THIS WEEK IN SCHADENFREUDE, let’s not let 4 top-10 upsets distract us from the fact that Louisville gave up 45 points in a loss to Boston College

College football’s Week 7 was wild. Four top-10 teams lost to unranked opponents, making it the first true UPSET WEEKEND of the year. The games on Friday and Saturday were a great illustration of why we all love this sport.

Another illustration: the internet meltdowns from the fan bases whose teams lost. We’re here to give them their due.

And did so after having a 20-0 lead and 96 percent win probability. How are Auburn fans feeling about Gus Malzahn? To the Auburn board at SECRants.com!

Gus supporters he made us the #3 team in the state....

#1 Alabama
#2 Troy (they beat LSU)
#3 Auburn

The first reply:

4th. You’re forgetting South Alabama

Some see this loss as a potentially unifying event.

Has Gus Malzahn finally unified the fanbase?

Too long now we’ve been divided among those of us who looked at the glass half full and those of us who have looked at it as a broken glass stepped on by years of a combination of arrogance and incompetence.

Are Auburn fans all finally 100 percent committed to change for the betterment of the program?

The first reply:

Regardless if that glass is half full or empty, i think we’ve all figured out that it’s filled with piss

One poster simply notes: “Friendly reminder Gus was out-coached by Ed Orgeron.”

Here are a few people who believe Malzahn is trying to get himself fired:

Another thread posits the same idea:

Gus wants his buyout money

-zero fricks given
-he’s bored with auburn
- angry about his mandatory break up with rhett

(Malzahn’s buyout is somewhere north of $6.6 million if Auburn fires him now.)

One fan is on board with Gus’ scheme:

Thank you Gus!

You have made my life easier. With the poor performance and second loss I now have no expectations. I plan to fish more and check the scores on Saturday from the water. The UGA game now makes no difference and actually I may have to pull for losing all the remaining games just so Gus goes away for sure.

And former Auburn and NFL fullback Heath Evans applied for the not-vacant head coaching job in a startlingly detailed note on Twitter:

Dabo Swinney is 95-29 at Clemson. He’s one of four active FBS head coaches to have ever won a title. He’s also an ex-Alabama player, and he spent his Saturday attending a 1992 championship reunion in Tuscaloosa. But Swinney just signed an eight-year deal worth $54 million at Clemson.

Let’s see how a poster at the TigerNet.com forum feels about all this.

Dabo needs to choose Bama or us ...

Unacceptable having a coach who is making travel plans to another school while it’s game week with a shorter week of rest and the starting QB is hurt. Sick of hearing this Bama stuff. The AD needs to force the issue with Dabo that he needs to come out and say he is 110 percent committed to Clemson and the Bama talk is non sense. Clemson fans are pouring in too much money to have a head coach worried about traveling to another school during the season. Dabo needs to be reminded he was rejected by Bama numerous times, and given the opportunity of a lifetime by Clemson

Swinney was classy to Syracuse after the loss there Friday night, even going to the Orange locker room to congratulate and take pictures with players. Is classiness actually bad?

Is Dabo still hungry

An honest question. The drive comes from the coaches, and it did not appear to be there. Last year’s team was hungry, every week they got better.

I believe in the players and coaches, but do they have the same hunger as last year? Or are they a little too OK with this loss?

I am sure I will be slammed. But going into the other team locker room right after a loss. Never heard of that before. Act of class or a lack of hunger?

The next game will tell a lot.

Someone else is worried that Clemson’s path to an ACC Atlantic title is now obstructed by Syracuse, which, well: who knows if the Orange will ever lose at football again?

Has anyone been talking about the fact we need Cuse to lose?

Maybe Germans but if Cuse somehow beats Miami they have a shot at the division, we don’t control our own destiny even if we do win out

One of the key parts of any post-loss message board cycle on the college football internet is when posters start to claim they’re abandoning the message board out of frustration with their fellow fans. This happens all over the country, but Clemson fans were really insistent about it.

Don’t know what I was thinking

I have followed Tigernet for some time on Twitter and have been a member here for a while but not an active contributor. That being said, I am now considering dumping both sites. I thought this would be a place for real fans of our beloved Tigers. I am appalled at some of the things that I have read here today. This should be a place for updates about what is going on and a place to support our teams.

Most of what has been on here has been name calling and very derogatory comments about our staff. The very same staff that were the greatest in the world when we won the Natty.

