The Cupcake Report: Can We Go Back to September?
Obviously, the big story this week is the complete floppage of some of our top-25 programs. Generally speaking, they all lost to conference foes, so none of them qualify for a cupcake bashing, but we all know that some teams with BCS aspirations got their asses handed to them by schools that will be lucky [...]
The Cupcake Report: Letterman and Whitlock were thisclose.
You can probably tell by now that I’m rooting for at least one cupcake to win each week, and so far, I’ve been pretty happy. This week, it was oh, so close, as Ball State fell one field goal shy of beating Nebraska at home. I went to Kansas, so I was pulling hard for [...]
Cupcake Report: BYU takes a Golden Shower
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 Cupcake Report: Brohms Away
Did you hear that Brian Brohm threw for 401 yards and five TDs?!? Wow. I mean, wow that the top-ten Lou-uh-vul Cardinals needed a Heisman-level effort to get past the Blue Raiders of Middle Tennessee State. MTSU was up in they grill all night last Thursday. Methinks the “cupcakes” are getting a bit ferocious this [...]
The Cupcake Report: Hail to the… OOF!
In week one, our erstwhile cupcakes had a rough go of it, overall. But a blow was struck for confectionary everywhere when the Appalachian State Mountaineers hung around with #5 Michigan and eventually won on a blocked kick, 34-32. It was an amazing game, and I’m late in talking about it, so I won’t say [...]
The Cupcake Report – Let’s Get This Party Started
I won ‘t lie, I’m relieved to be at the last “preseason” version of this feature. I’d imagine the two or three of you who are following along in your hymnals are equally glad. By next week, we’ll actually be able to see if a cupcake can win one of these games. But today, I’m [...]
The Cupcake Report: Are These Really Cupcakes?
Usually I use this space as a way to take some tongue-in-cheek whacks at major programs who are scheduling light in the early going. Really, we all know that it makes good sense to have a couple of winnable games early on to get the kinks out, and preserve the best possible chance for an [...]
The Cupcake Report – Elon Gate
This week we continue our preseason look at the David vs. Goliath matchups of the upcoming football season. Since everyone who is anyone schedules a cupcake in the first week as a tuneup, I have been slowly but surely working my way through the morass of games scheduled for the first day of September. Today [...]
