College Football -- Week 3 Thread

[wade moore]

UMass probably blew it by giving up a TD just before half, then fumbled and gave up another TD.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I couldn't imagine the GT defense getting worse than last year, but I'll be darned if they aren't well on their way to it.

Change GT to UGA. The same statement holds. Is this just growing pains for the 3-4 transition? I hope so.

[MJ4H]

Yeah the pbp was screwed up. Mallett pooch kicked it down to about the 10 or 15 and it skipped into the end zone.

[MJ4H]

Cleaned up the tell at halftime apparently.

[Young Drachma]

The Boise State faithful are appearing in Laramie, clad in Orange and Blue. We'll see if Wyoming puts up a fight or not.

[tarcone]

I like watching Arkansas. They are fun.

[mauchow]

At least School of Rock is on...

[mauchow]

Okay, okay, I was kidding about School of Rock. Looks like Ark is in complete meltdown mode.

[MJ4H]

sigh

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by wade moore

UMass probably blew it by giving up a TD just before half, then fumbled and gave up another TD.

Game's played out about as I expected. UMass gets up early, keeps it close into the 3rd, and loses by ~14 points. We're keying on Denard Robinson so much it's opening running lanes for the RB's. Meanwhile our RB's are very good, but our QB isn't good enough to get into a shootout, even taking into account how terrible the Michigan defense is.

UGA making it interesting.

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Last night in Georgia, Marist beats SW DeKalb 17-14 on a 59 yd game-winning field goal. 59 yarder in HIGH SCHOOL !

Let's remember that today as we watch our various kickers struggle.

Are tees allowed in Georgia?

[larrymcg421]

Terrible playcalling by UNC there.

[Bigsmooth]

Holy balls Arkansas....wtf. I don't remember ever seeing a melt down this bad.

[MJ4H]

this is absolutely unbelievable. What do I do to deserve this

[mauchow]

Well, it's not over yet. See if the defense can get back to 1st half form on this last drive against UGA.

[BishopMVP]

Blocked punt UMass, inside Michigan's 10 down 42-30. About 2:30 left.

[Bigsmooth]

Why did it take Arkansas 6 seconds to get a TO called after the sack? Come on.

[BishopMVP]

TD UMass. 42-36 Michigan, XP pending, 2:05 left.

[Bigsmooth]

Hahaha Childs Please...great line.

That was beautiful.

[mauchow]

Bwahah, classic.

[MJ4H]

k thx

lol at Childs please

[larrymcg421]

Wow, Georgia DC? Shoot yourself in the head. Might as well beat the Bulldogs fans to it.

[larrymcg421]

Holy shit, they should have caught that!

[BishopMVP]

Wow. Murray does have an NFL arm.

UMass onside kick OOB. Mich 1st down - ballgame.

[Suicane75]

I'm so proud of Temple. It took them forever but they finally have a quality program and a win against the team that took their spot in the Big East puts a warmness in my cockles.

[Lathum]

Not a good start and jebusus there are a lot of Nebraska fans here.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

this is absolutely unbelievable. What do I do to deserve this

Keep the faith! What an arm, will enjoy rooting for him on Sundays.

[Edward64]

Oh, someone more knowledgeable than me ... reassure me that he's not the second coming of Ryan Leaf?

[Lathum]

Jesus USC, are you really that bad?

[mauchow]

Yuck, Wisconsin's Borland is out of the game and he's definitely a player we don't want to lose; but he's been injury prone with his shoulder this year. It sucks big time for the defense. Now to stop making big mistakes and play a full 60 minutes against ASU.

[Lathum]

Great drive engineered by Locker after going down 14 early. Defense needs to step it up and get a 3 and out here and keep the momentum.

[fpres]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Not a good start and jebusus there are a lot of Nebraska fans here.

The Huskers always travel very well.

[Suicane75]

All things being equal, that VT/ECU game looks like it's been a blast to watch.

[Bigsmooth]

That UW crowd is sooo loud. Cameras shaking and the FROSH QB is getting rattled!

[Galaril]

So far the OU AF game is interesting. I would suspect OU will where us down with the deep bench big bodies.

[bhlloy]

USC is getting a royal screw job by the Big 12 officials. Not usually one to complain about this team taking bad penalties because we usually deserve them but holy crap this officiating crew isn't even trying to hide it.

[tarcone]

Looks to be 1-1 in the Big10/Pac 12 Challenge.

[JonInMiddleGA]

GT rallies thanks to the offense incredible ball control in the 2nd half (including school's 2nd longest drive in the past 25 years) and a couple of UNC turnovers.
Not impressive considering the depleted Tar Heels, but a win is a win, and on the road to boot.

UGA's loss has driven fans to what was previously inconceivable: they're calling for the return of Willie Martinez. No, I'm not kidding, Grantham will be lucky if he doesn't awake to a moving van outside his house by Monday morning. The mood in the Dawg Nation is extremely ugly toward him at the moment.

[tarcone]

Wow. 95 yards but a half yard short.

[Galaril]

Geez OU QB is imploding right now.

[tarcone]

Wisconsin 13 Arizona State 10.

