Shutdown Fullcast - BLOOD WEEK HISTORY: Mid-October vs. the moon

Episode Date: October 18, 2019

In this episode, we celebrate the eternal cyclical beauty of the Pac-12 devouring its own, Georgia functioning as a perennial drunken bridesmaid, and renew our blood oaths against Earth’s boldest enemy, The Moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Shutdown Fullcast. It's the Internet's only college football podcast. Like, where else are you going to hear about, you know, proprietary content like the concept of Blood League, which I think we own, right? Culturally speaking. Who's we? Well, that would be me, Spencer Hall.

Correct. That would be a banner society.com. That's right Because this is a Banner Society podcast That's bannerssociety.com Did you just ask for confirmation of your own name? I did and you'd be astonished how many times That happens a day or maybe you wouldn't be

He was looking at me like right, right? It's good to be sure It's good to get a second opinion Trust but verify as the cliche goes Banner Society.com Ooh I like that you should put that in the end Barter Society What letter was that?

That was the jelly the jellyfish men from Star Wars 1 or 2 We'll listen to Battle Society Podcasts Oh no How about that? That was really close

That in British Oh no That will That sound will curdle in my throat And I will have to be hospitalized If I even attempt it Speaking of choking and dying. Uh-huh.

Blood, blood, blood, blood. Jason, we go through legendary blood weeks of your, on this podcast from time to time. This is one of those installments where we're going to lay out those weeks in which everything is overturned. Review the concept a little bit. Take our listeners through what they're going to hear and why this is definitely about blood weeks and why what you're calling a blood week's and why what you're calling a blood week. week might not be a blood week in college football so we've back in the summer we decided it would be fun to do a season a series during the football season that is a week by week chronology of basically the most chaotic of those weeks at each point throughout college football history

so before week one we did a week one uh the thing about september is not a lot happens in september it is not until mid-october that shit really starts to happen excuse me i got to grab something. He's choking and dying. He's got blood in his throat. The expected outcome has reversed itself. Sorry folks, Jason was chowing down on some of Janine's chili. Jesus, Janine. He was an eight-point favorite against that chili. Look what's happened to him. Classic upset. Horrible. What kind of beans do you like in a chili? I generally will go for a red kidney. I have to go for a red kidney. Yeah. Light red or dark red?

Dark red, please. What is the difference? Size, mostly. Those bigger ones tend to be a little darker. Okay. That's it. I like a beefy chili. Even my beans got to be beefy.

Even my greens got to be beefy. I like a great Navy bean because I respect the troops. I'll also tell you my dissent from being it. Oh, hey, oh, hey. Oh, thank God. We were talking about bees. I mean, we can cut all that depending on how y'all feel about the bean content. Leave it.

It was hot bean content. Okay. Anyway, now that that's over, I have a PBR, which is nature's, nature's Nyquil. Okay, we got, that was time to get an extra cat into the room. Hello. So the thing about, so this weekly Blood Week series that we had planned, like now is actually the time to get going with it because this is the point in each college football season at which the shit really hits the fan.

There are a lot of weeks in the first half of the season where it's like, well, it's only gotten weird like twice ever like in week three or whatever this is an example of a week when there's just almost too much to choose from we have there are one two three four five six seven different weeks that could qualify as the craziest ever we have a few that i'm going to run through quickly ish and then we have two we're going to look at a little bit more detail um honestly let's let's knock these two out 2017 and 2018. These were the two the two weeks

that gave us that inspired the term Blood Week. It was after 2017 that Ryan made up a creepy poem-like thing about it. This was when Clemson

lost to Syracuse. Washington lost to Arizona State after spending a week whining about ESPN's Cupcake jokes. Washington State lost to Cal by 34, which won

the turnover battle by 7, which this was the worst tone over margin of the millennium by a team that was ranked at kickoff. I don't even, how do you, you only get like 11 possessions in a game. Yeah, the only, the only, the only, if you're really, if you're really crank in them, man. The only team this millennium that was ranked at any point in the season that had a worst turnover margin was 2009 Nebraska with a minus eight at Iowa State. So this is really some doing.

Also, this year you had a top 10 Auburn, losing. to unranked LSU. This was, of course, meant Gus needed to be fired, but then he beat Auburn and Georgia, so he needed to be extended, but then he lost to Georgia and UCF, so he needed to be fired. And he also had some other minor stuff. This was followed almost 365 days later by Georgia loses to LSU, which kept Georgia out of the playoff and gave us, yeah, I couldn't believe it. Also, this meant eventually that BVO ate UGA.

and do we know the longest run that Kirby Smart Georgia has ever given up? I do not. It was 59 yards by our son Joe Burrow in this very game. That's future 2018-19 Heisman winner, Joe Burrow. 2019, 2020 number one draft pick. Yeah, that's the right here. Oh, that's not worse that on him. We also had top 10 West Virginia, Washington, and Penn State losing.

