Barking Carnival

People bitch and moan about the plethora of bowl games and the lack of enough decent teams to fill them — but still tune in to watch.
So far during the prelims of the 2008-09 Bowl Season, ESPN has seen a sharp spike in ratings. Excluding the two new bowls that started this year (EagleBank–St. Petersburg), […]

From our friend Vegas Kyle (comeonminers). He’s 2-1 off of a horrible bad beat last night with TCU. Here’s your extensive write up:
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl , Honolulu
Notre Dame vs. Hawaii
Line : Hawaii -2
Athletes–edge notre dame
Hawaii has actually started to recruit a better level of athlete. They are both faster and bigger than they […]

As long as we are stuck with the BCS system we are stuck with a beauty contest where style points matter. And that means people’s opinions of the relative strengths of the BCS conferences also matters. We already have a look at how the six BCS conferences did in non-conference action in 2008. Is there […]

The first word that comes to mind is frustrating. Texas did some solid things on the defensive end the entire night. Offensively, the Horns flashed some things that could have led to a comfortable win had they been more consistent. The end of the game was solid evidence that Texas could be […]

After an impressive 18 point win vs. St Joe’s, the Longhorn’s will face their first true test of the young season when they battle the fighting Kelly Tripucka’s at 6 pm tonight. After smothering the St. Joe’s Hawks yesterday, the Horns will find the defensive task much more difficult when the Irish and Big […]

Alex: “Good Evening, and welcome to a special edition of Jeopardy. Tonight our single competitior is Charlie from South Bend, Indiana. Welcome Charlie.”

Charlie: “Yeah, whatever, can you hurry this up, I have to get to a signing for my “No Excuses” Book Tour.

Alex: “Certainly, Charlie, select a catagory from the board.”

Charlie: “I’ll take College Football […]

Texas is in negotiations with North Carolina for a 4-game series, that would start with a game Jerry Jones’ new stadium in Arlington.
The series would be set up where two games would be played at major sites off campus for each school and then have a another game on each others campus.
Jones is bidding for […]

It’s back and better than FEMA. I’d post my record but it’s floating somewhere in the bayou behind my back fence. And thank goodness for it because it was so bad I had to pay my bookie with a Federal Hurricane debit card. Have fun asshole, buy your old lady some teeth.
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MGoBlog’s Brian Cook has masterminded a scheme so clever that its best expression could only occur in the Oxbridge accent of a Bond villain. However, instead of threatening you with piranha nipple clamps and a plot to take over world financial markets (too late), MGoBlog brings together whoever is available the elites of the […]

Charlie Weis and his Irish gang are hosting Purdue this week. Notre Dame is a slim (-1) favorite over the Boilermakers at home. But there is one sure bet. The Fighting Irish will once again find a pot of gold waiting in the endzone. That’s because Notre Dame collects almost $30 million a year.in multimedia […]

[I apologize for all the spacing issues in this post.  This software just baffles the hell out of me.] 
I’ve been betting on college football games off and on for about 30 years or so.  Never put too much money on the line - it’s just something I’ve done for fun, and to increase the interest level […]

Thankfully for Arkansas Razorback fans, they are used to fleas.
I did some Googling this morning to piece together quite a 5-year timeline for the offensive guru and nomad known as Bobby Petrino.
Dec 23, 2002: Petrino is announced as HC at Louisville; reportedly signed a 7-year deal worth about $500K per year

“This is a […]

Notre Dame hosts USC tomorrow in what should be a low scoring yet easy Trojan win. The only hope the Irish have is if the Trojans don’t show up.
They almost didn’t.
Southern Cal’s chartered flight had some very tense moments last night. A severe thunderstorm caused the plane to plummet at one point during the flight.
Quarterback […]

Well, I’m 9-8-1 overall but 3-0 on double unit plays for a decent +4 units for the year. It’s been a below average run, but I’m still making money. The good news is that I really, really like this week’s card. I like it more than Chooky likes frosted tipped boy bands, […]

Look at the stats.
Notre Dame is dead last in rushing, total offense and scoring. There are only four teams with a worse passing offense.
Now I see Weis has three choices at this point to try and fix his offense.
1. Change quarterbacks
Already done that. There’s no one else to put in.
2. Steal his opponents’ defensive signals
Not […]

Just the priest, actually.
Some guy posing as a priest managed to sneak himself and a camera crew into Notre Dame Stadium before their game against Georgia Tech.
He posted the video on YouTube but has since taken it down. It showed him talking to a tv reporter, greeting the Irish football team as they ran out […]

Tennessee at Florida
Remember when Phil Fulmer was thought to be a great head coach? He went 45-5 from ‘95-’98 and won a national championship. Rocky Top! He then proceeded to lose 30 games over the next 8 seasons and never won a conference title. His fall from the mountain top made Hank Williams Jr wince. […]

The first game I watched on Saturday was Georgia Tech vs Notre Dame. Why? Two reasons. First, because I wanted to watch Jon Tenuta’s defense, and second because I wanted to see Notre Dame fail. I was not disappointed. The only thing that prevented this from being worse than it could have been was Georgia […]

I live by the Golden Rule: “He who has the gold sets the rules”.
Apparently, the stewards of the NCAA agree with me.
The BCS schools (members of the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac Ten, SEC and Notre Dame) average about $12M PROFIT per year from football while Bowl […]

Oklahoma State at Georgia
I’ve hated Marc Richt ever since he channeled his inner George McClellan in coming up with the offensive game plan against OU in the 2001 Orange Bowl. How bad was it? It was so bad that afterward Bobby Bowden thought to himself, “Hell, a retard could have come up with that shit” […]