[bhlloy]

It's taken me about 3 weeks to complete the cycle of "WTF Lane Kiffin?" to "oh, maybe this might work out after all" to "WTF Lane Kiffin get this asshole as far away from my football program as you can"

Offensive playcalling is bizarre. Personnel choices are even worse (yes that was Stanley Havili and Ronald Johnson on the bench for most of the first 2 drives). I can usually predict what play is coming next just by thinking what the worst possible playcall in this situation would be (we just ran it twice downhill for 18 yards? let's go to... a slow developing draw play with our freshman RB. winner!) We show a very nice ability to complete 8 yard passes when we need 15. Monte Kiffin should have retired a long time ago. We are seriously running the Tampa 2 in college football with a bunch of freshman DB's and a middle linebacker dropping 30 yards into coverage who was a defensive end less than a year ago. We seem to have spent twice as long in practice with our bullshit little gimmick XP/punt formations than we actually did on learning the defense. We ran a 6'4 180lb QB straight into the line instead of kicking an extra point to put us up 7 in another really close game, on the road. I'm just going to stop now because I think I'm beginning to sound a little crazy....

Positives - the run defense with Casey and Harris in the middle looks pretty beastly, Barkley to Rojo when set up right will still beat any secondary in college football and we are still beating a major conference team on the road with the refs against us. And that's pretty much it.

[SirFozzie]

CRAZY finish to the Arizona State v Wisconsin first half.

Kickoff with :10 to play in the half

Taken at the 4 yard line.

Breaks two tackles.

Down the sideline. Beats the man with the best chance to catch him..

final man reaches out, trips him up..

and tackles him after a 95 yard Kickoff Return, at the one yard line as time expires for the first half.

[k0ruptr]

Hawaii 10 - Colorado 0 @ the Half.

[tarcone]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

It's taken me about 3 weeks to complete the cycle of "WTF Lane Kiffin?" to "oh, maybe this might work out after all" to "WTF Lane Kiffin get this asshole as far away from my football program as you can"

Offensive playcalling is bizarre. Personnel choices are even worse (yes that was Stanley Havili and Ronald Johnson on the bench for most of the first 2 drives). I can usually predict what play is coming next just by thinking what the worst possible playcall in this situation would be (we just ran it twice downhill for 18 yards? let's go to... a slow developing draw play with our freshman RB. winner!) We show a very nice ability to complete 8 yard passes when we need 15. Monte Kiffin should have retired a long time ago. We are seriously running the Tampa 2 in college football with a bunch of freshman DB's and a middle linebacker dropping 30 yards into coverage who was a defensive end less than a year ago. We seem to have spent twice as long in practice with our bullshit little gimmick XP/punt formations than we actually did on learning the defense. We ran a 6'4 180lb QB straight into the line instead of kicking an extra point to put us up 7 in another really close game, on the road. I'm just going to stop now because I think I'm beginning to sound a little crazy....

Positives - the run defense with Casey and Harris in the middle looks pretty beastly, Barkley to Rojo when set up right will still beat any secondary in college football and we are still beating a major conference team on the road with the refs against us. And that's pretty much it.

I agree. Its Madden.

[tarcone]

I expect to see a tackle around soon.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

It's taken me about 3 weeks to complete the cycle of "WTF Lane Kiffin?" to "oh, maybe this might work out after all" to "WTF Lane Kiffin get this asshole as far away from my football program as you can"

Offensive playcalling is bizarre. Personnel choices are even worse (yes that was Stanley Havili and Ronald Johnson on the bench for most of the first 2 drives). I can usually predict what play is coming next just by thinking what the worst possible playcall in this situation would be (we just ran it twice downhill for 18 yards? let's go to... a slow developing draw play with our freshman RB. winner!) We show a very nice ability to complete 8 yard passes when we need 15. Monte Kiffin should have retired a long time ago. We are seriously running the Tampa 2 in college football with a bunch of freshman DB's and a middle linebacker dropping 30 yards into coverage who was a defensive end less than a year ago. We seem to have spent twice as long in practice with our bullshit little gimmick XP/punt formations than we actually did on learning the defense. We ran a 6'4 180lb QB straight into the line instead of kicking an extra point to put us up 7 in another really close game, on the road. I'm just going to stop now because I think I'm beginning to sound a little crazy....

Welcome to the Lane Kiffin Experience

edit to add: Okay, that said, he's also the same guy who took one of the worst QB college football has ever seen & turned him into something a lot more than serviceable last season. It's almost as though it takes a lot of time for him to figure out who he has & what they can do, and then what he can do with that. But, in spite of the incredible amount of disgust/ill will/hatred I have for the bastard, I've watched him figure it out before & suspect he'll do the same at USC. Thing is, I'm not sure that 7 or 8 wins will feel much like "he figured it out" for USC fans.

[bhlloy]

Originally Posted by tarcone

I agree. Its Madden.

lol... you are absolutely right. Lane Kiffin calls a college football game like an 11 year old kid plays Madden

[BYU 14]

BYU starts by rotating QBs again and nothing but offensive inepitude. Heaps takes the last 4 series, two scoring drives and we only trail FSU 13-10 at the half and get the ball in the third.

True frosh or not, Heaps is the man, why did we have to wait 3 fucking games for this????

[Galaril]

Air Force 38 Yard TD run by QB Jefferson makes it a tie game 10-10 in Oklahoma early in the third.

[larrymcg421]

How many players are Washington sending out there on defense?