Official College Football Thread - Week 12
 

Starting it off with a bang!

Gary Pinkel of Missouri Tigers arrested on suspicion of drunken driving - ESPN

Wouldn't happen if they were in the SEC

Also,

Georgia Southern is playing Alabama this weekend.

Georgia Southern is #2 in the FCS, Alabama is #3 in the FBS.

I can't remember a matchup like this, especially this late in the season, between top 5 teams in their respective divisions. I'm sure it's happened, but I wouldn't be shocked if Georgia Southern kept it within two scores.

Tonight we get UNC vs #8 VT on ESPN, along with #20 Southern Miss taking on UAB. Tomorrow ESPN has #2 Ok State traveling to Iowa State.

Ranked matchups are slim:

#5 Oklahoma @ #22 Baylor
#13 Kansas State @ #23 Texas
#16 Nebraska @ #18 Michigan

For those who care, Big East title implications in place with Cincy @ Rutgers. A Cincy win puts them well into the driver's seat, and a Rutgers win could lead to a three way tie if things break right.

Rumors blew up this week that Knile Davis was returning to the field for this Saturday's game against Mississippi State (for Arkansas, obv). Coach Petrino shot the rumor down, but the fact that he is practicing and has been for a couple of weeks is extremely good news.

The Game.

Before I was ever exposed to the wonder that is MBBF, I was actually a fan of Mizzou football because of Gary Pinkel. He was a long-time assistant at the UW under Don James and was the popular choice among the fanbase to take over when Jim Lambright was fired in '98 (instead we got the surprise hiring of Neuheisel). The part of me that doesn't hate Mizzou football because of MBBF is sad to hear about Pinkel screwing up like this. I have to think Don James is particularly upset by this news - not only was Pinkel a long-time assistant, DJ coached him as a player at Kent State.

Washington attempts to get back off the mat this week and take down Oregon State on the road. Huskies still in position to close the season strong and finish at 8-4 heading into the bowls, something that most Husky fans would have figured highly optimistic heading into the season, what with having to replace their best offensive player (Jake Locker) and defensive player (Mason Foster).

Depends on how much 'Bama cares offensively.


I think Nebraska wins this because they are the more physical team.

PSU @ OSU. Maybe one of the ugliest offensive games of the year, but PSU finally goes on the road post scandal, and they absolutely need this for the Leaders division title.

Is Montana starting? Not that it matters, Polk will rush for 800 yds against our D. God, this season can't end fast enough.

If neither Bergeron nor Brown is available for the Horns, with Fozzy Whittaker done for the season after the knee injury at Mizzou, K-State should win easily. The defense will keep them in the game, but unless they can score, it won't matter.

Yeah this is a very interesting time of year for this game. Alabama will likely not be in it as much as they might need to be against Southern. A 24-7 type game.

RU vs. Cin, if CIN wins, I think the BCS bowl is theirs. If RU wins, we need to win one more and hope for WVU to lose.

Yep, sounds like Sark confirmed it this afternoon.

I'm sure hoping we can get a big game out of Polk. Sark has gotten away from the run a bit lately (certainly due in large part to the quality of defenses faced).

I know you're pessimistic, but these days I don't take any road game for granted. Games in Corvallis haven't been a cakewalk for the UW in a long time...

I realize that was probably tongue in cheek but I would agree that Saban and Miles probably aren't getting booked by the local police department.

Fixed that for ya. :popcorn:

Putting it in here for ease: Dillon Baxter has been granted his release from USC. He is expected to transfer to either SDSU or Florida. His attitude was a MAJOR issue on campus. I hope he gets his head on straight as he still has a lot of potential.

Not really, even if PSU has 2 conf. losses, as long as UW wins this week, PSU v. Wisconsin will be for the Leaders title, thanks to OSU's loss at Purdue last week.

Good game - Iowa St. vs Ok St.

ISU down 17-24 in the 4th quarter

Very good game. . . but I don't think OSU was in any condition to play tonight. Taking nothing away from Iowa St, OSU just is not there mentally.

Oh boy.. 24-24!

Agreed, definitely not there mentally tonight.

That being said, ISU is playing out of their butts. ;)

Not taking anything away from ISU, nothing at all. They are playing hard, their QB looks exceptional and the crowd has been huge. But again, they aren't there. I'll be stunned if they win this game. Defense is exhausted at this point. Offense isn't clicking at all. If they do win, it's one of their better wins of the season, and I don't care that it's Iowa State.

Huge, huge play by OSU there. A really poor pass by that QB I just talked up.

He's a man, of course he's kicking the 40 yard field goal.

Wide!

I'm kind of a mad hatter (I have no problem with what Smith did in Atlanta last week), but I'd go for this. Over a minute left and an exhausted defense and Iowa State with three time outs. I'd have went for it. That FG looked good by the way.

That was close.

Very close.. can ISU pull it out? If it goes OT, I don't see them winning.

Isu needs to take this into ot.

That was good.

