Football, Politics Merge: Rove the Butt of BCS Blowout Jokes on Twitter

As Monday's lopsided BCS college football championship progressed and Alabama continued to pummel top-ranked Notre Dame, viewers took to Twitter to remind each other that a game isn't over even when it's obviously over — at least according to political pundit Karl Rove.

They parodied Rove's famous "meltdown" the night of the 2012 presidential election when on Fox News he told host Megyn Kelly that, despite total disagreement with his assessment, Republican Mitt Romney still had a chance to win the race against President Barack Obama.

#BCSKarl Rove is going berserk over on Fox News insisting that Notre Dame might have actually won this thing.

— Life on Mars(@genehunter1) January 8, 2013

Flipped over to FoxNews at the half and Karl Rove is on there claiming Notre Dame still has a chance.

— Jonathan Howe (@Jonathan_Howe) January 8, 2013

I'm waiting for Karl Rove to demand Megyn Kelly go down the hall to verify that Alabama really is winning this thing.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 8, 2013

A mental note: whenever a victory is a fait accompli, claim that Karl Rove is disputing it. It's beautifully subtle and will never get old

— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) January 8, 2013

"Don't concede just yet, boys."-Karl Rove to Notre Dame

— Nathan Geck (@NathanGeck) January 8, 2013

The jokes went even deeper as the margin widened between the teams.

There were more Karl Rove-Notre Dame tweets in my timeline in the last few hours than there were Notre Dame football points. #byawidemargin

— Matthew Stewart (@matthew1stewart) January 8, 2013

Hey, has anyone heard the joke about Karl rove saying Notre Dame still has a chance?#sarcasm #overplayed

— Stephen Walters (@scwalters) January 8, 2013

Nate Silver, the statistician who famously predicted the voting outcome of all 50 states in the election, wasn’t left out of the fray. He once again made the correct prediction Monday night, though his bet against the spread was not quite so vast.

Mitt Romney & Notre Dame have something in common:Both ignored Nate Silver and got crushed.

— Bob Firpo (@BobFirpo) January 8, 2013

Alabama beat Notre Dame 42-14.