October 30, 2009 in Sports

Plucked Eagles hit bottom of heap

Steve Harvey Special to the Los Angeles Times
 

So what if college officials have rejected proposals for a Bottom Ten Bowl game that would be played in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.?

Just Saturday, two winless non-powers collided in a matchup that was almost as good, or bad. The result, based on accounts from the few fans who admitted attending, was a well-earned 27-29 loss for the No. 1 Eastern Michigan Eagles (0-7) against No. 9 Ball State (1-7).

There’s more to come: No. 2 Western Kentucky (0-7) stumbles into No. 6 North Texas (1-6) in a game that figures to be so horrible it’s being played on Halloween.

Meanwhile, how about a Bottom Ten welcome to No. 20 Michigan State (4-4), a 13-15 loser to Iowa? The winning Hawkeyes took one more step toward what every college football fan should be dreading: a boring Trojans-Hawkeyes Rose Bowl match on New Year’s Day that will end in another USC rout.

WreckW-LLast lossNext loss
1. E. Michigan0-727-29, Ball StateArkansas
2. W. Kentucky0-724-62, Mid TennNorth Texas
3. Miami (O.)0-822-27, No. IllinoisToledo
4. Akron1-614-28, SyracuseNorthern Ill.
5. New Mexico0-717-34, UNLV

6. North Texas

1-6

26-50, Troy-x

W. Kentucky

7. Rice

0-8

7-49, C. Florida

SMU

8. Florida Int.

1-6

10-27, Arkansas St.

La-Lafayette

9. Ball State

1-7

d. E. Mich., 29-27

Ohio (Ohio)

10. Illinois

1-6

14-24, Purdon’t

Michigan

11. San Jose State (1-5); 12. Washington State (1-6); 13. Colorado (2-5); 14. Utah State (2-5); 15. Vanderbilt (2-6); 16. Alabama Birmingham (2-5); 17. Hawaii (2-5); 18. Tulane (2-5); 19. Moved, left no forwarding address; 20. Michigan State (4-4).

x-Composed of USC’s fifth- and sixth-stringers.

Others not receiving votes: Texas at El Precision Paso, a 28-24 winner over Tulsa.

Rout of the week: Michigan (5-3) at Illinois (1-6).

Crummy game of the week (month/year): Western Kentucky (0-7) at North Texas (1-6).

Holy Toledo: Minnesota’s Goldy Gopher mascot allegedly mocked a Penn State player who was kneeling and praying before a recent game. But, wrote one YouTube viewer: “Did anyone … consider the possibility that the Gopher dude is a Christian himself and was simply joining in? It’s not like he’d be capable of wiping off the goofy Gopher grin and taking a more reverent expression …” Minnesota apologized.

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