The Nike design department strikes again, this time in Dallas-Ft. Worth with the reimagination of the Texas Christian University football team’s uniform set. My goodness gracious, those look like absolute ass. I could see Adam Lambert’s backup dancers wearing something like this, because they look both glitzy and cheap. Too much color-blocking, monochromatic numerals (stenciled, no less), and the V-neck is way too necky. It’s not supposed to stretch halfway across the back. Oh, and they took the horned frog off the helmet.

Nike, I hate you so much. I’d burn your entire Oregon operation to the ground if I knew you couldn’t make a commerative jersey over it. Via Eye On Fornelli.

Back in November, Ohio State President Gordon Gee told the Associated Press that teams like TCU and Boise State didn’t deserve to play for the BCS title because those programs don’t have strong schedules like the teams in the BCS automatic qualifier conferences. Said Gee:

“Well, I don’t know enough about the X’s and O’s of college football,” said Gee, formerly the president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities. “I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it’s like murderer’s row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day. So I think until a university runs through that gantlet that there’s some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame.”

Boise State lost to Nevada two days later, ruining the Broncos’ BCS hopes, but TCU continued to steamroll opponents, as the No. 3 Horned Frogs finished with a 12-0 regular season record. The Frogs added their exclamation point on New Year’s Day, when they defeated Wisconsin 21-19 in the Rose Bowl. Wisconsin, of course, finished 7-1 in the Big 10 just like Ohio State. So for Gee’s comments, a mysterious TCU supporter has gently extended his middle finger by posting the banner image above on 20 electronic billboards throughout Columbus, Ohio. Well done.

While we can chalk this one up as a W for the little guys, as TCU was the first ever non-automatic qualifier to win the Rose Bowl, Gee and the rest of the big boys are probably still scoffing at the Frogs while they refill their high balls and light cigars with $100 bills. But tread lightly, big conference presidents. TCU will be in the Big East soon enough, so if you thought the Frogs had an easy road now, just you wait.

In the meantime, I was a little surprised to find out that TCU wasn’t the only school to have mystery billboards popping up around the country. Follow along after the jump…

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Texas Christian University has accepted to the Big East conference, effective at the start of the 2012-2013 academic year, according to reports citing sources close to the industry.

The Horned Frogs (12-0) are ranked No. 3 in the current BCS rankings and are guaranteed a BCS bowl. By adding TCU for the 2012-13 school year, the Horned Frogs would take “all of their data to their new league,” BCS spokesman Bill Hancock told FanHouse.

The current four-year evaluation period for the BCS concludes in December 2011, so TCU’s past BCS rankings – three consecutive top 11 BCS rankings, including this year – will transfer to the Big East since it joined the league before the 2012-13 school year.

–FanHouse.

So TCU won’t have to run the table for BCS consideration and the Big East actually gets a football school. This is a win-win for both parties. Oh, I guess it’s sort of a draw for women’s volleyball team and the like, who will be leaving sunny Texas for an annual pilgrimage to Storrs, Connecticut. Oh, I’d love to be working the TSA gate when those ladies roll into the airport. I’d give each of those girls a private screening, and then have the video shown in a movie theater with a few close friends. It would be a private screening of private screenings. Oh, you thought I was taking that joke somewhere else…

As a football coach, calling for a fake punt in a game is like telling an ethnic joke at a party. If it goes bad, there’s just no way to recover. But if works, it makes you look like a genius. A racist genius, but we’re getting off-topic. So Boise State ran this fake punt in the fourth quarter of the Fiesta Bowl against TCU on their way and it worked like a Japanese beaver right before a flood. Which is to say, very efficiently. I guess I could have just said “very efficiently,” but that doesn’t seem to be as much fun, now does it? And what about those TCU uniforms? That team looked like a cross between a dystopian militia and a gay pride parade. Aw, there I go again. I’ve been spending too much time with Grandpa. Read the rest of this entry »

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."

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