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Bottlegate’s Week 5 College Football Top 10 And Heisman Hopeful

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College football Saturdays are the best days of the year and if you disagree you’re just flat out wrong. The 20 minutes when the trio of FSU-North Carolina, Wisconsin-Michigan, and Tennessee-Georgia were ending was absolutely incredible and what makes college football arguably the best sport in America. I get giddy just thinking about it.

 

Here’s the top 10:

 

10. North Carolina

I’m all in on the North Carolina bandwagon right now. A cocky kicker, a coach that looks like he could kick your ass, awesome jerseys… and, oh yeah, they’re led by a kid from Northeast Ohio (Mentor) who is generating a little bit of Heisman buzz right now. They lost a close game early in the season to Georgia in the Georgia Dome and their last two games vs. Pitt and Florida State have been instant classics. They’re the favorites to represent the Coastal divison in the ACC Championship.

They host AP #25 Virginia Tech in an interesting afternoon game on Saturday.

 

9. Houston

I said I’d keep Houston around the 5-9 range the rest of the year and nothing changes until they host Louisville in November. Once Oklahoma starts wiping the floor with the other Big 12 teams, Houston’s signature win over the Sooners is going to look better and better.

They travel to Maryland to take on Navy and I can see this being a tough game for the Coogs.

 

8. Texas A&M

They were pretty unimpressive in their 24-13 win over South Carolina but that was to be expected after their drubbing of Arkansas last week and their big clash with Tennessee this Saturday.

 

7. Tennessee

There’s always that one team that no matter what happens to them, you never think they’re out of it. Coming back from 21-3 halftime deficit vs. Florida and then their Hail Mary win over Georgia this week, Tennessee just kind of seems like they can’t lose right now… And I don’t even really think they’re that good. These next 2 games (A&M and Alabama) will show us who the Vols really are.

 

6. Washington

Confession: Friday night was probably the first time I’ve watched the Washington Huskies play football in about 4 years and I (shocker) was impressed with what I saw. #6 is probably too high for the Huskies since I know nothing about them but when you beat Standford FORTY FOUR TO SIX, you vaulted to one spot out of the top 5. Washington also has one of the most underrated college football stadiums in the country. Boatgating seems like it’d be the best thing ever.

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The Huskies travel to Eugene to take on Oregon.

 

5. Michigan

That was just some good old fashioned Big 10 football between Wisconsin and Michigan on Saturday.

Michigan travels to Rutgers.

 

4. Louisville

Louisville and Clemson played possibly the game of the year on Saturday and Louisville came out looking great even with the loss. As long as Lamar Jackson is under center I think the Cardinals have a shot against anybody. On a neutral field I think Louisville beats Clemson.

This is still a high quality loss for the Cardinals that probably won’t hurt them because it happened still semi early in the season. What hurts the Cardinals, however, is that they’re not in the driver’s seat to get to the ACC title game. Would a one loss not conference champion Louisville team make it in the CFB Playoff over a one loss power 5 conference champion? It’ll be interesting to see how the committee handles that if it were to happen.

 

3. Clemson

Clemson is now in the driver’s seat to win the ACC after an impressive win over Louisville on Saturday. Is there a better gameday atmosphere than Clemson for a night primetime game? From the buses carrying the players to the hill and Howard’s Rock, Death Valley looks like the most fun place on Earth to watch a football game.

 

2. Alabama

Keeping the Tide as the second best team after they beat (but didn’t cover) Kentucky. I still think the inexperience at quarterback may hurt Alabama sometime down the road this season.

 

1.Ohio State

Ohio State took care of business and their offense and defense seem to be firing on all cylinders right now. I still give Ohio State the nod over Alabama because of their quarterback.

 

Heisman Frontrunners aka Lamar Jackson and everybody else

This quarterback from UNLV who had one of the craziest runs you’ll ever see in college football:

Mitch Trubisky

My new dark horse. We’ll see how he responds against Virginia Tech with the new national recognition he’s received this week.

JT Barrett

Rutgers and Indians are great teams to pad your stats. Once Ohio State starts their slate of primetime Big 10 games, JT will start to garner a lot of Heisman talk.
Lamar Jackson

Even with his loss to Clemson Jackson was phenomenal. It’ll take an insane stretch of games for anyone to catch him by December. 

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Great slate of games this weekend- Tennessee-Texas A&M, North Carolina-Virginia Tech, Alabama-Arkansas, and Miami Florida State. Let’s go!

