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The Tank Job of the Week is an award for the FBS team that did the best job of humiliating itself over the weekend. Whether they blew a large lead, choked away a spot in the limelight, lost a game they had absolutely no right losing, or completely screwed everything on a last second blunder, the TJOTW winner sets the gold standard in college football misery.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Week 0: New Mexico Lobos (Montana State 35-31)
Week 1: Florida State Seminoles (Boston College 28-13)
Week 2: Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Northern Illinois 16-14)
Week 3: Mississippi State Bulldogs (Toledo 41-17)
Week 4: North Carolina Tar Heels (James Madison 70-50)
Week 5: Auburn Tigers (Oklahoma 27-21) [TIE]
Week 5: Ole Miss Rebels (Kentucky 20-17) [TIE]
Week 6: Alabama Crimson Tide (Vanderbilt 40-35)
Week 7: Marshall Thundering Herd (Georgia Southern 24-23)
LAST WEEK: Just for the sake of accuracy u/tcjsavannah sent me a message informing me that there were some issues with the game stats in the Marshall/Georgia Southern game, and that Marshall’s meltdown to the Eagles actually happened over ten minutes, not seven like I (and ESPN) said. Still I think Marshall is a worthy winner of this coveted award, and most of you agreed. Although there were a lot of REALLY depressed Rutgers fans saying otherwise. Look on the bright side, you’ll get another go at it this week!
Speaking of this week… yeah this crop is decisively mid, as the kids say. I’d apologize, but its not like I can control whether or not teams spectacularly implode and gush varyingly disgusting degrees of body fluids all over themselves. Besides, we need weeks like these so that when we do get the all-timers, it makes things that much more special.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Its not enough to merit a nomination but considering how badly Tennessee’s first half went Alabama’s gotta be kicking themselves that they only could muster a 7-0 lead and it wasn’t enough to hold.
- Michigan scored 7 points against Illinois. Purdue scored 49 last week.
- Thanks for nothing, Iowa.
- It takes a lot to disillusion the Husker faithful these days but a 49-point loss to Indiana- even a good Indiana- sure seemed to do it.
- Kentucky playing the long game by losing to Florida by four touchdowns and helping Billy Napier keep his job.
- I’m not sure how it can be physically possible to have nearly 400 yards of offense, no turnovers and… six points, but somehow you did it, Northern Illinois.
- I’m not nominating a 1-6 team for losing to a 6-1 team but that was the first time Florida State ever lost to Duke in 23 tries and that deserves… something.
- Houston coughed up four turnovers to Kansas and was smacked 42-14 in the process but honestly it kinda just feels like the Jayhawks finally managed to just not screw themselves for once.
- Half of Utah’s yards came on a single play and it continues to be sad (although their OC has resigned so maybe better?).
- Middle Tennessee let UTEP go and get their first win of the year.
- A 14-5 game is sad no matter how you slice it.
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And now, the nominees for Week 8 are…
AUBURN TIGERS (lost to Missouri 21-17)
Does anyone remember when in the 1999 Royal Rumble Stone Cold Steve Austin was beaten up in a women’s bathroom and was sent to the hospital only to come back driving an ambulance and beat the ever loving snot out of The Corporation? That was pretty much Brady Cook in this game, save for the women’s bathroom part (we hope), and instead of the Corporation it was Auburn’s 17-3 lead, ending on a Jamal Roberts touchdown with just 46 seconds to go. Then again, this analogy would put Hugh Freeze in Vince McMahon’s role and oh boy do I not want to go there… NEXT!
CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (lost to North Carolina State 24-23)
Never in my wildest thoughts would I have ever imagined that the “woke mob” of the CALgorithm could swing to the right. Unfortunately, when they did, it was on a 27-yard field goal attempt and we’re talking Jesse Helms levels of right-ness (is that reference too dated?). It all capped off a fourth quarter that saw the Bears blow a 13-point lead to what had been a pretty terrible NC State squad. Cal is now slumming it up at the bottom of the ACC Standings at 0-4.
CHARLOTTE 49ERS (lost to Navy 51-17)
On the surface, this doesn’t seem like a nomination- Navy is ranked and undefeated while Charlotte is midpack in the American at best. But the Niners had four of their first five drives end in turnovers, the capper coming on a 61-yard pick six to Deshaun Peele to make it 38-0 not even five minutes into the second quarter. And then in the second half, they did it again, this time Peele taking it eighty five yards. Ultimately Charlotte outgained the Middies by nearly 100 yards, but it didn’t matter because five turnovers leading directly to thirty-one Navy points was just that much spectacular self-sabotage.
OKLAHOMA SOONERS (lost to South Carolina 35-9)
It took South Carolina all of (checks notes) five minutes and twenty seconds to take a 21-0 lead and never look back, thanks in large part to two defensive touchdowns- one off a fumble and the other off a pick-six. All in all the Sooners ended up with four turnovers on the day. And now it has led to Seth Littrel’s termination as offensive coordinator after just eight games on the job.
OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOYS (lost to BYU 38-35)
I mean, credit the Pokes, who went into Provo and gave the Cougars everything they could handle, and even pushed BYU’s undefeated season to the brink with a go-ahead touchdown with just 73 seconds remaining. And then they lose it thanks to Darius Lassiter catching a pass and then faking out the entire Cowboy secondary en route to the end zone and the winning touchdown. Okie State is now a shocking 0-4 in the new Big 12.
RUTGERS SCARLET KNIGHTS (lost to UCLA 35-32)
Oh, for crying out loud.
TEXAS LONGHORNS (lost to Georgia 30-15)
You would think the #1 team in the country would enter what quite possibly might just be the biggest game of their season fired up. You would be wrong, as the Longhorns sputtered to just a pathetic 62 yards of offense in the first half with two turnovers and a 23-0 halftime deficit. They did show much more confidence in the second half, and seemed to be gaining momentum after a controversial interception that was originally negated by a pass interference call then overturned *(*after they threw a bunch of trash on the field in protest), but then surrendered a 90 yard touchdown drive immediately after that let UGA put the game away and knock the HORNS DOWN from their perch. Also, Oregon’s #1 now because of this, but that’s more humiliating for the entire sport than the Longhorns specifically.
TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS (lost to Baylor 59-35)
TTU was 5-1 and closing in on the AP Poll rankings (and was already ranked in the Reddit Top 25). Baylor was 2-4 and was closing in on the Dave Aranda death spiral. But it was the Bears who came out flying, leaping to a 24-14 half time lead then, after the Red Raiders closed the gap to start the third quarter, rattled off twenty-eight consecutive points to put the exclamation point on this shocker.
USC TROJANS (lost to Maryland 29-28)
You blew up the Pac-12 for this! What is “this” this week? A .500 Trojan team going to College Park in October and blowing a 14-point lead to a .500 Maryland team for its third loss in a row. USC could have put the game away with a 41-yarder with two minutes left, but missed, and Mike Locksley’s Terrapins stormed back down the field to rip this one out of Lincoln Riley’s hands.