08-09 ncaa football thread

zomg love it

"its that puke inside of a pumpkin orange. and i dont like pumpkins."

i dont like dogs or pumpkins either :D

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/ncaa/08/01/stoops.dismisses.jarboe.ap/index.html

actually getting arrested for having a gun is aaiight, but RAPPING about having guns... well son, you shoulda seen it coming

dude is supposed to be fire btw i hate oklahoma

fwiw i think the gators are winning it all again this year >_<

USC vs Florida Gs?

i hate them both so much, though i think i actually hate UF more now

meyer is probably the biggest prick in college football, for one thing

I don't know, Rodriguez is right up there.

idk, saban's a real contender for that crown imo

georgia ranked no. 1 in usa today preseason poll, makes me a lil nervous, florida prob has more legitimate claim to top spot - better defense, offense probably not as good but a more well-rounded team. uga's 2007 was probably their best season since i've been alive - first time since herschel was here that they beat auburn and florida in the same year! - we'll see if they can repeat some of dat ~*magic*~ i guess

challops-lite: paul johnson will be the best hc in the acc w/i 2 or 3 years. not expecting much from tech this year, flush w/defensive talent but i think they'll miss jon tenuta's crazyass schemes a lil. not much else to say imo~

whoa welcome back cank

georgia no longer close to #1

Petrino wins any "biggest prick in college football" competition, doesn't he?

I'm just happy to see the Tide ranked pre-season (even if it is 23). The fact that Auburn is 10 is pretty laughable, though.

1. Georgia (22) 0-0 1,528
2. Ohio State (21) 0-0 1,506
3. USC (12) 0-0 1,490
4. Oklahoma (4) 0-0 1,444
5. Florida (6) 0-0 1,415
6. Missouri 0-0 1,266
7. LSU 0-0 1,135
8. West Virginia 0-0 1,116
9. Clemson 0-0 1,105
10. Auburn 0-0 968
11. Texas 0-0 966
12. Texas Tech 0-0 786
13. Wisconsin 0-0 771
14. Kansas 0-0 707
15. Arizona State 0-0 631
16. Brigham Young 0-0 590
17. Virginia Tech 0-0 578
18. Tennessee 0-0 509
19. South Florida 0-0 496
20. Illinois 0-0 483
21. Oregon 0-0 366
22. Penn State 0-0 293
23. Wake Forest 0-0 227
24. Alabama 0-0 89
25. Pittsburgh 0-0 85

(oops, Tide is 24th, but still..)

laughably low or laughably high? i think auburn takes the west this year

High. Tiger fans are in for a year of disappointment.

agree strongly w/ canks assessment of pj btw

I only say that re: Auburn because they have a lot of talent going out and not enough coming in. Saban has been swallowing up all the state's top recruiting.

Tiger fans are in for a year of disappointment. - lol how many teams on bama's sched will this apply to this year? a guy i know who knows alot more than me has bama taking the west w/ the iron bowl probably deciding it. if there was a playoff i'd take the dawgs to win but since there ain't (i'm anti-playoff ftr) i'd say florida over ohio state is my guess as of this date.

I think LSU will take the west this year, with 2009 being the first year of Bama's real re-emergence. Auburn's already hurting tho.

Picking Gators for the east, but I know it could as easily be the Dawgs.

i don't know why but crazy (and i mean crazy = insane not crazy = enthusiastic) bama fans don't annoy me at all whereas crazy (just meaning 'really really devoted') gators or esp god esp vols fans i detest so so so much. anyhow never get tired of posting this -
http://www.rammerjammeryellowhammer.com/weblog/archives/AUBearGuys.jpg

and found this while looking for that

http://static.flickr.com/24/59354087_9d1aa9ff5b.jpg

Vols fans are the scum on the SEC pond.

i was gonna do bowl predictions, but i dont know the picking rotations and shit so

acc: vt- they've got rb problems, but the coaching staff is so solid + i'm wary of clemson's acc road games in the second half of the season: @ wake, @ bc, @ fsu, @ uva. i'll believe clemson can do it when they actually do it

big 10: ohio st- zzzz, i think they'll lose two games, but they should be able to lose one and still get in the rose bowl

big 12: oklahoma- really really really good team, i think they're in the national title unless they fuck up the title game once again

big east: west virginia?- i think uconn could sneak in here. usf has a brutal road schedule

pac 10: usc- it's gonna be a while, isn't it?

sec: florida- they might get sunk by injuries but they have the best offense out of the big six conferences, and i'll buy into the "defense is a year older!" thing. they've got DB problems which scares me, but they lost to auburn by 3 last year and lsu by 4 or else they might've been in the nat'l title

florida fans are the worst

i think nat'l title is okla v uf

at larges: mizzou, georgia, byu and... clemson? i guess wisconsin if ohio st gets into the national title?? i think we're looking @ usc vs ohio st rose bowl rematch, though

Raise your hand if you think 2008 will be Paterno's and Bowden's final year.

they've at least got a successor lined up for bowden + he seems to think the writing is on the wall. paterno just seems in denial to me, plus i think he has a complex about the whole thing that bowden doesn't

I think you're right. Bowden seems like he'd be glad to retire, but no one's brave enough to ask him to. Paterno is oblivious to, well...everything.

