Marshawn Lynch’s hilarious return to Cal, and other fun Week 10 college football awards!
Jim Harbaugh’s yelling, Will Muschamp is lifting spirits, the Aggies are disappearing, and more.


Former Cal running back Marshawn Lynch’s legendary 2006 medical cart celebration was amazingly recreated on Saturday, as Lynch returned for the game against No. 5 Washington with his mom and Bay Area rapper E-40. Look out, band!
Cal didn’t win, but did pass out Lynch bobbleheads and pulled off a card stunt.
Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. also belongs in this category. Armstrong was scarily carted off the field during the game against Ohio State after taking a hard hit.
Amazingly, Armstrong returned to the field after a brief visit to the hospital.
The best part of his return was that he rocked his hospital scrubs.
Oh, and there was this Texas Tech 99-yard touchdown return after Douglas Coleman stripped Texas running back D’Onta Foreman of the ball as he was entering the end zone and took it the other way.
Why aren’t robot refs a thing yet?
But there was one, big problem: TTU’s Coleman stepped out of bounds before he reached the end zone. So the score really should have never counted in the first place.
Wait, here’s another kind of return!
Cal’s former head coach is Jeff Tedford. He is now on Washington’s staff.
When Tedford started at Cal in 2002, his first offensive play was this touchdown on a double-pass.
In the first quarter on Saturday, Washington scored a touchdown on a nearly identical play.
Coincidence?
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Alabama. The Crimson Tide went into Death Valley to face the No. 13 LSU Tigers, marking the first time all season Nick Saban’s team wasn’t a double-digit favorite. Even with all the offensive changes that LSU implemented, the Tide defense held the Tigers to no touchdowns and 33 yards rushing.
And Ohio State. They beat No. 10 Nebraska by a whopping 59 points. If you’re sitting outside of the Playoff top four, sending a message like that should get through to the committee.
We’ll see where the committee places the Buckeyes in this week’s rankings on Tuesday night.
The Jig Is Up Award, for most prominent team to leave the Playoff race
Welp, it was fun while it lasted, Texas A&M. After the Playoff committee made a bold move and put the Aggies as the No. 4 team in the country. That lasted a whole four days, as Mississippi State upset TAMU, 35-28. See ya, Aggies.
Biggest hit
Arkansas’ Damon “Duwop” Mitchell hit Florida return man Chris Thompson so hard on a kickoff return that we had to set it to Jim Ross.
Oh, and Clemson’s Ben Boulware did this over the weekend.
(This resulted in a 15-yard penalty for a personal foul, because this isn’t the WWE, I guess.)
Head coaches are still mad
Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville’s team lost to BYU 27-3 on Saturday, and one fan apparently yelled at the head coach. Tuberville then proceeded to yell back at the fan, telling them to “get a job” and go to “hell.”
And here’s Jim Harbaugh, seconds before going up 28-0 on Maryland:
But wait, we actually have a positive coaching moment this week!
Will Muschamp’s South Carolina beat Missouri, and after the game, Muschamp and Mizzou head coach Barry Odom shared a pretty special moment.
Best celebration
After Missouri’s second touchdown against South Carolina, some Gamecock fans threw a water bottle at Tigers quarterback Drew Lock. Lock hilariously took the bottle and began drinking water from it.
Talkin’ bout them polls
In this week’s AP Poll, we saw Florida get bounced from the top 10, Auburn continue to climb, and Baylor somehow remain ranked after losing two games in a row, the most recent by 40 points to TCU.
The AP, of course, is now second to the weekly Playoff rankings, which are released every Tuesday evening.
Bobby Petrino will be paying attention to where his high-scoring Cardinals rank.
Yay, midweek controversy!
Best GameDay sign
There were a lot of these.
It’s a bold strategy, Cotton
The mid-major American Athletic Conference is declaring itself part of a “Power 6,” despite the post-BCS New Year’s Six bowl system not granting the Big East protégé conference an automatic bid.

















