I really do dislike ESPN. It seems like a few years ago, back when they would televise more Mississippi State football games, there were a little better. But now the announcers certainly appear to be biased. Oh, they love to hear themselves talk.
I watched the Liberty Bowl game on the television last night because my wife agreed that we did need to get tickets about 2 hours after they were all sold. So, I resigned myself to watching it on the tube. Well all the way through the game all I heard was how great UCF was. UCF? Who the heck are they? They play in the friggin’ Conference USA for crying out loud! Most of the game the ESPN bozos talked about Kevin Smith breaking the single-season rushing record set by Barry Sanders in 1988. Even the stats ESPN put on screen should show how stupid this argument is. Counting the Liberty Bowl, Smith’s record would be for 14 games whereas Sanders’ record was for only 11. I can’t remember the number (and don’t care enough to look it up) but the game average was significantly lower for Smith than it was for Sanders as well.
It doesn’t really matter because Smith did not break the record. Something about an SEC team getting in the way and showing the UCF team what defense is all about. As Croom says, it was not a pretty win but it was a win. We also did not play all that well. We really should have scored more points but it looked to me like our offense was not doing well more than it was a case of UCF defense playing well.
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