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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Assorted bests and worsts from college football\u2019s weekend that was:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Houston quarterback David Piland, seen in this 2010 photo motivating Southern Miss' Octavius Thomas to grow Golden Eagle wings, is an operational death star. (AP)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Pointiest pointsplosion.&lt;/strong&gt;\u00A0Louisiana Tech beat Houston 56-49 on Saturday and set a handful of NCAA offensive records in the process. We mentioned Saturday the game's 1,293 combined yards of offense; here's more of what putting teams like Houston and LaTech in the same place will do: Records snapped included most combined plays in a regulation game (209), most combined first downs (78), combined completed passes (87) and combined passes without an interception (129). Teamwork!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Best innovation in tailgating technology.&lt;/strong&gt; This R2-D2 keg hails from LSU, but you might have guessed that even if there were no caption and the photo were black and white:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;@billisking r2d2 LSU keg twitter.com/whiskeydranks/\u2026&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Zack(@whiskeydranks) September 8, 2012&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Best touchdown celebration.\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;Chuckie Keeton, QB, Utah State. The kid who Almost Beat Auburn is now the guy who Really Did Beat Utah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Grape job!&lt;/strong&gt; Looking ahead for just a moment in SUREFIRE TEMPTING OF AN ANGRY AND VINDICTIVE COLLEGE FOOTBALL GOD: Florida State is favored by 24.5 points against Wake Forest. Merciful heavens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Best performance by a mascot, off-field category.&lt;/strong&gt; We have a suggestion here for the powers that be at ESPN3/WatchESPN, and we are completely serious: You know how your screens just go dark for commercial breaks and go to statistical updates at halftime? Run this footage of Mississippi State's Bully on a water treadmill in their place, as a sort of cuddly and very wet Yule Log, and watch those viewer counts skyrocket.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Best course correction.&lt;/strong&gt; Western Kentucky's coach has some thoughts on all those turnovers the Hilltoppers gave up to Alabama:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anyone see any of our players with a ball in their hand, slap it out and bring it to me. You will get to travel with us to UK. Go Tops!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Willie Taggart (@CoachTaggart) September 9, 2012&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Best official tributes.&lt;/strong&gt;\u00A0Purdue honored alum Neil Armstrong with a man-on-the-moon helmet decal this week, and Notre Dame's band played the part of a gracious host, spelling out \"NEIL\" in its halftime show.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Best unofficial tribute.&lt;/strong&gt; Say what you will about this devoted Arkansas partisan (just don't say it too loud; as a Razorbacks fan, she's likely well schooled in the art of background checks and can find out where you live in a hurry), but give her this: The lady can sing. That alone puts her light-years ahead of just about any other amateur college football-themed music video we have ever featured in this space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Cherry-picking stat player of the week, offense:&lt;/strong&gt; CBS' Matt Hinton calculates that Denard Robinson accounted for 101% of Michigan's total offense against Air Force. That is not a typo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Cherry-picking stat player of the week, defense:\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;Mississippi State's Johnthan Banks, who intercepted 66 percent of passes thrown in his direction against Auburn.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Kent State play of the week,&lt;/strong&gt; which will continue to be named after Kent State until the Golden Flashes stop doing things like returning punts halfway down the field in the wrong direction and, now, safety-ing their own teammates. The Screaming Sheep is yours, until it is not:\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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