NCAA 2014 Season Discussion

eagle eye

BC get the onside kick. A good run on first down, in field goal range already.

eagle eye

And its done and so is USC's hopes of a big season. Delighted for BC.

blockic

eagle eye wrote: »

And its done and so is USC's hopes of a big season. Delighted for BC.

What a performance. 450+ yds rushing!

eagle eye

It'll be interesting to see how this USC loss affects Stanford's ranking. Both teams should drop into the 20s I'd imagine?

Florida should crack the top 25 this week I think, a lot of 3-0 teams to consider.

JaMarcusHustle

No team deserves to win a game in which they were so poor on third down, so can't have any complaints. Will still be an interesting season to see all these freshmen developing, and hopefully we can make a good bowl game.

Moving on, some nuggets from this weekend.

Texas gave Charlie Strong a Gatorade bath after beating North Texas. From that moment of bliss, it has been all downhill. UCLA won the toss and elected to defer to the second half. Texas’ captains then had a brain fart and chose to kick off. The Longhorns will kick off to start both halves. The ref even turned the microphone off to explain to the Texas captain what he was doing. And they still chose to kick.

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The stadium at opening kickoff for @ Miami this weekend:



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FAKE PUNT ALERT



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4th and millimetres

nerd69

gunnar kiel playing well in cinci pity he transferred before the golson thing last year would have been a much more interesting year with him under centre

Chessrookie

Hi,
Whilst Gunnar Kiel had a very impressive performance at the weekend, i don't think ND were too upset to see him leave last year.
Les Miles questioned whether he had "the chest" for College Football when he originally decomitted fro LSU to ND, whilst the word out of ND his freshman year, was that he was nowhere near as good as his high school billing (No 1 QB in the country), and that he didn't have the heart to compete for the job.
It was telling that he quit ND about a week for Spring ball commenced last year, rather than compete with Golson and Rees throughout the Spring. For all of Tommy's faults, i don't think Gunnar would have beaten him out last year, whilst i think Malik Zaire would have surpassed him on the depth chart this year.
The QB loss that hurts ND is Blake Barnett to Alabama, as he was committed to ND for about 10 months and he appears to be a really high end prospect. His loss increases the pressure on ND to sign one of Malik Henry or Shea Patterson in the class of 2016

Bateman

Best fake punt ever? http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/98927/watch-player-plays-dead-during-fake-punt

polaris68

Jameis Winston has gotten himself suspended for the 1st half of the Clemson game on Saturday.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24712971/fisher-deciding-on-discipline-for-winston-after-obscenity-incident

Stupidity of this kid is beyond belief.

nerd69

polaris68 wrote: »

Jameis Winston has gotten himself suspended for the 1st half of the Clemson game on Saturday.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24712971/fisher-deciding-on-discipline-for-winston-after-obscenity-incident

Stupidity of this kid is beyond belief.

its gettin to dropping in the draft terratory now

franglan

Don't mean to hijack this threads but thought it was the most suitable spot...

I'm in LA on 4th October (arriving early afternoon) and would love to get to preferably the USC or secondly UCLA game. I guess due to TV schedule and how the teams do over the next two weekend dictates kickoff times? Any idea when I could know what times these kickoffs are at by looking at their schedule now? With USC's and UCLA's records would these games sell out?

Many thanks for your future replies!

blockic

franglan wrote: »

Don't mean to hijack this threads but thought it was the most suitable spot...

I'm in LA on 4th October (arriving early afternoon) and would love to get to preferably the USC or secondly UCLA game. I guess due to TV schedule and how the teams do over the next two weekend dictates kickoff times? Any idea when I could know what times these kickoffs are at by looking at their schedule now? With USC's and UCLA's records would these games sell out?

Many thanks for your future replies!

Demand is pretty big for USC games but you should be able to pick up a ticket on the day by asking around while tailgating on campus and becoming friends with some locals . Went a couple years back. Great experience and a great stadium to watch the game.

blockic

nerd69 wrote: »

its gettin to dropping in the draft terratory now

Stupid is right. Suspended for just a half is a bit strange/ lenient though. I guess they need him for such a key game

franglan

blockic wrote: »

Demand is pretty big for USC games but you should be able to pick up a ticket on the day by asking around while tailgating on campus and becoming friends with some locals . Went a couple years back. Great experience and a great stadium to watch the game.

Thanks for the info, was at a Clemson game two years ago. Got some strange looks when our tailgating "equipment" consisted of a foam drinks cooler, a disposable BBQ and a six pack of crisps!

blockic

franglan wrote: »

Thanks for the info, was at a Clemson game two years ago. Got some strange looks when our tailgating "equipment" consisted of a foam drinks cooler, a disposable BBQ and a six pack of crisps!

Ha. Some massive set ups here alright!

Onecoolcookie

Auburn vs Kansas State should be good tonight

JaMarcusHustle

Winston suspended for the entire game now.

There are also some unfounded and muted rumours going around that Florida State are finished with him for good. I'll believe it when I see it however.

Syferus

Snyder complaining about Auburn stealing signals. Jesus man. If you're worried about the other team being able to tell your plays just by watching you, maybe make them a bit more complex to begin with rather than having to switch mid-stream, eh?

The Tigers ground the win out after being held in check on the ground. Never easy to go to K-State and win anyways. Solid start to the season but the big tests (and plenty of them) still await.

Paully D

What are the best games to watch today/tonight lads? I guess Florida State/Clemson might be interesting with no Winston.

Chessrookie

Paully D wrote: »

What are the best games to watch today/tonight lads? I guess Florida State/Clemson might be interesting with no Winston.

Clemson at FSU should be very good. FSU will not want to show any weakness to their big conference rival.
Florida at Alabama will be interesting. How good is Florida s defence? And if Bama win well will Musgrave be on the hot seat?

JaMarcusHustle

North Carolina @ East Carolina is my game of the day.

Will also be keeping an eye on whether Connor Holliday comes anywhere near his 89 pass attempts against Oregon last year when he faces them tonight.

JaMarcusHustle

Michigan State points at half time: 49
Eastern Michigan points at half time: 0

Michigan State yards at half time: 320
Eastern Michigan yards at half time: 1

SantryRed

Virginia Tech-Georgia Tech has been a decent game on ESPN. Georgia Tech just blocked a FG to keep it 16-10 and within one score.

EDIT: GT just had a TD brought back for a block below the waist! Starting at their own 30 instead!

UnitedIrishman

Sat down to watch the SMU and A&M game. Texas doing some really dumb stuff on offense. An INT and umpteen penalties for holding and another for delay of game and we're not even 10 mins in.

Edit: that said, SMU don't look physically capable of getting a first down.

polaris68

Bama 7 - 0 up on Florida but the Gators recovered a fumble on the bama 30. Good chance for them here.

polaris68

And they take it! 7 - 7.

polaris68

Another Alabama turnover! Looks like another Florida TD. Confirmed 14 - 7.

UnitedIrishman

SMU total offensive yards today -8.. that's a minus.

Think it's time to change to the Bama game.

polaris68

Third Alabama fumble off a bad hand off from Sims!

eagle eye

Well Florida put up the good fight for the first half of the game but the Tide have turned it on now and cut out the mistakes. Pretty impressive showing.

Cooper can break the 'Bama single game receiving yardage in this game, Julio Jones currently holds it.