NCAA Football 2015

[citizen k]

Boring games this morning, and looks like Yi's team can't stop the garbons

21-0 1st quarter, embarassing.

[katmai]

Boring games this morning, and looks like Yi's team can't stop the garbons

21-0 1st quarter, embarassing.

uff da

[alfred russel]

It sucks that the Rose Bowl took Iowa. Ohio State Stanford would have been awesome, and ND could have beat Iowa.

[katmai]

Clearly the best teams were not in Big Ten Championship game.

[Admiral Yi]

  Massacree.  When does Stanford start suiting up their trainers?

[Admiral Yi]

Does McCaffery have what it takes to make it in the NFL?

[alfred russel]

Clearly the best teams were not in Big Ten Championship game.

If you look at the F/+ rankings, which use advanced statistics looking at play by play and drive data from the season, the rankings were:

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Oklahoma
4. Ohio State

Iowa was way down at 25.

[alfred russel]

Does McCaffery have what it takes to make it in the NFL?

A fast RB that is effective as a receiver and a really good return man? Hell yeah.

[Eddie Teach]

Clearly the best teams were not in Big Ten Championship game.

They should have brought their best when they played Sparty then.

[MadImmortalMan]

Clearly the best teams were not in Big Ten Championship game.

If you look at the F/+ rankings, which use advanced statistics looking at play by play and drive data from the season, the rankings were:

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Oklahoma
4. Ohio State

Iowa was way down at 25.

You have to get through the regular season first. OSU is basically a southern style team built to win bowls now. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's a gamble up north.

[alfred russel]

You have to get through the regular season first. OSU is basically a southern style team built to win bowls now. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's a gamble up north.

Those rankings were based on the regular season--not bowl performances.

I don't know how you would change OSU to win in northern climates...an awesome running game with a solid defense seems to be what you want and is what OSU has. I'm not sure why they decided not to run the ball against MSU, but then I think the OSU coaches also think that was a mistake.

[alfred russel]

If I was an Iowa fan, I'd give the Stanford fans something to remember by walking amongst them and commenting to a friend, "The worst part of this isn't just losing the game. It is that after the game we have to leave California and go back to live in Iowa."

[Scipio]

Hotty Toddy. HYDR.

[grumbler]

Those rankings were based on the regular season--not bowl performances.

I don't know how you would change OSU to win in northern climates...an awesome running game with a solid defense seems to be what you want and is what OSU has. I'm not sure why they decided not to run the ball against MSU, but then I think the OSU coaches also think that was a mistake.

The reason OSU didn't run the ball against MSU was that they couldn't.  They certainly tried (29 rushing plays to 16 passes), but they couldn't get the job done (3 YPC).  They only got 45 plays and 132 yards total because they tried for too long to try to get a running game going.  They needed to pass against that feeble MSU defensive backfield to open up the run game.

[alfred russel]

Those rankings were based on the regular season--not bowl performances.

I don't know how you would change OSU to win in northern climates...an awesome running game with a solid defense seems to be what you want and is what OSU has. I'm not sure why they decided not to run the ball against MSU, but then I think the OSU coaches also think that was a mistake.

The reason OSU didn't run the ball against MSU was that they couldn't.  They certainly tried (29 rushing plays to 16 passes), but they couldn't get the job done (3 YPC).  They only got 45 plays and 132 yards total because they tried for too long to try to get a running game going.  They needed to pass against that feeble MSU defensive backfield to open up the run game.

The criticism is that of all their plays, only 12 were runs by running backs. So yes, they did have lots of QB and WR runs that add up to a large percentage of run plays, but the running backs were not given much of a chance to get going.