Cal over Tennessee! Clemson over Florida State! Notre Dame never sets foot in the endzone! And Michigan WHO?

Paterno Victory Watch: 364. Two more to tie Bowden. And given Notre Dame’s performance against Georgia Tech, 365 should be a lock.

There’s a distinct bitterness floating around Ann Arbor today:

But this game with Appalachian State was halfway in between - and was therefore a lose-lose situation from the beginning. Even a win probably would have hurt a Wolverine bid to get to the National Championship game. The Wolverines would have beaten a Football Championship Subdivision team. I don’t know that any voters would have much respect for a win like that, certainly not more respect than for a win over an inferior Division I-A team.

Translation: Just because the girl I tried to make a move on kicked me in the balls and left me crying while everyone laughed at me doesn’t matter because she really wasn’t that pretty anyway and nobody would’ve respected me in the morning when I took her to my Big House, if you know what I mean.

In the immortal words of Amy Smart to a young James Van Der Beek, “Would you like some cheese with that whine?”

Can we also get over that Michigan was a “ranked” team? They hadn’t done anything yet! The shock that a mere 1-AA/FCS team could dare take down a team ranked fifth by people who worked so hard to cast their little votes and then somebody had to count them all and these kids just come from whatever state they come from and just mess up our perfect little system.

It’s all fun and cupcakes until someone’s national championship changes are dashed.

# 2007 Sep 04