Penn State lost to Michigan State. That's a crucial detail. Also, some other stuff happened, including Auburn lost to Tennessee, fire gas again. So let us now, how about we just jump all over the place? What say we go to from here to 1993? How does that sound? Yeah, hey, I think we're good with it because I believe that was, Holly, you got 1993, right?

I thought we were going in chronological order, so I wouldn't really pay an attention. yeah we're back sometimes sometimes we'd audible here i decided to get the newer stuff out of the way so here's some here's some schools yeah am i talking about 1993 now is that what we decided 1993 when i was 38 number two alabama ties with number 10 Tennessee you know this was a long time ago because i said number 10 Tennessee and number two Alabama oh except last year oh anyway this was back when that game was still played at legion field i was there uh Tennessee led 17 to nine at one point the vaults turned the ball over five times including a james stewart fumble at the one in the third uh Alabama drove 83 yards to get jay barker in on a

sneak to make it 1715 David palmer then hit a two point conversion to make it 1717 with 21 seconds left they ended up dying 1717 none of this mattered because alabama ended up having to forfeit this game anyway roll tide oh this is a pattern by the way in 1993 yeah by that do you mean number four florida to number 19 Auburn by three okay so the gators jumped out to a 2714 lead on this day a Auburn passed their way to a 2827 lead this was a long time ago Auburn got a position for a game-winning field goal. Thanks to a personal foul by the Florida defense. Of course.

Lawrence Wright. Woo! Auburn hit a field goal to make it 3835. Florida couldn't counter. The Gators lost 3835. Doesn't even matter because why Auburn was NCAA ineligible for everything. The state of Alabama feels like it's 10 years behind the rest of us sometimes

because that's how many seasons have been erased completely by the NCAA. Bang! That's pretty close to true. Moving on, we have number seven Penn State at home to number 18 Michigan by eight in 1993. Thank you, Joe. Michigan was three and two and had just dropped a game to Michigan State the week before. Can we talk about, now who was coaching Michigan at this time? I don't know, Spencer.

Why don't you tell me? That'd be Gary Mueller. So let's talk about Gary Moller for a second Because Gary Moller's known for some things besides coaching Michigan Best perhaps known for getting so drunk He punched a cop in 1995 After getting kicked out of a restaurant Can I interject here by the way?

I see no way of stopping you At the restaurant he was grabbing servers Told a female server at one point You're not listening to me I love you Oh Spencer that's not my favorite part of the story No? My favorite part of the story is then the cops show up. Moller punched one in the chest and they sent him to jail. Then jail said he was too drunk for jail and they sent him to a hospital instead. Too drunk for jail. So anyway, two years before all that happened, Penn State was 5'0. Michigan had a 14 to 10 lead when the fourth quarter started and Penn State had the ball at the Wolverines won. Penn State got stuffed on all four downs and kind of deflated after that. Michigan goes on to win. 2113. The Wolverines took that momentum into the next week's game against Illinois,

which they triumphantly lost by a score of 24 to 21. I think that was homecoming. No, really? I think they lost 24-21 to Illinois on. I actually don't know if that was, hang on, hang on. If you want to know why Gary Moller eventually had like a nervous breakdown after having a zillion drinks in a night, it was because he lost to Illinois on.

homecoming. Too drunk for the hospital. That's... Too drunk for jail. They said I was too drunk for hell! Yeah, Satan kicked me out. Hell's full and you're too drunk. Also... I'm sorry, the homecoming game in 1993 was... Wait a second. I believe that'd be Wisconsin there.

I was looking at... No, I was looking at the 1994 team for some fucking reason. Anyway, yeah, this was homecoming. Yeah. I was mixing this up with the 1994 Michigan Wolverines football team, which also lost their homecoming game to Wisconsin 19 to 31. This is why it happened. On ESPN in front of 106,000 people. The worst part about the Mueller thing is that this was not him, right?

Like, this was not the kind of duty was. No, this was the devil in him. Yeah, no, he just went plaid, man. He just had one night where it got loose. Yeah, moving on. Also, 1983 was a big year for Penn State. This was their first year in the Big Ten and they're like, oh, this isn't so bad.

This is pretty easy. And then, bam, Michigan, Wham, Ohio State. Yeah, they lost. By this, that's Tyrone Wheatley's big shoulder pads game, y'all. Like, he had like 180 yards rushing with the shoulder pads that went all the way up to his temples. I need you, Spencer, to look up something for me

while I'm explaining the next game. Sure, sure. I'm going to look up something that happened in this next game and you have to tell me if anyone was, seriously injured when it happened because I need to know how funny I'm allowed to think this is. Okay. You know what I'm talking about. I do.

