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Official College Football Thread 2004!
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Looks like Carolina is running the old Broken Record offense... will it be the RB up the middle or a QB draw up the middle? At least the defense is playing well... freshman KO Simpson got his third pick of the season.
6-3 Gamecocks at the half... let's dust off the playbook, Lou
6-3 Gamecocks at the half... let's dust off the playbook, Lou
Want to know what a Lou Holtz offense looks like when we have the lead?
27 consecutive rush plays, and 2 kneels in the red zone. Yeesh. And that's knowing that we have a WR who leads the nation in YPC and had 4 consecutive 99+ yard games before this one.
Gamecocks win 20-3. Any time you can win in T-town it's a great thing. Here's hoping things look up for Alabama from here on out!
27 consecutive rush plays, and 2 kneels in the red zone. Yeesh. And that's knowing that we have a WR who leads the nation in YPC and had 4 consecutive 99+ yard games before this one.
Gamecocks win 20-3. Any time you can win in T-town it's a great thing. Here's hoping things look up for Alabama from here on out!
Chesapeake Silt
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Fresno State goes down. Eh.
I think this ASU / Oregon game could be good. Oregon always seems to trip ranked teams up when they're playing at home. And ASU has that whole 'we're playing with a running back who just broke his arm, and we don't have a real back-up because the first string guy is suspended for some sort of illicit relationship with a female atheletic department staffer' situation going on, so that could end up hurting them in the long run. You never know.
I think this ASU / Oregon game could be good. Oregon always seems to trip ranked teams up when they're playing at home. And ASU has that whole 'we're playing with a running back who just broke his arm, and we don't have a real back-up because the first string guy is suspended for some sort of illicit relationship with a female atheletic department staffer' situation going on, so that could end up hurting them in the long run. You never know.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboard?season=2&week=6&confId=16
Rice 63,
San Jose St. 56
4th Qtr, 4:42
WAC= DEFENSE IS NOT AN OPTION!
Rice 63,
San Jose St. 56
4th Qtr, 4:42
WAC= DEFENSE IS NOT AN OPTION!
Chesapeake Silt
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Nugent missed a kick?!?!?! Whaaaaaaaat?!
Ripclawe said:DAMN! FSU's Lorenzo booker GF is on the right... damn football players.
Yeah the twins come to every game. Booker and Washington tore it UP today, was pretty amazing to see them run.
Celicar: We had total nosebleed seats.. literally 2 rows from the top ABOVE the band. We gotta meet up one of these games though.
So Penn State, as expected, lost again. However, quite unexpected was that they blocked three kicks and lost. Can most fans even understand this feeling? Your team blocks three kicks and wins in the turnover battle but never once has a chance to win? A few random thoughts from the game.
Tony Hunt tries the spin move more than even the worst Madden player. He's going to end up vomitting right on the field from being too dizzy one of these days. Just watch one of his runs. In the first week, he actually spun out of his helmet. I don't know how he does it.
Joe Paterno has, in the past few years, gone from being an all time great coach to a crotchity old man. He refuses to play freshmen, he refuses to change his style, and he refuses to admit that maybe...just maybe...he is wrong.
The WNBA playoffs are going on? And MLS is still in season? The bottom line never fails to educate.
Penn State blocked three kicks, only gave up 16 points, and was never in the game. Never. It needed to be said again, because it probably hasn't sunk in yet. Think about that, and then get back to me.
West Virginia got stomped by a .500 team and is still all but guaranteed a BCS bowl game because the second best team in their conference lost to UConn and needed overtime to beat Furman. In football.
Speaking of Pitt, here's a bit of a Pennsylvania coaching quiz. Question 1. You're facing UConn, at their 12 with 20 seconds left in the half. It's second down and you have two timeouts. What do you do? If you're Walt Harris, you effectively kneel the ball to center it and send out the kicker. He played for the tie...against UConn, minus Emeka Okafor, and ended up losing. Question 2. The third quarter is just about over and your team just scored. Up until this point, they haven't even sniffed the end zone and the opponent has been running all over you as is customary when facing your defense. After the score, you are down by 10. Do you go for 1 or 2? Joe Pa says 1. The next time his team gets the ball, the fourth quarter is half done and they spend the next five minutes wasting time before Zach Mills throws his 8th interception of the year. If you can't count on your team to get three yards, what makes you think they are going to put together two scoring drives in a single quarter?
In four games, Mills has had 13 turnovers. And in one of those games, he played exactly two snaps, one resulting in an interception. I think I know how Rams fans feel. The coach is unjustifiably stubborn and nobody seems to give a damn that they can't stop turning the ball over.
There are these Eagles fans that live in my building and chant "E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES" every five minutes or so each saturday night. And then on Sunday, they have an airhorn that they use every time the eagles score (Followed by that god damned chant). I want Terrell Owens to snap his leg while Donovan McNabb's hand falls off at the same time. And it's nothing personal. If you don't have to deal with Eagles fans on a daily basis, you can't possibly get it.