I'm like everyone else, I don't understand all the preseason Georgia love.
And Pittsburgh at no.25, talent wise I can see it, but Dave freakin' Wannstedt people.

i understand the preseason georgia love, they're insanely talented and have a great coach (they nearly made the championship game last year w/ a freshman o-line), their schedule is just way way too brutal. if the thinking is that no team goes undefeated this year then yeah i could see georgia somehow pulling off a one-loss season and then definitely deserving a spot in the game, but undefeated i can't picture.

how do you pick oklahoma over usc?? did you see mizzou last year, for one thing? theyre the real deal. no one in the pac 10 is in the same league as usc

georgia has like a one in a million shot but like everyones saying UF for sure (at least) is gonna knock them off

so this shit started

kind of a boring day

lol @ vt, usc looked just incredible, michigan looks "interesting"

next week gameday is at uf for fla/miami, which is apparently the game of the week

we don't need that spotlight :(

we being miami

illinois v mizzou & alabama clemson tonight! both must-sees

j0rdan yr at mizzou right are you going to the game?

also how is that game of the week

nah im not going, i don't care enough about mizzou fball to go to stl to see them. i will be watching it though, but since kind of curious about clemson im kinda sad that i wont be able to see much of the game

there aren't any games b/w ranked teams next week, so uf v miami at least has name recognition. also, abc is carrying a nascar game nex sat night and cbs has the us open so uf/miami will be the only cfb game in prime time next week

uf is gonna win by like 30 though

bamas gonna be a monster in 2 years time

ya

kinda lovin this shit right now

happy to see rich rodriguez lose his UM opener. always happy to see wannstadt lose

It's going to be a long season in both Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor.

I haven't seen a Bama team so in control of their own destiny since Gene Stallings was coaching. zomg

yeah im a bama man as of tonight

seems appropriate for a troll to root for roll tide

as we used to say

ROUND THE BOWL
DOWN THE HOLE
ROLL etc

the best thing that could happen for Nick Saban is that he catches some disease and puts his millions (and booster $$) into trying to find a cure

clemson's linemen looked pathetic, though. that game tells you most of why the SEC is the most important conference (and the biggest academic joke, year-on-year)

Admirers of new U-M regime get a reality check early on

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080831/COL22/808310502

Rodriguez said he couldn't fully evaluate what he saw because he "has to watch the tape," and I think we ought to emphasize "has to."

When Rodriguez walks from his seat to the screen, he will gain more yardage than his running game did in the first half.

if i were to try to cultivate an interest in ncaa football, what would be some likable teams i could start to follow?

USC is always good, but it's entirely possible you could grow to hate them. Alabama's on the rise. For that matter, pretty much anyone in the SEC is good television (except Tennessee, who may or may not be good, but I can't endorse them because I hate them and their head coach so much I get hives).

notre dame horseshoe

notre dame

yeah usc is the shit

anyone who picks usc to follow is a fucking pussy

thanks guys! i will learn about this usc.

incredibly courageous of you horseshoe, to be a bandwagon usc fan in this day & age

i salute you you are a great american & collegiate football will be better for your input

motherfucker in the real world i'm a Bills fan; i've earned myself a lifetime of bandwagon-ing in other arenas.

hahaha im actually convinced by that line of argument!

enjoy your retarded new team

RUTGERS

okay nm i actually watched the video ade linked to at the top of the thread and i think i've found my new team even if means disloyalty to peyton.

lol i forgot about that video

horseshoe you realize you are going with deeznuts on this one right

hs, i started out by hating on other teams more than i really rooted for any of them. idk if you have any regional ties outside of buffalo but i just picked tech and georgia since i grew up here (more tech since it's in atlanta) (always felt weird about this since neither is my mater, part of the southern college football pickup-truck alumni tradition that i never really understood)(i have zero problem hating on the vols or gators etc tho!!). mostly i just watch the 'big' games with highly ranked teams that i don't have much rooting interest in. i'll also go out of my way to watch teams that run some of the more inventive schemes (texas tech, west virginia when richrod was there, haven't seen what he's done in michigan yet)

"i have zero problem hating on the vols or gators etc tho!!"

is this because of the orange thing for you too??

"i'll also go out of my way to watch teams that run some of the more inventive schemes (texas tech, west virginia when richrod was there, haven't seen what he's done in michigan yet)"

i do this too but TT is too one-dimensional for me; i have a dislike for pass-only offenses especially

UF sadly runs a rock-solid + explosive offense that i love to watch

bama's pretty hateable bcz of saban's presence; never hated arkansas (why bother lol) but will delight in their every loss now that petrino's onboard

im looking forward to alabama restoring rightful order in the SEC & college football fuck these florida schools & LSU

they some snitches

another point in bama's favor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBkZO6WQ278

mostly i just watch the 'big' games with highly ranked teams that i don't have much rooting interest in.

i guess i could try this. it seems so grown-up and mature; maybe i would develop a purer love of the game? (this is why people watch college sports, right?)

yeah, my alma mater is no good to me on this score. i worked out an intricate and self-contradictory scheme of teams i like in the nfl; if i got into ncaa, maybe i could do the same thing.

college football's a lot cooler than nfl because of the variety of offensive schemes, although everyone's gravitating towards the spread now (but there are still like a dozen variations of how it can be run in terms of run-first/pass-first etc)

also if you watch the 'big' games with highly ranked teams you'll be less likely to endure a real boring amateurish game

i suggested usc because they are so majestic and have just tons of great skill players but its kinda tough cuz their games are always on at 10 PM on the east coast

if i didnt already have a strong allegiance i could see myself throwing my weight behind ohio st esp cuz they are so embattled now

?? they just got the #1 prospect in the country & have like 80000 students fuck OSU

yeah deez, ohio st is really respected on a national level after being blown out in the last two national title games

shit horseshoe is a bills fan so ohio st is perfect!!

that they only got to because of their schedule

USC is going to fucking maul them & i will like it

what are you trying to argue??? im saying that ohio st, though being one of the most successful teams of the decade, is also one of the most disrespected. you disagree? what does their schedule have to do with it? what are you saying?

that theyre rightfully disrespected!

they got blown out the last 2 yrs because they dont stack up with the cream of the SEC or w/ the likes of USC

Yeah, Ohio St. is all smoke & mirrors.

