1. As Mississippi State's magical season chugs along, running back Josh Robinson has become the newest darling of college football. He has a wide smile and a playful spirit, as evidenced by a perfectly executed videobomb of coach Dan Mullen's postgame interview on Saturday. Robinson is listed generously at 5-foot-9 and carries his 215 pounds like a round mound of ground and pound. But he's got an even better nickname: "The Human Bowling Ball," and it makes sense when you watch this highlight of Robinson breaking no less than six tackles on one play. He ran for a career-high 198 yards, including 142 yards after contact. It was Robinson’s second conference game with 100 or more yards after contact (the other featured 116 yards after contact at LSU). Entering Week 9, the rest of the SEC had two such games combined. Robinson really wanted those last two yards to reach the 200-yard mark for the day. As MSU was executing the kneel-down play, Robinson gestured toward Mullen with two fingers to plead his case. Mullen seemed annoyed after the game, saying, "Well, you should have gotten the two yards earlier in the game. You had 59 minutes to get that done." The lesson here? Don't videobomb Dan Mullen.
2. Playing quarterback takes guts and conviction. It's what Good Bo/Bad Bo is all about. Ole Miss QB Bo Wallace had his reputation on the line in the waning seconds of Saturday's Ole Miss-LSU game, and he went for it. It's too bad for the Rebels that Wallace didn't do anything close to what he was told to do. Coach Hugh Freeze said he told Wallace to throw to the flats or out of bounds. Wallace went for it in the end zone, and LSU intercepted the ball to seal its upset. So it's all on Bad Bo, right? Not so fast. Wallace struggled throughout the decisive fourth quarter, completing 6 of 13 passes before the final play. Shouldn't Freeze have known better than to take that risk with Bad Bo at the controls? "I thought we were pretty clear," Freeze said afterward. Wallace's ill-advised pass was his first interception in SEC play. Entering the week, he led the SEC in fourth-quarter Total QBR (90.7) and had zero fourth-quarter turnovers. Saturday was just a very clear, very painful case of Good Bo/Bad Bo.
3. It needs to be said: Amari Cooper is the best wide receiver on Earth who's not in the NFL. Scouts and wonks are lining up to agree. ("He's like a smaller version of A.J. Green!") Cooper had his second SEC game of the season with 200-plus yards receiving and now has 13 career games of at least 100 receiving yards, which is tied with D.J. Hall for most in school history. In other words, it's safe to say Cooper will hold every meaningful Alabama record for a wide receiver when he's through. What is certain is Nick Saban intends to continue feeding the beast. And at the very least it should ensure Cooper gets a shot at some major hardware in December. "He should be up there for the Heisman trophy," said Tennessee coach Butch Jones without the slightest bit of hyperbole. His Vols had the skid marks to prove it.
Around the SEC
Georgia and suspended running back Todd Gurley are waiting for a response from the NCAA. "We just don’t know really know what to expect," said coach Mark Richt, who also said freshman RB Sony Michel could play against the Gators on Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla.
With more than 1,000 yards of offense and a complete disregard for defense, Saturday's Auburn-South Carolina tilt was more like a video game. "It was almost a fun game," Steve Spurrier said.
In two seasons under Bret Bielema, Arkansas is 0-12 against the SEC. But in that time the Hogs are now 7-1 in nonconference games after kicking some UAB tail on Saturday.
Vanderbilt tried its fourth starting QB of the season and might have found a keeper in Johnny McCrary.
Tweet of the day
#MississippiState RB Josh Robinson...on his prodigious butt: "I think that's why the women come to the game, to be honest."
— Brian Hamilton (@BrianHamiltonSI) October 26, 2014