We're facing Purdue next week. My prediction? Kyle Orton runs for 300 yards, just because he can.
Penn State is the reason why instant replay was put in the Big Ten, yet no questionable calls have been reviewed while the Nittany Lions were on the field. I think the Big Ten officials are trying to give Joe Paterno a stroke. I think I might have to help in their effort.
Three blocked kicks and not one moment of confidence. This is a football school, this is all we have. Well, that and women's soccer.
Tony Hunt tries the spin move more than even the worst Madden player. He's going to end up vomitting right on the field from being too dizzy one of these days. Just watch one of his runs. In the first week, he actually spun out of his helmet. I don't know how he does it.
Joe Paterno has, in the past few years, gone from being an all time great coach to a crotchity old man. He refuses to play freshmen, he refuses to change his style, and he refuses to admit that maybe...just maybe...he is wrong.
The WNBA playoffs are going on? And MLS is still in season? The bottom line never fails to educate.
Penn State blocked three kicks, only gave up 16 points, and was never in the game. Never. It needed to be said again, because it probably hasn't sunk in yet. Think about that, and then get back to me.
West Virginia got stomped by a .500 team and is still all but guaranteed a BCS bowl game because the second best team in their conference lost to UConn and needed overtime to beat Furman. In football.
Speaking of Pitt, here's a bit of a Pennsylvania coaching quiz. Question 1. You're facing UConn, at their 12 with 20 seconds left in the half. It's second down and you have two timeouts. What do you do? If you're Walt Harris, you effectively kneel the ball to center it and send out the kicker. He played for the tie...against UConn, minus Emeka Okafor, and ended up losing. Question 2. The third quarter is just about over and your team just scored. Up until this point, they haven't even sniffed the end zone and the opponent has been running all over you as is customary when facing your defense. After the score, you are down by 10. Do you go for 1 or 2? Joe Pa says 1. The next time his team gets the ball, the fourth quarter is half done and they spend the next five minutes wasting time before Zach Mills throws his 8th interception of the year. If you can't count on your team to get three yards, what makes you think they are going to put together two scoring drives in a single quarter?
In four games, Mills has had 13 turnovers. And in one of those games, he played exactly two snaps, one resulting in an interception. I think I know how Rams fans feel. The coach is unjustifiably stubborn and nobody seems to give a damn that they can't stop turning the ball over.
There are these Eagles fans that live in my building and chant "E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES" every five minutes or so each saturday night. And then on Sunday, they have an airhorn that they use every time the eagles score (Followed by that god damned chant). I want Terrell Owens to snap his leg while Donovan McNabb's hand falls off at the same time. And it's nothing personal. If you don't have to deal with Eagles fans on a daily basis, you can't possibly get it.
We're facing Purdue next week. My prediction? Kyle Orton runs for 300 yards, just because he can.
Penn State is the reason why instant replay was put in the Big Ten, yet no questionable calls have been reviewed while the Nittany Lions were on the field. I think the Big Ten officials are trying to give Joe Paterno a stroke. I think I might have to help in their effort.
Three blocked kicks and not one moment of confidence. This is a football school, this is all we have. Well, that and women's soccer.
Alcibiades
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The Kansas State vs. Texas A&M game was awesome.
Basically, Kansas State dominated for the most part, but had 3 (i think, mabye 4) turnovers, 2 of them very close to their own goal line, the Aggies were able to score an easy 14.
Both teams are good-to-great teams. Kansas State I think will be able to dominate against the North teams. That said, I think A&M gives up too many yards easily and has to count on bad plays by other opponents sometimes. No way we dominate in the South with Mack Brown at Texas and Stoops at Oklahoma. I expect the Aggies to get decimated by Jason White unless do a drastic revamping of the defense. I'm glad Texas Tech also makes mistakes, so hopefully their passing attack doesn't kill us and we can beat them at home later this season.
A&M held a huge lead, but Kansas State came back and made it close. I left 1 min. early to avoid the insane human traffic that was to follow.
Basically, Kansas State dominated for the most part, but had 3 (i think, mabye 4) turnovers, 2 of them very close to their own goal line, the Aggies were able to score an easy 14.
Both teams are good-to-great teams. Kansas State I think will be able to dominate against the North teams. That said, I think A&M gives up too many yards easily and has to count on bad plays by other opponents sometimes. No way we dominate in the South with Mack Brown at Texas and Stoops at Oklahoma. I expect the Aggies to get decimated by Jason White unless do a drastic revamping of the defense. I'm glad Texas Tech also makes mistakes, so hopefully their passing attack doesn't kill us and we can beat them at home later this season.
A&M held a huge lead, but Kansas State came back and made it close. I left 1 min. early to avoid the insane human traffic that was to follow.
darkiguana
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efralope said:
I agree. A&M's defense is definitley better than last year. But they still have a long way to go. I am just hoping they don't get humilitated by OU.
