Meme Monday: Manti Te'o

The Manti Te'o saga continued to be very weird, but at least we get a new Tebow-like verb to add to the English language.

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So Alabama won last night and the nation lost

So Alabama won the BCS National Championship game last night in a game so bad, many tuned out to watch "Everybody loves Raymond and not college football." The Notre Dame Irish prepared for the game by apparently drinking all week before their game and showing up s-canned at the game. That's the only thing that could explain the 28-0 margin that the Tide rolled up before halftime.

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In other words, the Irish haven't had this bad of night since the potato famine. But don't worry folks! There were still some entertaining things you can pull from this dumpster fire of a game and postseason system. Look at this...

1. Drunk Irish fans think the refs screwed them - Of course it was the refs. Despite getting waterboarded 42-14, some Notre Dame faithful thought Alabama slipped the referee a $20 or something. In other words, Irish fans have become Seahawks fans.

2. Kate Upton makes an Irish-JETS joke - I mean its so easy right now. Did you see the Irish play? They looked like a team with a leprechaun at QB. At least they'll get Tim Tebow next season...

3. Funny Alabama fans - HONEY! WE'RE GOING TO WALMART TO GET A PHOTO WITH THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY! YEHAWWW BECAUSE THIS IS ALABAMA WHERE WE SPEND MORE MONEY ON FOOTBALL THEN BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE.

4. Brent Musburger wants Alabama QB's girlfriend - Oh come on, who didn't give Brent his meds before the game. Good gawd. Anyone want to make a guess on Miss Alabama's reading level.

5. And the SEC will get bragging rights again for college football - But then you realize, SEC fans are these people...

College football. College football. College football.

This is better than starting 0-1. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish started the season on a positive note. (A) Their coach isn't a fat ass that drives a scooter around practice and (B) they beat Purdue. It was fairly close 23-12, but I'm sure Irish fans will take it.

Why am I talking about the Irish on this Northwest blog? Well since I've moved to Montana, all regional Washington games have been axed out of my TV watching radar. There is no FSN or anything, that means that yesterday I got the chance to watch MSU and the Griz smash the community colleges that the scheduled for the first game of the year or the Irish on NBC.

Wanting to watch actual Div. I athletes and high definition TV, I went for the Irish. Now I've been known to dabble in Notre Dame-dom from time to time. I do like the history and all the ridiculous over-reaction that their fan base does. I can only imagine that they're thinking national championship right now.

So sorry Just South of North readers, you will be receiving Irish updates on the up and up as their my new adopted college football team because it's the only squad I know I can watch on a weekly basis. You shouldn't complain, because I'm not complaining because have you seen female Irish fans? Much better looking that those loathsome Grizzly and Washington Huskies fans.

WSU fans on the other hand? Well, they trump all, but that's neither here nor there. (And... if you want me to rehash an old wound, I shudder to think what female Gonzaga football fans would look like)

College Football Top 25 AP Poll for Week 3

Since it's college football and we have no playoff system, here is essentially the standings (until the BCS rankings come out and piss everyone off) for the best teams in college football. Please not that Notre Dame has dropped out of the rankings after one loss because everyone hates the Irish and wishes horrible things to happen to Charlie Weis. Why is this important? Weis just may go into "F-U" mode when blowing out lesser teams this season, which would be very, very entertaining.

(NOTE: Those numbers next to the record are the amount of points the team earned based on where they were ranked by each voting member and obviously the number next to the team names are the number of first-place votes it got. As you can see, team Tebow is still killing the competition)

1	Florida (56)	2-0	1491
2	Texas (1)	2-0	1404
3	USC (1)	2-0	1396
4	Alabama (2)	2-0	1328
5	Mississippi	1-0	1145
5	Penn State	2-0	1145
7	Brigham Young	2-0	1122
8	California	2-0	1058
9	LSU	2-0	951
10	Boise State	2-0	945
11	Ohio State	1-1	840
12	Oklahoma	1-1	835
13	Virginia Tech	1-1	749
14	Georgia Tech	2-0	683
15	TCU	1-0	609
16	Oklahoma State	1-1	445
17	Cincinnati	2-0	407
18	Utah	2-0	405
19	Nebraska	2-0	365
20	Miami (FL)	1-0	364
21	Houston	2-0	341
22	Kansas	2-0	271
23	Georgia	1-1	260
24	North Carolina	2-0	250
25	Michigan	2-0	169

And just so you know, Washington State and Idaho are not receiving votes in the AP Poll. Sad.

Things I hate about Saturdays...

- When you turn on the TV in the morning, realize that ESPN is showing three college football games, and they're all Directional School that nobody cares about vs. mid-major conference power that likes the run the option a lot and nobody cares about.

- Trying to decide between a college basketball game or college football game.

- Hearing people complain about the BCS simply because other people are complaining about the BCS. I'm sorry but Utah, Boise St. and Ball State do not deserve a shot at the national title.

- Seeing Charlie Weis on the television.

- Saturday NFL games, oh they're coming... and it's going to be equally hard to justify to everyone that it's alright for you to go to the bar on Saturday morning.

- Charlie Weis.

- Oh almost forgot... Nick Saban.