Two of the great things about college football are upsets and weirdness. This season’s Week 7 had both of those in heavy supply. This was a “why we love college football” kind of weekend, complete with seven Top 25 teams, four in the top 10, losing to unranked opponents.
TOUCHDOWN RABBIT and the 28 other weird, wild, and cool college football moments from Week 7
Let’s explore some of the week’s best in weirdness.
Stanford
Aside from the results, there was a bunch of silly stuff. Let’s rack it up.
1. At Stanford, there was a JACKRABBIT ON THE FIELD, and Fox play-by-play man Tim Brando and the crowd both cheered it on as it scored three touchdowns:
Rabbit’s numbers:
That was the second small mammal to score a touchdown in a Power 5 stadium this year.
2. Our first sign the weekend was going wild: While Syracuse was about to upset Clemson on Friday night, Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy was doing this:
3. Cal blew out Washington State (?!), led by Ross Bowers’ flipping touchdown:
5. BYU mascot, Cosmo the Cougar, who recently went viral for his outrageous dancing skill, decided to have a MASCOT DANCE BATTLE against Mississippi State’s furry person:
6. Pitt threw a pass to its left tackle and almost scored a TD on it:
That left tackle, Brian O’Neill, won the Piesman Trophy last year for doing almost the exact same thing, except for a touchdown. Linemen catching passes is good.
7. Michigan got flagged for three fouls on one play: offside, defensive holding, and roughing the passer. Indiana accepted the last of those and got 15 yards:
8. An Illinois punt returner made the saddest attempt of all time to scoop up a rolling kick and run with it, leading to a Rutgers fumble recovery:
9. Lamar Jackson had 512 total yards and five touchdowns! But Louisville gave up 45 points to Boston freaking College and lost. BC hadn’t put up that many points against a Power 5 opponent since 2009.
10. Lol, Will Muschamp is now 6-0 against Tennessee.
11. After the latest of those wins, South Carolina QB Jake Bentley had a heartwarming exchange with a devastated Tennessee QB, Jarrett Guarantano:
12. It was a good weekend for #classy, as Dabo Swinney was a great sport after losing to Syracuse:
The whole postgame scene was great:
13. NC State defensive lineman Bradley Chubb messed up his finger real bad ...
... and had a dominant game anyway in a win at Pitt.
14. Ole Miss’ D.K. Metcalf caught a ball by pinning it to the back of a dude’s helmet:
15. Former LSU coach Les Miles returned to Baton Rouge. While he was there, he literally ate grass on live television:
16. Meanwhile, we got former Auburn players tweeting step-by-step plans to replacing Gus Malzahn.
17. Miami tried to surprise Georgia Tech with an onside kick. Miami forgot to a) kick it far enough and b) stop a Yellow Jacket from picking it up and running the other way for a freebie touchdown:
18. It eventually started to rain like hell at that game. A sliding Georgia Tech QB, TaQuon Marshall, almost ripped up Mark Richt’s lower body. But the Miami coach proved that he’s still got some hops at 57, deftly eluding the rush:
19. Maryland fans got ahold of a game football and threw it all around the stadium. Like, alllll around it, in a stadium-wide game of hot potato:
20. Marshall’s punter hit a 92-yard punt, FBS’ longest in at least 45 years:
21. Florida’s center made a catch! I think he’s now UF’s leading receiver:
22. Arkansas’ punter mangled a punt attempt in three different ways: by not catching the snap, by not punting it after he picked it up, and by making a silly throw:
(Alabama crushed Arkansas, but you already knew that.)
23. Arizona State shocked Washington, and the play that sealed the game was a throw-and-catch that, even after watching it a bunch, seems impossible:
I still don’t have a clue how that ball got from point A (the QB’s hand) to point B (the receiver’s) in the midst of all those white jerseys.
24. Akron-WMU was delayed to Sunday due to a slight case of underwater field. Akron won:
25. UCF has a thing where a cheerleader has to do a pushup for every point the Knights score. That becomes difficult when UCF drops a 63 spot on ECU:
26. North Texas had 1:07 left when it got the ball down four against North Texas. The Mean Green were out of timeouts and on their own 2-yard line. They won:
27. That FSU won by stopping a Hail Mary isn’t all that weird, but here’s what is: The Noles needed Hail Mary stops against Duke and Wake Forest to reach 2-3. Imagine hearing that in 2013 or any point in the 1990s.
28. A USC player fumbled off his own face. (The fumble via backward pass was credited, so to speak, to QB Sam Darnold.)
29. And finally, Lee Corso turning into a giant bulldog terrified JMU’s actual bulldog:
College football is the dumbest and best sport.
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