In which DCist surveys the Saturday that was in college football. This week, the weekend editors borrowed a page from Jezebel's playbook.

aaron:
There were a lot of games this week that really, uhh, sucked. In terms of competitiveness, at least.

kriston:
And all of them were played by Michigan.

aaron:
Eight losses. Unreal.

kriston:
They set something like the worst team record since the 17th century? It's unacceptable.

aaron:
Well, only if you're not from Tennessee.

kriston:
Who keeps a job there? I think you have to fire the janitors at this point. The laundry service, the Vitamin Water supplier.

aaron:
I find it unreal that Michigan's boosters paid so much to hire Rich Rodriguez in the first place.

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kriston:
This is one of college football's greatest success stories. Michigan, king of the Big 10.

aaron:
At this point they're almost paying $1.5 million per win. You know, it's really been downhill since they lost that huge #1-#2 game versus Ohio State in 2006, I believe. Then Carr left. Now, you're 3-8. It's a long fall in the world of BCS football.

kriston:
Did he leave after Navarre? I don't know. Carr was coach when Michigan lost to Notre Dame. I think that's when the curse set in.

aaron:
Perhaps. Speaking of Notre Dame . . .

kriston:
Losing to Notre Dame is the Black Spot of college football. Yeah, tough one for Navy.

aaron:
What an unbelievable finish to that game. Navy's down 27-7, and they've passed the ball all of 20 times this year. And they recover TWO onside kicks. And, they got a phantom timeout on the last drive! Only to lose by 6. Ouch.

kriston:
It really was Navy's victory to lose. Snatching defeat from the jaws so to speak. Isn't there a commenter who's big into Navy?

aaron:
It was probably one of the more entertaining games of the day, which really says something about the gap between the haves and the have-nots this year.

kriston:
A have: Maryland. A solid, incredibly dull victory.

aaron:
Maryland won when they didn't wear those hideous black jerseys. The victory over North Carolina was just a bonus. It's absolutely unreal to think that Maryland is two wins away from featuring in the ACC Championship game.

kriston:
You want to look at that game and say that the defense won. There was a single score in the second half.

aaron:
Enthralling.

kriston:
But you really can't! UNC didn't play defense last night.

aaron:
The highlights would make it appear as if North Carolina just could not stop Maryland's rushing attack in the red zone. Which, for a Butch Davis team, is very surprising. The man was a big part of the Cowboys defensive coaching staff in the early 90s.

kriston:
Most of their rushing stats for the season came in the game last night. Did you mention the NFL? Violating the prime directive here.

aaron:
Well, after seeing the whooping that Steve Spurrier took last night, I couldn't help thinking about failed pro football coaches. I mean, that was just a beating.

kriston:
(And there really isn't any point in talking about the NFL right now. We've got Philadelphia and the Bengals on TV as we speak.)

aaron:
The worst loss Spurrier has ever received in college, if I heard correctly.

kriston:
Speaking of Spurrier: How do you feel if you're Tim Tebow, listening day in day out to analysts mention, oh, everyone else in the top 10 who isn't Tebow for the Heisman watch?

aaron:
Well, maybe he thinks that as a former Heisman winner, his vote counts for extra.

kriston:
I hate it when the trophy goes to a sophomore.

kriston:
Just saying. There's a lot of talent on Florida and I think it's odd that the players don't earn more recognition.

aaron:
So, let's talk BCS here. Am I crazy in thinking that Florida might actually beat Alabama in the SEC Championship game?

kriston:
No, that's the way it's going to happen.

aaron:
Exactly. Percy Harvin has some future, I'm telling you. There was one play yesterday where he basically outran all eleven South Carolina defenders. The man outran an entire SEC defense!

kriston:
If I remember correctly Percy had more rushing yards than South Carolina. He looks like Reggie Bush out there sometimes. I think not as productive but still quite good and he ought to be in the hunt this year for the Heisman. You have a favorite? I'm really liking Missouri's Jeremy Maclin.

aaron:
If I had to vote today, it'd be Crabtree, Harvin, McCoy, Bradford, and Tebow/Maclin, in that order. I think that if Missouri ends up winning the North and somehow beating whoever comes from the South in the title game, he'd have to be seriously considered.

kriston:
I'm honorbound to support Colt McCoy and I do believe his completion rate deserves huge recognition.

aaron:
It's pretty telling that at this point, Crabtree is the consensus favorite, considering the amount of quarterbacking talent that is in the Big 12.

kriston:
I'm predicting an Oklahoma win against Tech and I think at that point Harrell gets written off as a system quarterback.

aaron:
Harrell is a system quarterback. His numbers are similar to any other Tech QB in the last eight years. He just beat Texas, so people love him.

kriston:
Yes. It's a perfect example of the anti-Texas bias throughout NCAA fandom. You can't hate us because we're beautiful. I still take Maclin over Crabtree. I would have liked to see that matchup, actually.

aaron:
I'm a Big East fan. Everyone hates us, so I hear you.

kriston:
I don't know who emerges from the Big 12 South. I figure if there's a shakeup like an Oklahoma win against Tech, Texas is almost certainly out of contention. I couldn't explain why. Bias. But anyway, yeah, Maclin, he's averaging 200 yards per game? That's astonishing, really.

aaron:
Right. You could easily make the argument that Florida's got more weaponry than Missouri. So, Maclin's doing more with less. In other news, the entire state of Virginia took the day off yesterday. There's always one weekend during the late season where teams seem to take the remaining open dates. This was that weekend.

kriston:
Howard also took the day off.

aaron:
Don't they always?

kriston:
I guess that's not quite fair to say. They mounted their most impressive offensive drive of the year.

aaron:
If they didn't miss any extra points to tie the game, I guess it's a victory. Georgetown was similarly...lost...this year. They finished their season at 2-8 with a 17-0 loss to Fordham yesterday.

kriston:
Georgetown should consider sending out its basketball team.

aaron:
So let's pose the question: if Georgetown and Howard's best players formed one team, could they beat any of the top five high school teams in the area? Top ten? Any high school team?

kriston:
I think neither Georgetown nor Howard could beat the best high school football team in the area. It's spitting distance between the MEAC and Cardozo. I'm not sure if you added Howard's scores over the seasons to Georgetown's, I mean just straight added the points up, you'd get a remarkably different W/L record for either team.

aaron:
Maybe we need to just create one solitary D.C. college football squad. We could pull from D.C. football teams, but mostly depend on bouncers and Secret Service agents that we disguise as college students.

kriston:
I think you just put Michelle Rhee on the squad.

aaron:
Fenty could coach. He's got the hats to pull it off. Give that man a clipboard!

kriston:
Fenty's too nice. Seems like a Spurrier type. Maybe we should start a write-in walk-on campaign. Carol Schwartz for Georgetown.