Today's College Football Thread

The big game this week is #1 LSU at #2 Alabama. But there are also two other games between ranked teams: #14 Kansas State at #3 Oklahoma State and #9 South Carolina at #7 Arkansas.

My Oklahoma Sooners host the Aggies of Texas A&M. :woohoo:

So who does your team play? What games are you looking forward to?

:rofl:

I think God might be sitting that one out, though.

take that, splitters!

And this was the team who won in Norman two weeks ago?

Hard game to watch what with all the references to the debacle in Norman. How did the Sooners not TCB against this team? Sigh.

Need to wake up this second half and slip in the knife!

As usual, the Sooners stumble through the second quarter but show up in force for the second half.

I'm hoping Sparty can also pull off a win against Minnesota.

I haven't been watching, but saw that both teams have scored in the first two minutes or so.

And State did get the win :toast:

Coach Hope(less) "Wahl, I guess we jes' didn't take care a' th' football..."

(6) Oregon (7-1) at (28) Washington (6-2)

:P Because Husky fans will tell you that #28 is indeed a ranking.

The line is big, but I think it's too high. I think Washington can make a good game of it. I'm glad it's a late game, so I'll have a chance to see it, too.

Bear Down!

They seemed to play pretty well against UCLA last week. Of course, following Stoops was the main reason I found myself pulling for them, so some of my interest is gone :P. (That said, though, I wasn't surprised that he got fired, nor do I think it was the wrong call.)

After Mike had been a hot commodity as a coordinator for a couple of years but not yet landed a head job, a reporter asked Bob Stoops if Mike's temperament might be holding him back. Bob said that he didn't think so, that he himself had been as intense and fiery as Mike as a coordinator but that was a good thing for a coordinator; he realized that being HC required a different temperament and so he dialed it back and he figured Mike would do the same. I guess he was wrong about that. (Though, to be honest, I don't think Bob was as hotheaded as Mike when he was a coordinator.)

The odd thing, considering MS's temperament, is that the defense this year (and last year too, perhaps?) seemed to lack intensity.

but, then it could not happen to a more deserving team.

I think the officials were right not to overturn it. I don't think it was clear that he had control when the ball hit the ground. I guess if they'd called it a TD on the field it would have been tough to overturn that call as well.

I'm sad for my son...but that's about it.

Even if his foot is in bounds with the ball in his hands. Alas, your son has been burned by that rule before, in the NFL:

When his knee was down and before he went forward. Calvin's robbery was a sad, sad day in our house indeed...for non Packer fans that is. :)

Badgers 38 Purdue 17 With Sparty's win it's a good day! :toast:

So the day gets better, I imagine. :toast:

:puke:

I couldn't be happier that they lost.

:cry:

I was watching that game on a different TV with the sound off and only the closed-captioning to go on. That looked very bad. I hope he's okay.

He's hurt, but not broken

I saw the hit a bunch of times on replay but missed it when it first happened. And at one point I saw "not moving" on the closed captioning and wasn't sure if they were talking about the player not moving or the medical staff not moving the player. I'm glad to hear he was moving right afterwards.

His second concussion in the past three weeks and third in the past 13 months.

I will assume the doctors are responsible and counsel him and the team of the dangers and risks of playing football after a history of multiple concussions.

:kick:

:wow:

17-13 early in the second half.

saw several big plays the Beavers negated with penalties ... I turned away from that game a while ago, and I see it's now gotten pretty out of hand.

Alabama gets the ball first.

That makes 'Bama's rushing all the more impressive.

Except in the kicking game, of course. :)

However, I've also thought that LSU looked better in the 2nd half of every game I've seen this year...

:toast:

:party: :toast:

I really want to see this match-up again - with all due respect to Stanford et al., I'd rather the rankings not change...

I love seeing the immovable objects of those defenses, but I'd like to see something at least gesturing towards an irresistible force matching up on the offensive side.

A 9-6 game with 4 missed field goals doesn't scream "rematch for the national championship" to me. :)

That said, though, it's a huge win for LSU. Enjoy. :toast:

are high-scoring offensive slugfests. :)

It's not so much that I want to see that exact game again, but Alabama looked awesome, and I'd really like to see my Tigers put them away more decisively. It just feels like a rematch is mutually deserved.

Of course, LSU still has to deal with Arkansas, which is a non-trivial challenge...

Very sad.

Man. :grr: :(

I live in Texas and I like to confuse the natives with the Orange Aggies.

Dear Hubby is an OSU graduate.

7 pts already in the first quarter.

Couple of road games after this and then the big Bedlam game with the Sooners :woohoo:

KSU has come storming back.

It's a very good day. I only allow myself a cup of cheetos on game day. That's how special Ducks football is!

QUACK!

:)

I haven't been on for a few months, but....Texas Tech rules over overrated OU...damn those Sooners to hell.....

:P

Hey there, Broken_Hero! :hi:

and ancient history tells me that OU usually loses to a team that they are suppose to dominate. I thought that team would be Baylor, but TT got them at home, at Norman! :P To bad the OU bias isn't worse, they lost to an unranked team and only dropped 6 spots, so if OU wins out, they are still in the NT game....which I think they will make it to the NT game, OU has owned OSU for 8plus years, if memory serves the last time OSU beat OU was what...fall of 2002....

I would like to see Stanford get in there, but I think oregon will get them....

What chaps my hide lately, is that a lot of talking football heads are stating a one loss Alabama will get another crack at LSU...I hate the fact that, that pov is being pushed. I'm an avid OU hater, but I'd prefer to see them against LSU, than an Alabama rematch....

Decisively.

:)

I gave the rest of the bag away. I have too little will power for salty crunchy in the house.

Next week is the big showdown! :bounce: