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The #CobraKaiAward for Excellence in Mercilessness has been going since 2018, recognizing the most cutthroat performance in each week’s college football games.
It includes all levels: FBS, FCS, D2, D3, NAIA, NJCAA, CCCAA, U Sports🇨🇦, ONEFA🇲🇽 and JAFA🇯🇵 to spotlight which team tosses mercy out the window and instead uses the opportunity to make a statement.
Week 13 winner:
- 70-7… With most divisions in the playoffs and one even wrapping up this past weekend, the complete runaway mismatch games were fewer and far between… it seemed primed for the rare feat of an FBS team hitting the overall Cobra Kai (especially with the hallowed tradition of SEC’s FCS Saturday). But out of nowhere, #9 Notre Dame decided to score more points than it had in the modern era! Barring some crazy result at Stanford (4-7), the 9-2 Fighting Irish will return to the College Football Playoff field this season.
Fun Facts about the game:
- Syracuse scored that touchdown with 7 seconds left. ND coach Marcus Freeman is not without mercy, but we will not hold that against him in this week’s Cobra Kai Award.
- The Fighting Irish previously hit the 70-mark in a 1932 win over the Haskell Institute Fighting Indians (now the Haskell Indian Nations University of NAIA, still permitted to be the Fighting Indians; they dropped football in 2015).
- The last time ND came close to 70 was a 69-14 victory over Georgia Tech in their 1977 national championship run.
- The 35-points were the most the Irish have ever scored in a first quarter, ever.
- Marcus Freeman is now 16-2 against ACC opponents, and 10-0 against quasi-conference foes at home.
- It was Syracuse’s worse loss since 1893 when the Union (NY) Garnet Chargers crushed the Orangemen, 66-0.
- Syracuse coach Fran Brown his team they would never lose like they did in the 45-0 loss at the 2023 Boca Raton Bowl… 😅
- The wheels fell off for the Orange when transfer-QB (via Notre Dame) Steve Angeli tore his Achilles tendon during a win at Clemson back on 9/20; the rest of the QB room has been far worse in accuracy and turnovers, leading to the current 7-game losing streak.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Notre Dame | 35 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 70 |
Other notes:
- The early rounds of D2 and D3 playoffs are where the disparity in conference quality shows up. D3 is notorious as the UMAC champion, Crown Polars in their first-ever playoff appearance, were struck by the Wheaton (IL) Thunder. Crown is in suburban Minnesota, and the UMAC is the lesser of the two D3 conferences centered around the state, with the scary teams like Bethel (MN) and St. John’s (MN) in the MIAC.
- Speaking of the MIAC, St. Thomas (MN) Tommies, the St. Paul school that got kicked out of the conference for being too good, is now a decent non-scholarship FCS team in the Pioneer Football League; alas they agreed to go play just across the border in the Fargodome to expected results…
- Canada is done! Montréal had no problem dispatching USask in the Vanier Cup, but the point differential still put them at the bottom.
- The early rounds of Japan’s playoffs are asymmetrical in bracket and competition: the smallest conferences start playoffs early, then battle other small conferences for the right to go get obliterate in the final rounds. We saw it happen again: Last week, the Hokkai Gakuen Golden Bears (who had won their Hokkaido-based conference in a 52-49 thriller) were then crushed, 54-0 by the conference champ Tohoku (of the Tohoku conf.); this week Tohoku got smashed by a team from one of the major conferences. All of Japan’s 78 national champions have been from those two conferences (and the most by KG). At least everyone gets a chance to prove it on the field!
- QUAKER WAR!!! After the #14 William Penn Statesmen’s win in the first round of the NAIA playoff, the playoff committee (which sets matches each week to try and minimize travel) has placed them against #4 Friends Falcons. Can the seemingly unstoppable Friends running game be halted? This rivalry should be called The Shunning ✋😤
Week 13’s biggest blowouts from each level, in order of margin of victory (points-allowed is tiebreaker):
- [63] FBS—#9 Notre Dame, 70-7 over Syracuse
- [62] D3—#19 Wheaton (IL), 76-14% over Crown
- [55] FCS—#1 NDSU, 62-7 over St. Thomas (MN)
- [52] D2—#3 Kutztown, 52-0% over Bentley
- [51] NJCAA—Iowa Western CC, 64-13 over Highland CC
- [42] JAFA🇯🇵—Kwansei Gakuin (関西学院大), 63-21% over Chukyo (中京大)
- [35] 3C2A—Siskiyous, 42-7% over San Joaquin Delta
- [29] NAIA—#14 William Penn, 38-9% over #25 Texas Wesleyan
- [20] ONEFA🇲🇽—Auténticos Tigres UANL, 29-9% over Borregos TEC PUE
- [14] USports🇨🇦—Montréal, 30-16† over Saskatchewan
% Playoff or postseason game
† Canada’s national championship game
Past weeks winners:
Note: Rankings from time of game. Some divisions and conferences start later. BUCS🇬🇧 and College Football Finland🇫🇮 do not play in Fall.
[season leader possesses the 🏆]
- Week 0/1: [80] NJCAA Kilgore College, 80-0 over Community Christian College SW (Houston) (🤡)
- Week 2: [94] NJCAA Georgia Military College, 94-0 over Community Christian College (Redlands, CA) (🤡)
- Week 3: [86] NJCAA—Butler CC, 86-0 over Ellsworth CC
- Week 4: [90] FCS—Idaho State, 90-0 over Lincoln (CA) (🤡)
- Week 5: [76] 3C2A—Feather River, 83-7 over Cabrillo
- Week 6: [89] NJCAA—#8 Garden City CC, 89-0 over Community Christian College (MI) (🤡)
- Week 7: [83] 3C2A—De Anza, 83-0 over Hartnell
- Week 8: [75] D3—#1 North Central, 75-0 over North Park
- Week 9: [78] NAIA—Florida Memorial, 85-7 over Thomas
- Week 10: [95] NJCAA—Snow, 101-6 over Community Christian College (Redlands, CA) (🤡)
- Week 11: [🏆96] 3C2A—De Anza, 99-3 over Cabrillo
- Week 12: [85] NAIA—McPherson, 85-0 over Sterling
- Week 13: [63] FBS—#9 Notre Dame, 70-7 over Syracuse
“🤡” signifies teams that should not be countable as they are not members of NCAA, NAIA, or equivalent organization, and/or are operating at the edges of bona fide college football programs.
Another week in the books, remember to Reach Out and Crush Someone!™ 💪😤🏈