That seems like a weird play call. Maybe Riley has more confidence in his defense than he should.

Will they delay the start of the other game if we go to OT?

What a horrible 3rd down playcall there by OU. Win or lose, that was atrocious.

Extremely unimpressed by Riley/staff in this one tbh.
And without Mayfield, he might be the next Kevin Sumlin.

What a game. Someone tweeted that it's the first ever OT in the Rose Bowl. Is that true? Seems crazy that a game that's been played over 100 times has never been to OT.

Remember though, college football OT only been around since the bowl season in '95.

edit to add: a piece from last year about that fact
https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...-oral-history/

Duh. Thanks for that.

I think overtime favors Georgia here.

Which means OU probably wins.

You have the best player in college football and you completely take him out of the game in OT. Very weird.

And just when I thought I couldn't think less of Riley's job down the stretch, along comes the 2nd OT.

Holy hell, what a shitshow.

Helluva game

That was some atrocious play calling.

Thought it was going to be a blowout after that first half, but heck of a comeback by Georgia.

Yeah, that was some absolutely baffling play calling. Like the play calling sheet ran out of plays to call except outside runs or something.

You have to let your Heisman QB win the game for you there surely, especially with the way the rest of the game went.

Prediction: Riley is gone within three seasons.

Feel free to come back to this thread and point at me if I'm wrong.

Yup, great comeback. Still rooting for the Dawgs to win it all.

Ted Cruz probably thinks Lincoln Riley went too conservative. Great game by Georgia though. Kirby Smart's defensive adjustments at halftime were the difference. Riley didn't seem prepared at all.

Yeah, don't mistake my post as an endorsement of Peters. I just think Speight is bad, and his solid numbers in 2016 were more from good Harbaugh gameplanning than anything he was doing. At least Peters/McCaffrey/Patterson have upside, you know what Wilton Speight is and it's not enough.
Year 4? His first real recruiting class was 2016, and they have Shea Patterson, Peters, Joe Milton and Dylan McCaffrey on the roster for Year 4. That's a 4/5* each full recruiting period he's had and a 5* transfer, but only 1 has played yet, and that was as a redshirt freshman. (Peters definitely didn't impress too much this fall, but before writing off McCaffrey remember that Andrew Luck redshirted under Harbaugh too - Harbaugh's not psycho in the way Brian Kelly is, who will just throw every QB in whether they're ready or not.) I don't even know why I'm the one defending Harbaugh since I dislike Michigan, but opposing fans sure seem to want to say he's on the hot seat and run him out of Ann Arbor a lot more than Michigan fans do.

Heck, I dont want him to go. Iowa still owns Michigan and I dont think that will change under Harbaugh. :)

I still hate UGa, but I guess people will be in a better mood around here for a week or so so it's not all bad.

Okay, I'm totally stealing that

I think I pulled a hamstring jumping up and down after that blocked kick. Wow. I'm just in shock. That game should be charged for attempted murder.

Btw, is it going to come out later that Mayfield broke a rib on that hit? He didn't look the same after that, which might be why they just stopped throwing.

The way he was hopping around waving his arms up and down prior to the start of OT he looked fine to me.

You're kidding, right?

The next 7 days will be the most obnoxious endurance test in decades.

3% battery and no charger.
My tigers in more trouble than m.y phone

On second thought, you are probably right, although that generally affects me a lot less now that I work from home and don't listen to sports talk.

Iowa's beaten Harbaugh once - by a point at home - but hey, you'd probably think Iowa would own Alabama and Saban if they joined the B1G, so I just find the homerism endearing at this point. :p

You have to remember that some of us are trapped here behind enemy lines.

To be clear, I definitely don't want them to win next week, although the alternatives are fairly craptastic as well

Just imagine how bad things will be if Bama wins tonight.

Well, I was talking Michigan in general. Iowa has won 5 out of the last 6. And 1-0 with a win over 3rd ranked UM team coached by Harbaugh.

Also, I wouldnt compare Harbaugh to Saban quite yet.

I'm okay with that, I only know like a dozen Bama people :)

And of that dozen or so, most are actually knowledgeable about football & have no history of making irrational claims when they suffer the occasional loss.

The second worst outcome behind UGAg winning next week is UGAg losing, since the excuses & denial will last for another 30-40 years afterwards.

Nice pass defense there.

Just a guess. There was a reason he just stopped throwing. It might just be down to the looks he was giving. Georgia played the pass aggressively and maybe he or Riley were just trying to take what they thought they could get. It just seems strange.

On further note: Mayfield, in his regular classy way, looked back at the Georgia defense during the first quarter after a touchdown and made the throat slashing sign while saying "it's over." Following the game, as Mayfield was leaving the field, Georgia LB Bellamy followed him of the field yelling "humble yourself!" over and over. :D

You never lived in Alabama.

Their sidewalk alums don't even come close to the absolute most obnoxious fanbase on the planet. Soccer hooligans could take lessons on being unbearable from the DawgNation.

Question - I am watching this on ESPN HD (on Cox Xfinity with HD channels) and it doesn't look that crisp to me. Anyone else having this problem?

Alabama has played this whole half in Clemson territory, it seems like. All SEC final unless Clemson offense wakes up.

Agreed.. and on that 3rd and 2 in OT he then decides to pass it when a run would have probably gotten a 1st down. Baffles me though why they took the ball out of Mayfield's hands... bizarre..

UGH

The Bama defense has been pretty beat up. They look healthy now. We have to see what happens in the second half, because this is college football.

Three scoring drives in game 2 so far. None of 60 yards or more.

Talk about a field position game.

Rose Bow just saw 100 point OT game between SEC and BIGXII

Purists must all be sick

I just realized how bad that OU staff performance was:

Kirk Ferentz would have been an upgrade.

Hell no. It's not even close. Same thing with the UK sidewalk alums, which is pretty much the entirety of central and eastern KY, but even they can't touch Bama fans after the last 10 or so years.

Anyone able to tell the difference between good defense and poor defense after watching these two semi-final games? All the talk about conservative offense late in the game but they still scored 48 points which should win 99.9 percent of the time if your defense isnt just terrible.

Gotta feel for the Oklahoma offense and being as good of a team as they were with defense holding them back.

I think so, yeah.


I'm pretty sure that everybody should have known game one would be a shootout. Which is why you can't call plays like a drunk on 'shrooms when you have the ball.

First comment was intended for the "B12 has such great offense its not that the defenses are that bad" people.

And I lol at your second comment. He called the game like a NFL coach that was scared to lose once Georgia came back. Georgia made some halftime adjustments that clearly confused the hell out of that coaching staff.

But still, you could have driven a truck through some of them holes. I guess their solid defensive performance against Ohio State is what had "some" people underestimating how poor their defense was this year.

I'm on board with the notion that UGAg adjustments were key in q3 and maybe parts of q4. But I did not see them being the reason for the inexcusable choices time & again in the closing minutes & the OT. It was, as someone said up the thread, they reached the end of the play sheet & literally had no idea what to run.