Poli
08-20-2003, 10:37 AM
I wish I wasn't, umm, 3 years old when this game was played. I wonder if ESPN ever shows it on Classic. If they do, I'm going to watch it when I get home!
Who has beat it so far?
I did, but only after so many tries I couldn't count. I beat all the others in less than five tries, but this one absolutely had me.
The way I finally beat SMU is I quit kicking onside kicks...it was killing me to give them such good field position and I recovered one kick the whole time I did it...which I'm talking days of gaming went into this.
That said, BYU's kicker can't kick a deep ball into the endzone and I don't want to kick out of bounds either, so what I did was kick the ball deep to the middle with my team in an onside formation.
Obviously, SMU counters with a recover formation, leaving the middle open. The first time I did this, SMU's returner actually touched the ball, it rolled around, and he finally picked it up. I had placed the fastest athletes on the field for kickoff teams, and we stopped the return literally at the 9.
From here, I got lucky, as they'd run the ball twice, and I would call T.O. after each. An incomplete pass forced a clock stop and the punt was to my fastest player. Couple of jukes later and a good wall get me into the endzone...but I'm still down 11 I think at this point (it's been about a week since I did this).
I try that squib kick again, and this time it went into the endzone. No worries, no time off the clock, and their at their 20.
First play, a run and I call T.O. Second play, I've no choice but let them run and eat the clock. I do stop them repeatedly as I sell out to stop the run with a goal line "blitz all". Third down and long and another pass, and it's incomplete again. This time the return wasn't so great.
I got points anyway when McMahon hit a receiver in stride at the 10...the receiver gets hit by the safety, but pitches the ball off to another receiver who coasts in.
About 1:30 left in the game, I've no timeouts, and I'm kicking off. I do the squib one more time. Conventional wisdom has you kick onside and hope for the best. The reason I squibbed was the results of the previous two. Once again, it rolls through the endzone. SMU eats up the clock with runs on all three downs, and I jump offsides intentionally to force them to punt on fourth, rather than running the clock out.
I didn't try to be fancy with the return, and immediately called fair catch, somewhere along the BYU 45 to 40 yard line. I have about 6 seconds and 60 yards to go. Hail Mary once again, and McMahon hit his receiver who beat the coverage (how the heck a receiver beats coverage in that situation, I'll never figure...although the safety did make a leap to try and swat the ball away, it wasn't close to getting the ball) and I win the game.
Any other success stories with this BYU-SMU game? I found it by far to be the most challenging.
The next challenging one was the Buffs and Michigan. I couldn't get Kordell to throw the ball into the endzone once. I finally beat that when the receivers turned back to Kordell. I hit a receiver at the 15, who juked one defender as he turned around, and received a great block from a fellow WR and went into the endzone.
Who has beat it so far?
I did, but only after so many tries I couldn't count. I beat all the others in less than five tries, but this one absolutely had me.
The way I finally beat SMU is I quit kicking onside kicks...it was killing me to give them such good field position and I recovered one kick the whole time I did it...which I'm talking days of gaming went into this.
That said, BYU's kicker can't kick a deep ball into the endzone and I don't want to kick out of bounds either, so what I did was kick the ball deep to the middle with my team in an onside formation.
Obviously, SMU counters with a recover formation, leaving the middle open. The first time I did this, SMU's returner actually touched the ball, it rolled around, and he finally picked it up. I had placed the fastest athletes on the field for kickoff teams, and we stopped the return literally at the 9.
From here, I got lucky, as they'd run the ball twice, and I would call T.O. after each. An incomplete pass forced a clock stop and the punt was to my fastest player. Couple of jukes later and a good wall get me into the endzone...but I'm still down 11 I think at this point (it's been about a week since I did this).
I try that squib kick again, and this time it went into the endzone. No worries, no time off the clock, and their at their 20.
First play, a run and I call T.O. Second play, I've no choice but let them run and eat the clock. I do stop them repeatedly as I sell out to stop the run with a goal line "blitz all". Third down and long and another pass, and it's incomplete again. This time the return wasn't so great.
I got points anyway when McMahon hit a receiver in stride at the 10...the receiver gets hit by the safety, but pitches the ball off to another receiver who coasts in.
About 1:30 left in the game, I've no timeouts, and I'm kicking off. I do the squib one more time. Conventional wisdom has you kick onside and hope for the best. The reason I squibbed was the results of the previous two. Once again, it rolls through the endzone. SMU eats up the clock with runs on all three downs, and I jump offsides intentionally to force them to punt on fourth, rather than running the clock out.
I didn't try to be fancy with the return, and immediately called fair catch, somewhere along the BYU 45 to 40 yard line. I have about 6 seconds and 60 yards to go. Hail Mary once again, and McMahon hit his receiver who beat the coverage (how the heck a receiver beats coverage in that situation, I'll never figure...although the safety did make a leap to try and swat the ball away, it wasn't close to getting the ball) and I win the game.
Any other success stories with this BYU-SMU game? I found it by far to be the most challenging.
The next challenging one was the Buffs and Michigan. I couldn't get Kordell to throw the ball into the endzone once. I finally beat that when the receivers turned back to Kordell. I hit a receiver at the 15, who juked one defender as he turned around, and received a great block from a fellow WR and went into the endzone.