Also, why people wanna hate on Saban? Dude's golden. Hell, I would've left stupid-ass Wayne Huizenga in the dust too given the opportunity.

has nothing to do with the dolphins - dude's just a tool, str8 up

yeah he's a notorious asshole esp to the press, no one really has anything nice to say about him except for whoever is currently writing his check

You can always just root for who has the cool unis. I like Cal because the uniforms are classic and they're not USC.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/cal/sports/m-footbl/auto_action/2241230.jpeg

The best unis in California belong to UCLA.

i guess i could try this. it seems so grown-up and mature; maybe i would develop a purer love of the game? (this is why people watch college sports, right?)

yeah, my alma mater is no good to me on this score. i worked out an intricate and self-contradictory scheme of teams i like in the nfl; if i got into ncaa, maybe i could do the same thing.

-- horseshoe, Sunday, August 31, 2008 5:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

haha no i totally feel you, i'm the same way! i couldn't get into college ball for the longest time because there was no narrative for me to hang my hat on; i'm not one of those complete football junkies who can be delighted watching just any given HS or pop warner game. i guess what happened was, as i began paying more attn to pro ball i also began picking up ancillary knowledge of the college game along the way, to the point that i eventually wanted to start watching (after getting to know the characters, rivalries, etc.) (rivalries are a v.v.v.v.v. big part of what drives ncaa football's popularity imo)

really, the fan passion is the biggest thing that distinguishes it, it's even more based on loyalties and whatnot than pro ball imo. also, the festivities surrounding gameday are as big of a ritualized tradition as watching the games, maybe bigger. in athens it always feels like (to me anyway) the game's an excuse for tailgating and drinking. which is often the case w/the NFL too but it's def magnified here. football culture in the south is a little weird/unique anyway, like women here of every age dress to the nines for every dawgs game. i don't think that happens outside of the south/SEC ball.

also, watching college ball makes draft time more fun (you know, that dead zone in early spring when there's no football and you're dying for anything pigskin-related) because you get to imagine players you followed playing for your team and project what their pro careers could be like.

I never even considered that someone would like Cal's uniforms, and they're my team!

Nice win over Michigan State, but I guess they're not very good this year?

I can't bother to care about anything beyond my team's conference or top-25 matchups, and the BCS system is boring.

Nick Saban seems classy compared to Petrino.

I don't think I could dislike a player more than I dislike Jimmy Clausen. Something about how he looks just makes me want to murder him.

Also, East Carolina is an unstoppable force.

dude his brothers all looked like equivalent douchebags at best he cant help his genes

and my god what i wouldnt give for ECU in a title game right now

see i think clausen kinda looks like a baller but that team is just awful

usc and oklahoma look like the two best teams to me. i rescind my pick of florida for the national title unless they can get a running game. miami's defense was awful last year, and even though we have a new coordinator/ a bunch of new players there's no reason why the gators shoud've been dominated like that for 3 quarters. i guess uga might come out of the sec after all

Gators tear it up Week 1 and then slow down for 2 or 3 weeks every year, like clockwork. They're still in the running.

USC it's hard to say, because beating Virginia this year doesn't seem like a hard thing to do.

how is hard to say USC is the most loaded ass team on the planet year in & year out since like 2003? theyre gonna roll over OSU

OSU crash & burn imminent

^^maybe me & JF are just weird-ass traditionalists as far as this stuff is concerned but i agree w/ him on all counts

for ex. the idea that the gators wont have a substantial ground game in meyers era is laughable to me

yeah i think boeckmann's td/int ratio vs his last for D1 opponents is like 2/6 or something. i imagine that the usc game will end up something like the last two nat'l titles (33-17 or something)

42-17

ow is hard to say USC is the most loaded ass team on the planet year in & year out since like 2003? theyre gonna roll over OSU.

I won't be surprised if this happens, but I try not to make a positive assessment of any team until I see them beat a good team, regardless of their past achievements.

Yes, I am a robot.

WVU looked absolutely terrible against East Carolina. If WVU loses to Colorado, Bill Stewart's head will be carried around town on a pike as all the couches in Morgantown go up in flames.

I'm pretty neutral when it comes to OSU but they'd better put up some sort of fight Saturday night. They're 10.5 point underdogs which is ridic for the pride of the Big Ten. Big Ten y u brake heart of hearts.

I'm betting heart over head in this one and going OSU. Goodbye $100.

see im not neutral at all, i hate the big ten quite a lot & hate betting esp. in big 10 conference games, but agree here that the 10.5 is too many pts & im taking THE osu

wow i feel sorry for you both NOT

i mean theyre gonna get stomped its gonna be embarrassing come ON

RIP OSU

Buckeyes' Wells now doubtful for USC

Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - Ohio State running back Chris "Beanie" Wells did not practice Thursday morning and is now unlikely to play Saturday when the fifth-ranked Buckeyes take on top-ranked Southern California.

