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Do you have a favorite memory of Rutgers Football in the naughties??

2009-12-26T13:05:00.005-05:00

Is your favorite moment at R House in the naughties the predictable Pandemonium in Piscataway moment that followed the battle of the unbeaten Big East teams on November 9, 2006?
Or was your favorite Scarlet Knights' football memory that first bowl victory against Kansas State in Houston in December of that year? Or the respectable appearance they made against Arizona State in their first bowl appearance in decades a year earlier? Or the Savage to Brown miracle ending this year against UConn? Or Ray Rice's 280 yards in his last game in scarlet in the International Bowl? A specific moment of Brian Leonard's leaping or leadership? Or the upset of Michigan State? The hiring of Greg Schiano? Or some personal memory of Rutgers football in this pivotal decade without an agreed upon name that we have decided to call the naughties?

Merry Christmas from Beat Visitor dot com

2009-12-24T10:15:00.004-05:00

Here's a little Christmas present from Beat Visitor dot com at the end of a 9-4 Scarlet Knights football season that many found disappointing. And could we even imagine the word "disappointing" appearing in conjunction with the numbers 9-4 even five years ago? Or at ANY point in the long history of Rutgers football? With that historical perspective of our current situation in mind, we thought you might enjoy a blast from the past. This article, "SHADES OF 1869: First intercollegiate football game is re-enacted at Princeton," from the November 4, 1946 issue of Life magazine shows in words and pictures a postwar (post World War II) crowd reenacting the postwar (post Civil War) birth of intercollegiate football between Rutgers and Princeton on the 77th anniversary of that first game in New Brunswick.
If you click the link, be sure to scroll down through the advertisements to see all the pictures on pages 101 through 104 (but don't ignore the ads either, especially those for Southern Pacific's fast 52-hour travel between Chicago and LA or for Ting, the "ALMOST INCREDIBLE NEW scientifically compounded treatment for SKIN ERUPTIONS").
Merry Christmas to the Scarlet Knights and to their fans.

Congratulations to the 2009 Kings of the Knights

2009-12-20T10:22:00.006-05:00

Now that the Scarlet Knights have won their fourth straight bowl game after having zero previous bowl wins, it's hard to remember what a big deal it was when we sat in Houston and watched Greg Schiano, Brian Leonard, and Ray Rice raise the Texas Bowl trophy above their heads in Reliant Stadium. Congratulations to all the Rutgers football players and coaches for last night's convincing 45-24 victory over the Golden Knights of the University of Central Florida, but especially to the seniors who do not know what it is to not attend a post-season game, and who do not know what it is to lose one (we have to believe that our freshmen, especially Savage and Sanu, will have future years in which we can single them out for special recognition after bowl games).

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We at Beat Visitor dot com would like to point out that we were very restrained in the buildup to last night's game, not even pointing out this very obvious anagrammatic school motto for the UCF Knights pictured to your left. As soon as we saw the the phrase "UCF Knights" in print for the first time, we knew that the first four letters would lead to promising anagrams and it took less than a minute more to come up with the obvious school motto, so obvious that it had to have been as purposeful as French Connection UK and their FCUK shirts. It's a clever play for the University of Central Florida to subliminally attract prospective high school seniors and put their school into the running to take the official #1 party school honor away from West Virginia and Penn State.

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Finally, until the Black Knights of West Point or the Golden Knights of Disney World take it away from us, the Scarlet Knights are the first undisputed Kings of the college football Knights. Where's our crown?

I don't know if I'm more upset about the late bait 'n' switch or the apostrophe abuse in the B'O'B Bowl.

2009-12-09T19:40:00.012-05:00

As far as I can tell from my five minutes of arduous internet research, the St. Petersburg Bowl has just officially named itself after a food franchise. I had never heard of this roadside eatery and it doesn't exist in New Jersey or most of the Northeast, but it seems to be extremely popular in the states that are featured in US obesity maps.

