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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 8, 2008 21:20:18 GMT -5
Oklahoma taking a cheapshot to take out Cincinnati QB was key to their game. Same Brent Venables defense to me--that guy is a CLOWN when it comes to stopping good teams--(not great-just good) especially in out of conference games. OU travels to Washington this upcoming weekend--and it should be an interesting game--where Locker gives OU some problems. Yeah, I'm hoping for a better game this weekend. I really underestimated the talent gap between Cincy and OU -- the Bearcats got owned up front all day long, and couldn't keep up with OU's receivers either. Bradford looked great, which is bad news for the Longhorns and their young secondary. Notre Dame should be embarrassed--that was a disgusting performance against an AWFUL team. San Diego State was a fumble away from being up 2 scores with 10 minutes to play--and just gave the game away--but ND acted as if they beat the San Diego Chargers. Disgusting. I kept clicking over just to see if Notre Dame would lose -- both teams played pretty bad football. A few ND players were at least giving a solid effort, but Claussen's running of the offense is still extremely clunky. I think the Irish will get better as the season progresses, but Saturday was a poor effort. And Casey -- GET A HAIRCUT. Penn State took Oregon State to woodshed. Is Lyle Moevao CFB's Reggie Ball for 2008? Ole Miss-WF was great game. Texas transfer Jevan Snead looked particularly impressive for Ole Miss. I realize that with his talent level he had to transfer, but I would LOVE to have had him backing up the somewhat fragile Colt McCoy this season. I am no Houston Nutt fan, but so far Ole Miss is peforming much better this season on his watch. Meanwhile, Arkansas is barely scraping by against bottom-feeders. Expect a slaughter next weekend when the Hogs visit the Longhorns. Other thoughts on the weekend: What happened to RDF's "anything can happen" Pac-10? Both in-conference games last Saturday were blowouts -- Cal beat Wazzu 66-3 and Arizona State beat Stanford 41-17. Paul Johnson is a helluva helluva helluva helluva helluva engineer. Nice first big win for the Yellow Jackets' new head coach over BC in Chestnut Hill. Hey BC, look on the bright side -- at least people showed up for your game this weekend. www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2008/09/03/kent-stateboston-college-atmosphere-atomic/I am sorry to say so, but Greg Robinson must be fired mid-season. Syracuse was owned by the Akron Zips in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. In similar news, UMD was bested by Middle Tennessee State University. The Terps have had one winning season in the past four years -- the halcyon days of Orange Bowl appearances (er, appearance) are gone, and the heat is rising on Freidgen's seat. Minnesota is 2-0 and should get to 3-0 next weekend when they play Montana State. If Tim Brewster can get the Gophers to a bowl in 2008 it will be a hell of a turnaround -- Minnesota sucked last season and finished with a record of 1-11. I did not watch most of Miami-UF, but during portions I did watch I kept thinking: "if Miami had an offense, this would be a good football game." Texas Tech has struggled a bit in the early going against Eastern Washington and Nevada. It's time to officially stick the overrated label on the Raiders. Loved the Texas-UTEP matchup in the Sun Bowl and hope it continues -- the stadium is a great venue and the entire city of El Paso (or El Paso-Ciudad Juarez Metropolitan Area) came out Saturday night. The Longhorns looked pretty good, in my opinion. I think Fozzy Whitaker becomes Texas' #1 back by the end of the season -- he is a lot like Jamal Charles (but let's hope he can hang onto the football). Also, Will Muschamp should be institutionalized, but not until the season is over. Defense is looking GREAT up front, though I still have concerns re: the secondary. Vegas is currently spotting tOSU ten points in El Lay next weekend. Anyone in Sin City want to put money on the Trojans for me?
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Post by RDF on Sept 9, 2008 2:08:56 GMT -5
You have to remember Austin--Stanford was getting smashed a year ago too--and look what happened?
Nothing can help the Cougs this year--they are really bad.