OT here we go. I think Iowa St. is insane here. OSU's D is exhausted. 1st and 20, plenty of timeouts, I don't get it. You are at this point because of your aggressiveness and now you decide to become a sissy?

Agreed.. go for the throat.. what do you have to lose?

I don't think they win in OT, period.

And just like that...

Ok then.. 1 play, TD ISU

We learn why FOFC commenters aren't college coaches.

These announcers are insane. On one hand they talk about OSU playing with heavy hearts and their minds elsewhere. On there other, they talk about how OSU should be motivated because of the BCS.

Look, jack asses, it's the first one. I'm just a freakin grad who never met the people who died today and it's been on my mind all day. The ISU play just shows how OSU isn't there mentally at all. They haven't done one "little" thing right all night long.

It isn't going to start now. The only reason they are in the game is the supreme talent advantage. Without that, Iowa State would have won this game by fifty.

wide right. lol

2nd OT here we come

Pretty ball Weeden throws.

UH OH

Oops

Jinx

And another one bites the dust.

Yup. The throw was picked off right as I pressed submit.

Alabama -LSU 2 here we come.

Well, shit.

What a great prediction I made :crazy:

One of the saddest days in the universities history will come to an end.

Feel really bad for those OSU kids and coaches. Obvious they weren't all there tonight.

That being said things are going to be very interesting.

That wasnt the same Oklahoma State team from the rest of the year. Randles fumbles finally did them in.

Me too.

Hats off to ISU though, they played about the best they could.

I'm happy for Iowa State, but really? You run out on the field after the events that happened today? Seriously?

It was a great game. Though for a few weeks now I thought Weeden had been pretty unremarkable in his ball placement, being bailed out by throwing a lot of screen passes and some pretty good receivers.

I dont want to say I told you so, but I asked in one of the weekly NCAA threads what would happen if everyone lost, who would LSU play? I was told not to worry.

Well, I just wanted to say I told you so.

Yeah, the ball that was picked in OT is the ball he isnt always real accurate on. He throws a much better ball to the outside.

Now here is where things get interesting for the national title game.

Let's say, just on a one in a million chance, that Georgia beats LSU in the SEC championship game? Then what?

Alabama as the 1 and LSU as the 2, with UGA as the 3rd SEC team in? That seems like a strong possibility since

Im not real excited about the strong possibility of seeing a matchup we see every year in the Nat'l championship game.

If LSU and Bama win out. They will play again correct?

Can Oregon or Oklahoma pass bama?

I know I'm biased. I know anything can happen, no matter what. But I firmly believe OSU would have ran the table ad the events of this morning not taken place. This team wasn't there and still almost beat an Iowa State team that played near perfect football. With OU beaten up and OSU at home, I really thought they would run the table.

But after my shock this morning, I told my wife that tonight they would be lucky to win the game. Stillwater is a small college town and I know how much the first plane crash impacted the community. This one hit all of us at OSU harder not only because of the loss, but because we still haven't completely came to grips with the last one.

I guess what I'm saying is congrats on your prediction, but I don't think it would have been accurate had OSU not suffered the loss this morning. Maybe I shouldn't have even been on the message board during the game.

If the national title game is Alabama vs. LSU, I will never watch another second of college football again.

Playoffs anyone?

Im stunned about that. 28 point favs.

The offense that looked unstoppable all year just crapped the bed in the 4th quarter and beyond. Would have never guessed Okie St losing even playing a subpar game.

FK

I was already thinking that Oklahoma State was going to lose next week to Oklahoma. As prolific as the offense is, the defense is pretty bad.

Thats for sure. I have no idea how they managed to shutout Texas Tech last week.

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Well 6 points they gave up I guess. I didnt remember Tech scoring must have came late in the game.

I know people don't want to see a rematch of LSU/Alabama, but at this point if both win out can someone really make an argument Alabama isn't the most deserving team to play for the NC? Oregon is going to wind up the only other team with a case at this point.

I think Bama is a bit better than LSU despite the score result of the first game. I thought Bama sort of blew it while LSU made the most of their few chances.

I think Bama is the most deserving to be in the game now but it still doesnt make it exciting to see a rematch. They play once a year the way it is. I guess I sort of look at it as seeing the Ravens/Steelers in the Super Bowl.

I understand that point, but I'd as of now we're likely going to get a rematch in LSU - Oregon and LSU - Alabama and I'd much rather see LSU/Bama of the two.

Yeah, at least the latter was a close game.

Maybe Oregon and Alabama will lose down stretch and someone like Oklahoma or the VT/Clemson winner could become the best one loss team?

To me, Alabama beating LSU to win the title would just be kind of annoying since each would have one loss with LSU having won in Alabama while Alabama would have won on a neutral field. But them's the breaks I guess.

Yeah, if people really want to see the two best teams play in the Nat'l championship game these are probably the two best so from that side of things I guess it works.

I can certainly understand Oregon having a case though.

That +1 would work perfect this year.

