Reply With QuoteYeah ok so that was pretty weak at the end.
--- Alan
Epic offensive line failure is my new term. And my Saturdays are pretty much free this year now. Less stress when you aren't in the top 10 and reaching too high. :)
Yeah ok so that was pretty weak at the end.
--- Alan
Iowa still has one more play...
Missing that extra point was killer; I think if they'd gone ahead they might have been energized enough to pull it off. Hell of a game, though.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with Arizona now, what with everyone saying a win here would be "program defining." The Pac10 will look pretty interesting if someone other then USC and Oregon end up at the top this year.
I suppose at least I can look at it this way...Arizona was lucky they scored twice right off the start of the game.
This season was probably Iowa's best chance at going up against Alabama at the end of the year (cough cough). They're going to lose the majority of the team to graduation at the end of the season.
So tonight pretty much means next year will suck. Still, if they clean up in conference play, there's always the Rose Bowl. I wouldn't complain about that at all.
Locker was never a realistic Heisman candidate. Washington is just too bad as a team to feature whatever talent he has well. People have always been more interested in him as an NFL prospect.Originally Posted by Ryan A
Oregon State survived a squeaker with Louisville. OSU's defense is still looking shakey. Next week at Boise State could be ugly.
I can't believe Cal got the shit kicked out of them by Nevada...
Assuming my poor, sad, crippled Vols can't beat Alabama this year (like we almost did last year dammit!), I really want to see Bama-Oregon play for the BCS title this year. I really, really want this to happen. Voters, please start boosting Oregon now. Thank you.
Rob
Yeah, national (and many local) expectations were way out of whack. Remember, this is a team that won ZERO games two years ago and, despite knocking off USC, only won five games last year. They were hoping to be bowl eligible at best, realistically. And that's not the kind of season that ever produces a Heisman.
You know what my favorite part of that story is? The part where ND lost the game. :)
On the other hand, the victim of that 15-yard targeting penalty was Adam James, so that was nice. (The nice part being the part where James got drilled.)
145. Never did. The last time any Tech team had offensive output that anemic was in 1990 against Miami. (The DC of that Miami team? Tommy Tuberville.)
It wasn't much of a rivalry; Leach only managed to beat Texas twice in ten years. What I'll miss, though, was just how weird the guy was. College football is more interesting with Mike Leach than it is without him.
This is the first game I've seen since the Texas-KU game in 2004 where I've seen the refs make head-scratching calls that went Texas' way, with the un-reviewed catch by Mike Davis, the taunting flag, etc. It's typical for Tech fans to blame the refs when they lose anyway, but this time -- while there wasn't any clear-cut game-saving call -- there were definitely some bad calls that overwhelmingly went for Texas.
Seems like that stuff happens a lot in Texas' favor, especially when they play at home.
Michigan State's head coach had a heart attack today. Luckily it looks like he'll recover.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...s-heart-attack
Not that I've noticed. In fact, it usually seems to be the other way. Might be the burnt orange glasses I wear, though. ;)
Thing is, this was in Lubbock, not Austin. This was an away game.
Nebraska leapfrogged Texas and Oklahoma in the AP poll but is still stuck lower than TCU and Boise State? Oh well, the winner of Texas/Nebraska jumps into the top five guaranteed so its only a temp problem.
Hmm, looking forward to that game at all?
Quite a bit, now that I come to think about it :)
Texas has always been a tough opponent for the Huskers. After last years heartbreaker a rematch is quite anticipated in these parts. Especially since Nebraska is going to bring an offense to this years game.
I think Texas is going to be in big trouble for that game.
--- Alan
Houston lost Case Keenum for the year after tearing his ACL in the disaster against UCLA, a week after suffering a concussion against UTEP. Houston also lost their second-stringer too (broken clavicle). What a mess.
--- Alan
1-8 since 1996 is not so much a "tough opponent" as "your lords and masters." ;)
Indeed. I will be very (pleasantly) surprised if Texas escapes Lincoln with a win this year. We're just not very good on offense this year at all.
Our defense is pretty frickin' amazing, though.
In all fairness, the Huskers were atypically bad for a lot of that time. The Steve Pedersen era was not good for Nebraska.
They weren't "atypically bad" in the period from 1996-1999 when they got that one win against Texas ... along with logging 3 losses, including a loss at home in 1998.
Honestly, no team is likely to have a run like Nebraska did between 1994-1997 again, but Nebraska least of all. Osborne built that program in a way that could not be duplicated today. They also benefitted from an era when they were able to cherry-pick skill position talent West of the Mississippi pretty much at will; most of the traditional powers during that time were down, and the few other good teams were essentially good by default. But now that some of the California schools are picking things up, and things are particularly competitive from Oklahoma through Louisiana, there are places closer to home for those talented Californians and Texans to end up. Moving to the Big Ten exacerbates this, as there are many traditional powers fighting over pieces of an increasingly small pie (as people flee the Rust Belt for regions with a brighter economic future).
But before that happens, Nebraska will almost certainly dominate Texas in Lincoln this year. So... enjoy it!
Ok, I just watched the clip of the Ohio University mascot attacking the Ohio State mascot. More stuff like this will raise my interest in college football.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5596131
Reveille (the A&M dog mascot) and Bevo (the UT longhorn mascot) get stolen (kidnapped) all the time by the other side.
--- Alan
Bevo gets stolen?
Edit: oh. once. in 1963. 2 weeks before Kennedy was shot
Edit2: Oh, the incident was in 1963; the guy who pulled it off was class of 1966. rimbo reading comprehension fail
Last edited by Rimbo; 09-21-2010 at 04:43 PM.
Are you implying that Bevo was involved in the Kennedy assassination?
Yes.
BTW, Kennedy was shot in 1963.
--- Alan
yeah, i saw that the guy who pulled it off was "class of 1966" and somehow that stuck... it did seem rather late in the decade for the kennedy assassination but you know how it is when you have other things on your mind
Word is that Colorado has figured out its Big 12 exit plan and the new Pac12 will be fully enabled next year. So now the talk is about how they will align divisions, a decision that apparently has to be made soon for TV contract reasons.
Nebraska pushed the Big 12 into settling for a compromise exit penalty to avoid litigation, and Colorado piggybacked in on that and accepted a similar compromise. Nebraska will make back what they lost in the first year of Big Ten play, but I'm not sure how Colorado plans to absorb the hit.
Also, hilariously, the compromise does include a million dollar settlement discount for Nebraska if two Big 12 teams make it to BCS bowls this season and Nebraska is one of them.
It's been reported for awhile that the Pac10 itself is going to cover at least some of the costs. I'm not sure how much, though an article not long ago said that if the Big12 demanded the full payout, Colorado was going to have to come up with a big chunk of it. If the deal worked out is for significantly less, then Colorado's share is probably small now.
...which has then fed speculation that Nebraska will be competing with the refs as well as their opponents for the rest of the season.
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