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Around College Football: SEC, B1G have different standards for rushing the field
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1. Rutgers inexplicably rushes the field.
Ole Miss beat a No. 1 team (Alabama in the Coaches Poll) for the first time in school history. Kentucky knocked off a Steve Spurrier-coached team for just the second time ever. And both fan bases rushed the field.
Meanwhile, in the Big Ten, Rutgers rushed the field after beating — wait for it — 2-4 Michigan.
The Wolverines are 0-4 against power conference teams. Brady Hoke is going to get fired at some point in this calendar year. The Scarlet Knights won a two-point game at home. And that’s worthy of an all-time celebration?
Ole Miss and Kentucky had to pay the SEC hefty fines for endangering coaches, players, team officials and fellow fans. The team that should get fined is Rutgers. There should be a sliding scale. Knocking off a No. 1 team for the first time in school history shouldn’t illicit a fine, safety be darned.
But putting thousands of people in jeopardy of injury after beating one of the worst Michigan teams in my lifetime? That should cost $250k at least.
Rutgers is rushing the field after beating Michigan? Have the Scarlet Knight fans not been paying attention the past few weeks?
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) October 5, 2014
2. Brady Hoke keeps clapping.
As long as Hoke holds a job as head football coach at one of the nation’s most storied programs, raking in millions of dollars from blue-collar workers, people will traffic websites like bradyhokeclapping.com.
The site features Barney music with a looped video of Hoke hamming it up on the sideline while trailing Notre Dame, 21-0, and a counter that records the number of his claps.
3. Nebraska offensive linemen commits most awkward false start ever.
Maybe Jake Cotton was trying to keep himself from falling over on this play, thinking maybe the ball would get snapped before the officials noticed his momentum carrying him to the ground.
Instead, he did a bizarre trust fall with no one there to catch him. Did rigor mortis set in?
4. Lou Holtz calls Heisman candidate Nebraska RB Ameer Abdullah, “Muhammed.”
5. The Pac-12 goes whacko.
Other than Oregon, UCLA, USC and Stanford losing, Cal creating another ludacris box score, nothing much happened last week in the Pac-12. (Conner Halliday threw for an NCAA record 734 yards, including six touchdowns and no interceptions, and Washington State lost, 60-59.)
Oh, we forgot: Arizona State completed an improbable Hail Mary to win.
Arizona State’s radio call of the Hail Mary: http://t.co/rjrjmjAemJ (h/t @MaggieEmmons)
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) October 5, 2014
6. Texas struggles to identify starting quarterback.
*chortle* RT @John_Infante: The answer is no. RT @davidubben: Incredible. RT @stringsays Posted without comment http://t.co/8F2HRG1k3a
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) October 8, 2014
7. Georgia Tech’s punter got body-slammed after a successful fake.
8. Cincinnati QB Gunner Kiel likely is out due to a rib injury.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
