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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

2007 Fulmer Cup Winner Announced!

UD is very grateful to Dave, a reader, for alerting her to this breaking news.

The year's most criminal university football team is...

ILLINOIS!!




Award-winning play described here. Individual achievement award, featuring an AK-47, here.


Some Fulmer reader comments:

Man, I thought UConn did better. I mean one player got arrested twice in four days….that has to count for something. Doesnt it?

And shouldnt ND have more than one point for some dude get one of them hot South Bend hookers?

Aw, you’re closing the scoring just as Iowa was starting to pick up momentum!

Technically ND should be back at 0 since both incidents resulted in pretrial diversion and the charges magically disappear unless there’s a repeat offense

That brings up my issue with Fulmer scoring, generally. Schools shouldn’t avoid recognition because they have an unusually captive local judiciary that tends to make charges go away before two-a-days start. That arguably biases the Cup standings toward (a) schools in larger cities and/or states that don’t elect local judges and (b) schools whose teams are so bad that the judge won’t be influenced by the possible devaluation of his season tickets.