Youd have OKl/OKl St eliminate themselves next week. The winner plays Oregon. Bama and LSU play in the other game. You then get a Ore/OKl/Okl St vs Bama/LSU championship. I think most would be ok with that.

LSU gets screwed with that scenario:) But atleast 4 teams with a loss already can claim they had a fair shake;)

Same could be said for the OU/TT game. I'm fully aware OSU had a way better excuse to mail in a game.

I had figured OU would beat OSU like Oregon was going to beat Stanford. As much as it pains me to say it, the title game is a rematch. I'm not sure USC alone can vault Oregon past 'Bama. Between 'Bama and OU, 'Bama's loss is far more forgivable.

Just a stunning loss though.

I def think if it plays out that way that it should be a LSU-Bama rematch, But I honestly would much rather see The Oregon-LSU Rematch. The Bama game would have been a lot more recent and I feel it would end pretty similar. I think with the Ducks there is a little bit more unknown and I think I'd just be more interested in that 1st game of the year and last game of the year scenario.

I can see a scenario where Bama plays Oregon for the championship. If all three win out, but LSU losses the SEC championship it could happen.

You do realize OSU was up 24-7 in the third right? I get their heads and hearts were elsewhere, but for most of the game they were doing well enough. OSU crapped the bed in the second half and ISU took advantage of it. If the game was close or ISU was leading throughout, I could see your point, but to be up 24-7 in the third and then blame the tragedy for what follows seems to be rather naive.

This pretty much sums up my feelings.

Define near perfect football? Iowa State's QB threw 2 INT's (one for a pick six), fumbled away the ball inside the red zone, their receivers dropped eight passes by midway through the third quarter and they had a missed field goal.

I don't think the tragedy had anything to do with this loss. This was a classic "thinking about next week's opponent" loss. They had just whipped Texas Tech 66-6 and had the biggest game in the programs history next week vs. Oklahoma. They were told they would beat Iowa State by four touchdowns, problem was that Iowa State came to play.

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Yeah the Oklahoma State offense seemed out of it or surprised by Iowa States speed on defense. Its kind of hard to figure out since Im sure they had seen faster defenses on the year.

I think part of the problem is Brandon Weeden is one of the most unimpressive Heisman Trophy candidates that I've seen in a long time. There was a stat early in the third quarter that showed, for the game, that something like 55% of his passes were at or behind the line of scrimmage. Couple that with the fact that he simply looked lost out there and was throwing a ton of balls into double and triple coverage. I think Iowa State threw some wrinkles into their defense that he simply had never had to deal with before. Making him hang onto the ball longer and forcing him into poor decisions or making throws a beat late.

Solid point. This is how it looked to me as well.

Weeden couldnt adjust to his WRs not being 5 yards wide open on every play.

Let me state the obvious and say that type of offense would get eaten alive by the likes of LSU/'Bama. If the pass play is starting at, or behind the line of scrimmage, both of those defenses are far too fast to be consistently beaten.

And they'll more than likely get eaten alive next week vs. Oklahoma.

I dont know about this. Texas Tech uses them same type of passes which seemed to work well against Oklahoma.

I think it should be a decent high scoring game. I dont think I could say Oklahoma is clearly a lot better than Oki St though. Give me Oklahoma by a FG.

I think it was simply another instance of a team looking past an opponent they didn't take seriously.

They just beat an undefeated #2 team in the country.

The 18-22 year old kids arent thinking 'Lets not storm the field after our huge overtime upset win because the womens basketball coach just accidentally died'

Its perhaps one of the biggest wins in terms of upsets in Big12 conference history for the program.


Now, Clemson storming the field after a 3 pt OT home win over Wake Forest is another story.

Corso actually made a very good point just now about the Oklahoma loss to Texas Tech. Tech actually had a mobile QB that the Sooners' had to account for. Not sure Brandon Weeden is running anywhere. From what I've seen the dude is a fucking statue. :lol:

1) It was not an OT win.
2) We did not "storm" the field. Every game, win or lose, our fans are welcomed onto the field where the stadium waits approximately 5 minutes while the team gathers and sings the alma mater at the Paw.....win, lose or draw we exit the stadium from the field, out through the player gates.

I certainly have no affinity for "Auburn With A Lake," but he's right. They're on the field every game.

Who did Montana State lose to?

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Utah 27-10

Utah, 27-10 in the season opener

Thank you

lol at Corso saying "Aw fuck it" on Gameday.

I heard it too

Hilarious. Just went back to watch it again. The look on the faces of the other guys was priceless.

Hehe. RIP Lewis. :)

Time to settle in for an eternally frustrating afternoon of Shoelace Robinson.

love that the fans start shouting the time on the clock after that delay penalty :)

For those not watching, the Big House has no/little power and the refs are manually handling the play clock.

7-0 Michigan.

Corso just made an apology.

I missed it, but it's all over YouTube already. Here's one of the better quality early versions.

Herbstriet turned so red he would have glowed in the dark. That was too funny.