1. West Virginia beats Baylor, then riots

When did “hey, we just won a football game, let’s destroy our own city” become the default celebration in Morgantown, W.Va.?

The Mountaineers score a few touchdowns, beat Baylor at home, and fans just get the urge to, I don’t know, light their couches on fire in their front yards.

And they say SEC fans are rednecks.

Investigators logged 39 fires Saturday, according to one media report, with citizens setting couches, dumpsters and trash ablaze. It’s a safe assumption that 50 or more fires burned in West Virginia that night. That makes 1,799 street fires and 633 dumpster fires in the last 15 years, according to the Morgantown Police Department.

Smashing a nice guitar after a show because you’re a rock star and you can afford more? Cool. Burning your only piece of furniture in a poverty-stricken neighborhood while posing with a “West (bleeping) Virginia” shirt, flipping off the camera? Tough call, but I’d say it tilts more toward sad.

One of the team’s fan/message board sites is wemustignitethiscouch.com.

Rioters also hurled rocks and beer bottles at law enforcement and firefighters. Someone apparently threw a boulder or chunk of concrete at a fire truck. Because why would you want the fire department to keep you from, you know, burning your own city to the ground?

“Who wants to be known as the school that burns couches?” Kelsey Pape said after a fellow West Virginia fan set her car on fire. “It’s embarrassing.”

God help us if Dana Holgorsen and West Virginia actually start winning with regularity.

2. Arkansas State tries another whacky fake punt.

Tuesday MACtion, everybody.

The good news for the Red Wolves? Their coach won’t leave after just one season for the first time in years. The bad news? Their coach tries some pretty dumb things.

Like this fake punt from the team’s own 7-yard line halfway through the third quarter. It didn’t work, and Louisiana-Lafayette took over facing first-and-goal. (If you remember, the team also tried the “fainting goat” without success earlier in the season.) Arkansas State also ran a reverse on a kickoff, tried a wide receiver pass and ran a fumblerooski, according to SB Nation.

3. LenDale White gets weird as USC kicks him out of its stadium.

The former Trojans running back wanted coach Steve Sarkisian and defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox fired after a two-point win at Arizona, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

He recanted on the field before Saturday’s game against Colorado, but returned to his opinion by the end of the game, apparently trying to get into the locker room without proper credentials. Security escorted out of the stadium. From the Times:

“Let it be known, man, I ain’t against nobody,” White told The Times on the field. “I’m a for-real Trojan, so what I say is out of pure emotion during the game. I’ve never met some of these coaches. I’ve never been a part of them. I am a Trojan 20,000%. I back them 120%. I just get emotional during football games. I’m sorry.”

But minutes later, outside the locker room, White said he changed his mind — and wanted to change his quote.

“I feel that exact same way as I did last week,” White said.

White said that USC athletics administrators were kicking him out. He was then escorted to the gate by security personnel.

“Fire Sark tonight,” White shouted.

White wasn’t too pleased.

4. North Carolina’s academic fraud investigation is revealing some deep ugly.

5. Zaxby’s becomes a bowl sponsor.

The Heart of Dallas Bowl now has a certain popular Southern fast food chicken franchise as a sponsor.

Yes, Zaxby’s has become the latest corporation to add its name to a bowl. No word yet on whether the Cotton Bowl will run out of chicken fingers by halftime, as the inaugural Papa John’s Bowl did with pizza.

6. Mack Brown to SMU?

A report indicates the Mustangs may be in talks with the former Texas coach for a contract worth $4 million per season for eight years.

7. Texas has a plan in place to pay its student-athletes $10,000 per year.

Talk about opening Pandora’s Box, a can of worms, or whatever is your favorite cliche. This hinges on the NCAA losing its appeals in the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit. But it’s one of the first tangible details that answers the question “what will happen to the NCAA structure if it loses in court?”