NCAA Football 2013-2014 discussion

Ok, FSU had no problems with NCSU, and Miami, well, they like to live dangerously. Funny thing is, this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Noles. I watched Oregon-UCLA, but I have not watched Bama yet this year. All that said, I think that FSU has a pretty good argument as one of the best teams in the country. Lots of games left to play, but I just don't see this FSU squad blowing a game that they shouldn't. Wake, at Wake, is a concern, as is Florida, but this is a really, really good team.

Double OT starting in the Mizzou - SC game! Division, conference, and maybe MNC implications.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Double OT starting in the Mizzou - SC game! Division, conference, and maybe MNC implications.

Wow, Mizzou loses when their kicker misses. Announcers are blaming the hold, which had the laces towards the kicker's shoe. Ball bounced off the upright.

I wonder how much talk there will be this week about how Mizzou ran the clock out at the end of the 4th quarter without trying to score? They shouldn't have settled for OT with national title dreams. Certainly not in the midst of a South Carolina comeback. OT is symmetrical, and they had the chance to score last. At least try your best to get into FG range.

Mizzou should go UP in the polls. Quality loss.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I wonder how much talk there will be this week about how Mizzou ran the clock out at the end of the 4th quarter without trying to score? They shouldn't have settled for OT with national title dreams. Certainly not in the midst of a South Carolina comeback. OT is symmetrical, and they had the chance to score last. At least try your best to get into FG range.

Yeah. Given how far someone can fall and how far they can rise on one game playing it safe in college football makes less and less sense these days.

Abu5217 wrote:

Ok, FSU had no problems with NCSU, and Miami, well, they like to live dangerously. Funny thing is, this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Noles. I watched Oregon-UCLA, but I have not watched Bama yet this year. All that said, I think that FSU has a pretty good argument as one of the best teams in the country. Lots of games left to play, but I just don't see this FSU squad blowing a game that they shouldn't. Wake, at Wake, is a concern, as is Florida, but this is a really, really good team.

FSU looks better every week, I'm expecting a Bama/FSU matchup for the NCG and Oregon/Ohio State for the Rose Bowl. Both of which will be awesome matchups. Too bad the playoff didn't start this year...

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Better than a paper bag?

I'm with Jucofett.

No one had the pleasure of watching TTU at OU?
Great game, some sloppy play by the sooners in the 3rd that they had to recover from but solid running play in the second half to close the game.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Oregon and UCLA are tied at 14 at the half.

Oregon seems to be pulling away now.

Yeah I went out at halftime with it 14-14. I look late and it's 42-14. I think wow, what a 2nd half.

Then I look at the highlights when I get home last night, and it was still 14-14 with 3 min left in the 3rd. Oregon did all that damage in 17 min. or so.

Oregon does that a lot, actually. Usually not that extreme. Usually they have a 7+ point lead. But it's common for their offense to wear down a really good defense and then to start getting big plays late. I'm a little shocked at how good UCLA played on defense, honestly. Oregon fans should be really worried about Stanford after watching how hard they hit Oregon State.

boogle wrote:

No one had the pleasure of watching TTU at OU?
Great game, some sloppy play by the sooners in the 3rd that they had to recover from but solid running play in the second half to close the game.

I tuned in for a few minutes and saw Mr. Stoops get bowled over by his own player. He seemed completely unperturbed.

So winning 34-3 apparently isn't good enough. Louisville dropped 1 spot in the coaches and 2 in the AP...

Ugh, the Cal losing streak against FBS teams is now 12. One of the staff writers for a Cal message board summed it up best.. "Different Opponent. Same Script". Cal has played every sort of opponent this year... Top 5, Top 25, Spread, traditional, ground focussed, air focussed, and the results have been all the same. I suffered through a 1-10 season in 2003, and honestly this is worse. Back then we were overmatched. We had the worst atheltes on the field along with a less than good coaching staff. This year, I would argue that at least from a pure manpower point of view, we are somewhere in the middle of the Pac, maybe on the low side, but certainly not the worst and we're simply getting blown out all over the place.

Our defense is the 2nd worst scoring D in all FBS. A crazy stat yesterday and I just recalcualted it, Cal has given up 127 points this year ONLY IN THE 1ST QUARTER!. There are 15 teams in FBS that have given up 127 points or less all season long, and we've given up that many 15 minutes into the game.

On the bright side.. we beat the spread (+28!) for the first time in a year.

Stele wrote:

So winning 34-3 apparently isn't good enough. Louisville dropped 1 spot in the coaches and 2 in the AP...

:?

That.... sucks.

Stele wrote:

So winning 34-3 apparently isn't good enough. Louisville dropped 1 spot in the coaches and 2 in the AP...

:?

South. Florida. Bulls.

Wow, if anyone wants to see how bad Cal is statistically check out this collective team stats for Cal.

We Stink

SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
-------------------- --- --- --- --- ---
California.......... 34 61 52 36 - 183
Opponents........... 127 82 100 43 - 352

Just about sums it up.

That and the fact that Cal D is giving up 7.0 yards PER PLAY!

Carlbear95 wrote:

Wow, if anyone wants to see how bad Cal is statistically check out this collective team stats for Cal.

We Stink

SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
-------------------- --- --- --- --- ---
California.......... 34 61 52 36 - 183
Opponents........... 127 82 100 43 - 352

Just about sums it up.

That and the fact that Cal D is giving up 7.0 yards PER PLAY!

