BYU’s 16-game winning streak and their veritable train to a BCS bowl was derailed last night after they filled up a diaper against TCU. Brigham Young fell behind 17-0 after two big turnovers and were unable to recover.
“Nobody has been able to do that to BYU for a couple of years,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said. “No way I could have seen it coming.”
Even though TCU (7-1, 4-0) had been pointing to this game since January, when a BYU logo was placed on a blocking dummy in the team weight room. [...]
“It’s more disappointing than surprising,” BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said. “We knew they were a very good football team. But when you make mistakes like we made against a team like that, that simply is the result.”
BYU was shaping up to be one of the more fun stories in college football this season, but that’s all over now. We’ll point to the failures of the Provo-based football program when Ohio State winds up back in the BCS Title Game. I’m not any happier about it than you are.
Oh, Florida State is suddenly 5-1 now with their win against NC State last night. Hooray, geriatric mouthpiece head coaches!
[NBC Sports, home of Notre Dame football and that one fat coach]
Texas Christian wide receiver Walter Bryant was arrested last Wednesday for assaulting his wife. Head coach Gary Patterson found out about it that night, then promptly suspended him a mere six days later, after TCU traveled to Stanford, where they won 48-46. Oh, except by "suspended" I mean "still hadn't done anything."
Patterson had said earlier [yesterday] during his weekly press conference that Bryant's status on the team was unchanged and that he was eligible to play during [this] Thursday's game.
That's funny, because the athletic department spokesman said otherwise:
Junior wide receiver Walter Bryant, 21… has been suspended indefinitely by head football coach Gary Patterson until he can gather more information about Bryant's Oct. 10 arrest, said Mark Cohen, athletics media relations director.
Yes, it's a pretty tight ship they're running over at TCU. The good news is that Bryant's wife only suffered "visible injuries" after being knocked to the ground and slapped on her face, arm, and leg. All of this just adds evidence to my scientifically espoused theory, "Only dumbasses are married in college."