I do. Okay. So we're moving to number nine, Oklahoma at home, losing to, if I'm right, number 20, Colorado. That's what I have. Yes. All right. Colorado, the first great fact about this game is Colorado had 499 yards of office. Damn.

They knocked out, oh, you. quarterback Kale Gundy out of the game with a severe concussion when his head bounced off the turf. That's not the thing I wanted to laugh at. Yes, that's Mike Gundy's brother. And yes, he's still on staff at Oklahoma. That can't be right. He is. He's the co-offensive. Regular Oklahoma? Yes, regular, not Oklahoma Light. Okay. Not even Oklahoma TNA.N.A. He's still on staff at regular Oklahoma as the OC. I thought these notes could not be right. Colorado receiver Charles Johnson, meanwhile, had a huge game, but suffered a compound fracture on one of his ring fingers.

I remember this. Do we know what compound fractures means everybody? Yeah. What's that mean? That means that their bone is sticking out. Oh, so the bone broke through the skin. Anyway, Charles Johnson had it sewn shut on the sideline and came back in the game. Go buffs.

Okay. Buffs win 27 to 10 in Norman. Colorado tied K-State the next week, which was bad, but not as bad as OU losing 21 to 7 to K-State later that. season. Did we confirm whether or not there were injuries in that incident that I wanted to mention, which is the best part of this game? Yes. You tell them what happened and I will read the injuries. And you are allowed to find this funny because they are not fatal or life altering. Okay. This is the game where the sooner schooner rolled over. On national TV. Yes. In case everything else didn't go wrong enough. Yeah, the sooner schooner goes over and capsizes. Blood week.

I'm just saying. Yeah, this is what happened. When people want to tweet at us and say, is this Blood Week. Ask yourself, did the Sooner Scooter topple on TV? Yeah, how crimson is your crimson, y'all? From the Oklahoman, published on Sunday, October 17th, 1993. So 26 years to the, is it, yeah, 26 years to the day,

actually that this podcast here is being recorded. Wait, really? Yeah. The ghost of the Sooner's going to come rattling through this year wall. Good Lord. The Scooter. Spooner. Spooky soon as spooky.

schooler oh god dang it did you just shoot it you just shoot a ghost ghost come on what would what's it more Oklahoma blam blam blam the spooky

soda okay anyway eat hot lead specter go on get go on get back to the moon go back to the moon where ghosts live seconds after Oklahoma got on the scoreboard

for the first time on Scott Flatton's 44 yard field goal with 11 remaining in the first half. The sooner schooner turned over. And then they lost. Driver Scott Gibson a junior from Grove, Oklahoma hurt his knee and was taken to the hospital for further examination. Wounded knee! Shouts up. Oh my God. It gets even better. How do you not react to wounded knee? That was amazing, but I wanted to get to Ponga City Senior, Gene Connolly,

the rough neck. Pauca City home of Brian Phillips? That's right, home of New Yorker contributor Brian Phillips did you he's going to be so angry when he hears you just called him a new yorker contributor mm-hmm punk a city senior jean connolly the roughneck queen who was riding shotgun was also shaken up the important note the two ponies reportedly were not injured i bet they did it on purpose i think y'all it's a field goal jean the best quote comes from ryan ray who was riding on there uh the ponies are young they were running too fast and turned too sharp. Ryan Ray, a junior from Lewisburg, Kansas, received a laceration above his right

eye. I was riding and back holding the flag. Ray said, I remember us going around the curve, and then I heard some screams. The next thing I knew I was on the turf. The best part, fans in the North End Zone who witnessed the accident said the rough neck and back jumped on late. Two huge strips of duct tape were needed to repair the torn turf near the 30-yard line. and well at least oklahoma won oh wait y'all get the duct tape they lost this is just like oregon trail um speaking of which mack 12 number 12 Washington to number 22 UCLA duff fall UCLA's JJ Stokes was six four and a half his cover man am I saying this right reggie Rieser was 510.

So when UCLA went down 15-0 nothing at a hurry, they started to throw the ball to Stokes, right? The math checks out. Stokes had 10 receptions for 190 yards and four touchdowns. Four. UCLA came back to win 3925. This is not as interesting as the next game, which is number 21 Cal losing to unranked Washington State by 27. Cal had just lost to Washington at this point in this season, but was still five and one. Wazoo was three and two, and coming off a weird 12-nothing win over Pacific, that's Pete Carroll's alma mater, which doesn't even have football anymore.

Wazoo had lost its starter, but they got backup quarterback Sean Deeds, who was like 6.5, 2.30, bigger than any of the linebackers on his team, is the punchline here. He went 13 of 25 for 227 yards, one touchdown, one and her. in a 34-27 win over Cal. Let's hear from teammate Tori Hunter for my favorite quote of 1993 Blood Week. This guy is in the Drew Bledso category in arm strength, though you didn't see it Saturday because he was a little tentative, a little cautious. Yeah, guess how many touchdowns Sean Deeds threw for the rest of his career? How many?