The style guide of Beat Visitor dot com assiduously avoids naming any corporate sponsors (e.g., we say Muffler Bowl of Charlotte, Pizza Bowl of Birmingham, etc.), but I feel like I have to mention "Beef 'O' Brady's" by name just this once in order to ask, "What the fuck is going on with the apostrophes and spacing around the O?" If it's the beef restaurant of a man named O'Brady, then there shouldn't be a space after the O'. If it's the slaughtered-cow bistro of a man named Brady and the o' is a contraction of of, then the space between o' and Brady is correct, but I can't think of a single reason (other than illiteracy) for an apostrophe before and after the 'O'. Can someone please enlighten me? (On their website they also use the superfluous plural apostrophe -- "Today there are Beef's [sic] popping up all over the country." -- so I'm going with the initial illiteracy theory until convinced otherwise.)

The full name of this fast-food franchise will never be mentioned again in this blog. Maybe the St. Petersburg Bowl will have to become the B'O'B Bowl, or maybe we can use an anagram of the franchise name and make it the "Obey Bad Refs" Bowl. In any case, it sucks. The only thing that the St. Petersburg Bowl had going for it was that it was not sponsored. To add a cheesy name less than two weeks before the game takes place seems especially sleazy.

Is it too late to switch with USF and go back to the International Bowl?

Is There a Special Award for Becoming King of the Knights?

2009-12-08T13:08:00.005-05:00

The Scarlet Knights of Rutgers have already defeated the Black Knights of West Point on the gridiron earlier this fall and now they will have the chance to beat the Golden Knights of University of Central Florida in less than two weeks.
Is this the first time in college football history that a team has had the opportunity to become the undisputed King of the Knights? Is there a special trophy or sword that goes with the honor? Something other than being crowned the football champions of St. Petersburg?
Do they at least have a mounted mascot with whom our Knight can joust on the sidelines?

25 Football Teams for whom I have never cheered

2009-12-06T18:28:00.004-05:00

Here's my last pre-bowl BlogPoll ballot of 2009. As always, you can review my half-assed rough-draft rationalizations for these choices by clicking on the thumbnail illustration to your right.

There was some anticipation on my part of being able to add the one team that I do care about, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, to this ballot again after their victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers yesterday, but . . . well, you know.

So here's a list of 25 football teams I don't really care about.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama	2
2	Texas	1
3	Cincinnati	1
4	TCU	1
5	Boise State	1
6	Florida	4
7	Ohio State
8	Oregon
9	Iowa
10	Penn State
11	Georgia Tech	1
12	Pittsburgh	1
13	Virginia Tech
14	LSU	1
15	Brigham Young	1
16	Miami (Florida)	1
17	West Virginia	4
18	Oregon State	4
19	Utah	3
20	Oklahoma State	4
21	Nebraska	2
22	Stanford
23	Central Michigan	2
24	Wisconsin
25	Houston	6
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Southern Cal (#18), California (#20).

I don't know what to say . . .

2009-12-06T11:29:00.009-05:00

Another year's worth of used tickets . . .

I'm finally dry enough, almost 24 hours after the event, to write a few words about yesterday's 24-21 loss to the Mountaineers of West Virginia University on the last day of the year at Rutgers Stadium. Though I haven't read anything online since leaving the parking lot yesterday afternoon, I imagine that there have been a lot of words written about the number of dropped passes, a key missed field goal, underthrown passes, the defense's early porousness, the inexplicable coaching decisions at the very end of the first half, and the effect of the cold, rain and snow on all of the above.

I'll comment on something I know more about, the effect of the cold, rain and snow on the fans around me. The people who stayed until the end of the game (or at least until West Virginia's last first down with less than a minute left) in Section 123 were loud and standing throughout (as if it were possible to sit on cold wet aluminum for one second more as the wet snowflakes fell) and there was even good-natured shouting at those in blue and gold (and a little late-game pushing and shoving), but the number of no-shows, and large number of people who left during the second quarter, and at halftime, was inexcusable. If you buy tickets next year, consider yourself obligated to at least make it to the beginning of the fourth quarter. This wasn't a blowout like the loss to the Mountaineers the last time they visited in atrocious weather; this was a THREE-POINT loss. There's no honor in a close loss to these hicks for the umpteenth straight year, but this game was close, and I put the loss squarely on the shoulders of my fellow season ticket holders and students who didn't show up or left early. If you had stayed and screamed in that final quarter, it would have carried our boys to victory. Period.
Those of you who sought warmth and shelter probably aren't enough of a Rutgers football fan to read Rutgers football blogs either, but if you can't show up for a WESTFUCKINGVIRGINIA game, you probably shouldn't bother to show up at all. Wait until the BCS game is over and then transfer your fair-weather loyalties to the Crimson Tide or those beef cattle with the deformed horns from Texas.
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Video Addendum: I got at least one response on Twitter pointing out that the fan exodus wasn't quite as bad as I had painted it up above.
Though the following scan of Rutgers Stadium shot during the Lil Jovi interlude isn't the best video in the world, it does show how many empty seats there were at this sold-out game at the beginning of the fourth quarter (except, of course, in that pie slice next to the student section filled with Mountaineer supporters):