Ohio State coach Jim Tressel told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Wells was experiencing lingering soreness in his right foot.

the real problem with that is that if the game is somehow even remotely close we're still going to have to here from bitchy OSU fans about how they deserve another shot at the title when they run the rest of the table

deeznuts otm

Sat, Sep 13 USC
Sat, Sep 20 Troy University
Sat, Sep 27 Minnesota
Sat, Oct 04 Wisconsin
Sat, Oct 11 Purdue
Sat, Oct 18 Michigan State
Sat, Oct 25 Penn State
Sat, Nov 08 Northwestern
Sat, Nov 15 Illinois
Sat, Nov 22 Michigan

I suspect they could potentially lose to the Illini, and possibly another team somwhere in the mix. After the loss to USC this Saturday, that would make three. 3-loss teams can argue all they want, but they ain't gettin into the championship game.

Why the hell did WVU give Stewart a huge extension NOW?

lee corso just predicted tulane over east carolina. we shall see.

Cal looking like garbage so far in Maryland.

I haven't seen him play, but that Sam Bradford from Oklahoma sounds like a pretty good QB. Criminy the guy completed nearly 70% of his passes as a freshman!

yo terps looking pretty good for that first half. D fell apart in the 2nd half but still, yay fighting terps. e carolina and tulane scoreless in the 2nd quarter. god i love wasted college fb saturdays.

had to mute espn commentary for the md game tho--"they must be jetlagged! it's so humid in college park right now, the bears can't be used to this kind of humidity!" no guys it's just the inevitable dominance of massive terrapin strength over gay ass bear fur grooming bullshit. fuck the pac 10.

I agree with the last post, except for the "inevitable dominance" part. They also said that Cal must have woken up because it was finally noon in Cali when they scored that last touchdown. Bad announcing.

Decent ACC showing so far, with NC destroying Rutgers and Maryland beating Cal.

I think maybe he was exaggerating a little.

After Best got his bell rung, the game was basically over. Nice to see Cal put up a fight at the end, tho.

BYU is absolutely hammering UCLA.

^^seriously wtf

lol at uga btw they can get the fuck outta here

so it turns out that beanie well is actually flo rida

beanie
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2101/2426543232_2113d46655_o.jpg

flo rida
http://www.mp3indirbedava.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/flo_2.jpg

Max Hall's seven touchdown passes Saturday were ...

• Four more than New Patriots starter Matt Cassel's NFL and college career's combined.

That 3-2 Auburn/Miss State game was way more fun to watch than it might sound on paper.

That Trojans/Buckeyes game was nuts. Not as close a contest as the rankings had suggested beforehand. Sheesh!

auburn/ms state 4th quarter was the most entertaining football i'd seen in a while. like watching kids playing madden.

is anyone else hoping that weiss coaches the rest of the year from the comfortable seat of a Rascal

horseshoe, i forgot to mention one of the other BIG PLUSSES of college ball - DOGGIE MASCOTS

http://blog.redandblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/071117_sguevara_footballkentucky949web.jpg
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2006/1026/ncf_a_smokey_275.jpg
http://dererumnatura.us/archives/2008/06/28/uga-black.jpg

is anyone else hoping that weiss coaches the rest of the year from the comfortable seat of a Rascal

― cankles, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^YES

Why the hell did WVU give Stewart a huge extension NOW?

― polyphonic, Friday, September 12, 2008 10:53 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Everyone's asking that question. I always thought it was a bad hire, but I was willing to take a wait and see attitude. I've seen enough. The guy can't cut it on the major college level.

Stewart is good lesson for college football programs on how not to select a coach. After Richie Rod left in a huff, WVU didn’t take the time to conduct a real coaching search. Sure, Terry Bowden was sniffing around, but he's been out of coaching for nearly a decade. Plus, there were some character issues. I know I know we're WVU and didn't give flying fuck about "character" when Pacman was groping every terrified stripper from Morganhole to the Pennsylvania state line, or Chris Henry punching people out and getting high. But, it does matter when you're recruiting and trying to separate alumni from their money. We could have gotten Skip Holtz, Todd Graham, Butch Jones, Jerry Moore or any number of hot up and comers, but no, a bunch of hung-over frat boys masquerading as an athletic department tapped Coach Stew. We are so screwed.

Nick Saban should eat the asshole of a grizzly bear, and afterwards be drawn and quartered.

:P

(roll tide)

Those Mormons can really play some football.

105-0 in two games. I'd say so.

i <3 beavers!

haha oregon st is boring as fuck go trojans

holy shit awesome

man what the fuck

this doesn't even seem like it's actually happening

12:26 ET on a thursday night

lol dude on field with spraypainted "ERIN ANDREWS SEXY TIME" sign

haha

i was at an indie rock show and people were watching this afterward = you know its a big deal when skinny nerds are impressed!

i texted my my brother when he was at wrigley last week to say i was watching the game on TV and the first thing he texted back was HAVE YOU SEEN ERIN ANDREWS YET SHE IS HERE

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i was at an indie rock show and people were watching this afterward = you know its a big deal when skinny nerds are impressed!

