The 2006 college football season featured the usual array of weakling pounding, dire SEC games that end 9-6, noon Big Ten clunkers announced by Pam Ward, mindblowing officiating mishaps, and Paul Maguire. These are our crosses. But there were also sublime moments that made all the Arkansas quarterbacking worthwhile, and the Fanhouse has endeavored to list the ten best moments of last season.
Note the criteria "best" here: we're studiously ignoring refereeing fiascoes, instances of dire sportsmanship, and emu-haired recruits with the initials "JC" getting treated like some other guy with the initials "JC."
In reverse, tension-heightening order:
#10: Pucker Pucker Pucker. Michigan State QB Drew Stanton throws a horrible interception, giving the world Mike Valenti's epic rant and the associated benefits thereof.
#9: Decoud Decleats. Cal's Thomas Decoud turns in the most hellacious hit of the season, damn near killing both himself and UCLA's Korey Bosworth whilst opening up a lane for a Desean Jackson touchdown.
#8: WOOP WOOP WOOP. Brady Quinn, attempting to throw, fumbles straight up into the air. Lamarr Woodley rumbles in for a coup de grace touchdown, realigning early-season perceptions of both teams. Some joker sets it to "Yakety Sax."
#7: Red Shift. Darren "Humanity Advanced" McFadden bolts into the endzone against Auburn, announcing a realignment of the SEC West and his own Heisman bonafides.
#6: Run Run Run Run Impossible Touchdown. Troy Smith's illustrious career -- MNC game nonwithstanding -- has this at the very tippy top of its highlight reel. Flushed and seemingly panicked, Smith loads and fires downfield to a relatively well covered Brian Robiske, ending Penn State.
#5: Dawdle, Dawdle, Mr. Smith. The other end of Smith's year. Heisman in hand, Smith lingers far too long with the ball in his hand. Jarvis Moss forces a fumble and ends the MNC game before halftime.
#4: Jarvis Moss Is Tall. Jarvis Moss saves Florida's bacon against South Carolina. His hand reaches into the heavens, swats Ryan Succop's potential game-winner away, and keeps Florida in a national championship hunt they would eventually win.
#3: Tip, Pick, Chaos. Eric McNeil leaps, bats a John David Booty pass, and comes down with the deflection. UCLA beats USC and the Trojans fall out of the national championship picture.
#2: On Appeal, Ito Is Good. Rutgers' Jeremy Ito gives the Scarlet Knights the biggest win in program history, but not before scaring the pants off of everyone first.
#1: Hook and... Statue of... BOTH! Boise State wins the Fiesta Bowl on the back of two audacious trick plays -- plus a third not-quite-as-audacious one. Ian Johnson gets married. OU goes home befuddled. Chris Petersen is the next Bronco coach in line to get poached.
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The Top Ten College Football Moments Of 2006
Posted Feb 3rd 2007 10:49PM by Brian Cook
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2-04-2007 @ 3:49PM
Small Business Consulting said...
You just had to go and bring up the painful Rutgers kick against my Cards now didn't you? At least you didn't make it #1. ;)
That said, Louisville may have been one quarter away from playing for the crystal football and with the way OSU played against Florida, our chances would have been pretty good for winning the whole thing. How painful!
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2-05-2007 @ 1:53AM
U.R.A Loser!!! said...
A story line from AOL:"The millions of tons of feces produced annually by Alabama chickens go by lots of names. But when Auburn University researchers look at the waste produced by 13,000 chicken farms, they see a__"......I always knew you Auburn folk were a bunch of "chicken shits"...LOL....ROFLMA....If the shoe fits....
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2-05-2007 @ 11:35AM
Jon in Auburn said...
You're laughing because Auburn researchers have found a use for chicken waste? It makes additional money for the farmers, among other things. Thanks Auburn. One more example of making this a better place in which to live.
Write back when someone finds a use for you. U really R A loser!
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2-06-2007 @ 7:16PM
Carmen said...
URA Loser, I'm assuming from your name that you're a bammer loser. You are just JEALOUS that Auburn makes the world a better place AND kicks your ass on the field at the same time. I challenge you to go a week without using a single farm product.
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2-07-2007 @ 10:14AM
Jon in Auburn said...
Carmen,
Did you go to the swim meet this past Saturday? Was everyone's favorite multi-personality attorney there? Maybe he's URA Loser as well.
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2-07-2007 @ 12:01PM
Carmen said...
Jon, no I wasn't interested in meeting the gay, pompous ass, bammer lawyer. It was hilarious that he wanted to prove himself to me. I was wondering if you went. If he's URA Loser, he spelled his name wrong. It should be IMA Loser or IMA Joke.
They have had two threads deleted on their board because of their comments. I posted one little bitty comment on the last one and they were all over me. They were very insulting to LSU posters too.
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2-07-2007 @ 4:28PM
Jon in Auburn said...
Hi Carmen,
I've been over on the al.com recruiting forum the last couple of days. Those folks over there are very sedate until you mention the bogus 12 NCs or that UAT doesn't produce anything but lawyers. When you do that, the bama fans start their usual blather about Auburn always being #2 and ticket sales. The Auburn fans get riled and start making actual points the bamas can't dispute. It's funny.
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2-07-2007 @ 4:48PM
Jon in Auburn said...
Hi Carmen,
It probably would have been a let down. Here we are, hoping maybe to have found a missing link between the sewage pump known as UAT and the redneck nation. What we probably would have seen was a 5'2" bald headed guy with thick glasses, wearing a Gold's gym shirt, shorts, and black socks.
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2-07-2007 @ 6:22PM
Carmen said...
Jon, what a pretty picture you paint. I was thinking in a more swishy direction, complete with falsetto voice. Remember those flowered "jams" people used to wear? Bet he still has some.
I was afraid I might push him in the pool and hold him under.
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2-07-2007 @ 9:55PM
Carmen said...
Jon, I cannot understand why bammers are so concerned with our ticket sales. You would think they get the money from the way they carry on. The lawyers they produce aren't worth much if our "friend" is an example. Worst I've ever seen in a debate. We almost had him crying. Oh well, we have to have some kind of entertainment during the off season.
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2-09-2007 @ 9:53PM
Jon in Auburn said...
I truly think it's because when we start talking, it remids the bammers their perfect little world disappeared when Paul Bryant died. It's just so weird that they pick our ticket sales to harp on.
Yeah, with so many personalities displaying themselves through one guy on the blogs you'd think JB would have more to say and better ways to say them.
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2-09-2007 @ 10:55PM
Carmen said...
Hey Jon, I see our buddy is posting again. I knew he wouldn't be able to resist when he saw both our names. On the last thread that got deleted, he was making obscure (to me anyway) quotes instead of really saying anything original. He's quoting again on this one.
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