STUPOR BOWL 2009 MAJOR SHAKEUP!
Nov. 15th, 2009 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redneckgaijinRICE BEAT TULANE. HOLY SHIT.
1. EASTERN MICHIGAN (MAC - West) (0-10) - Lost to West Michigan, 35-14.
2. NEW MEXICO (Mountain West) (0-10) - Lost a close one to Brigham Young, 24-19.
3. WESTERN KENTUCKY (Sun Belt) (0-10) - Lost an even closer one to Louisiana-Monroe, 21-18.
4. RICE (Conference USA) (1-9): Defeated Tulane 28-20. Still not out of contention, but definitely out of the top spot.
5. MIAMI (OHIO) (MAC - East) (1-9): Lost to Bowling Green, 35-14.
6. SAN JOSE STATE (WAC) (1-8): Lost to Utah State, 24-9.
7. WASHINGTON STATE (Pac 10) (1-9): Lost (hammered) by UCLA, 43-7.
8. BALL STATE (MAC - West) (1-9): Lost 26-20 to NIU.
With Rice no longer top of the suck charts, I find myself hoping that Eastern Michigan will win a game to clear the way for a New Mexico v. Western Kentucky pairing. Consider: a team with an unholy embarrassment of a coach against a team flattened in its first year in Division I-A. Both teams desperately need, and deserve, something to salvage a season of otherwise unremitting despair. Both teams are the reason I want a Stupor Bowl in the first place. But, with those narrow losses yesterday, neither team is quite as bad- yet- as Eastern Michigan... and it's suck, not sentiment, that decides who I pick.
1. EASTERN MICHIGAN (MAC - West) (0-10) - Lost to West Michigan, 35-14.
2. NEW MEXICO (Mountain West) (0-10) - Lost a close one to Brigham Young, 24-19.
3. WESTERN KENTUCKY (Sun Belt) (0-10) - Lost an even closer one to Louisiana-Monroe, 21-18.
4. RICE (Conference USA) (1-9): Defeated Tulane 28-20. Still not out of contention, but definitely out of the top spot.
5. MIAMI (OHIO) (MAC - East) (1-9): Lost to Bowling Green, 35-14.
6. SAN JOSE STATE (WAC) (1-8): Lost to Utah State, 24-9.
7. WASHINGTON STATE (Pac 10) (1-9): Lost (hammered) by UCLA, 43-7.
8. BALL STATE (MAC - West) (1-9): Lost 26-20 to NIU.
With Rice no longer top of the suck charts, I find myself hoping that Eastern Michigan will win a game to clear the way for a New Mexico v. Western Kentucky pairing. Consider: a team with an unholy embarrassment of a coach against a team flattened in its first year in Division I-A. Both teams desperately need, and deserve, something to salvage a season of otherwise unremitting despair. Both teams are the reason I want a Stupor Bowl in the first place. But, with those narrow losses yesterday, neither team is quite as bad- yet- as Eastern Michigan... and it's suck, not sentiment, that decides who I pick.
