Sunday Social: The Religion of College Football
The first weekend of college football is upon us, and there was plenty of trash-talking and lively conversation on social media. The conversation had religious overtones all weekend. And that’s fitting, with the passion of college football fans.
Baylor and SMU got started a little early with a Friday game. With everything going on in our society, does @HampHickman have to bring up religion during a college football game? Be careful, the Methodists are said to be mean basketball players.
Another year where the Baptists beat the Methodists in football. What's new? #ProvenEverySunday. #BAYvsSMU
— Hamp Hickman (@HampHickman) September 5, 2015
What is it with the religion thing? Hey, Luby’s is a good place to eat.
The Baptists may have beat the Methodists tonight, but they won't beat them to Luby's on Sunday after church! #BAYvsSMU @OurDailyBears
— Jerrah Jones (@MDTwankyTwank) September 5, 2015
Of course the star of the show were the SMU Bros:
That awkward moment when your friends wear the exact same outfit as you to the game. #BAYvsSMU @ESPNU pic.twitter.com/vnpwEtIs8C
— CollegeFootball Czar (@cfbczar) September 5, 2015
Baylor’s current arch-rival, TCU, had a tough matchup against Minnesota on the road. Most people thought that the TCU offense would be the toughest unit on the team. Clearly, they haven’t met the Minnesota game day staff and the jumbo-tron operators.
Minnesota is using Dramatic Chipmunk to distract kickers & it's working! TCU is 1-2 on FG attempts. (via @jack_kiwi) pic.twitter.com/qGSqrbOBMb
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 4, 2015
Of course no dive in the social media cesspool would be complete without a couple of trolling Tweets from rival fans. This Baylor fan has a commentary about their thoughts on TCU’s #2 ranking:
I know I'm biased…but that did not look like the number two team in the country. #TCUvsMINN #SicEm
— Sammie Maixner (@SammieMaixner) September 4, 2015
This TCU fan watched the same game and had a completely different perspective. These two tweets next to each other is exactly why college football is the best!
Chalk that up more to Minn being better than most thought, and not TCU underachieving. Bottom line: a road win over a good team. #TCUvsMINN
— Matthew Paul (@BroMattPaul) September 4, 2015
Boise State and Washington provided us a Friday night main event that lived up to its billing. “The Petersen Bowl”, as it was Chris Petersen’s first return to Boise since he left to take over at Washington, had some fans suggesting that Petersen would have been better staying in Boise.
https://twitter.com/thesportssavior/status/640111701119995904
They’ve obviously never lived in Seattle. Can you say Chilean Sea Bass?
Preseason polls are always controversial. One of our favorites, The Ernst Report, takes exception to Boise State’s rankings after their performance against Washington:
https://twitter.com/theernstreport/status/640029532913729536
Things got a little personal for Louisville’s lightning rod coach Bobby Petrino, formerly of the Atlanta Falcons (for about five minutes), as he had some clock management hiccups in Louisville’s upset attempt against Auburn. The always-astute Stewart Mandel of Fox Sports sees a parallel between Petrino’s end in the Georgia Dome last night and his previous end in the Georgia Dome.
Apparently Bobby Petrino wanted to get out of the Georgia Dome as fast as possible. Again.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 5, 2015
But the real hot topic from Atlanta was the Cardinals’ uniforms. David Hale of ESPN had this hilarious take:
Boy oh boy… what a disaster for #Louisville. They’re gonna have to change the font on those uniforms to Comic Sans for the 2nd half.
— 💫🅰️♈️🆔 (@ADavidHaleJoint) September 5, 2015
The “I thought this was European Football” award of the week goes to this Bowling Green defensive lineman, who had the most epic shoe removal injury ever against Tennessee:
Bowling Green knows how to flop clearly. #mandown! Another #flop in the #Tennessee #bowlinggreen game. https://t.co/bZXxV8H25m
— All For Tennessee (@allfortennessee) September 5, 2015
Again, I don’t understand why people have to mingle religion with football, as Wisconsin fans think they may have a new … um, leader?
Couldn't agree more! #CollegeGameday #GetUp4GameDay #Badgers #WISCvsBAMA pic.twitter.com/Kk421gOod2
— Wisconsin Badgers (@UWBadgers) September 5, 2015
While Chryst couldn’t split the Crimson Tide, Kenyan Drake had a nice game. Has @bama_nurse found Drake’s secret to success? I will admit, Little Debbie Oatmeal cookies are delicious.
Throwback to Kenyan Drake and the Little Debbie cakes, to which we owe his miraculous recovery. pic.twitter.com/MKd9qVbF1o
— Kasey B (@bama_nurse) September 6, 2015
And of course, we can’t leave out @Buckeyesnews, who wanted to get some ribbing in over the weekend even tough his team doesn’t play until Monday. He had a idea for the marketing of the Alabama-Wisconsin matchup:
https://twitter.com/buckeyesnews/status/640315778856824832
Professional golfer Jordan Spieth, a Texas alum, comes from the top rope with some self-deprecating humor:
Texas' offense looking about as useful as my last 4 rounds….
— Jordan Spieth (@JordanSpieth) September 6, 2015
BYU provided some excitement with a Hail Mary TD to upset Nebraska. And this receiver had the best reaction:
BYU's Hail Mary was only slightly more awesome than this WR's reaction to it: http://t.co/c1aru8ihdE https://t.co/NdWinixJms
— Jim Weber (@JimMWeber) September 6, 2015
And BYU’s head coach could barely contain himself:
Bronco Mendenhall after the #BYU Hail Mary: https://t.co/nJqWNRCexl
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 5, 2015
There you have it. There’s lots of great stuff out there, but this is what caught our eye while watching a great first weekend of college football.
As the season goes along it’s only going to get better as rivalries produce arguments and sniping. Fasten your seatbelts, fans, the season is upon us!