Beat the Hoosiers  

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VIDEO: Crowd of Kent State students went clown hunting last night

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https://twitter.com/JamarRobinsonJr/status/783125319674986496

Shout out to all the kids in that video (especially the girl that called the clown a pussy) for doing God’s work out there last night. If they found him, I can’t imagine the repercussions would’ve been that ugly with campus security apparently involved, but they did give him that one moment of poop in his pants when he saw a cell-phone wielding mob of students heading his way. That in itself is worth it.

I cannot put into words how over clowns I am. They’re the scum of the earth and deserve nothing less than public humiliation and poor luck the rest of their dumb lives. I can handle these bozos in regular clown environments. I do not like them but I can handle them. However, when I walk to my car in the morning to go to work and have to wonder if there’s a fucking CLOWN WAITING FOR ME IN MY GARAGE, that’s a little much for me. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

God forbid one of them starts running towards me like I see in these videos. Barring a complete physical lockup, I would not hesitate one instant to absolutely wail on its multicolored ass and send it right back down to the fiery ball pit from which it came.

So yuck it up while you can, psychopaths. It’s all fun and games until you scare the wrong 2nd Amendment lover.

PS I think I speak for all undecided voters when I say, you want to jump the competition on my ballot in November? Introduce some motherfucking clown legislation.

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MMDB: That Wasn’t A Fumble, That Fourth Quarter Stunk, And We’re 0-4

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The Monday Morning Disappointment Blog

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Everything about yesterday stunk.
Here’s some game tape:

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Wow, the Browns have so many strengths on defense. Just kidding, it’s only one player. F off, CBS.

 Hit em with the Silencer, TP 

Jamar Taylor looks like he might be a player 

 

14 things I believe I believe about the Browns 

  1. I know we exaggerate a lot on this site but I can honestly say yesterday’s 4th quarter was the least fun I’ve had watching football in a few years. That was brutal.
  2. Said it last week and am saying it again- Give Terrelle Pryor an extension right now.
  3. Browns are very poor at covering tight ends. Good thing Rob Gronkowski comes to town next weekend.
  4. Saw a lot of people blaming Hue Jackson for a fullback fumbling the football. While I usually wouldn’t want my fullback carrying the ball out of a single back set, he’s got to hang on to the ball. It’s not Hue’s fault he fumbled.
  5. I’m trying to shake this feeling but I see a lot of Colt McCoy in Cody Kessler.
  6. Taunting call, missed field goals, phantom fumble recovery. It’s always something.
  7. Already went into detail about Duke’s non fumble, but man, what a terrible terrible call.

8. Counting the preseason, the 2016 Browns have lost 8 games in a row. Now I’m all for getting the #1 pick but I think this young team really really needs a win.

9. 15 carries is not enough for Crowell. He’s the second leading rusher in the NFL, feed him the damn ball. 

10. Without Nassib our pass rush is just non existent.

11. Has anyone else noticed that the center position hadn’t really had any issues the past 2 games? Strange coincidence… 

12. Wish the officials would pay more attention to making the right call on a fumble rather than throwing a flag for a TD dance or “shooting a bow and arrow.” Such a joke. 

13. I just turned 28 this weekend and have come to the realization that I probably won’t see a good Browns team until I’m in my 30s. Do you have any idea how depressing that is? A whole lifetime of bad football. 

14. I can’t really bitch too much. Literally every other team I root for is in the mix to win a championship this year. 

 

 

Around the league

  1. Did not foresee the 2 best teams in the NFC from last season each starting 1-3
  2. Every time Julio Jones does something good I throw up a little
  3. New England coming off of an embarrassing loss to Buffalo AND getting the best quarterback of all time back? Good fucking luck, Browns.
  4. Does anyone else not enjoy NFL Sundays as much as they used to? Don’t know if it’s the fact that the Browns stink or if the NFL product stinks, but I haven’t had a fun NFL Sunday in awhile. 
  5. It’s nice to see Baltimore finally lose. They were the biggest 3-0 fraud team in the league. I don’t think the Ravens make the playoffs.
  6. Watching Zeke and Dak Prescott eases the pain of having to sit through nationally televised Cowboys games. That duo is a lot of fun.
  7. It used to be the Bucs but the Colts are my new most hated team. F the Colts, man.

 

On to New England