The key thing we learned from Week 12...
WVU is No. 3 in the BCS poll.
Right back where the Mountaineers began the season.
Pretenders and weirdos have come and gone—South Florida, Kentucky, Florida—but now, again, all is right with the world.
Some other things we learned...
Oklahoma cannot win on the road.
They can't win on the road when they're supposed to (Colorado) and they can't win on the road when they need to (Texas Tech).
Bob Stoops' brother Mike set the table for the Sooners when his Arizona team knocked off No. 2 Oregon on Thursday. But the Sooners were incapable of accepting the gift, much like a petulant kid on Christmas morning who breaks his new bike because he's an ungrateful punk.
WVU, however, graciously accepted the Stoops Bros.' largesse, climbing back into the BCS championship hunt.
With just one more loss by one of the top two teams—LSU loses to Arkansas next week or in the SEC title game, or Oklahoma wins the Big 12 title game?—WVU moves to No. 2 and earns a trip to New Orleans.
More prosaically...
Woo-hoo! Miami scored 14 points!
Unfortunately, Virginia Tech scored 44.
Somewhere, The Rock is weeping. And spastic, laughs-too-much-for-no-reason Michael Irvin is still looking for a job.
Boston College's Matt Ryan had another Heisman Moment—but this time, nobody cared.
Tim Tebow remained on track to become the Andre Dawson of this season—winning the MVP award for an irrelevant team. (The Cubs would've finished last in 1987 even without Dawson.)
After beating 5-5 Nevada by two points, all the Hawaii "What about us?" apologists need to just STFU.
And Tennessee still sucks.
The Now-Abbreviated Big Board (as per the BCS poll rankings)
1. LSU: UNCHANGED
Rather than planning for Ole Miss, LSU coach Les Miles spent the week planning an invasion of Poland.
2. KANSAS: UP
I could make another "Mark Mangino is so fat..." joke, but what would be the point?
Plus, he might eat me.
3. WVU: UP SHARPLY
I've decided that, much like England's heroic retreat from Dunkirk only made the Allies' ultimate victory over Hitler more dramatic, QB Pat White's fourth-quarter fumbles only save WVU fans from being bored to tears while watching yet another blowout courtesy of an offense that's about as easy to contain as the Lower Mississippi River.
4. Missouri: UP
Coming this Saturday: the first meaningful Journalist Bowl—Mizzou vs. Kansas!
Who will win—KU, known as a copy-editor factory; or Mizzou, renowned for its top-flight magazine journalism sequence?
Regardless of the outcome, somewhere, a copy editor will complain.
5. Ohio State: UP
Being in the clubhouse has its pros and cons.
On the upside, Ohio State can't lose again. On the downside, they can't win again.
4 comments Last one added about 1 year ago — Leave a Comment
Anonymous about 1 year ago
"After beating 5-5 Nevada by two points, all the Hawaii 'what about us?' apologists need to just STFU."
Yes sir.
"by Frank Ahrens (Columnist)"
If Frank is a columnist, I'm the Queen of England (and I'm not boys, I'm not).
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Ryan Fritsche about 1 year ago
Yeah Frank, I don't like the logic about how Hawaii fans should be quiet when they root for one of two still undefeated teams.
So what if they beat Nevada by 2? They were without their freakin' QB Colt Brennan. Oh, and they had to travel some 3,000 miles to play the dang game. You have no idea how physically demanding that is on a team. Unless you have traveled to Hawaii and back about 6 times in a year, I would just STFU
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CHRIS WILLIAMS about 1 year ago
I'm sorry Frank, but I'm gonna have to agree with Ryan on that one. It was pretty impressive for Hawaii to hold it together without Colt...I mean take a look at classic examples, such as Oklahoma loosing Bradford, and Oregon loosing Dixon. Both those teams lost with their backup QB's at the helm. Hawaii, simply didn't give in, so give them some damn credit and STFU...
Journalist Bowl? Are you kidding me? I mean really...? Look, that game is WITHOUT A DOUBT, the game of the year (probably the game of the decade) and all you can come up for it is "journalist bowl". That's pretty lame. You know what's also lame? This article...sucks. Quit it with the homerism over WVU...write about them somewhere else. This article was supposed to pertain to everyone in the BCS race, not about pointing out the 100 ways that WVU can POSSIBLY play for the BCS championship. Also, are you turning this in for a middle school paper because using "STFU" in your articles is pretty immature...seriously WTF?
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Smith J. Howard about 1 year ago
There are a little too many degrading jokes for my taste, but hey...if it's your style...
"Boomer Sooner/buncha chokers/got passed silly/by the Raiders."
"And Tennessee still sucks."
-I'm a Vol supporter, and I just might agree with the second statement. But for now, I would think that almost all WVU supporters would be HUGE Oklahoma and Tennessee fans. After all, the Mountaineers need one of those two teams to win (UT over LSU, if the Vols beat UK...and OU over KU/Missou) to reach the BCS title game. Without it, yall are pretty much hung out to dry.
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