NCAA Football 2015

[PDH]

I'm sorry Grumbler.  The football gods had to use up so much karma to let Wyoming win...

I feel bad now.

[Valmy]

Fuck that was not what I wanted. Stupid Sparty.

[Kleves]

Awesome finish. Though I do feel bad for the poor punter.

[Valmy]

That was Miracle in the Meadowlands type shit. Un-fucking believable.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Sparty's hero has a busted hip.  Had to be carted off the field, apparently.

[Admiral Yi]

Had to see what all the hoopla was about, so after googling the Mich/St ending I got a link to this, which I had never heard of before.

The one point "try safety."

http://deadspin.com/5973048/only-two-one-point-safeties-have-ever-happened-in-ncaa-football-history-and-brad-nessler-called-them-both

[MadImmortalMan]

Sparty's hero has a busted hip.  Had to be carted off the field, apparently.

Dislocation only. Thank god.


Buckeyes black uniforms look like crap.

[Ed Anger]

I like the Buckeye Waffen SS uniforms.

[Valmy]

Had to see what all the hoopla was about, so after googling the Mich/St ending I got a link to this, which I had never heard of before.

The one point "try safety."

http://deadspin.com/5973048/only-two-one-point-safeties-have-ever-happened-in-ncaa-football-history-and-brad-nessler-called-them-both

Yeah they had one of those in the Texas A&M-Texas game back in like 2002 or something.

[grumbler]

I'm sorry Grumbler.  The football gods had to use up so much karma to let Wyoming win...

I feel bad now.

It was a game Michigan should have won, but Cook was just too "on" with his throws. As a consolation, I still look like a genius for having called this (and the Utah loss, and the four victories) before the start of the season, which means my predicted M win over OSU is going to come true, as well.  This year is pretty much identical in trajectory to Bo's first campaign in 1969 (he lost to MSU halfway through the season, too).

[MadImmortalMan]

Another targeting ejection. They're going a bit crazy with those.

[dps]

Another targeting ejection. They're going a bit crazy with those.

The way the targeting rule works irritates me.  Too many of the targeting infractions happen when the defender is set up to hit the ball carrier in the midsection, but then the ball carrier lowers his head.

[alfred russel]

Another targeting ejection. They're going a bit crazy with those.

The way the targeting rule works irritates me.  Too many of the targeting infractions happen when the defender is set up to hit the ball carrier in the midsection, but then the ball carrier lowers his head.

"Target—to take aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with an apparent intent that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball."

http://www.afca.com/article/article.php?id=2342

I wonder if at some point a player doesn't sue a conference for slander or libel for applying the targeting rule and upholding it after the game. So many times it seems like the players being ejected are hitting players that are dropping their own heads, resulting in contact.

The rule as written is basically accusing a player called for the infraction of illegally trying to cause serious injury to the opponent, and I don't think that in a lot of the calls that is really the case.

[Eddie Teach]

Georgia narrowly keeps alive its shot at getting pulverized by LSU or Alabama(again). Yay.

[sbr]

It's amazing the difference a talented healthy QB can make.  Adams finally played like the stud play maker he was up at Eastern Washington and led the Ducks to their 12 win in a row against the puppies up in Seattle.

At least the second half of the season has the potential to be interesting now, even though a Pac-12 North title is mostly out the window.