seven players took a snap a quarterback for one of the teams in this game. None were due to injury. Only Auburn backup Clint Moseley (now the starter just in time to die against the LSU defense) was remotely close to effective (and he was merely average). The Florida punt return team fumbled five punts, losing two including the last chance to tie the game in the 4th quarter allowing Auburn to get the score to a respectable (but still bad) 17 points. And Florida's punter had a special kind of fail pictured below.
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