One. Interesting. One. That was it. He threw one there, threw another later on, and that was it. That is a Drew Bledso category. Yeah. Wazoo behind Sean Deeds turned it on and went on a four-game losing streak.

Go kids! And the season, including a 9-to-6 loss as the number 25 to you in the nation to Arizona the following week. People have always oversold the backup. Always. But more important than that, the Pac-12 has always eaten its own. That concludes 1993. Ninety-three. Woo!

A year when a lot happened at the... top of the SEC and none of it counted. Yeah, that's it. The year that poof. Wow! I had forgotten we decided the moon is haunted. I'm glad we brought that one back up.

I'm pretty sure you were the first one who was like, who came up with the concept of yelling go on get at the moon. Cock and gun, moon's hot it. Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Get out of here! coming back every month Stop looking at me

Moon's looking for a hand now So I keeps coming back Feed it once I see you winking at me Just because I put a flag on you Doesn't mean I like you How many times do you think Neil Armstrong stood out in his backyard

After he got back And stared up in the sky And was like, you're not so great Gotcha bitch I'd like to see you come down here and try that. Actually, we know from the film he never spoke, so he just sort of stared at it. Oh, yes, in Firstman, which I think is the prequel to Kingsman.

The only emotion he ever expressed in his entire life was when he was on the moon facing no living beings for like trillions of light years. At that moment, he shed a single tear. It's the ultimate American masculinity And then he wiped it and got back to work Now I may cry Oh, that felt great Back to work

Meanwhile, like Michael Collins is on the other side of the moon And according to him, was as happy as he had ever been in his life Despite being the human who at that point Was the furthest away from any other human ever He was like, this is great I got peaches in a tube I'm in a can flying through space

There's nobody pooping next of my head Yeah this is awesome Can I just leave you all down there? I hate Buzz Oh grumpy ass Neil Armstrong Isn't up here Bumbing everybody out

Here's one more thing On the Apollo mission You know that when Neil was getting down there Buzz was just loading a gun Like just in case Just in case I gotta be prepared You don't know what's coming back

I don't know what's in there I hear they got moon tight How are you doing? Neil? What's your wife's name? Neil? Neil, don't you remember when we had that funeral

last year to celebrate the death of old vinegar Tom? Why sure I do? Vinegar Tom died when the Berlin Wall came down, Neil. I like that the assuming the movie is totally accurate when you ask Neil that test question.

What's your wife's name? Wife's name? He just looks at you and says, I don't know. And you say, oh, yes, this is Neil. That's Neil? I was maintained, like Neil, Neil Armstrong ended up getting divorced. I maintained this because he was in love with the moon. He was like, well, once you've, once you've been there,

you just really, really can't do anything else, can you? There's only one lady for me. Only one lady for me, and her name is. The big white girl in the sky. God, man, can you imagine a bigger Indiana goal than landing the moon? I found the biggest white, the biggest, whitest wife of all. Oh, my God.

Neil Armstrong is history's first moonwife guy. Moonwave guy. Oh, Jason, literally, please. Take us back to Earth. So, I called an audible there and went out of order. Let's get back to going out of order again. Spend that wheel. I'm going to go backwards and then we'll jump forward.

How about that? Sure. 178 this is a really good one uh if i if i had to pick just one it might be this one so bama and usc split the national title this year which is total bullshit because usc beat bama at legion field which is in bama it they still split it weird yeah so the only the absolute only reason for this is that uh in this week that we are discussing which is six weeks before thanksgiving is how we're defining this. Number two, USC lost to unranked Arizona State by 13. Can't do that. Another reason USC's title wasn't unanimous is that in bowl season, Bama faced number one

Penn State in the Sugar Bowl, one of the biggest bowl games of all time. But the Rose Bowl could have been about exactly as big. You could have had basically a playoff without a title game. The only thing preventing that was number five Michigan lost at home to non-ranked. Yep, Michigan State by nine points. Again, never play Michigan State in mid-October. Meanwhile, number six, Texas A&M lost to Houston by 33. I love this Houston season. They went four in one against teams ranked in the top ten at kickoff.

They very nearly went 11 and one and nearly beat Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl. They also lost to Memphis, not just Memphis, Memphis State. By 14 Memphis State was 4 and 7 this year Losing to Memphis is bad When they tack on the state So here's a sign you're in a blood week Either you are playing Pitt Or Pitt is in the top 10

Pit was in the top 10 They were flying high and they would lose 1710 to Penn State Of course that sounds familiar This year they lost to a non-rank Notre Dame This is completely fucking topsy-turvy here. I can't relate. Number 11 LSU lost at home to unranked Georgia. Here is another sign of the times for any time.