This is my only piece of advice for the Scarlet Knights going into tomorrow's game.

2009-12-04T16:14:00.005-05:00

I only have one piece of advice for the Scarlet Knights for tomorrow's game, the biggest of the year. Don't wear the black uniforms that made their only appearance in the rain at the last infamous visit of the Mountaineers to R House in 2007. I swear. I don't think I'll be able to restrain myself from booing if I see these things on our home field again.

What do we have to be thankful for? (other than the fact that we're not from West Virginia)

2009-11-29T20:19:00.005-05:00

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Before Thanksgiving weekend ends, I just want to say a quick thank you for (and to) this year's crop of true Rutgers freshmen.
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No matter what happens with Tom Savage and Mohamed Sanu (and De'Antwan Williams and Mark Harrison and Antwan Lowery and the others) in the last two games of the season against the West Virginia Mountaineers and the bowl opponent to be named later, we have seen what looks like the beginning of a bright future for Rutgers football in 2009.
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Next Saturday is Senior Day. The freshmen will see the tradition they have to live up to, and what they should try to surpass in their next three years On the Banks. (And though we wish him continued success in the NFL, it's just too bad that Kenny Britt couldn't have been celebrating his Senior Day against West Virginia next Saturday at noon.)
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The Steve Kragthorpe and Charlie Weis Memorial BlogPoll Ballot

2009-11-29T19:47:00.007-05:00

As always, you can click on the thumbnail to your right to read my scribbled notes for this week's ballot. It's strange to see all the green highlighting disappear with the second losses dealt out to Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech this week in their annual rivalry games. It's hard to imagine which is stranger at this late point in the season, to have zero one-loss teams, or to have six undefeated teams. Both feel like they could be unprecedented (though those who enjoy that sort of trivial research will be sure to tell me which seasons provided precedents), and the combination looks and feels extremely unique.
I, like any good Yankee ("Yankee" as in northerner, not as in pinstriped indentured bat-wielding servant of the Steinbrenner family) was hoping for anarchy in the South this weekend, but Alabama and Florida and Texas continued on their boring path toward a National Championship game that could have been scheduled by preseason pollsters back in August. A Horned Frog vs Bearcat matchup for the great crystal football tchotchke is looking pretty unlikely at this point and the chances for any other major surprises are fading.

Here are my picks for this week.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Texas
2	Florida	1
3	Alabama	1
4	Cincinnati	1
5	TCU	1
6	Boise State
7	Ohio State	2
8	Oregon	2
9	Iowa	2
10	Penn State	2
11	Pittsburgh	4
12	Georgia Tech	4
13	Virginia Tech	1
14	Oregon State	2
15	LSU	4
16	Brigham Young	2
17	Miami (Florida)	4
18	Southern Cal	4
19	Houston	6
20	California	3
21	West Virginia
22	Utah	7
23	Nebraska
24	Oklahoma State	11
25	Central Michigan
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Mississippi (#17), Clemson (#20), Temple (#24).

I was sorry to see Temple fall to the Bobcats of Ohio; they were the only surprise team that I was pleased to add to my ballot every week.

The Fakest of the @FakeBigEastCoaches

2009-11-28T19:36:00.007-05:00

@SteveKragthorpe and @Kragthorpe have been given their walking papers by the University of Louisville today after their Cardinals were kragthorped by the Scarlet Knights for the second year in a row yesterday, so the question becomes: Who is now the funniest fake Twitter football coach in the Big East? This tweet from the person who takes the identity of Mountaineer Coach Bill Stewart earlier today may just show who is the funniest imposter of all.Sorry @FakeGregSchiano, @CoachBrianKelly, and @NotDougMarrone, but the fragmented fake folksiness dreamed up by the Twitter team behind @CoachStewart seems sometimes, like today, to have been drafted by the same comedy writers posing as the former Alaskan sports reporter known as @SarahPalinUSA.
But by quoting (without attribution) the Maréchal of France Ferdinand Foch: "Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque," is he (are they) trying to compare our Scarlet Knights to Foch's German enemies? Is he calling us Krauts?? Them's fightin' words (as they say in the few mountains and hollers of West Virginia that haven't yet been leveled to yield piles of combustible coal and poisonous sludge)!

