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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)
Week 8: USC Trojans (Maryland 29-28)
Week 9: Liberty Flames (Kennesaw State 27-24)
Week 10: Ouachita Baptist Tigers (Southern Nazarene 18-17) [TIE]
Week 10: Texas A&M Aggies (South Carolina 44-20) [TIE]
LAST WEEK: So as the votes rolled in, I was surprised at how many people were voting Ouachita Baptist despite them not technically being eligible for this award, so I figured I’d give them an honorary spot in the winners list. But when I went to tally up the votes- the had 33… the same number as the Aggies. So for the first time EVER, a non-FBS team wins TJOTW. I don’t want to make a habit of this, but hey, going 8-0 and losing to an 0-8 is pretty deserved, although they won’t be eligible for the Ultimate Tank Job at the end of the season.
For those of you who have never heard Ouachita Baptist, they’re a small- you’re never gonna believe this- Baptist university in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, which is in the central part of the state. Their enrollment is only about 1,800, a little over half of the smallest FBS school (Tulsa, in case you were wondering). Football wise, they’re not exactly a powerhouse. They have only been to the D2 playoffs five times, and have one win in those five, but they gained notoriety earlier this year for knocking off defending national champion Harding. They’re mostly known for their Battle of the Ravine rivalry with Henderson State, who’s stadium is LITERALLY ACROSS THE STREET from theirs. In fact, when OBU visits this Saturday, they’ll still use their own home locker room. Anyways, the Tigers should be okay even with this historic debacle- the loss to Southern Nazarene only dropped them to ninth in the D2 rankings, and they flattened Oklahoma Baptist 55-0 on Saturday. Not so much for the actual FBS TJOTW winner Aggies and their lackluster performance against South Carolina, which kept them out of the initial playoff bracket.
As for this week, they announced the first playoff bracket last Tuesday, and of the four teams that got byes, two lost (and a third, well… yeah). And I don’t necessarily think either of those is the actual favorite cause we have some doozy of late-game meltdowns to sort through as well. Let’s get to it.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- What is with the epidemic of throwing trash on the field this year?
- Yes Kennesaw State is 1-8 and yes they just lost the Pillow Fight of the Week, but firing your program-building coach because your first year in a higher division is going a bit rough and then trying to pass it off as a mutual decision seems like a short-sided, jerkish move. Good thing Sam Houston didn’t do that after losing to UTEP last year.
- I’m not against rushing the field- far from it- but I also highly suggest learning the clock rules before doing it, Ole Miss.
- After a season of demanding big home night games, LSU finally gets one- and gets ran off the field by Alabama 42-13.
- For my own sanity, I’m just gonna chalk Iowa losing 20-17 to UCLA on travel and not because UCLA is suddenly in god-mode right before playing Washington.
- Vandy forgot to answer the bell in the big SEC Dark Horse Battle and got thoroughly rolled by South Carolina 28-7
- Finishing the first quarter only down 7-3 to Notre Dame might have been the highlight of Florida State’s season so far. Then the Irish got serious and scored 45 straight and apparently after the game Mike Norvell left a pistol on the desk in the coordinators office and walked out.
- “I JUST DECLINED THE F***ING PENALTY!!!”
NOTE: For ease of counting, please use carats to make your vote, like this: . Also, you are not required to vote for a nominee- you can write in one of your own if you think of a better choice. Thank you for participating!
And the nominees for Week 11 are…
CINCINNATI BEARCATS (lost to West Virginia 31-24)
Bearcats outgain the Mountaineers by nearly 200 yards, but lose thanks to two disastrous defensive touchdowns, the first a 79-yard Pick six early in the second quarter, the second a scoop and score with three and a half minutes left to put the game out of reach.
FRESNO STATE BULLDOGS (lost to Air Force 36-28)
Air Force’s season has been nothing short of a plane crash, but the thing about plane crashes is that sometimes there’s casualties on the ground too, and Fresno was caught looking up at the weird pretty lights in the sky before realizing too late that its actually a giant flaming ball of wreckage about to land on them. The Falcons took over the game in the second half after a costly Fresno interception and two turnover on downs, and a late Fresno TD was too little too late to save the Bulldog’s hopes and snap Air Force’s seven game losing streak.
GEORGIA BULLDOGS (lost to Ole Miss 28-10)
28-3 likes to come in all forms in and around the Peach State. In this case, it was the score for the rest of the game after Georgia connected with a touchdown on their first drive after a Jaxson Dart interception. Three out of their final four drives ending in turnovers sure didn’t help matters, and now Georgia’s playoff safety net is all but gone.
IOWA STATE CYCLONES (lost to Kansas 45-36)
In fairness, Kansas is a talented team that can’t finish games, and this was a bit in the coming for them. Still, when that late game meltdown happened (and it still kinda did), it didn’t kill the Jayhawks because the rest of the game was that much of a whuppin- they had built up a 25 point lead. Its taken ISU two complete disasters to go from the AP Top 10 to completely unranked in just a fortnight.
LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS (lost to Jacksonville State 44-37)
Four seconds left, the Cock’s last chance / And Tyler Huff, drops back to dance / Away from pressure, he times his throw / He looks down field, and lets it go / The ball arcs up into the night / And begins to fall on its fate-filled flight / But confusion reigns down below / Four Bulldog defenders have yet to know / That they misjudged this epic pass / And it will bite them in the ass / But depth perception, Cam Vaughn don’t lack / He slowly starts to pedal back/ And lets the ball fall into his hands / Nearly three yards from another man / The Bulldogs stunned, Gamecocks in Heaven / The game’s now tied at thirty-seven / The kicker comes on to blow this joint / But he screws up the extra point / Overtime, Jax scores on a run / But LaTech is sacked on fourth and one / And secures this poetic nomination / Much to their fan’s consternation / And so our tale comes to a finish / (Can you believe I wrote this in fifteen minutes?)
MIAMI-FL HURRICANES (lost to Georgia Tech 28-23)
On the bright side, when future talk about Georgia Tech ruining an undefeated Miami’s season, this WON’T be the game that gets thought of. That said, it was still a pretty big disaster for the ten point favored Hurricanes, who downed out twice inside the Tech 40, and literally fumbled the game away on the second play of their final drive.
OKLAHOMA SOONERS (lost to Missouri 30-23)
First of all why the hell did I sit watching Penn State keep kicking UW’s body instead of flipping to this madness? First Oklahoma ties it up at 16 with three minutes left to go, then Missouri fumbles, and OU scoops and scores to take the lead. Then Mizzou drives the field in fifty-nine seconds to tie it up. So of course Oklahoma one-betters the Tigers by doing giving up their own scoop and score with just twenty-two seconds left, keeping the Tigers “playoff hopes” alive and sending the Sooners back to Norman in disbelief.
PITTSBURGH PANTHERS (lost to Virginia 24-19)
Apparently Pitt thought that Syracuse game was their Super Bowl because they’ve been pretty yeesh since then. This time it was a middling Virginia team (to be fair, Virginia is more than happy to be middling considering where they’ve been the past couple years) taking the Panthers down with a couple of brutal interceptions- the first setting up a Virginia touchdown to put them up eight (which became crucial when Pitt missed a two point conversion later), and the second on a deep ball to ice the game for the Cavaliers.
UTAH UTES (lost to BYU 22-21)
So…. Um… Hang on. (Puts on Hazmat suit). Okay, so some of you *MIIIGHT* have a BIT of an issue with the officiating that took place at the end of this game. Personally I thought it was a hold but I can also see why you think that should have been let go (Unlike the collar on the BYU player’s jersey!). With that said, its not the…
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