Georgia would have ended up in the national title mix with only a tie to Auburn. Otherwise, if not for a loss to South Carolina. Which this, I really, I want to find a way to put some data to this. But this exact thing has happened. like four or five times. Georgia only South Carolina keeps Georgia away from either a shot

of the title, an outright title, whatever the case may be. It's that fucking peach vendetta. We're the peach state assholes. They are. That's the crazy shit. We should be the peanut state. Do not email us about who is and is not the peach state. Don't do it. Actually, Godfrey's out sick. Definitely email him.

The name is ours. Y'all can't have it, but you are the peach state. We're the peanut state. You know what this is, though. Georgia thinks it's gotten out of the bucket, thinks it's gotten a house, job, steady edge, steady, you know, like lifestyle. You almost said education and then you're remembered. Yeah, you're still just a crab and a visor. No, man.

Then all of a sudden, and then all of a sudden Uncle Cocky shows up and it's like, don't forget where you come from, boy. You ain't know better than me. I feel like we should put it on the tourism poster, South Carolina, you ain't to see it. You remember South Carolina. You ain't better than me. South Carolina, yeah. Welcome to South Carolina, where you're here now too.

ain't so funny now is it was somebody also this week number 13 and undefeated Colorado loses to winless Oklahoma State and then Colorado collapses to 6 and 5 almost this exact same thing

would happen in 2018 when Colorado was 5 and 0 and finished 0 and 7 Colorado should stop playing football in mid October also this week week. Let's see, Florida State lost to a unranked Mississippi State by 28. Florida State

was number 15. And in the Woody Hayes Gator Bowl punch year, number 16, Ohio State lost to non-ranked Purdue. Speaking of our boy, Neil Armstrong. So, so you're telling me that Woody Hayes was good, like cocked and loaded when he entered that gator ball. He was real pissed off. I don't understand that reference. And of course, there's Pact 12 bullshit that didn't amount too much. Number 18, Stanford, lost at home to unranked Washington. That's a really good blood week. That's some lasting blood. Got some meat and tendons on them bones.

I have my one new Woody Hayes story that comes from some Bob Eufer research. That would be the famous. Wait, you don't mean he's alive. No. Oh, God, he's still. Woody's back! He still lurks. Woody tried to use a broadcast of Bob Eufer.

talking trash about Ohio State and specifically about Woody Hayes. Ufer was the radio announcer for Michigan, and he really, he hit Hayes hard every single time. Sometimes even in games, they were not playing against Ohio State. And he had a recording made of Ufer making fun of Ohio State, and specifically of the madman, Woody Hayes, and was playing it for his team and had to run across the locker room and shut it off when everybody began laughing because Eufer was making fun of Woody Hayes and it was not having the intended effect, i.e., the players started to bust out laughing

at them making fun of Woody Hayes who could not stand that. So he thought they'd be like, oh, no, you don't talk about coach like that. Yeah, just to be, yeah, exactly. Look, oh, we're going to defend Woody, and instead they're like, yeah, this dork, this giant dork with a rage.

Imagine his Drew Carey-looking ass running across the locker room. I'm trying to imagine the moment that tips. with his pants hiked up to his chest like, Man, turn them off! Walks over and punches the radio. You Democrat!

Imagine being the first player who's like, oh, that's the dude didn't care whether he lived or died, right? Go ahead and try to what my ass coach. Try it. You look like Drew Carey. I don't even know who that is because it's not time appropriate, but you do. Yeah, give it a shot.

There's a hundred of us. Yeah. How do you think that's going to go? wearing glasses not for long so uh 1981 there's a bunch of stuff that technically qualifies it and then there's one big one um jason and i weren't a lot wait jason was alive for part of it i wasn't alive for 1981 yeah uh very end i'm not sure how many of the and actually none of these games okay yeah all of this is new material to me i was a zygote for portions of this year i was I was taking a bet, so I'll tell you how we did.

Spencer, Spencer was coach in Arkansas this year. Hey, come on, Papa Hall had me work in the chalkboard, right? It's before your fancy whiteboards. I was taking doubles. Why isn't it your handwriting better? Yeah, we had to get the bets in fast, okay? Because it was all secret code, the government. Number five, Michigan lost at home to Michigan State.

Nice try. Iowa. The other Michigan State. Oh, God. Number eight, Missouri lost to the other Iowa, unranked Iowa State by 21, which as we discovered at our Houston show, Missouri, Iowa State is one of the country's most played rivalries. God knows why. I forgot, is that the telephone? Yes. Yes. Yes.

Let's give your phone. Iowa State wanted that fucking phone this year. Can we that goddamn phone? Our corn is on fire. We've got to call someone. Here's a weird one. Number 13, Miami lost to Mississippi State. The hell?