Can Cal and Arkansas just play each other for the rest of the season? Seriously, both teams might actually be able to win a game that way.

At least the computers recognize 34-3 as something positive. Louisville moved up 1 spot in the BCS standings, despite the 1-spot drop in the coaches and staying the same in the Harris poll.

And, as expected, beating a top 10 team moved Oregon up ahead of FSU.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/bcs

Abu5217 wrote:

Ok, FSU had no problems with NCSU, and Miami, well, they like to live dangerously. Funny thing is, this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Noles. I watched Oregon-UCLA, but I have not watched Bama yet this year. All that said, I think that FSU has a pretty good argument as one of the best teams in the country. Lots of games left to play, but I just don't see this FSU squad blowing a game that they shouldn't. Wake, at Wake, is a concern, as is Florida, but this is a really, really good team.

Dude, what the heck are you doing? Have you forgotten the last 15 years? 1 game at a time and all that stuff.

Stele wrote:

And, as expected, beating a top 10 team moved Oregon up ahead of FSU.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/bcs

No flip-flop back next week. FSU has Miami (which might be the shakiest No. 7 ranking in history), and Oregon plays No. 5 Stanford.

Sorry, Oregon Fan, but I'm pulling hard for the Big Tree Mascot. I'd *love* to see an ACC team in the BCS title game ...

Spoiler:

... even if it has to be Florida State :D

Ego Man wrote:
Abu5217 wrote:

Ok, FSU had no problems with NCSU, and Miami, well, they like to live dangerously. Funny thing is, this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Noles. I watched Oregon-UCLA, but I have not watched Bama yet this year. All that said, I think that FSU has a pretty good argument as one of the best teams in the country. Lots of games left to play, but I just don't see this FSU squad blowing a game that they shouldn't. Wake, at Wake, is a concern, as is Florida, but this is a really, really good team.

/homer

Dude, what the heck are you doing? Have you forgotten the last 15 years? 1 game at a time and all that stuff.

Yeah, I know... but still (and it's been WAY more than just 15 years!)

I... I think I kind of like this attitude:

In last week's 49-17 win over NC State, Fisher sat his starters for nearly all of the second half after Florida State ran up a 42-0 halftime lead. Asked after the game whether he'd missed a chance to earn some style points in the eyes of voters, Fisher said he refused to coach based on the polls.

"I'm not going to go out there and embarrass this game and the integrity of how you've got to play," Fisher said. "If that's the way they're going to do it, they need to re-evaluate. If they can't tell we dominated that game early and put it away -- I just think that's bad for college football, in my opinion."

- Jimbo Fisher

Source

Yeah it would be nice. But clearly the coaches aren't watching 60 min of a game that isn't even involving teams on their schedule. So all they look at is scores. And ESPN and other media have already decided who they like and don't. Some teams get praised for a 3 point win at home against an unranked team on the same day other teams get criticized for only winning by 14 in an away game against a similar unranked team. It's all bullsh*t until we get playoffs.

Skimmed the 430 posts that were in here since the last time I looked, but I just wanted to say I'm glad to see The University of Texas getting some votes, even though we're not up in the top 25. Looks like the end of the David Ash era (glad, but wish it wasn't due to concussions), so we may have some hope next year with Swoopes. Having no legitimate QB threat has killed us for the last few seasons.

Also, for what it's worth, Mack Brown isn't going anywhere. I'd love to see The University of Texas poach Kevin Sumlin from the Aggies, but I don't see it happening. Even with DeLoss Dodds stepping down, there isn't enough pressure. Beating OU saved his job, and even with a tough stretch of games coming up to end the season (might go 2 and 3 unless Swoopes is the real deal and supplants Case McCoy) I don't see him being replaced. Maybe we get lucky in the next couple of years, but I don't think Mack is going anywhere until he wants to.

I'm also glad that in the last 430 posts there weren't any digs at The University of Texas by any of our rivals.

Hook 'Em!

bighoppa wrote:

Skimmed the 430 posts that were in here since the last time I looked, but I just wanted to say I'm glad to see The University of Texas getting some votes, even though we're not up in the top 25. Looks like the end of the David Ash era (glad, but wish it wasn't due to concussions), so we may have some hope next year with Swoopes. Having no legitimate QB threat has killed us for the last few seasons.

Also, for what it's worth, Mack Brown isn't going anywhere. I'd love to see The University of Texas poach Kevin Sumlin from the Aggies, but I don't see it happening. Even with DeLoss Dodds stepping down, there isn't enough pressure. Beating OU saved his job, and even with a tough stretch of games coming up to end the season (might go 2 and 3 unless Swoopes is the real deal and supplants Case McCoy) I don't see him being replaced. Maybe we get lucky in the next couple of years, but I don't think Mack is going anywhere until he wants to.

I'm also glad that in the last 430 posts there weren't any digs at The University of Texas by any of our rivals.

Hook 'Em!

You need to skim closer

2004 anyone?

#KeepMackBrown

Do we need to dig them? They won a game where OU played sloppy and came out flat footed, and are still considered scrub league this year.

Carlbear95 wrote:

You need to skim closer

2004 anyone?

We will not speak of that abomination.

boogle wrote:

Do we need to dig them? They won a game where OU played sloppy and came out flat footed, and are still considered scrub league this year.

Seriously. WTF happened to Bell? Also, the dude is a monster. Who has a QB taller than all of his O-line?

Boogle, any win over OU is Good. You guys have gotten plenty of gimmes from Mack in the past. Now it's our turn.