thebowl.challenge: THINGS GON' CHANGE

Since we're down to the last 12 games of the bowl season, all the people who didn't adjust their confidence points are about to start making big-ish moves into the top 15. Example: Evan is finally knocking on the door at #16, and my mom and dad, who created one pick set, have seen their sterling 17-3 record so far finally push them up to #14. If they keep up that pace, they'll run away with this thing (they still have a "max" of 510, for Christ's sake).

For the second straight year, Iowa was the victim of some game-swinging questionable officiating decisions. Last year there was the hilariously terrible "offsides" penalty on the onside kick against Florida, and this year the Hawks got victimized by an iffy "too many men on the line penalty" which took away a TD that would have put them up 21-3 and probably would have ended the game, judging by how flaky non-Vince-Young-led Mack Brown teams have been. And then there was the non-review of the play where Selvin Young ran out of bounds while Texas was trying to kill the clock. Kirk Ferentz and the rest of the Hawkeye fan base must be mighty emotional about referees right now. Still, helluva showing from Iowa -- that was essentially what everyone was expecting from them going into this year, so where the hell was that team against Indiana and everybody else? As Fiu pointed out this morning, the Big Ten should get more credit for this game than we're likely to: a 2-6 Big Ten team hung in for the full 60 against what was probably the Big 12's best team this year. What are the odds of that kind of credit coming? Jack and shit, and Jack left town.

Rank	Team	Owner	Record	PPR	TOTAL
1	Wells=Spaghetti	T. Lyon	15-5	133	305
2	THE WESTENDER RETURNS	The Caveman	14-6	169	275
3	The House That Funk Built	S. Lawrence	13-7	120	252
4	Break of Dawn	J. Morgan	15-5	254	147
5	Easy Bake Dutch Oven	Nipsey	14-6	192	248
6	Neary Entry	Mike	14-6	220	231
7	Schilly-Mac with Cheese	Schill	15-5	239	229
8	Joel Agrees w/ Mel Gibson	Rob Durham	14-6	245	227
9	I Have a Raging Clue	Jack Fu	12-8	228	225
10	Nyholm Entry	M. Nyholm	13-7	224	213
11	Doodle Von Taintstain	The Diddy	13-7	237	207
12	Tobias Funke, Analrapist	Reader Wise	14-6	234	194
13	Stupid Spoiled Whore	Kristin	10-10	174	193
14	Moyer Entry	Di	17-3	318	192
15	Milford Man	Fred	12-8	232	176