Pigskin Palaver: Coaching Blunders & Empty Seats

"Alex, I'll take Stupid Coaching for $800."

"Whose team up 17-0 went for it on 4th and inches at his own 14 at the 2 minute mark of the first half, costing his team a TD?"

"Who up four points had his QB run around the endzone with seconds to go, costing his team the game after a fumble?"

Fourteen seasons of mediocrity in, and you'd think the muckety mucks in charge at NC State would consider a change.

Coming Soon: A Scott Van Pelt/ Stanford Steve 30 For 30 Special, "Baddest Beat Ever."

Flavor of the Month: 3-0 Mississippi State QB Kamario Taylor.

56/82. 832 yards. 11 TDs. 1 interception.

Ws over Louisiana Monroe, plus Minnesota and South Carolina on the road.

The next superstar Trinidad Chambliss? Or the next not-as-good-as-we-thought LaNorris Sellers? Stay tuned.

"He's gonna look awesome in a Hurricane uniform next season."

Once upon a time, Bobby Petrino was an offensive savant.

Now the North Carolina OC, his Tar Heels, up 17-15, had the ball 2d & Goal at the Clemson 7 when the game went into lightning delay for a couple hours.

Upon restart, in front of but a few Tiger believers,* Petrino's O couldn't punch it in, had to settle for 3.

Tigers then scored a couple TDs for the W.

*During the delay, just about all of the Clemson faithful decided to start Saturday night instead of returning to the stadium. Death Valley appeared to have been struck by the Plague.

Speaking of empty seats, there were a whole lot of them in Fayetteville.

Many of the few Razorback diehards who did show wore paper bags over their heads.

Will Stein's resurgent UK Wildcats provided the biggest surprise of the weekend, winning in College Station.

I'm expecting some new flavored Sissy Cake on the menu?

Rumors of Brian Kelly being named to replace Greg Schiano at Rutgers as early as this week might be a bit premature.

The Scarlet Knights showed up and almost bested the ever underwhelming Southern Cal Lincoln Rileys.

Should the Louisville Cardinals receiving crew rekindle one of the great nicknames in the sport?

Just a bit more snark on Kiffin, then no more. Promise.

He's the one who implored his attorney pal Tom Mars to sue to get Trinidad Chambliss another year of eligibility. Thinking the QB would follow him to Baton Rouge.

Chambliss stayed in OxfordTown. And got in the last words, in postgame interview with Holly Rowe.

Kiffin ignored his pal Mars advice, which was pursuing the eligibility of those NFL kids was absurd.

Kiffin, it is reported, did take the advice of ChatGPT.