Oregon Ducks were Oregon Dogs today, this after a couple of Ducks made some "ho-hum" comments about the prospect of possibly going back to the Rose Bowl again minus any national championship implications. Well those one-dimensional bums won't have to worry about that. Arizona came out today and slugged 'em in the mouth and from there Oregon mailed it in. Stanford exposed Oregon's vulnerability in the trenches. Fatty Francesa (who knows shit about college football) tried to say going into Oregon's game vs. Stanford that this year's Oregon defense was a different, more physical breed. As usual, he was wrong (notwithstanding the fact that nobody behind a mic in this town knows squat about college football). They (Oregon) once again proved they're still physically not SEC ready. They wouldn't have wanted 'Bama. No charcter whatsoever today. Oregon Dogs.
Embarrassing from Oregon. They didn't show up to play. Another school that no showed its game was Florida. They lost at home to Georgia Southern. Georgia Southern didn't complete a single pass and won anyway. Good chance Muschamp gets fired after the latest fiasco.
Also Baylor, ranked third in the AP and 4th in the BS, is getting creamed by Oklahoma State. 28-3 Texas A&M scored 10 against LSU, whose defense had been quite mediocre this season.
I don't know what that "chez" crack was supposed to mean but fwiw, Manziel dispite the subpar game yesterday, possesses a Gretsky/Magic Johnson-type peripheral vision/pocket awareness that Mark could only dream about (one reason he doesn't cough up the ball even as much as he's swinging it around while scrambling). That said, about Manziel and yesterday: while the wind was blowing at Death Valley, Manziel's supposedly improved arm strength did look a little suspect on a couple of occassions. And at one point he was was clutching his right hand and wincing on the sideline and when a sideline reporter asked Kevin Sumlin (Aggie HC) about it, he shrugged it off by casually remarking "he's been dealing with that for a while." Huh?? ... a while??... I dunno if that had anything to do with him dinging his shoulder in October vs. Auburn, but it seemed like he was muscling the ball (would sail 'high') on a couple of 20-25 yard passes inside the hash marks while floating some others outside the hash marks. Further, he missed Evans on a pair of over-the-top would be TDs down the sideline (it shoulld also be mentioned that his receivers dropped a number of passes including a TD). Mettenberger's frame & arm has NFL weight written all over it, no doubt. He also can 'brick' short swing passes and can force some throws into tight windows ("big-arm-syndrome") e.g. 'Bama dropped 2 INTs vs LSU, this getging to operate in an offense posessing serious dual threat talent at WR. Elsewhere.....you have "Rivalry Week" and "Championship Week" etc. Yesterday should've been called "Mismatch-We're-in-it-for-the-Money" week. When you have 3 teams that drop '70' points, and 2 of them scoring 80--80 points?!!--that is a money grab joke by lower tier teams who have no right playing the big boys not to mention putting their hopelessly out-classed lower tier talent in a position to getting fucked up, literally, and by the 'big boys' who shouldn't be scheduling these "get the 3rd string in" beatdowns. jmho.
Don't try to talk sense to Mitch, he hates every QB other than whomever is the current Jets QB, and even then he could hate him if he's playing crappy. He destroys current Jets unmercifully, can't expect him to say anything less destructive about any college player that could supplant his current hero. BTW, if we draft Manziel next year, Mitch will be his biggest and most vocal supporter and will completely shit all over Geno in every post. _
Agreed. An awful game and an even more awful game plan. Gotta let Mariota throw the ball--I didn't understand the run first, run second run third mentality. _
Michigan passes on the chance to kick the PAT to tie the game with Ohio State with 32 seconds left and goes for 2, failing badly. The onside kick fails and Ohio State escapes. Michigan will still go to a bowl game, but that was an interesting decision.
Great throw by McCarron there putting it over the Safety and over the CB for a touchdown. I would love to see Auburn come right back and score here. Also, that was a horrible challenge by the Auburn headcoach. It was clearly a fumble, and he wasted a Timeout before and then lost the challenge which cost him another TO.
Sabans gunna have to take that decision to the grave. Im not saying it was bad or good one but god damn he is not gunna go a day without thinking about that for the rest of his life. Brutal.
no he won't because going for the FG was the only decision to make. just because Auburn ran the miss back doesn't make it even remotely a questionable call that he is going to think about.
It was short and wide. There was one other choice to make. Just go to OT. You have the best defense in the damn nation!
I think its pretty ridiculous to expect the kid to make a 57 yard field goal but the really inexcusable part is how they just let Auburn walk the return in for a TD, only like 2 lineman even went after the guy running it back. How do you not have the team prepared to the defend that when it's likely that the kick won't make it out of bounds?
Alabama also was in position to kick a FG that essentially would've clinched the game, they had it at the Auburn 17. Holding penalty, then the 44 yarder gets blocked, plus a personal foul on the play allowed Auburn a shorter field to tie the game. Saban had to try the long FG but it's amazing how easy Davis scored. Alabama had to put some guys on the field who could not only block, but also possibly run and tackle.
