Feverish Bowl Thoughts

Well Day 3 of battling 3 flu has reduce me to a fetal state of lying in the corner and unable to put together a coherent thought. Luckily Pinky the Elephant who has assured me is not a hallucination has volunteered to help me put together a few thoughts on conventional wisdoms floating around

Michigan's Win Was Shocking
Unexpected? Yes. Surprising? Yes. Shocking to the point that exemplifies the wacky season of Stanford over USC/Applachian State over Michigan. Umm no. Yes Michigan has struggled with mobile quarterbacks. And yes they had played below expectations. But for a senior laden squad to put together a fairwell performance Lloyd out of the realm of possibility? Especially with Florida's secondary composed of matadors and papermache facing two soon to be NFLers in Manningham and Arrington? I think I might have been shocked when Lloyd Carr oked a double lateral flea-flicker but shocked that a healthy Michigan can compete with a three loss team? Umm no

Oklahoma is a top tier school
From the moment West Virginia and Missouri fell flat, Oklahoma was touted as one the candidates for the national championship game (yes I'm looking at you Lee Corso). In fact I seem to recall pushers for OU every year. And yet year in and year out (note year in and year out is classified as equal to 5 years) OU loses in BCS bowls. Spectacularly. Getting blown out by West Fuckin Virginia just the latest in a trend. There's no dismissing that OU has well pwned the Big 12 but its not paying off a meaningful way in the bright lights. It'll be curious if voters and pundits rank them high again next year? If not one has to wonder what it takes to kill the teflon team?
Les Miles threatened to kill an entire Kenyan Village if he didn't get his recruit
I actually this conventional wisdom might be true. To lay the cards out where they are the SEC does tend to have a recruiting advantage over the Big 10 as they do something called over-recruiting (I'm not sure as to other conferences ot be fair Big 10 allows 3 over-recruits while the SEC has unlimited). Over-recruiting is the college sports equivalent of over-booking. Basically a school brings in more recruits than they have spots for and then just jettisons the overs in August. Now as the sites resident commie pinko tree hugger I have this crazy notion that recruits are people and probably shouldn't be treated like Nick Saban's leftover trash. I know college football has lots of things to clean up like gambling refs, Auburn's penitent for chop blocks, but let's add recruits should be treated like humans and Les Miles should not be allowed near any Kenyan Villages.