Off Week Over: SMU a 10 point Underdog to Cincy

[Stallion]

actually it is possible for SMU to go a bowl with 5 victories over teams whose only Division 1A victories were over Army and Arkansas St. (the 5th being UCONN) plus a 6th victory over USF which has not scored an offensive TD in any of its victories over Division 1A teams

[SMU_Alumni11]

I think the game will be close assuming our 1.5 quarter team shows up as usual. I think its going to be FG win but as a fan I'll say 38-35 smu

[ponyinNC]

I'm usually very conservative in my SMU football predictions - but something about the way GG is playing right now reminds me of a "locked-in"QB that is seeing the entire field. Much like Geno Smith at WVU in the beginning of his senior season. If he can keep it up, I think we win at Cincy.

But of course, if we do that, we probably lose a game later on that we were supposed to win (like Uconn or USF).

[Junior]

If we win, will we celebrate by taking the team to Skyline Chili?

Please no. No Texan would go to Skyline. Now Graeter's ice cream is a better option. I would offer to buy that for the whole team but that would probably cause another 3 years probation.

Agree. Skyline is horrible food.

[Mustangsabu]

I'm usually very conservative in my SMU football predictions - but something about the way GG is playing right now reminds me of a "locked-in"QB that is seeing the entire field. Much like Geno Smith at WVU in the beginning of his senior season. If he can keep it up, I think we win at Cincy.

But of course, if we do that, we probably lose a game later on that we were supposed to win (like Uconn or USF).

I watched USF play last week, and they either made Houston look poor or were better than I expected. That is not going to be an easy one to win. I just want us to beat Cincy and take a three game streak into ford for UConn. A good run could really help this team forget about the early season maulings.

[gostangs]

a Cincinnati win combined with some gilbert buzz could do wonders for our late season interest level.

[ponyte]

Last I saw, the line had changed to Cincy -9.5 to -8 points. Might be getting a little credit from bettors.

[Harry0569]

Skyline is on a plate.

http://deadspin.com/the-great-american- ... 1349137024

51. Being hit by a car

52. Cincinnati chili (Ohio)
For the mercifully unacquainted, "Cincinnati chili," the worst regional foodstuff in America or anywhere else, is a horrifying diarrhea sludge (most commonly encountered in the guise of the "Skyline" brand) that Ohioans slop across plain spaghetti noodles and hot dogs as a way to make the rest of us feel grateful that our own shit-eating is (mostly) figurative. The only thing "chili" about it is the shiver that goes down your spine when you watch Ohio sports fans shoveling it into their maws on television and are forced to reckon with the cold reality that, for as desperately as you might cling to faltering notions of community and universality, ultimately your fellow human beings are as foreign and unknowable to you as the surface of Pluto, and you are alone and always have been and will die alone, a world unto yourself unmarked and unmapped and totally, hopelessly isolated.

But wait! This abominable garbage-gravy isn't just sensorily and spiritually disgusting—it's culturally grotesque, too! What began as an ethnic curio born of immigrant make-do—a Greek-owned chili parlor that took its "Skyline" name from its view of the city of Cincinnati—is now a hulking private-equity-owned corporate monolith that gins up interest in its unmistakably abhorrent product by engineering phony groups of "chili fanatics" to camp out in advance of the opening of new chains, in locations whose residents would otherwise see this shit-broth for what it is and take up torches and truncheons to drive it back into the wilderness.

Whatever virtue this bad-tasting Z-grade atrocity once contained derived from its exemplification of a set of certain cherished American fables—immigrant ingenuity, the cultural melting pot, old things combining into new things—and has now been totally swamped and consumed by different and infinitely uglier American realities: the commodification of culture; the transmutation of authentic artifacts of human life into hollow corporate brand divisions; the willingness of Americans to slop any horrible goddamn thing into their [deleted] mouths if it claims to contain some byproduct of a cow and comes buried beneath a pyramid of shredded, waxy, safety-cone-orange "cheese."

Cincinnati chili is the worst, saddest, most depressing goddamn thing in the world. If it came out of the end of your digestive system, you would turn the color of chalk and call an ambulance, but at least it'd make some sense. The people of Ohio see nothing wrong with inserting it into their mouths, which perhaps tells you everything you need to know about the Buckeye State. Don't eat it. Don't let your loved ones eat it. Turn away from the darkness, and toward the deep-dish pizza.

[redpony]

VIVA TERLINGUA. Chili-heads unite.

[Terry Webster]

I will be the first to admit that I don't like Cinci Chile but the guy writing that article is an idiot.

[ponyinNC]

I used to work for an Ohio Senator, and his wife would bring in Cincy Chili to our DC staffers.

It is awful. Cinnamon belongs on deserts, not on Chili!

[redpony]

I grew up in southwest Ohio and had never heard of cincy chili. Our chili was very similar to Texas chili except it included kidney beans (which of course is a definite no-no in Texas chili). Not the slop described in this article.