2024 Bowl week

[kwilliam]

is up. We will advance again Tuesday night around 10 pm Central.

Games
1) NT vs UTSA ----> user game
8) ODU vs 7) Washington
Maryland vs 11) South Carolina
18) Southern Miss vs Kansas
3) Texas State vs 4) Virginia Tech
6) Buffalo vs 5) Mid Tenn State --> user game
Rice vs Boise
12) Arizona State vs 21) TCU

[thesportsguru11]

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I have a minor personal rant to go on, please disregard if you wish.

Heisman voting seemed rigged this year. Somehow, Texas State's Archer won, while running for just under 1000 yards less than UTSA's Scott, who finished 4th.

IMO, the three best players this year were ODU's Gardner, Scott and Texas State's Davis, none of which finished in the top 2. Davis was 1st team AA with 51 TD's and wasn't a finalist.

Further proving that performance in the Conf. Champ Game and # of rushing TD's determines Heisman winners.

IDK...

[KhaosDTX]

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I have a minor personal rant to go on, please disregard if you wish.

Heisman voting seemed rigged this year. Somehow, Texas State's Archer won, while running for just under 1000 yards less than UTSA's Scott, who finished 4th.

IMO, the three best players this year were ODU's Gardner, Scott and Texas State's Davis, none of which finished in the top 2. Davis was 1st team AA with 51 TD's and wasn't a finalist.

Further proving that performance in the Conf. Champ Game and # of rushing TD's determines Heisman winners.

IDK...

Yeah I saw that too and was shocked that he won the heisman with hardly any yards. I think my RB finished with 100 yards less than him too.

[milmont77]

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I didn't give Scott enough TD's. I am ok with him not getting it.

I am quite happy though... that my 57 rated TE, a former walk on. Made first team all American. Big fan favorite at UTSA when our former All American went pro after JR year. Richwalski has caught touchdowns in every way imaginable : in traffic, dragging players into the endzone, out leaping, diving. It's insanity. 57 rated !!!

[KhaosDTX]

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Beat TCU 65-31. Played terrible in the first half but got a huge 2nd half from senior RB Michael Stewart. As usual, 5th year senior QB Luke Babcock had a solid game. Babcock went 20-36 with 333 yards 1 TD and 2 INT and had 33 yards on 4 rushes.

Player of the game though was Michael Stewart who had 459 total yards with 4 TDs (28 rushes for 351 yards, 12.5 YPC, 3TD, longest rush was an 80 yard TD run. And then he had 3 catches for 108 yards, 36.0 YPC, 1 TD).

Overall I finished the season 10-3 (4 game winning streak to end the season). Hopefully recruits see that I'm the real deal and they'll hurry up and jump on the Sun Devil train before it's too late.

[scdb12]

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Yeah to me Davis should of been considered for the Heisman. Archer was ok but he didn't deserve the award. I'm a little bummed out about me not going to the national championship,but when you play the teams I did the SOS was not there.

[thesportsguru11]

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ODU continues its late season implosion and drops the Rose Bowl 45-41 to Washington. Again, the loss of Patrick Scott and Jakari Hardy on the D-Line caused all the problems as U-Dub RB Mark Hall had over 200 yards rushing, and again Jim Gardner collapsed and threw a late game pick.

I hate saying this, as he is the best QB in school history, but I'm glad Gardner is gone this year. We need a new face in there at QB, someone with a little more mobility preferably, but someone maybe who can lead us to wins in big games. Looks like we have 2 candidates who fit that description, and I'll touch upon that in the season recap going up later tonight.

[KhaosDTX]

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So I have a question for you all.

I'm in another online dynasty on this website and played my fist game and scored 86 points in the game. Keep in mind it was against the CPU and they weren't very good. Anyways, one of the other guys was looking at my stats and saw that I had 39 first downs and ran over 79 plays. He then proceeded to say that I play like cheese etc.

Anyways, I put up similar stats and run pretty much the same amount of plays over here as well. I just wanted your opinion on this matter and if you feel that my style of play(hurry up offense that runs a lot of plays and scores points fairly quickly) is cheesy.

Thanks.

[thesportsguru11]

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So I have a question for you all.

I'm in another online dynasty on this website and played my fist game and scored 86 points in the game. Keep in mind it was against the CPU and they weren't very good. Anyways, one of the other guys was looking at my stats and saw that I had 39 first downs and ran over 79 plays. He then proceeded to say that I play like cheese etc.

Anyways, I put up similar stats and run pretty much the same amount of plays over here as well. I just wanted your opinion on this matter and if you feel that my style of play(hurry up offense that runs a lot of plays and scores points fairly quickly) is cheesy.

Thanks.

I have no problem with it, as long as you don't run up the score in the 4th quarter, punt on 4th down in realistic situations and plug in your second stringers when the situation fits, as indicated in the rules. I'm fine with people scoring 50, 60, even 70 points, as I do myself. For 3 of the last 4 seasons, I have been in the top 5 in offensive scoring.

