College Football Thread

You have to think that was a wake-up call to all colleges going forward

oooooo.... sorry ganews

yea i know its against the rules and every thing but such a stupid rule.  and unfortunately it won't be like manziel cause theres actual numbers and evidence rather than heresay.

yea mizzou has the best shot now.  course i can't help thinking if we hadn't choked twice in a row...

Is it possible for anyone to actually believe we were really that good last year, and that we might have won even if you guys were at full strength?  I'm not going to say we didn't take advantage of injuries, but let's not forget that we didn't have our starting QB for four games, and we still went 3-1 with the one loss having very little to do with QB play?

Edit: ganews said the quote, not Double Hawkeye.  I'd try to fix that, but I'd probably mess it up more.

It may be a stupid rule, but he should have known better. Everyone saw what happened to Manziel last year. Fight the rule, sure, but you have to comply in the meantime

And of course Manziel has to put his two cents in. Doesn't he have enough to do? That bench isn't warming itself!

I'm pretty sure that's not a varsity sport at Georgia.

Well after last week, I was expecting just about anything. What I wasn't expecting was Todd Gurley being suspended. I was also not expecting Georgia to shut out Missouri 34-0 without him. And speaking of off the field craziness, Jameis Winston is facing a review into that incident last year. Normally, this is a committee of students and faculty assembled to determine if he has violated the school's code of conduct policy. Because Florida State wants to clean up its image, they've brought in impartial outsiders. It hasn't seemed to impact him, as he passed for 317 yards in their 38-20 defeat of Syracuse and he still plans to take the field this weekend against Notre Dame.

For right now the state of Mississippi is the center of the college football universe. The Mississippi State/ Auburn game was a tale of turnovers: 4 each, but it was all about when the ball was turned over and what was done with it. Taking advanage of two early turnovers put Dak Prescott and Mississippi State up early and Auburn just couldn't catch up, 38-23. Ole Miss and Texas A&M was less dramatic. Ole Miss led early and the 12th Man left early too.

So it shouldn't be a surpirse that Mississippi state jumped Florida State in the polls. The only question is how long are they going to stay there? Ole Miss has to play Auburn, Mississippi State has to play Alabama, the two Mississippi teams have to play each other, and  Alabama has playing Auburn. Who knows how that's all going to wash out, pluse whoever ends up winning that half of the conference still has to play in the conference championship before the playoffs. There's a lot of football left to be played.

Let's talk about the fourth quarter. There are 60 minutes in a game and they all count. Baylor gave us the largest comeback in school history by surging in the fourth quarter 61-58. Notre Dame came back in the fourth quarter to win 50-43. QB Everett Golson had 3 turnovers but also 3 touchdowns, so he's Even Steven. LSU beat Florida 30-27 by a last minute 50 yard field goal by Colby Delahoussaye. Lots of teams tried to make a comeback. Texas tried to come back, but lost to Oklahoma 31-26, UCLA couldn't catch up to Orgeon 42-30, and Arizona just couldn't make that final field goal and lost to USC 28-26.

Let's see, Clemson's QB Deshaun Watson broke a finger and they still beat Louisville 23-17, and Michigan finally beat someone. Alas it was my Nittany Lions 18-13 (although I call bullshit on the offsides call on the onside kick). I don't think this will save Hoke's job. This week... how about the guy who comes out and installs your washer and dryer?

So which four are in? I have no idea at this point. okay: 1) (Mississippi State/Ole Miss/Auburn/Alabama- see above) 2. (Notre Dame/FSU- depends on next week's game) 3) Baylor 4) Oregon (I think they're still in it)

Okay next week... Well the big game is FSU/Notre Dame. Other than that we have Alabama and Texas A&M, and Stanford at Arizona State.

Like anyone's hands are clean.

UGA is 38-6 over Arkansas in the waning first half. I'm not here to gloat, I'm just wondering why the Arkansas stadium, after their team received another kickoff, felt the need to play "Livin' on a Prayer".

Wow what a game. So it's all about the those last few plays. Specifically about the offensive pass interference call. From what has been explained and what every ESPN analyst seems to say (even Lou Holtz and Mike Golic, who both bleed Green) that the refs made the right call, negating the go ahead touchdown by Norte Dame and driving them back to the 18 yard line. The next play was intercetped. A nailbiting end to a game that just went back and forth all night. My dad said that this was going to be a game where whoever scored last would win and he was right. Everett Golson is fantastic and he's the reason that the Irish are as good as they are this year. FSU's offense was slow in the first half, but Winston kept in it, ignoring all the off field drama.

Ole Miss's defense was iron clad against Tennessee, and Nick Saban's Alabama responded fairly well to criticism by wiping the snot out of Texas A&M. Guess the Aggies aren't going to the Chicken Ranch this year.

Georgia handed Arkansas without Gurley. Oregon, Michigan State, and TCU won their games and Kansas State narrowly beat Oklahoma.

Baylor lost their game against West Vriginia. Their quaterback? Clint Trickett, formerly of Florida State. He would have been Winston's backup... hmmm... I wonder what would have happened had he stayed.

So who's in: Florida State, SEC West (Alabama/Auburn/Ole Miss/ Miss State- once again they all have to play each other), Oregon, Michigan State

Next Week, most of the interesting games are in the SEC: Alabama should destroy Tennessee, Ole Miss plays LSU, Auburn plays South Carolina. Elsewhere, Ohio State plays Penn State (yikes), Michigan vs Michigan State (should be kind of funny), USC takes on Utah (surprise this year), Orgeon plays Cal and Miami plays Viriginia Tech. FSU is off until next Thusday.

The term I heard from the sportscasters at the time was "pick", which in other sports means a player on offense (who is not making a play for the ball himself) purposefully routing a defender into himself or someone else to block them from making a defensive play on the ball. That's why the sportscasters were saying that in that situation you've at least got to make a show of trying for the ball. I didn't know that would apply to football, but there you go.

From what I understand ND used the same play in the first half for a touchdown and it wasn't called and pointed out to the officals. They caught it in the 4th quater because they were looking for it that time. This is not the first time a touchdown or other great play is called back for a pentalty.

Watching Auburn-South Carolina right now.  One touchdown for each side got scored in the time it took me to load up the SEC network on my laptop, so it's 35-28 Auburn in the 3rd.  The Auburn band just played "Livin' On a Prayer".  What the hell is wrong with people.

So the refs missed that two Auburn players were wearing #1, which you can't do.  I understand that one plays offensive and one plays defense, but why have two players with the same number? Why risk it? Did they run out of numbers?