Somewhere Tom O’Brien is banging pots and pans in the street and belting Hakuna Matata notes louder than the Ri-co-la guy.

Somewhere Russell Wilson is twiddling his thumbs, pacing around his room wondering why the media guides in Wisconsin couldn’t just give him 6 foot even, or how he just got drafted into a major league baseball division with Adam Kennedy, Tim Lincecum, and Clayton Kershaw.

Either way, it has not been a good week to be a Badger, as Michigan State stunned the #6 ranked team in the country in East Lansing with a last second Hail Mary that ended Wisconsin’s title hopes. To make it even more painful, the original call on the field had ruled that Spartan wide-out Keith Nichol had been ruled down at the half-yard line after catching a tipped ball thrown by Kirt Cousins from the Michigan State 44-yard-line. Replays showed the ball crossing the plane of the end zone, but were awfully close, and were bordering on in-conclusive. Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema’s face looked like he had just gotten home from a vacation and realized he had forgotten to feed his goldfish. I hadn’t seen a season end that fast since the last time the NCAA mailed a letter to a campus in Southern California.

Wisconsin was not the only one who was sent home packing faster than Puck from the “Real World”, as so were the Oklahoma Sooners, who fell to unranked Texas Tech at home. The Red Raiders must not have had any of their players locked in janitor closets that night, because they used nearly 600 yards of total offense to end Oklahoma’s 39-game home win-streak in Norman. OU quarterback Landry Jones threw for five touchdown passes, but also missed on 25 passes, the most of his entire career. “Big-Game” Bob Stoops comes up the smallest, on the biggest stage, yet again. Hopefully this lose keeps Stoops from losing his sixth BCS game in the last seven tries.

Stanford was the biggest winner of the week, moving from #8 in #6 in the BCS. The Cardinal flexed their muscles once again, blowing out another bad team for their 15th consecutive victory. I’m not quite sure what the #25 represented next to Washington’s name. Was this team ranked as the 25th best team in America, or the 25th worst? The Huskies beat Eastern Washington of the formerly named Division I-AA; by three in a game they were outgained 502 to 250. Washington has given up 33.7 points a game, 104th worst in the nation. Stanford’s other four conference wins over Washington (3-4), Colorado (1-7), UCLA (3-4), and Arizona (2-5), are so incredibly unimpressive, that not even Jon Gruden could attempt to sugar-coat something that bad. A 44-14 win over Duke at Cameron Outdoor Stadium looks to be their best non-conference win. Seriously, who plays a game at Duke? Besides people wearing Vans, and kicking a hacky sack.

Boise State has to feel good, getting the best seat in the house to see how the BCS race unfolds. Sitting pretty at #4, with little chance to move up, the Broncos are reclined in the back of the theater with their snow-caps, and sour worms, waiting for the climax of this movie. They might as well start designing some more trick-plays for this year’s version of the non-interesting BCS game we don’t see every year, against a team still pissed off about not being in the title game with nothing to play for.

Clemson fans still think their team is in the thicket of things, sitting at fifth in the polls at 8-0. I guess those fans forget all the Humanitarian Bowls the Tigers have played in over the years, failing to live up to expectations and always falling by the wayside. I guess most of the students at Clemson suffer from memory-loss anyway, so maybe that’s a good thing for them.

If there’s one thing we all know about ACC sports…

Clemson never wins.