― bnw, Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

game 7 of the cardinals mets ncls was the same night as a tapes n tapes/cold war kids show here, and they had this one tv at the bar with it on and i remember just thinking how weird it must be for a band to see this sold out crowd paying 0% attention to them

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/abmurray/firePhil.jpg

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guh, didn't do that right.

^nice RH. someone in my office was just talking that up

^^holee crap

WAU

I just come back and watch that again every couple of hours. It's like that faked ballgirl-makes-amazing-catch video except it's not fake.

"I'm a small dude, they couldn't find me."

My favorite college player this week.
http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2008/09/26/1222405270_1056/539w.jpg

What is it with Oregon teams and fugly unis?

^YES. that was the best quote

ole miss

wow

83 fuckn channels showing college futbol here and none of them had the Ole Miss/Fla game.

wau @ mich actually looking competant

Sup Tide!

man

hope larry munson aint watchin this

wooooooooooooo!

i hope this means the bcs bowl selections are like 1000x doomsday scenerio of last year

uh oh sooners.

also, how laughable is Tennessee? Fulmer's firing can't come soon enough.

lmbowden

o god i bet Michigan GETTING 25. They were up by 3 at halftime and Penn State reels off 32 unanswered points. wtf

I should just cut my ties with Michigan and Ohio and sail unfettered throughout this great land.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/2004/world/p-80days2.jpg

BYU got worked by TCU

Oh shit! I hadn't seen that yet.

XD

how laughable is Tennessee?

http://bumpshack.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ashley_todd_vols_losers.jpg

it hardly gets worse than that. dittos on coach. when I was back home and we watched them lose to the frickin' bruins my whole family started calling their now ex-qb "jon the crompton." I think it was because the commentators said "jonathan" so many times they started flubbing it

This Oregon/California game has been the sloppiest game I think I've ever seen. So many fumbles, so much rain, so many botched kicks...

how laughable is Tennessee?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20081030/attack-mccain-sticker/images/7fa684ab-12da-4ad0-b5f9-909d6b7f0185.jpg

I am calling it right now...600+ passing yds combined in the TX/TXT game tonight.

so it looks like the natl title is gonna be 42-10 uf over penn st

polyphonic you're fired

Somebody carved "Tombot" into my face!

whhyyyyy is OT in college football so retarded

^what is this in reference to? i saw the spike in people searching for "college football ot rules" and dont get it is it cant be just bitter nd fans nothing weird happened there

i dont mind the rules. i kind of wish that a fg wasn't automatic from the jump but if they moved the starting position back the obligatory 4th down try would feel so stupid

PITT at Notre Dame went to 4 OTs

oh i see u already mentioned that

that's cuz both teams suck

it was the game most of the country got on CBS so maybe thats all it was

re: spike in google searching

OK, I never watch college football but am home tonight because not feeling well, and this Texas/Texas Tech game is/was the bomb

MEEE TOOO!

the crowd was just penalized lol!

yup

finally a great prime time game

i saw texas last week when i was visiting my dad and vowed to watch colt mccoy at every opportunity

had that texas defender gone for the tackle instead of trying to knock down the pass they likely wouldve won

texas tech is gonna lose next week to okla st ¯\(°_o)/¯

the TD pass? even if he'd have done that they'd probably have made a field goal?

did they have a timeout?

yeah, they had one timeout.

but, the kickers are not as good right? this was really weird, i never watch college games, and it's like the defenses were never that good & completing a bunch of 10-20 yard passes was routine?

the natl title game is going to be okla and fla like i predicted earlier this season

oh, i retrct my previous statement

I guess it was still pretty risky but they might've been so far on the edge of field goal range that it was better to take a shot at picking up a few more yards & going out of bounds or taking timeout if possible.. not 100% sure, but I think that's what happened.

they wouldve been on the like four yardline - game over - my bad

btw im warming to college ball now that all the good teams are in the big 12 and sec and actually have to play each other

i think he was going for the td because of their two kickers one is a student who got on the team by kicking a 30 yd fg in a halftime promotion and the other is the dude who got replaced by him

lol that story is the best^

j i think lots of ppl are like that but im getting turned off this year again bcuz of the cannibalization

yeah my friend was otm today when he said that sportscenter has numbed us to stories like that but it's truly a surreal/incredible story

i had to root for tech b/c mr wes welker played there

also - Playing against the Patriots on October 10, 2004, Welker became the second player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt, kick an extra point and a field goal, and make a tackle in a single game.

see in the NFL I'm completely baffled that this can happen, but if tech's current kicker got the job from winning a halftime contest? i think he won free rent or something, plus the kicking job

this guy is performing on snl and i dont know who he is

he was in good will hunting

this is the worst music

lol @ me but seriously did you see how bad affleck's olbermann impersonation was wtf. and then that knock-off madtv target sketch and then a glorified youtube video snl really does suck

david cook won american idol a few seasons ago

next week is paul rudd and beyonce. i have hope

yeah how does this kind of music still get written

just turned it on - i saw the giraffe thing

that american idol guy was genuinely awful

i liked how he was dressed up all emo then the music sounded like some grade d 80s soundtrack shit

i think thats the real john mccain

i kind of hate to be this person but i can't condone jokes about his shitty election strategies when all of his shitty election strategies involve despicable race-baiting

dont speak that way abt my man tito the builder

this show is much funnier when im just watching clips of tina fay on the internet

agreed

the thursday night specials have been consistently funny

are those live as well

yeah

i think maybe prerecorded is the way to

go

Crap! Alabama's #1. I'd rather that not have happened, because it's a fucking jinx.

lolabama

they gonna win now

Shittany Lions!