It's not really a question, is it?

2009-11-28T10:36:00.004-05:00

"Which means more to you as a Rutgers fan, winning a fourth straight bowl game or beating West Virginia?"
It's not really a question is it? If you're a true follower of the Scarlet Knights, beating the Mountaineers has to mean more to you than beating an ACC or C-USA or MAC team, but maybe I'll add it to the sidebar as my question of the week anyway just to see if I'm wrong.Yesterday I was out of state for the holidays and didn't catch a single second of Rutgers sports news on Thursday or Friday. So what happened over those two days?

The football team beat Louisville 34-14 and put the final nail into Steve Kragthorpe's coffin on Friday morning and afternoon.
The men's basketball team beat UMass yesterday 83-75.
The women's basketball team beat Southern Cal by 66-51 on Thursday and Mississippi State by 62-54 yesterday.

So, should I continue to help the success of the Scarlet Knights by ignoring them? Should I keep my eyes closed while sitting on my bench at the Stadium next Saturday at noon?

The New BlogPoll Ballot of Beat Visitor dot com Is Posted for your Abuse

2009-11-22T17:03:00.006-05:00

Nothing else really matters this week other than the fact that Rutgers has been dropped from my ballot with no signs of reappearing soon. It will take blowout wins in Louisville next week and in Piscataway on December 5th for the Scarlet Knights to have any chance of clawing their way back onto the bottom of the list.

Neither of the other Big East teams on the list was playing this week, so my interest in these other teams was admittedly minimal. I've jumped Texas above Alabama into the number one spot simply because they were the only one of the top six undefeated teams that managed to put a real team on their schedule this week. As always, you can check out the rest of my "logic" in making these rankings by clicking on my scribbled thumbnail at the upper right.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Texas	1
2	Alabama	1
3	Florida
4	TCU
5	Cincinnati
6	Boise State
7	Pittsburgh
8	Georgia Tech
9	Ohio State
10	Oregon	1
11	Iowa	1
12	Penn State	1
13	Oklahoma State	1
14	Virginia Tech	3
15	Utah	3
16	Oregon State
17	Mississippi
18	Brigham Young	2
19	LSU	9
20	Clemson	1
21	Miami (Florida)	1
22	Southern Cal	1
23	California
24	Temple
25	Houston
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Wisconsin (#15), Stanford (#16), Rutgers (#19). I should have ranked Notre Dame last week so I could have dropped them out again after their very satisfying loss to UConn yesterday. Congratulations to the Huskies!

There's no doubt about who "New York's College Team" was this weekend

2009-11-22T12:37:00.006-05:00

It started on Friday night when I found it pleasant to root for the basketball Orange over the boys in Baby Blue from North Carolina after work in Madison Square Garden. I was supporting the Big East over the ACC as I joined in the "Let's Go Orange" chants with the vast majority of the crowd there at the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic final. And I was sure the Orange were going to lose to the Scarlet in the sport that I really cared about the next day.
Even when I climbed into the car and turned on 710 WOR to listen to the game after the Orange were already up by two touchdowns yesterday afternoon, I wasn't really worried about the final results. Wasn't it the third year in a row that Rutgers had spotted Syracuse 14 points to start the game? Wasn't Syracuse making it a habit of losing heartbreakers in 2009? And didn't Joe Lefeged block a punt a minute after I turned on the radio as an omen of Rutgers' inevitable comeback?
I guess now we're going to have to change that strategy of giving away the first two touchdowns whenever we see orange. I guess now I'm going to have to stop rooting for Syracuse in any sport, because now the war for New York City is officially on, and Syracuse won a major battle this weekend.