I will be happy with this season if these 3 things happen:
1) go to a bowl game(any bowl game)
2)Beat tu(this one is gonna be tough)
3) Don't get demolished by OU like they did last year. While I would love for them to somehow win, I know that is almost impossible. So if the aggies basically could just hang in there for the first half or so, or at least give OU a little bit of a scare, I would be very happy.
darkiguana
YAY!!! The Luckeyes' luck has finally run out. Finally, the miracle comeback runs out of gas. This better move UF up. Fresno State losing helps too. I'm such a Gator whore, all I can think about is our comeback march this year. We control our own destiny now. UT holds the tiebreaker with us, but with the way they were murdered last night, they'll lose again. We need to beat LSU and UGA now. LSU is no problem next week (suck it down cyan). 
UGA might rip us a new one though. They will want to RUTS the shit out of us as some sort of karma payback from the previous years. But hey, we'll do what we need to to win the SEC this year.
You FSU guys don't know how incredibly lucky you are to go to a school with a top notch football program. The best I could do at RPI was buy season hockey tix. I'd kill to see a football game from one of the top 3 Florida teams. I might really have to track down tix to the Hokies-Canes game afterall. I'll have to take pics of all the hotties circulating around too. I love UM women...the non-fake ones. PEACE.
UGA might rip us a new one though. They will want to RUTS the shit out of us as some sort of karma payback from the previous years. But hey, we'll do what we need to to win the SEC this year. You FSU guys don't know how incredibly lucky you are to go to a school with a top notch football program. The best I could do at RPI was buy season hockey tix. I'd kill to see a football game from one of the top 3 Florida teams. I might really have to track down tix to the Hokies-Canes game afterall. I'll have to take pics of all the hotties circulating around too.
I love UM women...the non-fake ones. PEACE.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Ok I didnt pay attention all weekend so I just found out the Bucknuts lost. HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHA
BlackSalad
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Utah is #11, yes! Smith + Savoy + Johnson = GOOD
Azwethinkweiz
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Good news, Clemson still sucks at football.
And in related news, I now understand why everyone thinks UVA has the most awesome O-line. They Cheat. A lot. I can't count on both hands how many times there was blatant holding so that their QB could run out of the pocket. Now I don't think this would have any real affect on the game, but it was just amazing how much the refs let them get away with.
And in related news, I now understand why everyone thinks UVA has the most awesome O-line. They Cheat. A lot. I can't count on both hands how many times there was blatant holding so that their QB could run out of the pocket. Now I don't think this would have any real affect on the game, but it was just amazing how much the refs let them get away with.
Welcome to USC football circa 1998, enjoy your stay. Heh.Azwethinkweiz said:
I really thought Clemson was going to knock off UVA. They're way over-ranked, and I'll be surprised if they're in the top 20 at the end of the season. They did have some very good blocking, though, especially pull blocks on sweeps and counters. I saw several fairly blatant holds with no flags; those will certainly be called next weekend when they play FSU. I guess UVA just had that "Tennessee aura" around them that makes holds invisible to the refs.
Hey, I'm going to Vegas this weekend. If I put $20 down on Cal to upset USC (since, as a UCLA fan, betting against USC just sounds like fun), will you guarantee to reimburse me if I don't make money?Cyan said:Hmm... interesting fact that someone just pointed out to me. Cal has yet to even attempt a single field goal. Every trip to the red zone has resulted in a TD. O_O
Hopefully that won't change against USC next Saturday.
Azwethinkweiz
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impirius said:
Yeah, don't even get me started on the defensive lineman who drew a false start on Clemson right in front of the fucking ref. I knew at that point that we were gonna get no calls all night.
Heck, I figured Clemson wouldn't get a fair shake when I saw the "#9" next to Virginia's name. :lol To be fair, though, there were some potential personal fouls that Clemson didn't get called for, so it wasn't completely lopsided.
Guileless, where ya at? Ole Miss at South Carolina tomorrow! Not even a phantom safety can save the Rebels this year.
Guileless, where ya at? Ole Miss at South Carolina tomorrow! Not even a phantom safety can save the Rebels this year.
ConfusingJazz
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Ripclawe said:
11 am central...nutbunnies, astros game is at noon...
CavemanLawyer
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Ripclawe said:Argh... too early.. can't wake up...
You can watch the first 30 minutes and go back to sleep. I smell another blowout.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
10-0 Michigan
Alcibiades
Member
GO O-U!
hopefully Jason White will come back and do some damage...
hopefully Jason White will come back and do some damage...
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Michigan is gonna be scary in a couple years. Freshman QB, 2 best runningbacks are freshmen, and they just had a big'ol freshman reciever come in a run over a DB.
Azwethinkweiz
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impirius said:
It's turning out to be one sad weekend in the S. Kakilak.
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