USC is like a thousand times better than Cal but somehow the score is only 10-3 at the start of the third quarter.

Texas Tech is freaking scary.

Michael Crabtree has like infinity touchdowns this year.

guys the end of this navy/nd game is beserk

^so badly wanted navy to win

SC-Fla. is crazypants. 21-0 Fla. at the end of 1st quarter, all off SC turnovers. Fla. just turned it over for the 2nd time.

I don't get the SC QB rotation or the bizarre pass formations. They've outsmarted themselves in the first half.

spurrier is an idiot and should go to tenn

I'm just hoping Tenn doesn't try to poach Mike Leach after the season.

they will but i don't think he's going to take the job

i think it's kiffen's if he wants it or maybe will muschamp's. or i guess butch davis

Cal went from "maybe they might play in the Rose Bowl!" to "maybe they might play in the Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl!" pretty quickly.

People need to stop giving Spurrier big sloppy kisses. Florida was nearly a decade ago people.

Miami somehow has risen from the dead.

Give them another two years of recruiting and they'll be a Top 10 regular.

(UF and Urban Meyer suck up all the talent down here right now)

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LOL

Talk about mixed emotions. I really dislike OSU, but if they beat the Wolverines I'll certainly enjoy the schadenfreude.

470 yds rushing nice d from the U!

Mackeral! cal poly almost beat Wisconsin.

Why oh why do I bet Michigan/Michigan State football.

Penn State should have a shot at the National Championship if there were any justice.

Texas Tech u my last hope.

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;_:

cankles, why

okay i am just going to stay in tonight. hyped about this texas tech/oklahoma game

texas tech come on

they're done

yeah they look awful out there

man, our maryland terrapins are getting beat too. i bet my brother is at this game, not having fun.

I've seen some bad football games today- Michigan, LSU, Michigan State and now Tech. simply terrible

yeah what's wrong with these guys today? defense is getting rolled. horrible tackling

i'm kind of stunned by this.

wow

Not since the ole OK triple option (vs like Iowa State) have I seen an offense carve a D like this on the ground.

uh, is tech defense normally good? at all? i haven't seen a lobsided crapfest of a game like this since.. maybe ever.

*gets faraway look in his eye*

Oklahoma triple option versus the Nebraska I-formation. NOW IS THE TIME.

the Tech D has been suspect all season but their refusal to run blitz and instead play it safe will... *trails off, masturbates to Johnny Rodgers*

http://www.huskerpedia.com/games/1971/1971orange_rodgers77puntret.jpg

heh, i just clicked over to sports illustrated to read up on some article re: triple option and there's a big banner ad for some high def tv featuring.. wes welker

SPREAD OFFENSE IS NOW OFFICIALLY DONE

BOISE
HAWAII
TEXAS TECH
MICHIGAN AND EVERY BIG TEN TEAM EVER

T-Palin the triple option isn't coming back unfortunately but still the game is won the ground

/woody hayes jr

If the Red Raiders lost, they'd have to root for Oklahoma State to beat the Sooners the following weekend. Texas Tech faced a similar scenario in '02 when it went to Oklahoma with a shot at winning the division but lost 60-15.

(although Navy still runs it)(and some other teams and they're ok by me)

xpost ;_;

ok OK used to run the Wishbone (not technically the triple option)

http://www.vsbw.com/~terry/Rice/MVC-764X.JPG

sorry about the confusion

here's one triple option and modified Wing-T, one the oldest formations in the book.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/phatphelix/Birddog/Football_play_from_scrimmage.jpg

my favorite, the single wing

http://www.footballbabble.com/football/offense/plays/single-wing/single-wing-offense.gif

Field goal good!

tech running game looking good

tech not playing well

hey, thanks. neat. i noticed the wikipedia article i was just reading on the spread offense used a photo of the pats vs eagles last year, in which philly figured out something about how to beat new england (maybe?)

has tech ever gained any yards all night with those screen plays? like, once?

yeah spread is a generic term for no running backs and four receivers (or whatever)

glad to see tech is still sticking to their running game down by 70

this is truly epic, there are still 8+ minutes of game time left, wtf.

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college football is dead to me

Man, football is just a big bag of ass. A BIG BAG OF ASS

musberger has said bedlam profoundly AT LEAST 40 times

there are few things in life more satisfying than shouting "to hell with georgia" in sanford stadium

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guys!!!!!!!

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T-Palin the triple option isn't coming back unfortunately but still the game is won the ground

/woody hayes jr

― brownie, Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:02 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

WHAT WAS THAT BROWNIE I COULDNT HEAR U!!!

T-Palin the triple option isn't coming back unfortunately but still the game is won the ground

/woody hayes jr

― brownie, Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:02 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

WHAT WAS THAT BROWNIE I COULDNT HEAR U!!!

would've been more effective if i paired that w/teh TECH WINS pic

cankles I meant wishbone. georgia tech has an ok running game.

i guess

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is anyone watchin bama-florida this game OWNES

I saw the end of the army-navy blowout. when did the army football uniform turn so goddamn ridiculous? IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR LAST NAME IS!!! wtf

I hope florida-bama ends with both teams losing like bengs-iggles, can that happen please

yes that would be ideal

tho tbh, i am rooting for bama :[

I hope florida-bama ends with both teams losing

^this

good game, though

missed fieldgoal, so sorry Florida

I am recording Florida/Alabama so I can watch Cal beat the living crap out of Washington. What a delightful Saturday afternoon.