West Virginia looks like it will be sold out soon

2009-11-20T11:55:00.006-05:00

Out of curiosity, I just went to see what kind of tickets were still available for the last home game against the Mountaineers. I went online at http://tickets.scarletknights.com and clicked "Best Available" and was offered two in section 214, the last section of the upper deck. So buy them quickly if you don't have them already.

And here's hoping that everyone who buys a ticket shows up at noon on the last Saturday of the season. I hope weather.com doesn't predict rain again like they did (incorrectly) for the South Florida game, scaring away all those fair-weather Scarlet Knight fans who are prone to melting in water.

Don't Let Greg Paulus See This Before Saturday

2009-11-18T16:46:00.001-05:00

Why the Huskies need to massacre the Leprechauns on Saturday

2009-11-18T16:03:00.003-05:00

In his most recent prediction of the 34 2009-2010 bowl matchups, Stewart Mandel presents the possibility of this outrage, a mediocre Notre Dame stealing the 2nd Big East bowl slot in the Gator Bowl on New Year's Day. The "other" Big East teams are allocated to the following bowls:

Pittsburgh as Big East champs in the Sugar Bowl against Florida.
Cincinnati as the "3rd place" Big East team in the Muffler Repair Shop Bowl against North Carolina.
West Virginia in the Pizza Bowl of Birmingham against South Carolina.
Rutgers in the St. Petersburg Bowl against Southern Miss.
USF in the International Bowl against Temple.
UConn in the Pizza Bowl of Detroit against Central Michigan (because the Big Ten won't have enough bowl-eligible teams for all their bowl slots).

As much fun as it would be to see Notre Dame lose to Virginia Tech by five touchdowns in the Gator Bowl, I'd much rather see that bowl slot go to a worthier Big East team, and see the Dames blown out by the University of Connecticut this weekend. I hope the Huskies' football players get a cathartic release of every bit of frustration they have felt in this season's close losses to Pitt, UNC, Rutgers, and Cincinnati.

What a Difference a Month Makes

2009-11-18T13:48:00.007-05:00

I don't pretend that Beat Visitor dot com and Protect R Turf have an identical readership, but I think it's safe to assume that we both have a readership that consists mostly of Rutgers football fans. A few days ago I noticed that we had asked our readers almost the same question.
The Protect R Turf question was asked before the Army game and the results were completed before the UConn game on Halloween (a Halloween that will induce nightmares in the little children of Storrs for years to come), when RU had yet to chalk up its first Big East victory. The question was "How many Big East games will Rutgers win?" As you can see from the graphic in the upper left, 2 wins was the winner with 27%, followed by 3, 4, and Zero wins with 24%, 24%,and 16% respectively. 5 wins received only 4% of the meaningless internet polling clicks.

So move forward a couple of games to the sidebar poll that I posted just before the UConn game and which ended earlier today, with the Knights' BE record standing at 2-2. In answer to my similar question, "What will Rutgers' 2009 Big East Record Be?" the results were much less equivocal. Now a full 62% of Beat Visitor readers are sure that the Orange, Cardinals, and Mountaineers will fall like wind-blown dominoes before the mighty Scarlet Knight juggernaut on its way to a 5-2 Big East (and 10-2 overall) record.
What a difference a month makes.

A famous RU alum fondly remembers his daze On the Banks

2009-11-17T16:48:00.002-05:00

I have to thank Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician for digging up this clip of Mr. Magoo nostalgically treasuring his happy Rutgers connections.

The big lie

2009-11-17T16:21:00.005-05:00

Yeah, that's the only thing I hear anybody talking about on the streets of Manhattan : Syracuse Orange football!

I think they are lighting the Empire State Building in orange on November 21st in honor of Greg Paulus.

My favorite statistic

2009-11-17T14:02:00.006-05:00

Not only are the Scarlet Knights leading the FBS schools in turnover margin for another week, but they are now officially leading by what is technically known among professional statisticians as "a shitload," with 29 gained and 8 lost for a margin of +2.33.

The Syracuse Orange (orange you glad you don't go there), tied for 97th with a turnover margin of negative .70, should liberally apply the Krazy Glue to their gloves before Saturday.

