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redneckgaijin ([personal profile] redneckgaijin) wrote2009-11-15 11:58 am
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STUPOR BOWL 2009 MAJOR SHAKEUP!

RICE 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.