I'm starting to think Patrick Nix is the Grandpa Clappy of OC's---which is funny--because Clappy was a decent OC--just a lousy Head Coach.
Texas-UTEP atmosphere was cool--and now Horns get to put a beating on Arkansas-who squeaked by--with luck of a missed FG on last play against SEC "killer" Louisiana Monroe.
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Post by hifigator on Sept 9, 2008 11:07:58 GMT -5
You have to remember Austin--Stanford was getting smashed a year ago too--and look what happened? Nothing can help the Cougs this year--they are really bad. I'm starting to think Patrick Nix is the Grandpa Clappy of OC's---which is funny--because Clappy was a decent OC--just a lousy Head Coach. Texas-UTEP atmosphere was cool--and now Horns get to put a beating on Arkansas-who squeaked by--with luck of a missed FG on last play against SEC "killer" Louisiana Monroe. Yeah, Arkansas looks to be really bad this year. It's truly the beginning of a rebuilding cycle for them. In addition to losing Darren and Felix Jones, going from Houston Nutt to Bobby Petrino is quite an adjustment. In all honesty, I think he's got his work cut out for him. The state of Arkansas has some talent, and of course he can draw from rich Texas as well, but I think the deck is more stacked against him. He's going against Saban at Bama, Tuberville at Auburn and Miles at LSU. Not to mention that Houston Nutt and Syvester Croom are not too shabby themselves, although they are both in similar situations as well. The difference to me is that the natives in Mississippi are slightly less demanding.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 10, 2008 20:52:53 GMT -5
Week 3 Picks for Games That Matter:
UNC over Rutgers for the first big win of the Butch Davis era (Thursday) KU over USF (Friday) Iowa State over Iowa for the Cy-Hawk Trophy Cal demolishes UMD Clemson over NC State in the Textile Bowl BYU over UCLA (Revenge Game #1) Penn State over Syracuse by a minimum of 3 TDs Oregon over Purdue Michigan over Notre Dame Va. Tech over Georgia Tech UGA over S. Carolina (Revenge Game #2) Texas over Arkansas if the game is played TCU over Stanford Auburn over Mississippi State (Revenge Game #3) Oklahoma over Washington Utah re-enacts Mormon slaughters of the 19th century against Utah State SC over Ohio State Arizona over New Mexico (Revenge Game #4) -- (U of A, UNM, please bring back the trophy for this game, the Kit Carson Rifle) Wisconsin over Fresno State
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 11, 2008 11:50:36 GMT -5
Is UCLA/BYU really a revenge game, given that BYU (luckily) beat UCLA in the Whatever Bowl last year?
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Post by hifigator on Sept 11, 2008 12:35:14 GMT -5
Texas-Arkansas postponed. I think the new date is October 27th, but not positive.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 11, 2008 12:57:52 GMT -5
Texas-Arkansas postponed. I think the new date is October 27th, but not positive. It's September 27, an open week for both schools, so it's a natural fit.
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Post by hifigator on Sept 11, 2008 14:07:45 GMT -5
What is everyone's take on the Wisconsin-Freson St. game? I watched the Fresno St. at Rutgers game and was impressed with FSU's offense, but I thought they let Rutgers rush the football on them all day. Rutgers kept shooting themselves in the foot in the first half. Fresno was really pretty lucky to be in position to win, but they did so you have to give them credit.
On Edit: I'm still trying to figure out why Air Force at Houston is still scheduled. I would think that would be one of the first games to get postponed. Does anyone know? I guess maybe there isn't a convenient date to reschedule, but I would doubt they can play a game if zip codes just miles away are under a mandatory evacuation.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 11, 2008 21:27:24 GMT -5
Is UCLA/BYU really a revenge game, given that BYU (luckily) beat UCLA in the Whatever Bowl last year? I think you answered your own question. The "Whatever Bowl" was the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 22. Any regular-season CFB game is twice as important.
