Before I point out a few positives from the week I was actually disappointed for the most part this week. Key WR's from the BIG schools like Will Hastings, David Sills (despite another TD!) and Trey Quinn had awful stat games there is no way around it. And just in general despite huge wins from Northwestern and Iowa their white WR's did not figure prominently except NW senior Macan Wilson. And San Jose State's WR Bailey Gaither has been MIA for several weeks after a blistering start due to some sort of injury. Back up RB's Groshek, who at least played and VT's Coleman Fox, didn't make a mark and either did Sean McGrew in mop up duty. Of course it isn't fair for back ups and their limited playing time to come to conclusions. WR Hunter Renfrow continues to have a very sub par stat season--due to lack of targets---but I believe he saved the game for Clemson once again with a key late game 3rd down conversion where he made a nifty spinning move to gobble up some yards.
Big 12--This should come as no surprise but this pansy ass defensive play in this conference is not my idea of football and as noted above that Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game was a farce. If I was the head coach of a division 1 school I would have at least 4 white defensive players on my starting D. These all black defenses that just run around aimlessly with no pride as they get burned by one gigantic flash play after another by other black players -(they seem to try harder when covering white WR's) is beyond sickening as black WR's pad their stats to the max and get on Sports center front and center. That said Baker Mayfield sure is exciting --and TE Mark Andrews went over 100 yards with only three catches which I like to see. As mentioned above one of the best games of the day was Texas Tech and Kansas State. WR Dylan Cantrell had a nice 8-99 stat line but should have been targeted more. His glamour boy WR teammate Coutee got the caste treatment as he obviously pushed off a defender to score a long TD. No call--horrible. But it was nice to see sophomore WR #83 Dalton Schoen have a nice game see above and K State pulled it out which was preferable.
TCU smothered nearly all black oh what the hell all black Texas ( one reserve OLB Hager). TCU is just as black although they do have two white front seven players, LB Ty Summers and DE Matt Boesen who make a difference. Too bad WR Ty Slanina, who was an athletic recruit back when is reduced to one or two dink passes a game. When was the last time TCU had a significant white WR? 19th century?
Big 10-Everything got scrambled and hero Barkley had another mediocre game so Mayfield is now the front runner for the Heisman. Nebraska coach is gone--just a matter of when but as I mentioned last week Northwestern is a team to root for with all of their white WR's and an emerging stud at LB, Paddy Fisher. As for Wisconsin the power move is to SHOVE both Georgia( caste central) and Alabama ( nice to see LB Holcombe out there again but nothing else) into the playoffs along with among the following Clemson, Notre Dame, Miami, Oklahoma, TCU or Washington. If Wisconsin goes undefeated and wins the conference championship they should be a lock but the rumor is the big boys don't want them in. Too many white guys on D perhaps---I guess the Oklahoma teams and their brainless /pansy/matador all black defenses passes for great these days.
Even Washington has a few white defensive players. And WR Andy Isabella scorched all black D Miss State see above highlight which was great to see. Andy finally had another big game. It had been a while. So far no buzz on NFL regarding RB Laird but he has one more season to buff up his resume. He has been consistent and very solid all year long. These two players kept the week from falling into a sink hole. There were some good defensive performances Saturday so I shouldn't be too down beat but when the key WR's have off games I get grumpy. That said Iowa State has a freshman KR Landen Akers #82 who hopefully starts getting reps at WR next season. He has big time speed.
Ivy League update. Tall two sport athlete sophomore ( he plays CF) WR Jeff Horsted from Princeton put up another good day with a 9-114-2 stat line against Penn. Penn won as Justin Watson dominated with a 8-124-2TD stat line the last TD being the clincher.
And a lot of you got to see Dudek for the first time and he was ripping off big TD runs. Actually bittersweet. His jump cuts are already pro level and he is too talented for this league. He should be the starting RB for a power 5 school and if he was at Penn State--where everyone and their mother knows he should be--he could have been Barkley's key back up this season as he grooms to be a starter next season. They could have used him the last two games as Barkley danced around to no avail in the backfield.