Archive for: beauty contest standings

 
The Pain of No Playoff

The Pain of No Playoff

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Beauty Contest Standings: Week 14 There are times when this becomes difficult to write, and this is one of those times. I am so disgusted with the Beauty Contest...

 
 

Every Game Counts

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 12, 2011) In college football, the whole season is a playoff. Every game counts. That’s one of the pretexts provided to cover for...

 
 

Mad Hatter Defeats Prince of Darkness

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 10, 2011) The Mad Hatter defeated the Prince of Darkness. And we waited all year for this? A 9-6 game decided in overtime? Sunday,...

 
 

Halloween in College Football

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 9, 2011) Halloween in College Football: you are there. Everybody is in costume. Wisconsin went to the party as Aggies. For the second...

 
 

The Most Predictable College Football Season? Things Change

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 8, 2011) A week ago, I wrote that this was the most predictable season in memory. Things change. Oklahoma had won 39 consecutive...

 
 
Where Is Football’s Cinderella?

Where Is Football’s Cinderella?

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 7, 2011) Ho hum. Take away conference realignment, and this has, thus far, been the most predictable season in years. The teams you...

 
 

Other Than That, How Did You Enjoy the Play, Mrs. Lincoln?

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 6, 2011) Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln? Last week, I told everyone who asked that Texas needed three things...

 
 

Gag ’em, Aggies

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 4, 2011) The only good thing about a week without Longhorn football is that it provides a chance to watch some other games and see...

 
 

As the Conferences Realign

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 3, 2011) With the score tied at 13-13 in the fourth quarter…(sfx: beep, beep, beep) Announcer: We interrupt your BCS for this installment...

 
 

When the Subtraction of Awful Play Is Enough

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Beauty Contest Standings (Week 2, 2011) One of the great things about the Beauty Contest is that you get to run into a lot of celebrity judges. For example, this...

 
 
 
 
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