Saturday Stupidity
Posted October 21, 2007, 11:34 AM ET

The more college football I watch, the dumber I become.

Can anybody figure out what's going on? The month of October has been the most unpredictable month of football that I've ever seen. On consecutive weekends, we've witnessed 7 of the Top 13 teams lose... followed by Stanford, a 40-point underdog, winning at Southern Cal...only to be topped the next week by watching the #1 and #2 teams lose on the same day, for the first time since '96....and that leads us to this past weekend of bizarre outcomes.

Just take a sample of the outcomes this weekend:

Steve Spurrier and his #6-ranked Gamecocks lose at home to Vanderbilt. The Cocks haven't scored a touchdown in 6 straight quarters, and now find themselves with serious offensive questions, with trips to Tennessee and Arkansas on the immediate horizon. Forget the Chicken Curse...blame it on The State newspaper's "Dress the Ol' Doll Coach" segment from earlier in the week.

N.C State hasn't beaten a Division 1-A team in over a year....the Pack rolls into Greenville and beats red-hot ECU, 34-20. Daniel Evans passes for a career-high 335 yards, and the Wolfpack accomplishes something that Butch Davis and the Tar Heels couldn't do...beat ECU on the road. One moronic UNC caller into my radio show proclaimed that the Tar Heels were the best 2-5 team in America....move over, UNC...N.C. State is now 2-5 (with a win over the Pirates)....surely there won't be a Wolfpack call this week, proclaiming the same embarrassing note.

Appalachian State, owners of the nation's longest home winning streak at 30 games, loses at home to Georgia Southern on "Black Saturday" in Boone. The Southern Conference race is as wide-open as you can get, and the Mountaineers can ill-afford another loss...maybe they can substitute Michigan for one those SoCon teams ?

I don't care what Virginia does, they are the worst one-loss team in America. Somehow, they win games in the ugliest fashion...the latest victim, Maryland...18-17. Al Groh started on the hot seat, lost the season opener to Wyoming when the team accumulated all of 5 first downs....and since, they haven't lost a game en route to leading the ACC's Coastal Division. Consider the fact that Clemson, BC and FSU aren't on the schedule...the Wahoos may win-out all the way to the ACC title game in Jacksonville.

Clemson can't score on the ACC's new and old Tech, but they have no problem piling up 70 points on some team called Central Michigan....I think that team is a version of Big Ten Light.

Anybody catch Tennessee in action against 'Bama? The Tide struggles for weeks, and the Vols were seemingly catching their stride....The Tide rolls, 41-17. It doesn't make any sense? Phil Fulmer will continue to catch grief from the Big Orange Nation, and in the meantime he's got to get his guys ready for a visit from an old nemesis: Steve Spurrier.

The Auburn-LSU game was simply incredible. You've got to give Tommy Tuberville credit for keeping the season together after a tough start....his Tigers played great in Baton Rouge, but one of the craziest play calls in recent memory ended the SEC slugfest on a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. LSU's Les Miles' decision to gamble on throwing into the end zone as opposed to setting up for the game-winning FG was truly insane. It worked, but what in the world was he thinking about? The winning 22-yard TD pass took place with :01 on the clock....The win keeps LSU in the national title hunt.

In other news, Notre Dame lost at home, 38-0 to Southern Cal.....as ridiculous as the college football world has been, this month....some things never change. The Irish are simply pathetic. At least we can all agree with that one.

The Charlotte Bobcats are quietly playing preseason games.....I wonder how many people are aware of this phenomenon?

The team has already lost one player due to injury, in Sean May. The former UNC first-round draft selection had season-ending microfracture surgery on his knee, and now the Bobcats might have lost another prominent starter for the season, too.

Adam Morrison has a partial tear of the ACL, and he could be lost for the season. This is not the way the Bobcats had intended to tip off the season....and trust me, this is a pivotal year for the franchise.

The Bobcats have been a non-factor in the Charlotte sports scene for the first three years of their existence. The team has put together decent "expansion numbers" on the court, but the local market is lukewarm on NBA hoops for a variety of reasons...some of which were inherited from the previous regime.

In the always-weak NBA East, anything is possible for a team to make a playoff run....the Bobcats, with the addition of Jason Richardson, should be in position to challenge for a playoff spot in year four of the franchise.....but news of May, and now Morrison, will certainly make it tougher to win back the fans.

Depending on what the cross-town Panthers do in November, the Bobcats could be the hope for the locals when it comes to postseason play....right now, both pro franchises are trying to get it to the next level. The Panthers' 4-2 start is still loaded with tons of question marks...and now it appears the Bobcats are joining in the mix before we tip off the first game of the season. Stay tuned.