A&M is in meltdown mode, Jimbo Fisher has a $100 million contract, and it would cost them something like $80 million to get rid of him. For better or worse, he's their coach. Back in 2018, A&M Chancellor John Sharp presented Jimbo with this:
A national championship trophy with 20-- for the date. So, if you're down about the BYU game, do what I do, and rejoice in aggy tears.
Life may start coming at Neal Brown fast. He's 0-2, and lost to Kansas. They've got Towson this week, but there's a possibility they're 1-4 when Baylor comes to town.
I'm going to quit calling Kansas a free square. They're not good yet, but the days of them self-destructing are over. This is a team that may not have a lot of talent, but they've won overtime games ON THE ROAD against Texas and West Virginia in the last two years. This is a mentally tough team, something we haven't seen out of Kansas since Mark Mangino ate the Orange Bowl mascot.
Marcus Freeman is the first coach in the history of Notre Dame to lose his first three games. After the Marshall game, he had the same look Wade Phillips had his last couple of pressers with the Cowboys. Notre Dame firing him would be a mercy move right now. He has no idea how to turn them around, and Notre Dame can't afford this kind of season. Really. Their contract will be coming up for renewal, and as an independent, if their record isn't good, it hurts them a lot worse than most teams. They start winning, or grab that B1G offer.
In the "My, how times have changed" category, anybody old enough to remember when Oklahoma-Nebraska was one of the top five games in all of college football every year? From 1973 until 1988 Barry Switzer and Tom Osborne went against each other in games that usually had national championship implications. Nebraska just fired Scott Frost, after the Huskers lost to Georgia Southern.
Speaking of Georgia Southern, the Sun Belt got some time in the sun last week. Georgia Southern beat Nebraska, Marshall beat Notre Dame, and Appalachian State beat Texas A&M. Game Day is going to Boone, North Carolina next week, home to the Appalachian State Mountaineers.
Texas surprised a lot of people, including me. Texas outplayed Bama. I never thought that would happen. Sarkisian scrubbed the roster from last year, and removed a lot of the complacency that had beset the Longhorns ever since Mack Brown retired while still on the job.
Sarkisian picked up a lot of respect with that game. The Texas defense looked better than ever, so Gary Patterson coming in must have worked.
That brings up something else, though, and it's the difficulty of away games. Saban didn't become as successful as he has without mastering the non-Xs and Os part of football. He plays more good out of conference games than most schools, but usually they're at neutral sites. Of course, most teams with aspirations avoid tough out of conference games, but Saban has mastered the technique of playing them without giving the other team a home field advantage. He also seems to be able to arrange his schedule where he avoids having a murderer's row of games. This year, he's got a bye week before LSU and plays Austin Peay before the annual Auburn game.
A national championship trophy with 20-- for the date. So, if you're down about the BYU game, do what I do, and rejoice in aggy tears.
Life may start coming at Neal Brown fast. He's 0-2, and lost to Kansas. They've got Towson this week, but there's a possibility they're 1-4 when Baylor comes to town.
I'm going to quit calling Kansas a free square. They're not good yet, but the days of them self-destructing are over. This is a team that may not have a lot of talent, but they've won overtime games ON THE ROAD against Texas and West Virginia in the last two years. This is a mentally tough team, something we haven't seen out of Kansas since Mark Mangino ate the Orange Bowl mascot.
Marcus Freeman is the first coach in the history of Notre Dame to lose his first three games. After the Marshall game, he had the same look Wade Phillips had his last couple of pressers with the Cowboys. Notre Dame firing him would be a mercy move right now. He has no idea how to turn them around, and Notre Dame can't afford this kind of season. Really. Their contract will be coming up for renewal, and as an independent, if their record isn't good, it hurts them a lot worse than most teams. They start winning, or grab that B1G offer.
In the "My, how times have changed" category, anybody old enough to remember when Oklahoma-Nebraska was one of the top five games in all of college football every year? From 1973 until 1988 Barry Switzer and Tom Osborne went against each other in games that usually had national championship implications. Nebraska just fired Scott Frost, after the Huskers lost to Georgia Southern.
Speaking of Georgia Southern, the Sun Belt got some time in the sun last week. Georgia Southern beat Nebraska, Marshall beat Notre Dame, and Appalachian State beat Texas A&M. Game Day is going to Boone, North Carolina next week, home to the Appalachian State Mountaineers.
Texas surprised a lot of people, including me. Texas outplayed Bama. I never thought that would happen. Sarkisian scrubbed the roster from last year, and removed a lot of the complacency that had beset the Longhorns ever since Mack Brown retired while still on the job.
Sarkisian picked up a lot of respect with that game. The Texas defense looked better than ever, so Gary Patterson coming in must have worked.
That brings up something else, though, and it's the difficulty of away games. Saban didn't become as successful as he has without mastering the non-Xs and Os part of football. He plays more good out of conference games than most schools, but usually they're at neutral sites. Of course, most teams with aspirations avoid tough out of conference games, but Saban has mastered the technique of playing them without giving the other team a home field advantage. He also seems to be able to arrange his schedule where he avoids having a murderer's row of games. This year, he's got a bye week before LSU and plays Austin Peay before the annual Auburn game.
