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I’ll Take Double Chocolate with Chocolate Frosting and Chocolate Chips, Please

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I keep hearing comments that go something like this, “Why the heck does anyone care about an 0-2 Michigan (sucks! – ed.) playing an 0-2 Notre Dame? Clearly the media is just biased towards Notre Dame.”

Well, looking at the slate for the top 25 teams in the country (as picked by the coaches poll), I’d have to say it’s got something to do with cupcakes.

Rank Team Opponent
1 Southern Cal #14 Nebraska
2 LSU Middle Tennessee State
3 Oklahoma Utah State
4 West Virginia Maryland
5 Florida #22 Tennessee
6 Texas Central Florida
7 Wisconsin The Citadel
8 California La. Tech
9 Louisville Kentucky
10 Ohio State Washington
11 UCLA Utah
12 Penn State Buffalo
13 Rutgers Norfolk State
14 Nebraska #1 Southern Cal
15 Georgia Tech #21 Boston College
16 Arkansas Alabama
17 South Carolina South Carolina State
18 Virginia Tech Ohio
19 Oregon Fresno State
20 Clemson Furman
21 Boston College #15 Georgia Tech
22 Tennessee #5 Florida
23 Georgia Western Carolina
24 Hawaii UNLV
25 Texas A&M La. Monroe

Let’s see, we only have 3 match ups the entire weekend (the third weekend) between top 25 teams. And then we have (again, on the third weekend of the 2007 schedule) 11 of the top 25 playing absolute cupcakes. Come on! This isn’t the first week of the season, people! You almost had me with the “we just need a tune up to start the season” argument, but we’re now 3/4ths of the way into the first month of the 2007 season, and Oklahoma is playing Utah State? Wisconsin is playing The Citadel? I could have played for the Citadel! Clemson is playing Furman? 90% of you reading this went to high schools with student bodies larger than Furman. At least with an 0-2 Michigan (sucks!) versus an 0-2 Notre Dame, you’ve got an historic (though historic in a weird way) game between the 2 winningnest programs in college football.

And don’t think for a moment we’re letting you off the hook, Texas, Ohio State, or Hawaii. We’re betting those games looked like certified lay-ups back when you scheduled them. And if that’s the case, that means 14 of the 25 scheduled cupcakes for the third week of the 2007 schedule.

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  1. OhEssYou

    The Washington game was scheduled around the time they won the Rose Bowl. We played them at home in 2003 as the first part of the series. Good try, though

  2. gwzimm

    I just don’t think 1-A schools should be allowed to schedule 1-AA’s. I was glad to see michigan get dumped, and I just wish Akron had stung OSU. OSU must be really proud of their 20-2 win against the mighty “Zips.”

  3. domer.mq

    OhEssYou,
    Thanks. I guess I had it backwards. Washington scheduled OSU when they thought OSU would be a layup.

  4. 4EverLSU

    We played the #9 team in the nation (the perennial #1 defense for the past two decades) and the team that just knocked off Auburn. One cupcake a weenie does not make. C’mon…