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Post by vcjack on Sept 11, 2008 21:39:55 GMT -5
"What is everyone's take on the Wisconsin-Freson St. game? I watched the Fresno St. at Rutgers game and was impressed with FSU's offense, but I thought they let Rutgers rush the football on them all day. Rutgers kept shooting themselves in the foot in the first half. Fresno was really pretty lucky to be in position to win, but they did so you have to give them credit."
It may be a high scoring game. Wisconsin's strength is the 3 back rotation which almost garuntees that one of the backs has a big game. The Badger passing game should be suprisingly good too with All American TE Travis Beckum back from injury. However, the Wisconsin secondary has played very vanilla so far and I could see the Fresno QB lighting them up.
Oh and the Air Force-Houston game is still being played because the game was moved to Dallas
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Post by FLHoya on Sept 11, 2008 22:28:10 GMT -5
Apparently the Big East reeeeeeeeeeeeally wants a piece of this "Worst BCS Conference" title. Oh. My. GOD. That ain't right...after the Rutgers debacle tonight, the BE could sure use South Florida (OT winners over UCF last weekend) coming up big at home against Kansas tomorrow night.
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Post by HeartAttackHoya on Sept 12, 2008 7:39:35 GMT -5
very dissapointed in Rutgers and the Big East. The Big Least nickname is right on this year unfortunately regardless of south florida-kansas outcome.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Sept 12, 2008 9:28:58 GMT -5
As I said two years ago, Rutgers being anything special was more a function of schedule than anything else. They've really only had one legit win in the Schiano era, to my mind.
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Post by kchoya on Sept 12, 2008 10:52:43 GMT -5
Is UCLA/BYU really a revenge game, given that BYU (luckily) beat UCLA in the Whatever Bowl last year? I think you answered your own question. The "Whatever Bowl" was the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 22. Any regular-season CFB game is twice as important. And UCLA owned them for a while before that. Plus, Ben Olsen still attends UCLA. And apparently Norm Chow is not universally loved in Provo. I hope Austin is wrong on this one.
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Post by Jack on Sept 13, 2008 17:25:57 GMT -5
Michigan's future looks a lot more promising than ND's (granted I am looking with very biased eyes), but in the actual present? That is going to be one UGLY game. Yikes.
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Post by Boz on Sept 13, 2008 18:53:35 GMT -5
Michigan's future looks a lot more promising than ND's (granted I am looking with very biased eyes), but in the actual present? That is going to be one UGLY game. Yikes. I stand by it. It was an ugly game, which I expected, but you can't even beat me and 10 guys I find on the street with 6 turnovers. Still, Michigan had no problems with ND's defense, only with themselves. McGuffie is going to have a great career and I'll bet that this time next year, Michigan will be a much better team and Charlie Weis's team will be....well, Charlie Weis's team.
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Post by kghoya on Sept 13, 2008 23:28:56 GMT -5
I stand by it. It was an ugly game, which I expected, but you can't even beat me and 10 guys I find on the street with 6 turnovers. Still, Michigan had no problems with ND's defense, only with themselves. McGuffie is going to have a great career and I'll bet that this time next year, Michigan will be a much better team and Charlie Weis's team will be....well, Charlie Weis's team. michigan won the turnover battle 12-1 the last two years for their wins i dont want to hear it
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Post by vcjack on Sept 14, 2008 10:14:51 GMT -5
The WAC should never be allowed to provide its own refs. The United Nations should step in and provide peacekeeping refs while the World Court investigates the crime against humanity committed on that overturned fumble in the Wisconsin - Fresno State game.
And on another note the NFL should drop talks about putting a franchise in LA, they already have an NFL quality team!
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Post by Boz on Sept 14, 2008 11:16:58 GMT -5
michigan won the turnover battle 12-1 the last two years for their wins i dont want to hear it No, don't get me wrong. I wasn't trying to say that Michigan should've won the game or anything. They played ugly and deserved to lose. I just think their program will get better before ND's does. I'll shut up on the subject now to let people talk about good college football teams.....and that amazing Buffalo ending.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 14, 2008 22:34:18 GMT -5
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