Monday, December 31, 2012

Sun Bowl: The perfect complement to USC's crappy season.

If you're going to stink up a year, there's no better time to really stink it up -- and I mean stinking it up to high heaven that even the hogs come running to greet you -- than the last day of the year.  USC obliged.

I feel so dirty that I think I need to go take another shower, just to take the stink off this game and the entire season.  Some Sun Bowl stats, sure to slime you up:

  • 20% 3rd down completion rate.
  • 2.9 yards per pass was worse than the 4.5 yards per carry.
  • 205 yards of total offense.
  • First six possessions of the second half = 21 total yards, 4 punts, 1 fumble and 1 failed 4th down play.
  • Last two possessions of the second half = 2 INTs.
  • 7 punts and 7 points total.
  • The only team to score fewer points against Georgia Tech, was the Presbyterian Blue Hoses
Frankly, I think Max Wittek may have broken some sort of obscure record of passes batted down or partially tipped -- I'm sure he had one on nearly every series.

Three season stats, sure to embarrass:
  • First team ever, to go from preseason #1, to six losses.
  • Second team ever, to go from preseason #1, to unranked.
  • Ends the season with more turnovers than any FBS team, except 1-11 Idaho.
That was the crappy, soul-sucking, life-shortening, frustrating season we never want to see again (at least for a generation), and that was the crappy, soul-sucking, life-shortening, frustrating game to cap it.

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