College Football: A Tough Week To Be A Tiger

If you went to the zoo this week and the tigers were lying on their back well that's the perfect metaphor for what happened to all the "Tigers" in college football.

You are well aware of the issues the Clemson Tigers and the Auburn Tigers are going through, no need to beat a dead horse (or tiger).

The Missouri Tigers had a chance to gain a #1 ranking in the college football polls. But the fighin' Gundy's of Oklahoma State marched into Columbia and denied Mizzou's moment on top of the college football world. The Pokes won a thriller 28-23.

"First of all I want to congratulate Oklahoma State they have a great football team." Mizzou head coach Gary Pinkel said. "I knew it from the video, so nothing surprised me. They are athletic and they run well. It was a game with a lot of mistakes on both sides. They certainly did the things necessary to win. I was proud of our football team, we battled, we got ourselves in the fourth quarter back in it and had an opportunity to possibly get a comeback win and we just fell short."

The LSU Tigers marched into Florida's Swamp and got swamped as Tim Tebow and the rest of the Gators put up half a hundred on the LSU defense with a 51-21 win.

"They executed extremely well. We spotted them 20 points in the first half. We never got out of that hole." LSU Head Coach Les Miles said. "I thought our effort was good, but we made too many mistakes in all three phases: offense, defense and special teams. Certainly when you play quality football teams you can’t afford to make those mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you give your opponent the short field. They’re very talented as it is, so they get the opportunity to score."

Even the Memphis Tigers couldn't come through for the ferocious felines losing to Louisville 35-28 Friday night.

The tiger torment didn't stop there. The Idaho State Bengals were pummelled by Northern Colorado 29-9.

More proof of a hex on the tigers, the Princeton Tigers lost to Colgate 27-24.

But you can't kill all the tigers, 2 tiger teams bucked the trend and both come from the SWAC.

The Jackson State Tigers defeated the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff 21-10 and the Grambling State Tigers whipped Alabama A&M 27-9.

This week is wasn't so good to be an Auburn, Clemson, LSU, Mizzou, Memphis or a Princeton Tiger and it was a bummer to be a Idaho State Bengals.

Photo Courtesy: National Geographic