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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
Wait… so is Week Zero TJOTW a thing now? Cause it wasn’t supposed to be a thing. As much fun as it is to have college football back a week early, its kinda tough to dig out a good slate of nominees when there’s barely a handful of games, and most of them go as expected. But then last year we had pure chaos in the infancy week, and this year’s chalked up a couple worthy nominees as well. Literally a couple- only four teams are even eligible, and I’m not exactly going to nominate Fresno or Sam Houston for losing road games against much stronger teams. As for the other two? Honestly they’re not the strongest nominees we ever had but they’re at least worth look.
First, last years winners, emblazoned in posterity forever.
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]
Week 11: Utah Utes (BYU 22-21)
Week 12: Louisville Cardinals (Stanford 38-35)
Week 13: Alabama Crimson Tide (Oklahoma 24-3) 2024 ULTIMATE TANK JOB
Week 14: Ohio State Buckeyes (Michigan 13-10)
Champ Week: Iowa State Cyclones (Arizona State 45-19)
Bowls: Oregon Ducks (Ohio State 41-21)
YEAR: Florida State Seminoles (2-10)
NOTE: For ease of counting, please use carats to make your vote, like this: <Team>. Thank you for participating!
Oh right, honorable mention to FCS’s Incarnate Word for somehow managing to lose 50 yards on two plays.
And now, the nominees for Week 0 are…
KANSAS STATE WILDCATS (lost to Iowa State 24-21)
It was a hard fought game in Dublin, if sloppy early on, and the Cats gave as good as they got for most of it, but it can certainly be argued that a Dan Lanning special- the decision to go for it on their own 30 with 8 minutes left- proved fatal as it set the Cyclones to take a two possession lead, and ensure the Wildcats only had one left. Oh, and after the game their quarterback’s father and brother might have been trying to drown each other in a puddle outside the stadium.
STANFORD CARDINAL (lost to Hawaii 23-20)
Technically Hawai’i was favored, but that’s just another indication of how brutal its become in Palo Alto for the once proud Cardinal. But what really puts the Cardinal on here is that when Hawaii had pulled into field goal range at the end of the game, instead of using all three timeouts to try and preserve clock to respond, Stanford happily let the time run down so they could… ice the kicker. Kansei Matsuzawa may have learned how to kick on YouTube, but maybe its Stanfords coaching staff that could watch a few videos on what you can do if you leave 20-30 seconds left on the clock.