Fantastic Flea Flickers, Helmets are for Suckers, Burning Couches, and the Best of the Rest of Week Five in College Football

You have got to love college football! Where else can you get the drama of an exciting win, awesome plays that should never work in a real game, and public service announcements discouraging people from burning their furniture?

Nice, hard fought, strategically played games are great. No one except the home team really likes a blow out; they are just plain dull. Thankfully, when it comes to college football fans are treated to all sorts of craziness, and with so many games there is bound to be something wacky happening somewhere!

Burning Down the Couch!

Take the West Virginia Mountaineers and Baylor Bears for example. WVU was so concerned about people burning couches (they are the couch-burning capital of the world after all) that the school made a public service announcement to encourage fans to enjoy their couches for what they are meant for (just because they are flammable that does mean they are meant for burning).

To discourage couch-burning authorities have now made it a felony. Recliner burning though…

While both teams got their defenses severely burned during the game it was nothing compared to the drama surrounding the Ohio State/Michigan State game. The Spartans are likely feeling a little burned for not getting a complete game tape from Urban Meyer's Buckeyes.

So incensed where the Spartans after their 16-17 loss to the Buckeyes that they actually lodged a complaint against OSU. Come on Spartans! Do you really think it would've mattered? Or does that just burn you up that you lost and you have to lash out?

Helmets are for Suckers!

What would a college weekend be without a little craziness and controversy on the field, right?

Now I'm sure that when the college ranks decided that when a player loses his helmet the play needs to end for safety reasons. Can you imagine what a helmet to head collision would feel (not to mention look) should a guy get nailed after losing his helmet?

Duke running back Jela Duncan wouldn't have minded taking the risk probably especially since he would have scored if Wake Forest linebacker Justin Jackson didn't go all Demon Deacon on his helmet and rip it off.

Miami's Phillip Dorsett doesn't have as good of an argument as Duncan, but still isn't happy that he has to sit for a play after NC State linebacker Rickey Dowdy ripped his helmet off.

Fantastic Flea Flicking Finishes!

The action this weekend was especially full of some fantastic finishes, both of the flea-flicking variety and some that were just plain fantastic.

Not all the big plays of the day were game-enders, but you got to appreciate the fact that teams had the cajones to run some of this wacky stuff. Hey—would we by watching some of these guys otherwise? I think not!

Tennessee tried to pull out a little trickeration (yes, it's a word!) on Georgia in their bid for an upset win over the Bulldogs. In the end the Volunteers were left wanting, but at least they showed the rest of the nation how bad the Bulldog tackling is.

Come on! Have you seen a slower dude run through so many defenders before?

It's good for a coach to be a little unpredictable at times. That's exactly what Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz was—to the fans and the Golden Gophers—with this fancy flea flicker.

How do you top a flea flicker? With a good ole fashion play that should only work in high school hook-and-lateral of course! As if it wasn't bad enough that UConn basketball program is going south; their football team wins and people are talking about a play run by the other team instead.

In the end it is all about how you, well—end the game. Texas may have come out on top, but it appears that one of the replacement refs may have snuck onto the field Saturday in their game against Oklahoma State. How else do you explain this fumble being missed on the game winning touchdown?

Okay, it's kind of hard to see, but when are commentators ever wrong?

Cincinnati didn't need any help from the officials to beat Virginia Tech; just a little divine intervention courtesy of a little Hail Mary.

The play of the day has to go to the cardiac kids of college football, the Miami Hurricanes. After no one watched their game against Bethune-Cook the Hurricanes have begun to specialize in last second dramatic wins.