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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
- Baylor Bears (lost to Texas State 42-31)
- Nevada Wolf Pack (lost to Idaho 33-6)
- Oklahoma State Cowboys (lost to South Alabama 33-7)
LAST WEEK: It wasn’t the most lopsided TJOTW vote ever, but it was still a pretty easy win for Oklahoma State and their inexplicable blowout to South Alabama. Only other team that got any significant number of votes was Cincy, but losing to Miami-OH just doesn’t compare to getting utterly flattened by Sun Belt team. Oh well, maybe that particular Sun Belt team is going to win out, go 12-1 with a single Week 1 loss to Tulane, and make the New Year’s Six. (Spoiler Alert: They do not go 12-1)
Onto this week, and the only thing we don’t have is a cosmic earth-shattering Texas-lost-to-Kansas level upset. Between blown leads, shocking turn-of misfortunes, and defensive staffing issues in huge games, it is a veritable feast of nominees.
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HONORABLE MENTIONS: Indiana needing four overtimes to down Akron. Nebraska tied with Louisiana Tech 7-7 entering the fourth quarter. Jimbo Fisher being Auburn’s best blocker on scoop and score. The Denver Broncos.
And now, the nominees for Week 4 are…
APPALACHIAN STATE MOUNTAINEERS (lost to Wyoming 22-19)
With just under 12 minutes to go, the Mountaineers picked off an Andrew Peasley pass and returned it for a touchdown to go up 19-7. And then the Cowboys instantly responded by going all 75 yards on their first play from scrimmage. “That’s fine” said App State, who proceeded to go on an epic ten-minute clock killing drive, only to sputter out and have to kick a field goal to go up 8. And then Wyoming blocked the field goal and returned it for the winning touchdown. App State had one last chance, but while already in field goal range, got picked off at the Wyoming 6 with just eleven seconds to go to ice this brutal, crazy game.
CLEMSON TIGERS (lost to Florida State 31-24)
Oh, Tigers, what brought you to this looooooooooowly state? Scoop and score to finish blowing a ten point lead? Check. Playing for a field goal with a kicker you had to drag back, only for him to miss the 29-yard winner? THAT playcall on 3rd and 1 in overtime? It’s a hell of a way to lose, Tigers.
COLORADO BUFFALOES (lost to Oregon 42-6)
Okay, maybe a lot of us saw this coming… but I don’t think most of us thought Colorado’s reality check was going to be THIS brutal. Its one thing for it to be something like 59-32, but a 35-0 first half massacre plus holding the Buffs to less than 200 yards? After all that hype?
IOWA HAWKEYES (lost to Penn State 31-0)
76 yards. Four Turnovers. 14:33 possession. Nothing else need be said.
MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS (lost to Northwestern 37-34)
It was 31-10 at the start of the fourth quarter against a team they were favored to beat by two touchdowns. A team who’s claim to not being the worst power conference team heading in was “Virginia and Stanford exist”. Then Northwestern rips off 174 yards and 21 straight points in the fourth quarter, and responded to the Gopher’s FG with a first-play touchdown in overtime. Minnesota rowed that boat right off a waterfall.
NEVADA WOLF PACK (lost to Texas State 35-24)
The Pack had something to prove after their TJOTW-winning domination by Idaho and coming up just short in a plucky effort against Kansas. And they came out swinging in San Marcos, reverse-spreading the seventeen-point favored Bobcats in the first half. And then Texas State scored five times in about twenty minutes to plunge UNR to 0-4.
NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH (lost to Ohio State 17-14)
I didn’t think I’d be nominating the Irish after that game, an instant classic that saw Notre Dame rally from ten down, only for Ohio State to just sneak across the goal line at the literal last second to take the victory. But then it comes out that in one of the biggest games of the year at the most critical moment, Marcus Freeman kindasorta forgot to put an eleventh defender on the field. For two plays. With the coaching staff fully aware of it.
SOUTH ALABAMA JAGUARS (lost to Central Michigan 34-30)
So how did the Jaguars respond to their massive, program elevating, TJOTW-worthy win last week? By ripping out to an early 14-0 lead over the Chips. And then CMU went on a 27-3 run. South Alabama did come back to take the lead in the fourth quarter, but then Central snapped them off with a final touchdown with just fourteen seconds left to pull off the 17-point upset.