Classic rivalry. What? Number 14, Wisconsin lost to non-ranked. There's our friends. Michigan State by 19. Never play Michigan State six weeks before Thanksgiving. I am not done mentioning them, by the way. Number 18, Washington State had a tie with unranked UCLA.

And here's the fun one. Number one, Texas. Oh. Lost to Lou Holtz's unranked Arkansas. Arkansas Razor Fax. Do you know the number? Oh, it's bad. 31!

The second biggest upset ever of a number one team by an unranked team. And the biggest since 1942, Holy Cross beat Boston College by 43. You're telling me Texas is in the history books. Texas is authoritatively in the books for this one. This was also, this was a pretty wild season, obviously it was, because Clemson won it. That's a joke, settle down. And this was the fourth time already this season that the number one team had lost. Clemson was undefeated, deserving national champ, but an 11-0-1 Texas would have had a much tougher schedule and would have taken some number one votes.

Clemson probably still takes it, but Texas would have had a really. reasonable case if they had managed to score 32 more points against Arkansas that day. So 81 is basically just one big game. 1990 is a year that we've kind of already discussed because we talked about it for our week one, Blood Week episode. The whole season was like that and it really, including the middle. Number one, Michigan, lost at home to the ultimate unranked Michigan state because this team had only beaten Rutgers.

Ew. Gross. So, yeah, Michigan State has been in almost all of these. If you play Michigan State in mid-October or an awful weather, you should forfeit to save yourself the calorie expenditure. Number four, Oklahoma lost to unranked Texas. Number 15, Clemson lost to number 18, Georgia Tech. Slight upset, but we'll count it.

Number 21, Arizona, lost to unranked Oregon State by 14. States only win all year under senior cragthorpe that's all they had that was it what do you got that's it that's it we took out zona yeah that's mission accomplished and here is a rare pair of word pair of a rare trio of words number 22 indiana this is a blood year it is it very much is this 2007-1984 those are your blood years um this this this overachieving Indiana they get clipped by a fellow overachiever a little team by the name of ohio state who gives them a tie all those plucky upstarts so uh out of this week we're halfway through the season one of the two teams that wins the national title is ranked number 18 that's how weird

things would continue to get in this year and that is a run through a whole bunch of years. As you can see, shit gets wild. The last year we wanted to discuss, we're going to again jump forward in time. Let's talk about 2013. Yes, lo, so many years ago in 2013. We were all alive, but you were already old. Correct. And I am old enough to know perspective, which is why I wanted to start with Clemson losing at home to Florida State. Now, by the way, this is not a massive upset, but it's more the degree in which it happened. And it's a reminder that I know Dabo Swinney right now is largely considered to be the architect of one of the most successful death machines and all of college football. I would like to talk about how I was at this game. Yeah, yeah,

we could talk about that. But know this. There are other games that you were at in the sequence that I'm going to try to lay out here because remember, Dabo almost got fired in 2010. Remember that this has been a long time coming. Clemson's patience has been nearly infinite. And by that, I mean, it was like four years. They waited four years for him to get really good. But that's practically infinite in terms of college football in the 21st century. I was also not at any of the other bloodly games to sing.

You lie. No. First, Davos started by face planting on the way to greatness. Multiple times. Clemson trashed the truck. Would you accuse me of attending Clemson football? hat is fixed and then had to come back and put it back on the road and get back at it okay i thought spencer was saying you're like seven games all at once for instance yeah maybe that's it i am i am a

legion and eternal losing they lost five in a row to start off to south carolina from 2009 to 2013 they had weird losses to georgia tech including an embarrassing 3717 loss in atlanta in 2012, where Paul Johnson called a fake field goal, most high school coaches would have called out and figured out on the field. There was the matter of losing 70 to 33 to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl in 2012. All right. And there was this. In 2013, when they should have turned the corner, they ran face first into the James Winston-led Florida State Seminoles. It would eventually be the national title holders for that year.

This game produced one of the greatest sports photos I've ever seen in college football, and it really sucks because it's a photo of Jamis, but it's fucking spectacular. I think the photographer must have been laying on his stomach in the end zone, but it's got like James basically bestriding the field

like a colossus, kind of like a canted angle from the feet up. And it's nighttime behind them. It's a very like, and hell's coming with me. Yeah. Yeah. Which it did, because rolling out on their first possession to kick off the game, Clemson Fumbles. And they're down 7-0. One minute and 35 seconds into the game.

Congratulations. 27-7 at the half, Florida State dominated. James passed for 444 yards in that game. That is a spectacular photo. This is an audio medium, but that is a spectacular. Oh, my gosh, that's great. But, yeah, it ended up as a 51. 14 game and embarrassment after the game.

