Inigo Montoya: He’s climbing the rope…and he’s gaining on us.
Vizzini: Inconceivable. (Pause) Faster!
Fezzik: I thought I was going faster.
Vizzini: You’re were supposed to be this colossus. You were this great legendary thing, and yet he gains.
Fezzik: Well, I’m carrying three people and he’s got only himself.
Vizzini: I do not accept excuses. I’m just going to have to find myself a new giant, that’s all.
Fezzik: Don’t say that Vizzini, please.
Vizzini: Did I make it clear that your job is at stake?
(Fezzik, Vizzini, Inigo and Buttercup make it to the top of the cliff. Vizzini cuts the rope.)
Fezzik: He’s got very good arms.
Vizzini: He didn’t fall? Inconceivable!
Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I know exactly what that word means.
That whole scene flashed in front of my eyes during my 15 minutes of fame on the Mtn.’s show, “Around the Campus.”
I was listening to Marius Payton discuss whether BYU deserved to be higher than its current No. 7 ranking in the Coaches Polls with a guy from Colorado State and Wyoming. When I heard Wyoming’s representative say something to the effect of, “Without a doubt,” Vizzini’s famous catch phrase replayed through my mind.
Inconceivable.
BYU is exactly where it should be and the Cougars are a damn lucky team to have what they’ve got.
Shutting out any team for two straight weeks is an impressive feat. It’s something that forced a die-hard Cougar hater like myself to bite my lip and put the Cougars at No. 7 in my weekly ballot to UWire’s College Football Top 10. Hell, I had them at No. 10 the week before when nobody could have guessed the Top-10 tidal wave that happened last Saturday. I don’t like BYU, but I respect what’s going on in Provo. It’s kind of a no-brainer.
But as firmly as I think the Cougars are entrenched in the middle of the college football world’s Top 10, I think they reached their ceiling for this week. Honestly, tell me where the injustice is. Let’s count how many teams ahead of BYU have proved themselves against a ranked opponent thus far. I’ll break it down Barney-style for all those in Provo who are hopped up on sherbert and Sprite concoctions. (That’s an infamous Mormon party refreshment for all of you out of touch with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community.)
Oklahoma beat a then-No. 24 ranked TCU team. The Sooners also dispatched of the same Washington team that “justly” lost to BYU by one point on Sept. 13, by a more convincing beatdown of 55-14.
No. 2 LSU beat perennial SEC powerhouse Auburn, who has climbed back into the Top 10 after two weeks and did this in the wake of another hurricane. No. 3 Missouri beat Illinois while it was in the Top 25 and has obliterated everyone else. No. 4 Alabama has beaten two top 10 teams, No. 9 Clemson (week one) and No. 3 Georgia, just last week. I know this is getting boring, but sometimes you have to beat these stalwart BYU fans over the head with facts.
No. 5 Texas is actually the only team ranked higher than BYU that has yet to face a ranked team. But the Long Horns have absolutely obliterated every opponent except UTEP, 52-10. That includes Arkansas out of the SEC. Oh, and the score to the UTEP game was 42-13.
And just to make sure we’re all exactly clear where I’m coming from, No. 6 Penn State also beat a then-ranked Illinois and blew out Oregon State, who just beat No. 1 USC, 45-14.
I’ll concede that Texas Tech should not even be ranked in the Top 10 at this point, with the sticky cake walk the Red Raiders call a schedule, let alone one spot ahead of BYU at No. 6 in the AP Poll, but seriously, who else do you expect to leapfrog? Blowout wins to three teams that are either horrible or hurt, plus another win that took a blocked extra point are supposed to sway anyone to place the Cougars above the aforementioned contenders?
Inconceivable.