All of this after one loss this season. The same number of losses we had last year. I call these people fair weather supporters, not true fans.

So, bash my thoughts if you like, but just remember, who are you really hurting with your words. Here’s a hint, it is not the coaches, it is the players you say you support.

Someone has a good analogy for it:

Comin­g on Tigernet after we lost a game is kinda like

thinking back about a previous marriage. It seemed like a good idea when you did it.

But then the whining and bishing and moaning and complaining starts and you have to wonder what in the world was I thinking.

So, you give it up for a while.

Then after a couple of years you forget how bad it was the last time and you make the same mistake all over again.

We never learn.

At HardcoreHusky.com, a rant by user “CokeGreaterThanPepsi”:

COKEHEAD IS MAD AS HELL AND HE’S NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE

How can a bunch of losers like us sitting in our moms’ basement see that Jake Browning should never ever be the focal point of the offense and should never have our hopes and dreams thrust on his shoulders to lead a mild comeback, but our fucking coaches can’t see that shit?

That shit last night was utterly embarrassing by Jake and Pete. I am done blaming Jonathan Smith because Pete needs to stop being a pussy and tell that fucker Smith that this bullshit with pretending Jake is even one of our top 10 players on our team is a fucking joke.

Play to the strengths of your fucking team. PLAY TO THE STRENGTHS OF THE TEAM. FUCK!

Also, fuck Pete for hiring Pease and Strausser.

Washington’s offense has generally been amazing under coordinator Jonathan Smith.

But someone’s got a new, realistic coordinator suggestion for Chris Petersen:

Hire Chip Kelly

Fucking do it Pete.

(Hiring Chip Kelly is also part of the post-loss message board routine at any big school.)

Let’s see how this guy’s feeling about Jake Browning, one of the better QBs in school history and the guy who led a Playoff offense a season ago:

Jake Browning’s Legacy

Being held to 7 points against one of the worst teams in the P12, coached by an illiterate buffoon, and coming off 11 straight games of yielding 30 points.

Johnathan Smith too.

That is their legacy. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Nothing more, nothing less. Tough but fair.

Both sides of the Apple Cup earned a moment in this spotlight.

At WazzuWatch.com, a visual representation of the WSU offense:

Keeping with the zombie theme (a frequent Mike Leach topic), another poster doesn’t think QB Luke Falk should get the opportunity to represent Wazzu in big games later in the season.

Why I don’t want to win out

The spectre of Falkenstein showing up for a high profile, big time game is just too much to bear.

At this point I’d rather be an 8 or 9 win team with him at the helm so we get a middling team that we could have the possibility to beat despite poor play from him (though last night showed that if he’s determined to lose, he’ll make it happen.)

I don’t trust him and I don’t feel he deserves the opportunity to embarrass the school and the team like he did last night.

Falk has thrown for more than 13,000 yards in four seasons in Pullman, ICYMI.

As an added bonus on Wazzu’s weekend, the Cougs had their athletic director, Bill Moos, hired away by Nebraska. Let’s check in with the commenters at SB Nation’s CougCenter:

Oregon lost this weekend, too. Good times in the Pacific Northwest!

The Vols are not ranked. They’re actually 3-4, counting their loss against Alabama next weekend. But the message boards at VolNation.com have become appointment viewing this season.

I’ll keep this short, though. Here is a thread in which Tennessee football fans seriously consider the idea of trying to hire away the head coach from ...

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Purdue!

Emphasis added:

I’m warming up to the idea of bringing in Jeff Brohm

Obviously, it’d be a challenge to convince him to leave Purdue after only one season but he’s looking better and better as a head coach.

Saturday, he beat PJ Fleck decisively. In the season opener, he almost beat Petrino. He beat an SEC team 38-3. And he had Harbaugh on the ropes in the 4th quarter. This man knows how to coach ...

And what’s just as impressive, is his ability to get the most out of his quarterbacks. He’s currently rolling with two QBs who have combined for 13 TDs to 6 INTs and a completion percentage of 62% (the leading passer is at 69 percent). What he was able to do with QBs Brandon Doughty and Mike White at WKU is simply remarkable... not to mention the 1,600-yard rusher and TWO 1,300-yard receivers he coached last year ... The man has one of the best offensive minds in football.

I’m not even making fun of anything here. It’s all true.

Which, to be clear, involved giving up 45 points to Boston College.

Let’s look on the bright side.