Whew, buddy, the pettiness escalated quickly across college football in Week 4.
Maybe we should’ve seen this coming. After all, this is the point in the season where teams start to figure out who’s for real (Tennessee) and who can start focusing on the recruiting trail (NC State).
But you’d think after the mini Rivalry Week that took over Week 3 the temperature would’ve cooled off a bit last Saturday. Nope. Despite the Calgorithm running into a few coding errors in Tallahassee, Week 4 brought out some elite nastiness.
Strap in for some schadenfreude as we take our weekly trip around college football’s most online moments.
TCU trolling The CW backfires
There is one hard and fast rule in college football these days, and it is do not bite the TV networks. These executives will not hesitate to organize another round of realignment, and the last thing you want to do is get on their bad side.
Which is to say TCU should’ve known better than to get petty with the network that aired Gossip Girl. When the Horned Frogs’ social team found out their rivalry game against SMU was going to be broadcast on The CW, it mocked the ACC and its broadcast partner with a “This is SportsCenter” spoof.
https://twitter.com/TCUFootball/status/1837144695731834920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1837144695731834920%7Ctwgr%5E8819304e9d22dc225a2c1762cc9307941a214a38%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fawfulannouncing.com%2Fcollege-football%2Ftcu-roasts-acc-the-cw.html
You will absolutely guess what happened next.
TCU got boat-raced at SMU, 66-42, with current Horned Frogs (and former Mustangs) coach Sonny Dykes ejected early in the second half. And then it was The CW’s turn to beat up on TCU.
https://twitter.com/TheCW/status/1837189845183074794
https://twitter.com/TheCW/status/1837657261231190274
Oh yeah, this was rivalry game as well, so SMU got in plenty of shots on social media as well — including a quick screengrab of an FTW blog about TCU’s campus looking like a La Quinta Inn.
https://twitter.com/smufb/status/1837656904107008210?s=46&t=Z25PykXLy1oALqwmGLm3ZQ
Hugh Freeze is burnt to a crisp
Let’s start with the obvious. Touting the Hugh Freeze at Auburn with the fact he beat Nick Saban twice (at previous stops) only for Saban to retire is the type of thing you expect from an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Now, not even two full years into Freeze’s tenure at Auburn, the miscalculated hire continues to look worse and worse. After Saturday’s home loss to Arkansas, Freeze looked for anyone left to throw under the bus. The night ended with a Greyhound driven by Freeze’s former Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace speeding right over him instead.
https://twitter.com/bowallace14/status/1837671233506193888
https://twitter.com/bowallace14/status/1837677823886049678
Oh, but it gets worse (better?).
During Freeze’s postgame press conference, aside from blaming his players, he also made this bold claim:
“I mean no offense whatsoever to at all to Arkansas or to Cal. I love Sam Pittman; I hope he wins the rest of his games. But the hard truth is if we play them nine more times, we beat them nine times,” Freeze said.
We’re sure the was similarly no offense taken by Freeze when Arkansas responded with this subtweet:
https://twitter.com/razorbackfb/status/1838579210266562795?s=46&t=y1MPGqKJwtpQ4_NvSkOIOA
The Southland Conference wants no part of the SEC’s trash
Saturday’s matchup between 1-2 Florida and 1-2 Mississippi State was technically an SEC game, but it couldn’t hide from the fact that these are two of the most embarrassing programs in the Power Four at the moment.
(Granted the Bulldogs are at least starting to rebuild in Year 1 with Jeff Lebby, and the Gators have yet to move on from Bill Napier.)
Still, these are two SEC teams! Surely any conference would want them, right? Right?
https://twitter.com/SouthlandSports/status/1837526024449384591
Oof.
Another trophy for Eli Manning
Thanksgiving with the Manning family should be pretty entertaining this year. Surely someone will bring up the fact that Eli made his starting debut at Ole Miss against Murray State.
https://twitter.com/EliManning/status/1838216634592370977
BYU’s NSFW dunk on Kansas State fan
Did nobody learn anything from our still off-the-grid friend @321nole? Don’t make a bet on college football against yourself — especially when the wager depends on graphic bodily harm. Especially, especially when watching your team play each week already does more than enough damage.
Now it’s a Kansas State fan learning this the hard way after an unfathomable blowout loss at BYU. We’ll spare you the disgustingly NSFW details, but you can click this link if you really want to find out for yourself.
All we’ll say is that a K-State fan promised to ingest a Taco Bell product through an orifice other than their mouth if the Wildcats lost to the Cougars.
After BYU’s win, the team’s social media admin had only one thing to say:
https://twitter.com/byufootball/status/1837730912726868359?s=46&t=Z25PykXLy1oALqwmGLm3ZQ
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