FL/AL was great, tho that's all I'll say since I don't want to spoil it for polyphonic.

yeah I was pullin for the Tide too

that is hard enough but I will be god damned if I will ever pull for a Gator in anything

if Tebow was arm wrestling AIDS I would be front row with GO AIDS painted on my chest

was at the oka/mizzou game tonight - was pretty fun but really fuckin cold

btw

i think nat'l title is okla v uf

― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:13 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

i think UF is gonna run it on okla -- okla's offense is the shit obv but their hugely suspect d is still there

hey cankles my friends and i were talkin about something tonight and i think you may be able to shed some light.

how much has the spread hurt nfl scouting? all the most successful qbs this year run spreads and im wondering if nfl scouts are just guessing even more than normal wrt who can make the transition. we were talking specifically about sam bradford. he reminds me a lot of brady -- lots of short high percentage passes, never really has to avoid a pass rush consistently, can make the "big arm" throws when he needs to -- but we couldn't definitely say that he was going to be good in the nfl, and more than that we had no idea what the nfl scouting consensus was on him? u got any thoughts about this

Bradford's only a sophomore now, though, so it's hard to tell what he'll be like in a season or two.

Tebow will be a Jamarcus/Vince-style flop, methinks. Unless that RAH RAH TEAM stuff really works somewhere in the NFL.

he's not going to play qb but dude is too big and athletic not to be a success somewhere -- like peyton hillis style everything type of dude

back to the spread thing, i feel like nfl types are jizzing over stafford because of his measurables even though i don't think he's ever dominated a college game in his career (on a this dude can't be stopped tip -- bradford, mccoy, tebow, harrell all have made ppl feel like this i think) but does it also have to do w/ the fact that he plays in a pro-style offense? HE seems like a russell type bust to me

I've seen articles and talking heads on TV saying the spread is causing problems with development as so many QBs have footwork problems having to work taking the snap from the center, as so much of the spread is in a shotgun. This causes problems when they get into the pros in a west coast style offense where they have to be tight taking 3, 5 or 7 steps and then throwing to a precise area on the field. As illustrations, some were pointing out that Matt Ryan was more prepared as BC ran more of a traditional pro style offense.

I think with some college QBs, you never really know how good they are because if they are on a top college team, they usually have a way better line and skills players around them. I think this is why you see so many guys like Tony Romo or Jeff Garcia come out of nowhere drafted in the dregs while so many guys from the U, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, etc. fail. It is pretty easy to be a QB at Florida when probably both of your wide outs, some of your line or running back are all going to be in the pros. Look at the guys Ken Dorsey was playing with at Miami, dude was playing with Najeh Davenport, Clinton Portis, Frank Gore, Jeremy Shockey and Andre Johnson!

It will be interesting to see how Tim Tebow does in the pros. The one thing that Tebow has that a bunch of those Fla, FSU, Miami-U guys that failed didn't have is that he is freaking huge. I could almost see the guy being a Rofflesburger/McNair type player if he makes it in the pros.

lol humanitarian bowl:

BOISE - The match up is different every year but to Humanitarian Bowl organizers one thing remains the same: making money.

So what can Boise expect with this year's H-bowl game?

This year the Boise State Broncos are headed to sunny San Diego, leaving the Humanitarian Bowl orange-less again. But BSU ticket agents say don't let the lack of lines fool you. They say their phones have been ringing off the hook, not only for Poinsettia Bowl seats, but also for the H-Bowl match up.

"Now that we know its Nevada and Maryland people are excited about that match up," said Anita Guerricabeitia, assistant director for ticket sales.

Humanitarian Bowl officials admit they wanted BSU to stay and play on the blue turf.

"Of course it's a big boost to us on the revenue side when we have Boise State because we basically sell every seat in the stadium," said Kevin McDonald, Executive Director for the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl.

Last year 26,000 people braved the December cold to watch the game. While some fans made the trek to Boise McDonald says they rely on locals to help fill the seats.

"The success of this bowl is really based on travel not coming from the ACC, we like the fact we get a marque name coming from the ACC."

"It has a real positive impact whether it's locals or whether it's out of town folks," said Bobbie Patterson, Executive Director for the Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Patterson says on average a visitor spends about $240 a day when they come to the city. With the H-Bowl a week after the Poinsettia Bowl this year the hope is those BSU fans who made the trip to California will be back to help out come December 30th.

"It generates enthusiastic spending," said Patterson.

As of Monday afternoon the University of Maryland says it's sold about 16 tickets to the game. The University of Nevada says it's sold 8 so far.

The Ballad of Gene Chizik

jordan - i'm not a stafford fan, but it's hard for me to be objective. he reminds me of russell tho, yeah. probably not as much of a surefire bust (better mechanics, less lazy) but i wanna see him play that senior year before putting a real grade on him. i like bradford enough but it's hard to evaluate any of OU's skill position guys because of that giganto o-line. playing in a pro-style offense definitely helps stafford's case, and i would be skeptical with a lot of the spread types, esp tebow (NB. i don't see tebow as a bust, because i don't think he'll be drafted high enough or even picked as a QB - there should be a place for him in the nfl tho) - i almost think that you have to throw big time production out the window when studying a college QB's career, because it's so context dependent. i think the real evaluation has to start with work ethic, study skills etc, stuff that you don't really find out about until you start examining these guys really closely and hearing what the scouts who have tracked them for years have to say. stafford's weight problems are a red flag to me re: his work ethic, which is why i want to see another year out of him and see if he improves in any areas.

