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Paul Myerberg's "Pre-Snap Read" Countdown, formerly "The Quad Countdown"
Paul Myerberg does the best college football countdown: Pre-Snap Read Countdown, formerly the NY Times The Quad Countdown.
Please ignore the Orlando Sentinel's countdown.
Countdown Introduction: We Have Lift Off
Here’s the hint for team No. 120:
Over its final eight games of 2010, this team held only two leads: one for roughly five minutes in mid-October, another for the first 38 minutes of a game in mid-November.
No. 120: MemphisOriginally Posted by Dawg06
Who is No. 119?
One down, 119 to go. The next university’s soccer, track and field, baseball and softball teams play in a complex named after the captain of the football program’s first winning team of the 20th century.
Last edited by Dawg06; 05-07-2011 at 03:54 AM.
No. 119: Akron
Who is No. 118?
The conductor of the symphony in the city housing tomorrow’s university holds a Doctorate in Performance from the University of Illinois, a Master of Music from Michigan State University, and a Bachelor’s from Murray State University.
Last edited by Dawg06; 05-07-2011 at 03:52 AM.
No. 118: New Mexico State
Who is No. 117?
If you combined the leading rushing totals from the 2009 and 2010 versions of tomorrow’s team, you’d be roughly halfway towards the total by the program’s rushing leader in 2008.
Last edited by Dawg06; 05-07-2011 at 03:51 AM.
Could be ULL and that Fenroy cat with the neck roll.
I think you got it!! No. 117 has to be the trailers!!!
2008: 1375 yds
2009: 432 yds
2010: 339 yds
Or Ray Rice and Rutgers. I think he has been gone 2 years.
No. 117: Southwestern Louisiana
Fine. It’s Louisiana — the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns. No Louisiana-Lafayette, and definitely no Lafayette, as the university lets you know in big, bold font: We are not Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.! It just feels weird, is all. There are five F.B.S. programs in the State of Louisiana, including one, L.S.U., which is more than deserving of being called Louisiana, don’t you think? What’s next, you’ll want folks to call your stadium the Swamp? Well, about that: Louisiana’s home stadium does go by that title, and the moniker was bestowed in 1988, three years before Steve Spurrier gave Ben Hill Griffin Stadium the same name.
Even though he makes fun of the Trailers, I'm disappointed Myerberg gave in to their demands.
Who is No. 116?
Tomorrow’s real university recently hired a program legend as an assistant men’s basketball coach; his number was hung up in the rafters in 1995.
Last edited by Dawg06; 05-27-2011 at 03:17 AM.
Western Kentucky
No. 116: U.N.L.V.
Who is No. 115?
Maybe tomorrow’s program might want to avoid coaches from a specific B.C.S. conference. The last two hires from said conference have combined to go 5-18 in their debut seasons.
No. 115: Central Michigan
Who is No. 114?
The radio station at tomorrow’s university shares its call signal with the acronym for a political and labor organization that pushed for woman’s suffrage in the early 20th century.
No. 114: Tulane
Who is No. 113?
The preamble to the charter governing our next university’s home city contains 29 more words than can be found in the Preamble to the United States Constitution; contains only one period but seven commas; contains the state’s name twice; and extends to the city in question the privilege of “home-rule,” meaning the city can pass laws that it deems fit for those that sit inside its environs. Also, the program in question has had two coaches move onto the B.C.S. conference level, with one winning a national championship at his next stop.
No. 113: Kent State
Who is No. 112?
The School of Management at tomorrow’s university was named for the C.E.O. of an oil company that was once part of Standard Oil but went its own way once the company was dissolved by the Supreme Court in 1911.
University of New MexicoNo. 113: Kent State
Who is No. 112?
The School of Management at tomorrow’s university was named for the C.E.O. of an oil company that was once part of Standard Oil but went its own way once the company was dissolved by the Supreme Court in 1911.
You got it!
No. 112: New Mexico
Who is No. 111?
Thirty-three percent of the professional alumni from tomorrow’s team have won a Super Bowl.
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