The Beat Visitor dot com BlogPoll Ballot Is Up for Your Comments

2009-11-16T22:20:00.004-05:00

I watched the Rutgers - South Florida game on Thursday night from my aluminum bench in Piscataway, but as any other game would have been boring in comparison, my information about games played by non-Scarlet-Knight teams last weekend comes entirely from the internets after the fact. My in-depth analysis of the games I didn't see is reflected in the scribbled notes to your right and in the updated BlogPoll ballot posted below. You got a problem wit' that?

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama
2	Texas	1
3	Florida	1
4	TCU	1
5	Cincinnati	1
6	Boise State
7	Pittsburgh	1
8	Georgia Tech	1
9	Ohio State	2
10	LSU
11	Oregon	1
12	Iowa	3
13	Penn State	5
14	Oklahoma State	5
15	Wisconsin	6
16	Stanford
17	Virginia Tech	3
18	Utah	2
19	Rutgers	4
20	Brigham Young	4
21	Clemson
22	Miami (Florida)	5
23	Southern Cal	10
24	Temple	1
25	Houston	11
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Arizona (#15), South Florida (#22).

The Quote of the Day following the USF game

2009-11-13T10:25:00.004-05:00

No matter how you want to analyze USF’s 31-0 loss at Rutgers on Thursday night, here is what stands out to me in the immediate aftermath: the Bulls didn’t even look like they belonged on the same field with Rutgers tonight, and if these teams played 10 times, I think USF would have a good chance to win the series.
-- Scott Carter, The Tampa Tribune's Bulls Report, 13 Nov '09

Is there anyone connected with the Scarlet Knights who wouldn't want to take them up on this ten-game series "threat"?

Congratulations to everyone playing on the field for last night's impressive performances on both sides of the ball (especially to Devin McCourty!) and to Coach Schiano for finally getting to the .500 mark for his career at Rutgers. The percentage will only get better from here.

The Quote of the Day leading up to the USF game

2009-11-11T14:11:00.010-05:00

“When Damaso Munoz got his first interception last week, no one said much to him because he didn’t score. It’s not enough now with this defense just to get the turnover. Guys are looking to score, too.” --Munoz's fellow linebacker Antonio Lowery (who does have a defensive score on an interception return)

Does anyone else have the feeling that the Scarlet Knights are going to have at least one defensive touchdown scored tomorrow night? Rutgers is going into the game against USF having lost the ball only 7 times in 8 games (and three of those were interceptions thrown by Natale in the first half of the first game against Cincinnati) and having stolen the ball 25 times from the opposition. That +2.25 turnover margin leads the nation and it will definitely be a factor against the Bulls, if only because it might cause the players from "South" Florida (actually central Florida, but they flunked Geography 101) to be more careful and conservative with the pigskin than they need to be. That defensive pressure, plus the continuing maturation of the young offense, lead me to be more than a little optimistic about what we're going to witness at the Stadium. If you're not planning to stand and be loud and obnoxious (and you won't need those vocal cords again until December 5 anyway), then stay home and give your tickets to someone with a stronger set of legs and lungs and fewer inhibitions. Go Knights!

And if the words of Antonio Lowery aren't enough for you (it's been awhile since we've run a Beat Visitor dot com quote of the day), how about a randomly generated quote from the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon:

Fear no more the heat o'the Jim Leavitt
Nor the furious winter's rages.

Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

I hope Leavitt wears his silly little sun visor and screams all night long.

The BlogPoll Ballot of Beat Visitor dot com is up for your comments

2009-11-09T00:42:00.002-05:00

I don't have much to say about my ballot this week. Rutgers wasn't playing, so did anyone actually watch a college football game this past weekend??

All I can say is that I'm sorry to any readers who may have been offended by my addition of Notre Dame to the ballot last week. I'm sorry. They are gone for good now after having been beaten by the team that was beaten by the Temple Owls last week. Hoot. Hoot.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama
2	Florida
3	Texas
4	Cincinnati
5	TCU
6	Boise State	1
7	Georgia Tech	3
8	Pittsburgh	3
9	Iowa	3
10	LSU	1
11	Ohio State	3
12	Oregon	4
13	Southern Cal
14	Houston	1
15	Arizona	1
16	Utah	1
17	Miami (Florida)	1
18	Penn State	6
19	Oklahoma State	1
20	Virginia Tech	4
21	Wisconsin
22	South Florida
23	Rutgers
24	Brigham Young
25	Temple
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: California (#19), Notre Dame (#21).