Davoswini says, we know we're better than how we played, but nobody cares about that. Correct. Correct. And then the next year, that's when they really get cooking, and they overcome Florida State and finally win. They actually don't. They lose 2317 and OT. I like that nobody cares about that part.

Self-awareness. I'm going to give you some coach bullshit, but I know you. I know you know this is 2013 Clemson didn't have fans back then Number six LSU This is their turn because this same week LSU loses to

Unranked Old Miss By three points in a 27-24 That happens to a lot of teams, okay? It does, it does Old Miss was one in three in the conference When this game was played Is that Mettemberger? Easy enough for me to say

Zerr-Zard-Burnberr You could break it up a little by saying Zach banned from Valdaustin-Bentenberger Zach Bann from Valdosta Metenberger. He threw three interceptions in the first half. He threw two in the end zone. By the way, these are all awful interceptions. They're terrible.

How do I know? I was there in the stands. And I remember some of this game. Not all of it because there was a lot of drinking happening. And somebody was feeding me out of flasks, of Thai flask, a hip flask. Everyone at Ole Miss has flasks, basically. Hey, this is back when LSU had players like Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry. and they put them in a system where they could really thrive or lose by three to Old Miss.

Which one was it? It's the one where they lose by three to Old Miss. This was a wild night. It was a wild game. Old Miss had absolutely no business winning this game. In fact, very nearly coughed it up at the end, allowing LSU to come back. But really just like a classic, a classic Dr. Bow game and a classic Les Miles game all wrapped up in one. Number seven, Texas.

So, Ole Miss got to hang on to that win for. forever, right? And retain that victory in the, in the trophy books? Remember. Yeah, sure. Because that exists. In their hearts. Yeah. Okay. In their hearts. Maybe not the record books. And their livers, certainly. They got to, this year, the only win that is still in the books is the music City Bowl. That is correct. That's the one you want. Mm-hmm. Number seven, Texas A&M. They were playing at home and they were hosting number 24 Auburn. And in this game, if I told you, hey, Mike Evans had 287 yards receiving, he caught four TDs. He was unstoppable, a giant of a man, a colossus, as one might say. That's cool.

Auburn rushed for 379 yards. They took Johnny Mansell out in the fourth quarter with the shoulder injury. He came back and was largely ineffective. Both teams had over 600 yards of offense so you know a classic SEC game in other words and Auburn wins 4541 again Mike Evans you'll feel this this is Auburn ruining things Auburn the Michigan state of the SEC just ruining things left and right next one number eight Louisville uh they were at home and they were hosting UCF and uh this is beautiful teddy bridgewater's like swan song this is going to be Undefeated Louisville squad, coasting into the national title picture. And then guess who happened?

Blake Bortles! Bortle! Bortle! Yeah, Louisville's up 28-7. I don't think we're missing Ryan singing on this episode. And in seven minutes, UCF scores 21 points to get right back in this game. And I think the lasting legacy of a 38, 35 UCF win should be this, to hell with George O'Leary

No one cares Just a turd in a punch bowl of a man It has nothing to do with this game really Because it was won by UCF's players Georgia O'Leary, you suck You're not listening to this because you're deaf You don't know what a podcast is He's not deaf dude

I mean I guess he's deaf now I think Spencer has cursed him with deafness That's fine He sucks That's all UCF fans I'm glad you won this and it made you happy But yeah that dude He can just kiss it

UCLA, number nine at the time. Yeah, that was the thing back in 2013. Number nine ranked UCLA. They were ranked nine in 2013, and in 2019, they score nine points. That's the transition they have made. They played number 13 Stanford. Oh, shit, I thought George O'Leary was dead. No, no.

He's not. We're good. Number nine. He looks dead. Yes, he's looked dead for like. I for real thought he died. He's got that Al Davis face. Anyway, that's all the, that's the jokes that I was making.

He might be deaf, who knows? He's apparently alive. There's two paragraphs about the academic success he brought to UCF on his wiki page. To mention anything about him killing a player? Yeah, that's right before. Okay. Number nine, UCLA upset by Stanford. UCLA was ranked that high.

Brett Huntley had him going. But Brett Hundley doesn't play running back for Stanford. Brad Huntley can't hold the ball for 37 minutes, which is what Stanford did in this game. Just like, you want to know what like a David Shaw era Stanford classic was? It's this, sludgy, slow grinding, a process, a thorough processing of, you know, we talk about Bama processing people. Uh-uh. Stanford just puts them in the waiting room and watches them die. Here, could you fill out this other piece of paperwork?

No. yeah holding the ball for 37 minutes letting UCLA rush for like 70 yards on the night just just choked them out a submission hold of a game 2410 was the final Stanford just buys your team like a private equity firm and then sells off all your yards all the yeah they do they just sell off parts right like oh you took my third quarter yeah we need it for another game or at least Stanford used to now they're in the sort of downfall collapse phase of these things. Yeah, now they're being... If they ever happen, please. Please. It's not the funniest one, though.