The wimpy Pac-10 is one USC win away from a perfect bowl season.

Pittsburgh losing a bowl game 3-0 is simply retarded.

oh wow

guys

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c392167bf53f01167c7fabae0005

WTFUTES

f u fox for showing the texas band AFTER EVERY SINGLE PLAY. anyway good game regardless.

yeah the studio guys are really into the bands too wtf get some real analysts

i also have never understood y fox cant hire better broadcasters for bcs games than Matt Vasgersian & Tim Ryan

it's ridic how bad Matt V is

Texas band doing Kashmir -- fuck yeah

o jeez it's a zep medley!

What the fuck kind of defense was that, OSU.

damn i really wanted osu to win - yeah matt v is fuckin awful. after that penalty at the end of the game that effectively gave osu the ball at midfield they didn't even mention the significance and instead were already eulogizing the game

ayo thx for the feed back canks

nothing like buying the rights to a major sporting event and then sending out the D team for it. At least ESPN's coverage has personality.

oh yeah that was the first coll. football game i've watched in forever and it wasn't bad.

yeah i almost felt bad for OSU; TX clearly has A LOT more talent but OSU probably should have won last night and was pretty creative on offense to move the ball at all

agreed- I only saw part of it but it was pretty entertaining (that and Texas/Texas Tech were the only decent games I watched)

lil wayne debates skip bayless:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=3814076

http://www.slate.com/id/2208108/pagenum/all/

bill james owns the bcs

The problems with the BCS are:

1. That there is a profound lack of conceptual clarity about the goals of the method;
2. That there is no genuine interest here in using statistical analysis to figure out how the teams compare with one another. The real purpose is to create some gobbledygook math to endorse the coaches' and sportswriters' vote;
3. That the ground rules of the calculations are irrational and prevent the statisticians from making any meaningful contribution; and
4. That the existence of this system has the purpose of justifying a few rich conferences in hijacking the search for a national title, avoiding a postseason tournament that would be preferred by the overwhelming majority of fans.

sooners o-line b holdin like carazy

LOL @ belichick hangin out actually looking like he enjoys football

this game is pretty good
tebow making some bad decisions

yeah - thing about tebow is he can pass when their offense is going machine style but if you get in his face and stop the run he gets really fidgety and inaccurate w/ his throws

i thought the score was gonna be 21-10 UF at halftime i was wrong but damn oklahoma is gonna regret those last two drives

SOONERS WHAT ARE YOU DOING BOOMERS

was that INT on bradford? i didn't get a good look at the replay. he looks like a lot better QB than tebow. i dunno why OU had four straight run plays @ the goal line on the previous drive though, commentators asked why didn't they try a play action or something on 3rd down - good question IMHO

damn those two drives will tell the story

that INT was MARK BIZZARO

this florida band is some sorry shit

yeah those play calls were fucked up - never get it to their TE who is their best pass catcher

that dude on that INT wasn't even in the end zone...

i got the sound off but daria otm with the crazy goal line running game plan

i bet some $ on the Okies and am pretty shell shocked right now

FLA gets the kickoff right? ugh

OK running game between the 20's was a thing of beauty tho

WHEN MAJOR RIGHT HITS YOU YOU'LL FEEL IT IN A MAJOR WRONG WAY

might want to put a spy on tebow

so they are basically running the lolcat all the time because their QB is actually a RB?

good drive for fla

u guys i heard one time tim tebow manifested as the angel gabriel rainbows shot out his eyes and everyones toughness and commitment was improved 1m% also hes a skilled and generous lover

even with a -1 ring of passing

:p

http://a2.vox.com/6a00d09e4696a0be2b00d10a7c3e028bfa-500pi

wtf was that?

o man nice pick

florida offense is so lame

sooners beaten by qb w/ leprosy

why y'alls gotta hate on the SEC?

u guys i heard one time tim tebow manifested as the angel gabriel rainbows shot out his eyes and everyones toughness and commitment was improved 1m% also hes a skilled and generous lover

― ice cr?m, Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lmao

the part where mussburgler was like THAT'S THE FIRST THING HE'S DONE WRONG IN HIS LIIIIII-FUH after tebow drew the unsportsmanlike was just.... man. what.

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IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SETON HALL BASKETBALL, YOU MUST TALK ABOUT THE FIGHTING NATION OF ISRAEL. . . . STILL FIGHTING AFTER FORTY-FIVE YEARS.

AND YOU, MY DEAR . . .

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. . . ARE A TREA-ZHA

tebow love makes me sick

the only thing worse is ppl talking about how usc might be the best team in the country ugh

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ok

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1x1mvb2W23Q/SWdmcH6ZxFI/AAAAAAAAATM/A8wEAOD577k/s1600-h/brennaman+wiki.jpg

Obama calling for college football playoff: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/09/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4709929.shtml

I can't really be hating too much on Tebow, because you know underneath that All-American quarterback boy exterior is a batshit insane linebacker who loves the taste of his own blood.

But I do agree, all the talk about him being the greatest college football player of all time is ESPN stupid. Jim Brown anyone...