Posted by Dr Fro 6:54 PM

Dr Fro spent a lot of time watching football today with his daughter, and they collectively came out with the following list of awards on the day:

Biggest puss award: Bret Meyer of Iowa State, who dove out of bounds just shy of the 1st down that would have well-positioned ISU to beat Iowa.

Best sack: Walter Thurmond of Oregon came in from the corner and blind-sided Paul Thompson for a brutal sack. He took a tricky turn inside the DE.

Most stressful 3-way parlay: OSU, ISU and BC: Ohio State scored a last minute field goal to go ahead by 30 (lines was 29.5), Iowa had a last minute TD called back to keep them from covering and BC took it to 2 OTs to cover (depending on the line you got, for some, they pushed). This all happened within a couple minutes.

Best block: Marshal Yanda of Iowa absolutely leveled an unsuspecting soul from Iowa State on a reverse. (as a side note, as dramatic and fun as these blind-sided pancakes on reverses are, TV commentators need to stop salivating on what "great" blocks" they are; it is easy to level a guy in this situation. A fun-to-watch block? Yes. A "great" one? Not really)

Worst officiating: The crew in Eugene, Oregon blew 2 calls in the last minute to completely screw OU (hee hee hee). Worse than that, BOTH calls held up under review even though even my 13-day old daughter could tell you that the calls should have been reversed.

Record breaking performance award: Texas earned a record number of penalties tonight. The bulk of them were false starts and most of the rest were illegal blocks.

Defense Wins Championships award: TCU held the nation's highest scoring offense to 3 points. With wins over Tech, Baylor and OU over the past two years, the gay frogs now think they deserve to be considered good. I will wait for their inevitable loss to a bad team before expressing my thoughts on TCU.

"Which bitch is which?" Award: NU v USC; we completely own NU and consequently, they are our bitch. Although we can't exactly call USC our "bitch", we definitely have scoreboard on them.

Best thing to happen to Protestantism since Martin Luther Award: Michigan completely embarrassed the Irish at home. Omigod. I am a big ND-apologist, and I was surprised at how poorly they performed. I knew they weren't as good as billed, but I didn't expect as ass-whooping in South Bend.

Strength of schedule award: UT; Check out our awesome competition:
North Texas- lost to Tulsa 28-3
Ohio State- won big

Rice- lost 52-7
Iowa State- lost to Iowa by 10
Sam Houston State- lost to freaking SMU
Oklahoma- lost to Oregon
Baylor- lost, of course
Nebraska- lost to USC
Texas Tech- lost to TCU, scored 3 points
Oklahoma State- beat Florida Atlantic, the best Atlantic team of them all
Kansas State- beat powerhouse Marshall 23-7
Texas A&M- barely beat a terrible team.

Prophetic award: JMGreene, who went 4-1 on his picks this week.

Prophetic award v2: Dr Fro, who told you that Notre Dame would underwhelm you this year!

Purple Heart award: A&M, also known as the fifth arm of the armed services, gave four-time National Champion Army a heck of a battle, and in the end, they won.

Four years ago, Saddam Hussein supposedly had weapons of mass destruction. We later learned that was not true and attributed the whole ordeal to lack of intelligence. Lack of intelligence is nothing new in College Station, but to see Coach Fran's claims of having weapons of mass destruction so utterly exposed as untrue is a bit surprising. The United States Army hasn't won a big one since 1945. They came up short again, but they exposed A&M for being a very, very terrible team. Anyhew, my prediction still stands that A&M will win 8 or 9 of their first 9 games.

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