Funniest one that we've got here. You know, Georgia's had their season ruined by a number of different teams. Georgia's in here a ladder. They are. They are. And by the way, like, Georgia goes into this game against unranked Vanderbilt. Hey, hey, hey, hey, I was going to say, I've got great news. They didn't lose to South Carolina.

well. Nope. Nope. They didn't lose to South Carolina this time because they were busy losing to unranked Vanderbilt. That's correct. That's correct. This is, by the way, when Aaron Murray passes Tim Tebow for the scoring record,

a peer victory at best because, yay. Yay. Because Vanity was down going into the fourth quarter, and they score 17 points off of two special team miscues and an offensive drive. They ran a fake field goal for a. touchdown in the first half that proves crucial and a 2724 victory over number 15. This is also a week after they lose to, for some reason, ranked Missouri in Athens, 41.26. I'm sorry, it's a 3127 lead, our 3127 final for Vanderbilt.

They beat Florida, though. It is true. They did beat Florida that year. Shouts out to Jarvis Jones. He was incredible. at what not finally uh the last upset of this blood week for 2013 uh number 20 Washington that's the Steve Sarkeesian era Washington Huskies uh they go to Arizona State hey man you should consider Arizona State right even if you know because guess what can happen to you if you don't

consider Arizona State yeah they're gonna they're gonna beat the hell out of you because at the half the Huskies found themselves down 29 to 7 Do you want to know, by the way, can I get a number on the yardage? Okay, I will tell you, I'm going to start the bidding at 10 yards. At 10 yards, and you go down from there as to how many yards rushing Washington had in this game. Jason. Negative 1. Holly.

4. I will tell you, Jason is too high. Negative 12. You are too low? Yes, low. I don't understand math. Negative seven. Negative five.

I'm going to give you a negative five. Negative five. That's correct. If this were golf, Washington would have won because they were five under for the day on rushing yardage. Ty Willingham is a golf coach. I was going to say these are two very good golf programs.

I was going to say it because he certainly doesn't coach football. 31 first downs for Arizona State. Taylor Kelly was a beast that day. 12 first downs for the Washington. Tuniskeys. This cap's a three-game losing streak for them. And Sarkeesian rebuilds and responds by taking the USC job, which worked out great and everyone was happy forever. At that, that's the blood week that you need to remember for the year 2013. The, I like that. So the Georgia Vandy rivalry at this time, there is a wiki page. So it's a rivalry. You're stuck with that,

Georgia. At this time, it was at its hottest. This was two years after the game in which Mark Rick had to apologize to James Franklin on the field for some post-game altercation bullshit. Oh, no, that's what Mark Rick actually on a live mic said Todd Grantham was a dumbass. Yeah, that was a... Yeah, I think it's, you have to kind of read his lips, but like he's calling someone a dumbass. And if Todd Grantham is on the field, there's a pretty good chance it's him. Plus, he was literally involved in it. Yeah, it's his own employee that he goes, he's a dumbass.

where's that guy now by the way Florida Florida he's our defense coordinator how's it going? It's great we all have 45 points to LSU yeah and blitzed slow inside linebackers against slot receivers yeah it was good it was awesome he's a very smart man he's smart now okay so smart I also like that so Clemson lost at home to national champion Florida State

do we know the only team to win in Death Valley East since then. It would be your Pittsburgh Panthers. Yes. A program of equal accomplishment over the past 25 years to Florida States.

Everyone agrees. In the same conference, they wouldn't have let them in if they weren't. No one disbues this. Also, the A&M Auburn, that was the game where it came down to basically a Johnny Mansell, a horse collar tackle of him that wasn't

called despite it being in college station which is kind of weird star player usually they get the flags especially at home but everyone was kind of sick of his shit I think there's got to be a message board somewhere out there that says like you know hey you know where that ref went to school right? Oh yeah

that's right he went to the University of Texas and you're like at El Paso and they're all in it together they're all under big cow el paso san antonio all of them it would be fun to find like the texas conspiracy for like every single upset loss we've just we've just named it probably wouldn't be hard there probably isn't aggie who's done it so i like that all of these all of this mayhem all arriving at once and i think in the future of these as we continue to go through we probably won't do quite this many years this one you just kind of have to mention 2017

and 18 because they launched this whole thing um but in the future we'll try to narrow it down to one two three five something like that um but i like this one is sort of spectacular to kick it off just to really herald it for folks who are listening to this live like during the season like this is your evidence that business is picking up as our good buddy not our good buddy but as jim ross everyone's good buddy let's call him that would say as he surely said on the day that sooner tipped over because of moon curses. Oh, go dang it! Spoo!