Final Word for College Football Season 140 part deux

by Slate Quicksilver

We already went through the first 3 power conferences in terms of alphabeticalosity, now we move to the next few. However I'd like to make a brief foray into what Iroquois did:

Best Player: Toby Gerhardt. He did amazing things with little to nothing helping him out. He looked like Jay Culter 2006 in the Swamp destroying the Gators defense battling the refs, his own team's terribleness and light resistance put up by the Gators still shaking off the Zooker curse and thinking that coasting at the end of games was not only acceptable but expected. Only Toby Gerhardt did it every week and doesn't appear to be a total asshole.

Best Team: Alabama. No questions here. Best team you didn't hear about this year: Central Connecticut State. They went 9-3 in the Northeastern conference winning it for the first time in this epoch. Congrats to the Blue Devils.

/my birthday is coming up and Mother Quicksilver is an alum and I want a certain awesome gift

Best Foil: Reynolds Wrap Quality Aluminum Foil. Seriously this stuff is awesome and cheap. You can line your cooking pan with this, plop down 5 pounds of frozen fries and then dump 3 cups of every kind of cheese you like on it and it won't rip or rupture when you take it out. Ridiculous.

Most Entertaining non-bowl game: FSU - UF. Watching an old rival fail multiple times over and over again never got old. Same week, LSU/Arkansas. That game was wacky.

Most Entertaining Bowl game: The bowl game the University of Michigan did not go to for the second year in a row.

Best Demise: (tie) Michigan, for the losing and terribleness. USC for the allegations and abandonment.

Let's move on to the rest of the important conferences:

BigTen:
Mixed directions here for this conference. Yes, Ohio State won a BCS game (OMGOMGOMGOMG) and that means that the past few years of total badness, surrending the butt and just general "oops did we really do that"s against good teams is totally 100% completely totally and definitively forgiven. In related news, Japan has forgiven the U.S. for dropping 2 atomic bombs on them and we're totally cool now.

However we must look at the rest of the conference to really get the picture. Michigan is going nowhere fast and although this year was better, the team was supposedly going to be considerably better. Now they are losing their best defensive player. Not good for them. Michigan State took a step back, but we maintain that they lost several games in miserable heart stomping fashion and should be better next year with an actual offense. Illinois is abysmal and the Zooker will probably soon be cut free into the wilderness. Indiana is improving, oddly, and maybe will even go to a bowl game next year.

Penn State will forever under JoePa finish in tied for 2nd or in 3rd in the BigTen. Forever. Northwestern showed spunk this year but will probably stop the immediate moment their coach leaves. Iowa could be good next year with a slew of returning starters, but remember that they are incapable of putting two good seasons together. WisCANsin impressed most, but you can never truly gauge them thanks to the fact that no one cares about them. We also have Minnesota who is an enigma and finally we have Purdue who is terrible yet somehow beat Ohio State.

Pac10:
Let's get the elephant out of the room: USC, you are F'd in the A. It's been real, but it's time for your snooty rich student population to go back to not caring about their team. Washington is showing signs of life while Washington State is, without a doubt, a quadreplegic, deaf, blind and dumb team with no hope for anything. The state of Arizona is very blah, but somehow I think they will survive.

It looks as though USC's fall is everyone else's gain. Stanford is rising from the ashes under their new coach. California is not bad and has a great defense. Oregon is probably set in the Pac10 for years to come and Oregon State will be up there fighting them the whole way. However it must be asked: is the Pac10 going to benefit from USC's fall?

USC's disappearance will help the other teams, but they lose that one powerhouse. It's a tough question, but I vote that the conference goes forward. Oregon, Cal, Stanford and Oregon State will all pick up better recruits and really USC's fall is everyone else's gain.

Except Washington State. They are pathetic.

SEC:
SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC. No, really. The SEC is fine. Florida, regardless of Urban's absence of unknown length, will be fine with a new "more 2006ish" offense, but they won't be wowwing anyone either with a "more 2007ish" defense holding them back. Georgia will be better next year, the question is by how much. Tennessee might be better next year assuming that the team doesn't try to rob a McDonalds all at once on a motor coach. South Carolina is going nowhere and neither is Kentucky. Lastly we have Vandy would returned to Earth after last year's fun and will continue to be Vandy for the next 50 years or so.

In the West, Alabama looks to be in control for next year and only LSU and UF stand to even come close to them next year. LSU is going to improve as long as they take a time-management course. Ole Miss was up and down this year and will continue to do so as long as Count von Giggity is coaching them. Auburn improved more than most thought, but we need another year to digest their team fully. Arkansas also improved, and so did Mississippi State although they only slightly improved. This makes the SEC West scary, powerful and a harsh place live.

So that's it. Yes, the SEC is the best conference and blablabla woofwoofwoof (insert SEC hack talk). We go into the 8 month void scared and with trepidation. Iroquois is going to post Mondays and Wednesdays, I will hit on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Annie and Red may drop in from time to time. We'll go into baseball, soccer, hockey, the olympics... it'' be ever so much fun!

Thank for reading this and we won't disappoint in the offseason!