It didn’t take long for Bobby Petrino to up and quit on his Atlanta Falcons team after Monday night’s loss to the Saints. Less than 24 hours after the game had ended, Petrino had resigned from the Falcons head coach position and had accepted the job to coach at Arkansas next season. It didn’t take long for my opinions about Petrino to stoop to Nick Saban-esque levels.

Being a head coach in college football is a year round job, what with all the scouting and recruiting that takes place outside of the season. I get that. I also get that the situation in Atlanta wasn’t working out. For Petrino to up and leave his team with three weeks remaining in the season, however, is a bit suspect to me. I don’t really care what kind of recruiting needs to be done down in Fayetteville. There’s a certain level of responsibility that a professional head coach has to his team, whether it be through teaching or through support. Petrino pulled the plug on both of those.

For Petrino, all is well and good now. He’s returned back to the level where he can be competitive at and has a nice program to boot. The Falcons, however, are hanging high and dry. Who really wants to coach this team right now what with the off-field issues and the attitudes of veterans DeAngelo Hall and Alge Crumpler. Nobody.

I’ll leave you with a quote from DeAngelo Hall about Bobby Petrino. “If I saw him in the street I wouldn’t have anything to say to him. I don’t have any respect for him. He turned his back on the organization.” Well put, DeAngelo.

It’s been a wild, wild season in college football. And all immature jokes aside (of which there are plenty), Houston Nutt, Casey Dick, and the two running back deities at Arkansas played yet another wild game and beat the LSU Tigers in Death Valley in three overtimes. It was the second time this season that LSU had fallen in triple overtime, the previous one coming against Kentucky. And an even more mind blowing fact? This was the twelfth time this season that an unranked team beat a top five ranked team. Twelve freaking times.

How great is Darren McFadden? Every time there was crucial play in the game, Houston Nutt would pull Casey Dick and just have McFadden line up as the QB. Why not? The idea of football is to get the ball into the hands of your playmakers and Nutt took that to the most literal extent. McFadden’s 200+ yards rushing against arguably the best run defense in college fooball has surely vaulted him back into Heisman contention. And how about Felix Jones? Playing in McFadden’s shadow, Felix Jones has dominated all season and had over 100 yards as well yesterday.

Well, this sure throws a wrench into the proverbial BCS spokes. If you ask me, LSU is still the best team in college football with Florida coming in at second and West Virginia being third. Yet, barring a loss to Missouri today, the Kansas Freaking Jayhawks are the top dog in the land. No, we aren’t talking college football. No, we aren’t talking college co-eds. We’re talking about the Kansas Jayhawks being number one in college football. Hard to grasp, I know. I have two words for that piece of crap computer that prints out the BCS rankings. Playoff system.