Dem Mormon boys know. This week’s cupcake winner is Tulsa.
Knowing what we now do about UCLA, maybe I overvalued BYU’s solid effort against the Bruins. All I know is they went in to the dust bowl and came out filthy, with Tulsa hanging a 55-47 L on them.
Our near-loser this week was Wisconsin. The Big Ten Badgers won, but they allowed I-AA Citadel to drop 31 in the process. Citadel plays in the SoCon, as does Appalachian State. I’m thinking a league-wide HGH testing policy needs to be in effect down there.
Finally, the Oklahoma Sooners keep beating small schools and taking their lunch money. This week, the victim was Utah State. Ignoring my advice, the USU Aggies got off the bus, and got beat up. OU is still playing angry, and they put up a 54-3 score in this one. That brings their overall scoring this season to 184-26. If they played in the Big 12 North, there would be blood in the water.
Now on to this week’s contests:
Army (1-2) @ Boston College (3-0): I’m crossing my fingers that BC students will refrain from slandering our future military officers, Rutgers-style. But I’m not holding my breath. I do know that they will not refrain from beating the snot out of them on the field of play.
Charleston Southern (1-2) @ Hawaii (3-0): The Islanders have won two on the road already, and it helps to remember that they have to fly over the ocean for several hours before they even see the road.
Illinois State (2-1) @ Missouri (3-0): The Redbirds of the Gateway conference lost to Drake at home. Missouri has won at Illinois and at Ole Miss. Pick ‘em.
Ball State (2-1) @ Nebraska (2-1): The Huckin’ Fuskers lost to USC at home, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer throng of crimson-clad lunatics. They take on the MAC’s Ball State, who lost an equally hard-fought game to Miami…. of Ohio.
Oklahoma (3-0) @ Tulsa (2-0): Just a two-hour drive from Norman to Tulsa. Interstate 44 should be buzzin’ on game day. Of course, Gilligan and his friends went on what was supposed to be a three-hour tour and didn’t come home for ten years, so look out, is what I’m sayin’. The Golden Shower just beat Bring’em Young in this very spot, you know.
Arkansas State (1-1 ) @ Tennessee (1-2): The Tennessee schedule looks like it was made out by a bipolar team representative at this point. On the road vs. ranked opponents, then at home vs. nobodies. This week they get the Arkansas State Indians Anacondas Skeeters Ivory Billed Woodpeckers Whatevers. (Read about the mascot furor at ASU), then it’s back on the road to Georgia. (sigh).
Rice (0-3) @ Texas (3-0): Texas had a close one at UCF last week, but the only thing they lose to Rice at is Baseball and Chess. Maybe debate.
William & Mary (2-1) @ Virginia Tech (2-1): Hokies drive over to ye olde Williamsburg to wash the Tiger flavor out of their mouths.
East Carolina (1-2) @ WFVU (3-0): That’s West Fuckin’ Virginia University to you, Pirate.
Marshall (0-3) @ Cincinnati (3-0): Cincy has won three games in convincing style, including a worthy out-of-conference test against the Oregon State Ducks that went to the Bearcats by a score of 34-3. Welcome to the Cupcake Report, boys.
That’s it for this week. We also added Texas Tech to our watchlist this week, and they’ll be facing Northwestern State next week, so that should be, um, fun.
I nominate the following: Arkansas State “Wal Mart Greeters”
ECU didn’t look so cupcakish against VT, unless you are trying to say that VT is overrated
My vote is the ASU Little Brothers or Canadiens. Cuz Canada is the US’s little brother and ASU will always be like a little bro to U of Arkansas.
Anything from a non BCS conference = Cupcake basically is what the cupcake report says every week.
Well, believe me, if the bottom teams from the BCS could be lured into playing OOC against someone serious, I’d write about it. If Baylor plays at Cincinnati right now, I’d call them a cupcake, but they won’t ever do that.
There’s a suprise, WVU is in the cupcake game list AGAIN.
No reach of the week?
When I was in rehab (physical, not drug related), there was a guy who played baseball at Arky St and he said there was a state law keeping any D-1A school in Arkansas from playing the Razorbacks in football, baseball, and basketball. Kinda like the opposite of Auburn/Bammer. What you know about this bigfoot?
Tennessee will not be making a road trip to UGA this year unless it’s to watch the SEC championship/bowl games or to visit some of the fine establishments down there. That game is actually in Knoxville otherwise known as the only city that has an Orange Mcdonalds and checkerboard ceiling in the Krystals.
I misread the schedule at least once a week. The dangers of blogging from my office, I suppose. My apologies.
If I had to pick a reach of the week, it would definitely be VTech at William & Mary.
Coast Guard blows
I don’t believe it’s actually a law, but I heard that my freshman year. We have played in Women’s Basketball in the NIT in ’04 when ASU stomped us.
The reason for not playing any other teams in sports, though, stems from the belief that Frank Broyles had that the state of Arkansas cannot support more than one high level athletic program. Financially and talent wise. The main reason for not playing the other programs is to keep them down. If the two programs played eventually ASU might pull off some wins, and if that happened it might be that just one recruit decides to go there instead of Arkansas, but even if Arkansas lays it on 70-0 for the next 13 years you’ll have kids every year who will remember that game and want to go to ASU because of it.
Arkansas State also refuses to play University of Central Arkansas (now a 1-AA team in the Southland Conference). They have played in the past and ASU now won’t play them for similar reasons to the Hogs playing the *insert mascot name here*. I don’t think there have ever been Indians in or around the Jonesboro area.
Bigfoot – one thing I couldn’t figure out: has the Indians nickname actually been changed yet? I kept seeing references to the fact that is is supposed to change, but couldn’t find any news about what it is now. Not even on the ASU athletics site.
By the way, the hottie is an ASU cheerleader, so they can call them whatever they want to, in my book.
Arkansas State is still in legal battles I think. They are trying to get some tribe to back them like the seminoles do FSU, but I don’t think it’s gonna happen. If they’re smart they won’t screw up like LA-Monroe or SEMO did. They’ll pick something entirely different.
I like The Arkansas State Schmazorbacks.