Though I did have a problem when you scored 100, as that's not realistic.

[kwilliam]

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I know you can have a high number of plays if you and the CPU will both go no huddle like mad. The key is just when you get a lead to back off the no huddle some. I am assuming you are running no huddle. I'm not seeing you with a bunches of big plays. I have gotten 30 1st downs before, it was I couldn't get a big play.

Old Dominion, I think the Defensive linemen killed your season. You have turned that program around, it will have a better D next season.

[milmont77]

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N.Texas takes down the NC. GG man. UTSA had the momentum early and was unable to capitalize on their 7-0 lead. I did some film work after the game and found two big holes in my game. Number one... was that all american 57 rated TE. He caught the first TD of the game... but he missed two HUGE blocks on 3rd down where my RB could have converted into first downs. Those killed drives took away my momentum.

Number two hole I found on my D was bad coverage from an OLB. The last two user games I have gotten killed on TE fade routes. Running the film back I can see the OLB went the wrong way every time and corrected after the ball was in the air... far too late.

UGhh... In any case.. N.tx played a solid game. Entertaining with some good strategy by both players at the end.

My favorite play was a user scak I had in the first half. MLB ran free and dove into N.Tx Qb flipping him backward violently. Wish is could have been a fumble. We did have rain... but no fumbles.

GG man. until next year !

[KhaosDTX]

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Noted from both of your responses.

This is how I've always ran my offense. I take calculated risks meaning that I'm a move the chains offense who doesn't take many chances on big plays. My offense is still pretty hard to stop but even though I don't get many big plays I still am able to rack up a bunch of yards very quickly and run a bunch of plays very quickly.

I actually timed myself to see how fast I could get a play off agonist TCU and I was able to get a play off in 10-12 seconds. Whenever I got first downs as well I was able to snap the ball off before the game clock started again.

I actually didn't mean to put up 100 points against arizona, it just kind of happened because of the flow of the game. I will though watch my scores and how much I run no huddle when I have a big lead from now on. I'm new here so I kind of had to test the boundaries on how many points you can score lol.

[kwilliam]

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BCS Title game has been played and it was in the rain.

1st quarter
UTSA started the game off with ball with several 15 yard passes before punting. North Texas went 3 and out, giving UTSA pretty good field position. He ran the ball down my throat before hitting Richwalski for a 13 yard TD catch. NT gets finally gets a first down before punting.
UTSA 7 NT 0

2nd quarter
UTSA punts the ball. Fields gets his biggest run of the night for 21 yards before being forced to go out of bounds. Mirvil starts to get going passing, hitting Martin for a 24 yard TD. McDowell picks off a pass and returns it to the 10 yard line. Mirvil executes a great qb option keeper stretching the defense way wide on the right side to give NT a 14-7 lead. Then there was some punts, Mirvil threw a pick, half ends.
NT 14 UTSA 7

North Texas opens the second half with 74 yard throw to Steele, who if was a little faster could have scored, but Mirvil found Hargrove a few plays later. NT 21-7. UTSA goes 3 and out. Mirvil found Martin for several big catches to setup a Ray Allen 12 TD run. NT 28-7.
UTSA gets their running game going again and settles for a 36yd fg. NT 28-10. Mirvil throws a pick that he couldn't lob high enough over the lb, to find a wide tight end.
NT 28 UTSA 10

Horne completes a pass to setup 26 yard kick by Phillips UTSA 13 NT 28 with 6:44 left. Ray Allen returns the kickoff 39 yards, finds Martin, gets a few running plays. The drive stalls out and Griffin misses a 49 yard fg with 4:27 left. CB Chases picks off a pass on 3rd down with 3:52 to pretty much ends the game.

Final NT 28 UTSA 13.

GG UTSA
I didn't think I would hold UTSA to 13. I was glad I didn't get behind a lot early, Mirvil started out 1/5 or something like that, couldn't run most of the game, thought I was going to pull him for my backup 99 sr qb.

Mirvil 11/22 236 2/2
Fields 20 rushes 52 yards
Martin 5 catches 105 yards 1 TD
Steele 2 catches 84 yards

McDowell 7/21 97 1 2
Horne 2/4 13
Scott 16 rushes 60 yards

[KhaosDTX]

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Hey I was jus wondering though if anyone wants to play a random unranked game? If you do my PSN is KhaoS27_

[thesportsguru11]

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Old Dominion, I think the Defensive linemen killed your season. You have turned that program around, it will have a better D next season.

Yeah when we lost Scott for the Sun Belt title and it said probable (I think) I knew he'd be out for the rest of the season. We didn't have many problems before that. I thought we could replace Hardy OK, but Scott is the one guy I can't afford to lose.

Congrats on your NC win. I still thought your team last year was better, but a win's a win nonetheless.